Welcome to the Further Gospel podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kosti Hinn, and I want to welcome our listeners on Apple and Spotify,

and those of you enjoy this on our YouTube video podcast format.

This is the second episode of our three-week Christmas series, designed to help keep the hope and

meaning of Christmas in the forefront of your mind. Last time, we looked at the four reasons

Jesus was born. He was born to be a savior, a sanctifier, a shepherd, and a mediator. And we dug into each

one of those. And today I want to help answer the question, why did Mary have to be a virgin?

It is one of the most important questions that anyone could ever ask. Why is the virgin birth an

essential Christian belief? And what I mean by that is, can someone not be saved if they don't believe in

the virgin birth? A number of years ago, Rob Bell, who became famous for his deconstructing of

the Christian faith, said this, it wouldn't really be a big deal if we all found out one day

that Jesus had an earthly father named

Larry. The virgin birth is not essential. Ah, Rob Bell could not be more wrong. And everyone else who

holds to that view could not be more wrong. There are rights. There are wrongs when it comes to

the Christian faith. You can have

charity and liberty in secondary and tertiary issues, but when it comes to the virgin birth, I mean,

this is primary tier one doctrine. The virgin birth is proof that the Bible is true. It is proof that

Christ was perfect and holy and pure, human and also yes divine he was the only

person ever born that way he was not born in sin like the rest of us he was conceived by the

holy spirit himself and set apart as the Messiah the virgin birth is essential and Satan hates

this truth because it represents his defeat and Christ's victory because it's the fulfillment of God's promise to redeem us and to send a Savior.

Matthew 1, 18 to 25 is going to be our foundational text for this question.

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