A Virgin Shall Conceive
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Was Jesus really born miraculously to a virgin? Today, R.C. Sproul explains that the virgin birth of Christ is far from a matter of debate or personal interpretation--it's an essential truth of Scripture and the Christian faith.
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| 0:00.0 | When Joseph found out that Mary was going to have a baby, |
| 0:03.0 | he was shocked. |
| 0:04.0 | Joseph came to the same conclusion that you and I |
| 0:07.0 | would come to if a woman came to us and told us that she |
| 0:11.0 | was pregnant. |
| 0:12.0 | He did not make any assumptions that this thing was caused |
| 0:17.0 | through a virgin conception. |
| 0:26.0 | Joseph loved Mary, so he planned to quietly put an end |
| 0:29.0 | to the engagement, to protect her from the inevitable shame |
| 0:33.0 | and rejection she would experience in their Jewish community. |
| 0:36.0 | But an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph and pronounced |
| 0:40.0 | the good news of the coming Messiah. |
| 0:43.0 | Today on Renewing Your Mind, we continue our C-Sprull series |
| 0:46.0 | explaining God's plan for the Messiah through all of Scripture. |
| 0:50.0 | Let's join Dr. Sproul now. |
| 0:55.0 | I doubt if there's anything more controversial about the |
| 0:58.0 | New Testament record of the birth of Jesus, then the claim of the |
| 1:02.0 | New Testament writers that Jesus was born of a virgin. |
| 1:07.0 | It's become almost a test case of orthodoxy, whether one |
| 1:13.0 | affirms or denies the historical reality of the virgin |
| 1:17.0 | birth of Jesus. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm surprised. |
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