The Sanctified Hollow

  Hello and welcome back to our series What Child Is This?  If you’ve been keeping up with the latest posts, we have been taking at look at the identity of the Child who was born of the Virgin Mary, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! In our last post, we looked at how Jesus Christ is the Word that became flesh . At the end of the post, we saw how in  John writes in John 1:18 : 18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him . Nobody has ever seen God the Father, but Jesus Christ, the Word, who is God the Son, has made Him known . Therefore, to know who the Son is, we must understand who the Father is. To do this let’s look at the Old Testament in the book of Isaiah ! Isaiah’s Vision Isaiah 6:1-7 1 In the year of King Uzziah’s death, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, with the train of His robe filling the temple.  2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he c...

Hello everyone! Welcome back to our Christmas series What Child Is This?  where we take a look at the Child who was born over two thousand years ago with the purpose of redeeming humanity through his life and death on the cross. Today we will look at John 1 and learn about the great miracle of the Incarnation . Let's read the passage for today and outline four points from our text. In the Beginning, the Word John 1:1-18 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5 And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the Light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the Light, but he came to bear witness a...

Hello everyone, and welcome back to our series titled  What Child Is This? , where we take a deep dive into the Child who was born of the Virgin Mary. In today’s post, we will look at precisely that: the virgin birth of our Lord Jesus Christ . Get some tea or some coffee and sit down for a bit...this is a longer one! The Conception of Jesus Let’s go back just over 2000 years into the past. Before the writings of the New Testament. Before Paul cast out demons. Before Peter healed people with his shadow. Before the day of Pentecost. Before 5000 men were fed bread and fish. Let’s go back to Luke 1 where the angel Gabriel appeared to a young woman called Mary. A. The Angel Appears to Mary Luke 1:26–35 26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,  27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.  28 And coming in, he said to her, “Greetings, favored one! The L...