Do You See what I See? PT 2: Matthew 1.18-25
{The following was presented at Heritage Presbyterian Church, 8 December 2013. You can access the audio file here . Mike} Do You See what I See? Pt 2: Matthew 1.18-25 The Impossibility of this seems pretty clear. It doesn’t even cross Joseph’s mind. It takes an act of God’s intervention to get him to conceive the thought. He knows how babies are made, for goodness sake. & then, even St. Matthew doesn’t offer any empirical, scientifically verifiable proofs. He only makes the assertion, to let it shock or stick where it will. You see, the idea that a virgin conceived a child is pretty outlandish. & yet, there is this other, impossible thing that happens at the far side of the story – resurrection. They are woven into the same narrative fabric. They stand or fall together . If you won’t have the one, you won’t be having the other. But Matthew does offer one proof, for those who will be having it: The Prophecy . Isaiah 7.10-17 (p.572) – Ahaz is destroying the Davidic ...