Thursday, December 13, 2018 – Luke 1:26-27

The Announcement of the Birth of the
Son of Man to Mary, Pt. 2

 The Necessity of the Virgin Birth, Pt. 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEzQCvdbYjc

Grace Fellowship Church

Pastor/Teacher, Jim Rickard

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The Gospel of Luke  

II. The Identification of the Son of Man with Men, Luke 1:5-4:13.

  B. The Announcement of the Birth of the Son of Man, Luke 1:26-56.

The Necessity of our Lord’s Virgin Birth:

1. Adam’s original sin is the origin of the Old Sin Nature (OSN) in the human race, Gen 3:6b-7, 17-19; Rom 5:12, 15b-17; 1 Cor 15:21-22a. 

Rom 5:12, “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.”

1 Cor 15:21-22, “For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. ²²For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.”

It is Adam’s original sin that is the precedence leading to the OSN, not the woman’s original sin, since Adam’s sin was deliberate; the woman was deceived. 

2. At copulation, the OSN is transmitted through the 23 male chromosomes that contain the cells of the Sin Nature, which fertilize the 23 female chromosomes in the ovum that is absent of the cells of the OSN. The throwing off of the 23 female chromosomes that contain the OSN is done in the process called Meiosis and Polar body.

“Meiosis is a process where a single cell divides twice to produce four cells containing half the original amount of genetic information. These cells are our sex cells – sperm in males, eggs in females.” (Genome Research Limited, https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/what-is-meiosis).

Pictorially, the process is as such:

This illustration of the stages of Meiosis is credited to “Genome Research Limited,” (https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/what-is-meiosis).

Another graphic shows the process broken down into two categories called Meiosis I and Meiosis II.

Meiosis I, Separate the Homologues:  

                        

Meiosis II, Separate the Sister Chromatids:

                          

In Meiosis II, (Prophase II, Metaphase II, Anaphase II, and Telophase II and cytokinesis), the last phase Telophase II and cytokinesis, results in the ovum and three polar bodies that are thrown off. “Once cytokinesis is complete there are four granddaughter cells, each with half a set of chromosomes (haploid), in males, these four cells are all sperm cells, in females, one of the cells is an egg cell while the other three are polar bodies (small cells that do not develop into eggs).” (Genome Research Limited.)

“In the egg, there is a division into 4 cells with unequal fates; 1 ovum plus 3 polar bodies. The 3 polar bodies disintegrate. The 1 ovum gets all the resources (cytoplasm, mitochondria) and may get fertilized.” (Iupui Department of Biology, “Meiosis and the Formation of Eggs and Sperm,” https://www.biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/N100/2k4ch9meiosisnotes.html)

As such, in the female, the elimination of the cells containing the OSN, (polar bodies), are thrown off and the viable female egg or ovum that remains does not contain the OSN cells. Yet, in the male, the process of splitting the cells into 23 chromosomes does not eliminate the OSN, as all four are viable called sperm.

During sexual reproduction, fertilization of the ovum (23 chromosomes) by the sperm (23 chromosomes) restores the diploid number and creates a zygote (46 chromosomes) that divides and grows by mitosis to form a multicellular human.

Therefore, we see the result and importance of the virgin birth. No human father, means no OSN cells. No OSN cells, means born without sin.

3. At human birth, the baby has the genetic structure of the OSN inside of its DNA. At birth, God imputes Adam’s original sin to the OSN, and the new born becomes a like copy of Adam at the point of his fall in the garden. At birth, the Holy Spirit then breathes the “breaths of lives,” (NESHAMAH), Gen 2:7, into the new born and the baby is born physically alive. But, because of the OSN and the imputation of Adam’s original sin, the baby dies spiritually. There are two factors involved in our spiritual death:

       a. The Old Sin Nature.

       b. Adam’s original sin.

4. The OSN contaminates all the cells in the human body and when God the Father imputes Adam’s original sin to Old Sin Nature at the time of physical birth, spiritual death results.

5. Yet, the female, (through meiosis and polar body), throws off the 23 chromosomes that are contaminated with the OSN, leaving 23 uncontaminated chromosomes prior to fertilization. All the other cells in the female body are contaminated by the OSN; the ovum prior to fertilization is the only exception. That is why Mary was not without sin. She had an OSN.

6. Although both the man and the woman in the garden were equally guilty, the woman’s sin of ignorance was the reason she became the bearer of the embryo, 1 Tim 2:13-15. 

7. While both man and woman are carriers of the OSN, only the man can transmit it through the fertilization of the female ovum.

8. Since, it is only the male’s 23 chromosomes that carry the OSN and not the female’s, this means that if a woman could have a virgin pregnancy, (i.e., if her ovum could be fertilized apart from male copulation), the progeny could be born into the world without an OSN. Being born without an Old Sin Nature, Adam’s original sin could not be imputed to that person, there being no affinity required for this imputation.

9. Therefore, Christ being born without an OSN meant there was no imputation of Adam’s original sin to our Lord. He was born physically and spiritually alive with no OSN and no original sin imputation.

10. This was how our Lord was born as the last Adam, 1 Cor 15:45. The first Adam was created perfect (without sin); the last Adam, Jesus Christ, was born perfect (without sin). So, Jesus Christ was in like form as Adam before the fall.

1 Cor 15:45, “So also it is written, “The first Man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.”

11. Remember that while Mary was a virgin, she was not perfect or impeccable. Only her virgin‑born son was absolutely perfect at birth. And, Mary did not remain perpetually as a virgin. She had other children Mat 13:55-56; 12:46; Mark 6:3.

12. Therefore, it is the virgin birth that is the basis for redemption, because it provided the world with a perfect human being, the only one qualified to be judged for the sins of the world, Heb 9:15-16.

Heb 9:15, “For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. ¹⁶For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.”