Welcome to the Intedge Podcast with Charles Stim for Wednesday, December 21st.

In order to be a perfect sacrifice, Jesus had to be virgin born.

Learn more about this critical aspect of Christ nature on today's podcast.

There are some things that you and I have heard and have been taught

that we have accepted not because we've searched it out for ourselves,

but simply because we heard it and we've been taught it.

On the other hand, there are some of those things that we have heard and we've been taught.

We've rejected. Again, not because we've searched it out for ourselves,

but because we heard it, we've been taught it.

It didn't compute without reasoning and didn't match our lifestyle, so we rejected it.

One of those biblical ideas that would follow the category of either one of these

is the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.

And so the theme of this message, the title of this sermon is, was Jesus Christ virgin born.

And I want us to look at the Scriptures to see what does the Bible really say about this truth.

Luke chapter 1, verse 26.

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,

to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph.

Now remember that an engagement in those days was just as binding as marriages today.

And so he says this woman was a virgin. That is, she had not had any kind of physical intimate relationship with a man.

And if a woman were found to have, after she was engaged, she was in real trouble.

And of course, you know that a woman could be stoned to death if she was found to have been improper

or if she had been found to be unfaithful.

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