870 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 2 Book 73 - Incarnate Christ (God Becomes Man) - 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 73 INCARNATE CHRIST: GOD BECOMES MAN - 2 Genesis 3:15 and Galatians 4:4 Okay, good to see everybody in again this evening. As you know, we’re just a Bible study, much like a home Bible study. I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I do claim I can get people to study and dig these things out, and you’ll be surprised how thrilling it can get. Again, we always want to thank our television audience, as well as you folks here, for all of your prayers and your financial support. You know, people can’t believe that we never ask for money. They just can’t get over that. We’ll thank you for it, but we never ask you for it. And that’s a big difference. All right, now before I go any further, I’ve got to let the television audience know that it’s been a long time since Greg and Janette were here. The last time they were here Jesse was just a little fellow. There they are. They’re on the screen. Now you’ve got to get Jesse in there somehow or other. Move him over. Get Jesse. There he is. Jesse is now 19. He’s 6 foot something, and I’m just real proud of him. He’s one of our several grandchildren, and they’re all part of the ministry. Like I told the class in the first half-hour, they’re all involved in one way or another. And we just praise the Lord for that. All right, let’s continue on where we left off in our first half hour this afternoon—on the incarnate Christ. In other words, the God who became Man, and consequently then Christ beginning with His earthly ministry, is a God-Man. We’re going to look some more at the early forecasts or prophecies concerning this virgin birth of the seed of the woman. For openers, to continue where we left off in Matthew in the last program, turn with me to Galatians chapter 3. It’s also a reference to Genesis chapter 3, but I want Galatians chapter 3 verse 16. This is Paul writing, the Apostle to the Gentiles. Here we have one of the basic facts of Scripture concerning Jesus Christ. Galatians 3:16 “Now to Abraham and his seed (or his offspring) were the promises made. He saith not, and to seeds, (plural) as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, who is Christ.” There’s the scriptural answer for Genesis 3:15. The seed of the woman who would come through the man Abraham, the progenitor of the Jewish race, and here we have the appearance then of the Jewish Messiah. All right, while you’re in Galatians turn over to chapter 4. If I’m not mistaken, this is the only reference that the Apostle Paul makes to the birth of Christ at Bethlehem but in a uniquely different way. And I like this. I usually use it for the Christmas time classes just to be different from the main stream of Christendom when they use Luke and Matthew. Here’s how Paul puts it. Galatians 4:4 “But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,” Now, do you see what all is in that verse? “When the fullness of time was come…”—my, I’m glad we looked at those verses at the end of the last program. When the Sadducees and the Pharisees said, show us a sign, what did the Lord say? Why, can’t you read the signs of the times? Well, what was He referring to? All the things that were happening associated with His first advent. As I said in the last program, they should have recognized that they were under the Roman Empire. They should have recognized that prophecy was being fulfilled. They should have recognized that the promised Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. It was written back in the little book of Micah that He’d be born in Bethlehem of Euphrates. You think these Jews didn’t know about that supernatural event in Bethlehem some years back? Of course they did. But they couldn’t put it together. Unbelievable and yet, no, because like I said last program, we’re no different today. The world around us should see the signs of the times, but do they? No. They’re as blind as a bat to it. And they just talk in terms of the world going on for another 150-200,000 years. No, it isn’t. It’s winding down and the signs of the times are telling it. All right, so here again everything was foretold that Christ would come, born in Bethlehem, at the exact right day and hour. He was not one hour late. He was not one hour early. It was when the decreed “fullness of the time was come” that Christ was born. And Israel couldn’t figure it out. But they should have. It was a sign of the time. Then it goes on to tell us that He was “made of a woman.” That makes Him the God-Man. That’s what makes Him incarnate. He did not just come as an angelic appearance. He did not just come as some miraculous manifestation. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible