Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“THE GREAT HINGE”

You cannot casually approach true, historic Christianity. From the very conception of Christ, it calls for faith in the deepest wells of your being, challenging your intellect and all mental practicality. Why? Because the hinges to the door of the Gospel don’t get any larger than the Virgin Birth!

The prophecy was clear from Isaiah: a virgin shall conceive. Critics try to twist the Hebrew word to mean “young woman” instead of virgin, but Matthew shatters all doubt that Mary was anything other than a virgin in the purest sense. Mary herself claimed her virginity to the angel Gabriel, saying, “How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?”

If you throw away the fact that Christ was born of a virgin, you have thrown away the Gospel itself. There would be absolutely nothing divine about a natural conception. If God can create the heavens and the earth in six days, if He can part the Red Sea, and if His ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:8–9), then it is easyfor Him to put His Son into the womb of a young Jewish virgin girl named Mary. To reject the Virgin Birth is to reject salvation through faith alone. Don’t let your intellect be an idol!

Matthew 1:23–“Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”