Thursday, February 6, 2014

God's Sign is Immanuel


Isaiah 7:7-9, 11-14   
thus says the Lord God: “It shall not stand,Nor shall it come to pass....If you will not believe, Surely you shall not be established.” ’”... “Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above.”  12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test the Lord!”  13 Then he said, “ Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

If God speaks through a prophet as Isaiah in the OT, or as Hebrews 1 tells us now by His Son, we must listen.  Evil Ahaz pretended to not test the Lord, but really did not believe (lacked faith) and so was not established in God.  We believe God was born as a man through a woman by His Spirit (and so a virgin not knowing a man), and so we are reborn, established by faith in Christ by taking God at His word by the sign He chose to give us. 

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