Today I want to talk to you about why there was a virgin birth. And what is the meaning of the virgin birth.

Let me start by saying that when God said “Let Us make man…”, God had a hope for His life with man. And that hope was to persuade them to join themselves in union to Him where they could be one flesh and He could fellowship with them and serve them with His life for all the ages to come.

When Adam ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the tree that God said that in the day you eat from it, you shall surely die, it became a certainty for man that they would die.

So, in eating from that tree, instead of man joining themselves in union to God, they joined themselves in union to death. A union that God could not endorse.

And because death entered through a man, or that union to death came from the one man Adam, who God had given authority over all flesh, so could the resurrection from the dead only come through a man with the same authority.

Now behold the manifold wisdom of God to bring this to pass.

For in God sending His Son in the likeness of men who were married to death, inside of corruptible flesh, yet death having nothing in Him, He condemned death in His flesh, by taking it into His body and into the grave and triumphing over it in the bodily resurrection and who is also making intercession to men’s hearts at the right hand of God in glorified human flesh.

In Genesis 3, God said to the serpent that the seed of a woman would crush his head. In essence, the seed of a woman would crush death and the head (or the wisdom) that brought death to man.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15

I think it is important to clearly spell out the "it" that God is speaking about. He says I will put hostility between your seed and her seed, and (it) that is, her seed shall bruise your head.

What is a seed? Let us keep it this simple; something that produces after its kind.

So, the seed that comes from the serpent along with what it can produce are hostile and have no fellowship with the seed (God planted) in the woman or what the fruit it produces. The seed of the serpent produces death and the seed that would come from the woman, eternal life. What fellowship has life with death, or light with darkness, but these stand contrary to one another.

Now, we also know that a woman does not produce seed. But rather a seed is planted in her by the Father and it produces fruit or offspring.

God goes on in Genesis 3 to tell Adam (man) that “because you have done this thing” that all your labor would only now produce thorns and thistles. Understand that this was not because of God’s doing but because Adam/man was now married to death.

So, any seed coming from Adam could only produce more of the same, death. And we see in Romans where Paul says and death reigned even over those who did not transgress the same way as Adam, but death was still passed through the seed of Adam.

However, we see immediately after that God comes with coats of skin and clothes Adam and Eve with them. There are a lot of rabbit holes I could go down, but God was saying that He would lay down His life and He would be the one to clothe them with His life, just as He promised from before death entering. And that, just like He told Abraham, He would provide Himself the lamb.

How did He do that? By planting His seed in the woman. A woman who was a virgin.

A virgin defined as a woman who had not yet join herself in union to any man whose seed could only bring forth death in the flesh but rather one whom the Holy Spirit could conceive in her with her consent and bring forth a child born of the Spirit, born of a woman.

A virgin speaks of purity, and purity means without any mixture. A doctor will tell you that while a child is in his mother’s womb and throughout the birthing process that their blood is never mixed with that of the mother.

Luke 1

33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Remember that it is the seed that determines the fruit it will produce. God’s seed inside Mary, was 100% God with us in human flesh.

The only begotten Son, begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of a woman. I have heard it said that only begotten is speaking about begotten from the dead, and I am sorry that I cannot agree but rather this only would I ask you:

How many men have been conceived inside of a virgin by the Holy Spirit and born as a child of that woman? Calculate that, I will wait.

Is there anything in scripture showing God has some future plans to do this?

Hence the word ONLY begotten. Now, contrast that with “first born from among the dead”, which phrase speaks of many sons which He will bring to glory. “First” and “only” are two very distinct things. So also, are “only begotten Son” and “first born from among the dead” distinctly different.

The only begotten Son is describing, the lamb of God, the only man born of a woman in whom death was not reigning over, who it says in John has life in Himself, and who by His very birth was baptized into death, but moreover in seeing He was the Son, He read the law and said, Ah, I see that the volume of this book was written for Me by My Father, and that you never wanted sacrifice and offering but you have given Me a body and I have come as a man to do your will and conquer their death. And believing this, He was baptized into our death, believing that He could take our death and bury it in the grave and come out one new man, the first born from the dead, in immortal flesh and bone.

This is how The Faith Translation says it in 1 John 4:9

This is how the love of God is revealed to us, in that God sent His Son, His only begotten Son, born of a woman, born of the Spirit, who laid down His life for us and has become the firstborn from the dead, immortal, so that in and through Him we might have that same incorruptible life.

Here is the reason I felt to explain the virgin birth:

As I said earlier, Paul declared and identified the problem in saying that since death entered through man, so the resurrection of the dead needed to come through man because the heart of a man and the design of a man needs persuasion.

Man needs to see themselves in the face to Jesus. How that Jesus was a man who could experience death in His flesh.

Through the virgin birth we see the seed of the woman, Jesus. And how Jesus was able to come as man born from the Spirit, born under the law, having the fullness of the Spirit, God with us.

The virgin birth shows us how God provided the seed (His seed in the woman) that would crush the serpent's head, crushing death.

Furthermore, the law entered that men might see the death that was reigning; and that their labor to preserve their own life eternally abounded unto death reigning over man; and how in the body of Jesus, the life and immortality that manifest in the resurrection of has super-abounded over that death.

How God who promised was able to bring it to pass.

 

Some additional references for understanding:

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. John 12:24


Except He could come in the likeness of corruptible flesh with His incorruptible seed and enter into our death and darkness and die in the flesh, He would abide alone, the only immortal. But if He die, having planted that incorruptible seed into corrupt flesh, that seed will bring forth much fruit unto immortality in the flesh for all those who are born from that same incorruptible seed.


Knowing and understanding the two words for "begotten" in scripture.

monogenēs - Mono, Unique! one and only! find out why it's MONO!
STRONGS NT 3439: single of its kind, only (A. V. only-begotten)


gegennēka - to father, bring forth, produce offspring.


Let's use them both in one sentence.


Only the monogenēs Son of God could have gegennēka many sons of God, i.e. bringing many sons to glory.