God's Rdemption of Mankind Through Motherhood

In this past weeks sermon we saw how God made a promise to Eve that through the seed of the woman, the serpents head would be crushed, thus making a promise and an oath that he would obliterate and destroy the works of Satan through the seed of the woman. That seed is Jesus Christ and that one woman who would give birth to Christ by miraculous means was Mary the wife of Joseph. God continued to verify his promise of mankind when he made a covenant with Abraham. He promised Abraham a "seed"in which "All the nations shall be blessed". The blessing of all nations can mean nothing but the redemption of all humanity through the seed of Abraham. Paul reiterates this in Gal. 3:16 where he says, "Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offspring,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ."

This is why it was so important for the Christ to be "born of a woman". In order to be our perfect representative, and in order to redeem the human race and reconcile us back to God, he had to become like us. Therefore the incarnation is absolutely necessary in our Christology. In Heb. 2:14-18 we read...

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. 16 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. 17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.


The Virgin birth was necessary to bring about the person of the Christ, and that Jesus could be the Son of God and Son of Man all at the same time. However throughout Christian history many have tried to explain the mystery of the union of the two natures of Christ through human reasoning and consistently come short. Subsequently we are left with heresies. It is is important for us as believers to have a sound understanding of the necessity of the joining of the two natures and why it is important to affirm and insist the bible teaches Christ is both human and God.

This is not an easy concept to grasp, and many who have struggled with it have erred to one degree or another. In the Chalcedon Confession the early church fathers, faced with a variety of opinions regarding the nature of Christ, took a biblical position on the nature of Christ and established this confession as a fundamental core value of biblical Christianity.

I hope this blesses you..