Hope, Power, and Promise

Matthew 1:20-21--- But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Jesus did not just have the spark of the divine but was all the power of the divine. Jesus did not have an earthly father like those of us who are physically mortal. Jesus was not just spiritually immortal, He was also physically immortal. As humans, we may have all the power of the divine available to us but all the power of God cannot be realized in us like the power of God was realized in the conception of Christ. Our beliefs and theologies about Jesus hinge upon the truth Jesus was totally divine. In addition, Christ's total divinity rested in the truth He had no earthly father but was created by God in the womb of a Virgin. If we do not or will not accept this statement of scripture as the truth, all other statements in the New Testament and many of the statements of the Old Testament have no power of truth associated with them. If we do not accept Christ was from the Holy Spirit, most of the statements in the New Testament must be regarded as a myth. In our personal everyday life, we need more than just a myth to keep us going from one day to the next. In our personal everyday life, we need the hope, power, and promise of the Holy Spirit within us. We need the kind of hope, power, and promise flowing down to us only from accepting the truth Christ was indeed the real son of God, whose real father was God in Heaven.