Note: The birth of Jesus is recorded in Luke 1:35: The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow [hover over] you. Therefore, the holy child developing inside you will be called the Son of God.
This is similar to how Yehovah created the “old creation" as we see in Genesis 1:1-3: In the beginning God created heaven and earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God was hovering over [overshadowing] the water. Then God said, "Let there be light!" So there was light.
Now we see that Yehovah’s Spirit overshadowing of Mary in
Luke
The overshadowing of Mary by God’s Spirit has to do with the beginning of a new creaton [a new humanity, of which Jesus is the federal head].
The meaning of the virgin birth is brought out not only in
Jesus teaching of being “born of the Spirit” (John 3:5) but also in Paul’s
teaching of the “new creation” (2 Corinthians
The Spirit of God brought into being a “new creation”
in Mary, replacing sperm from Adam’s descendents. In this way Jesus was a descendent
of Adam and Abraham and David via Mary, but also the beginning of a “new
creation” by the creative power of the Spirit of Yehovah. This explains the
Paul’s teaching of the “new creation” in the Messiah (2 Corinthians
Jesus came into being by the creative power of Yehovah’s Spirit and thus became the beginning of Yehovah’s “new creation [the beginning of a New Humanity]. As a result believer’s are, as a result of being in the Messiah, incorporated as members of the new humanity, becoming entirely new persons through God’s transforming power. Just as Jesus was “born of the Spirit” at his birth, so all those who are seeking salvation need to be “born of the Spirit”, as stated in the words Jesus gave to Nicodemus: You (plural) must be “born from above” (John 3:7) , and unless one is “born from above”, he/she cannot experience the Kingdom [Kingship] of God – that is cannot inherit eternal life.
What Yehovah accomplished in Jesus, He intends to reproduce in all those who come to believe and trust in Him; that they will become “new creations” in the Messiah; born of the Spirit of Yehovah into a new life that is lived by the power of His indwelling Spirit!
Yehovah has in view that believers who are “new creations” in the Messiah grow into a “mature manhood/womanhood”, to the stature of the fullness of the Messiah (Ephesians 4:13) This means that believers; as a matter of becoming "new creations" – persons in the Messiah; will become like Jesus is the way he/she lives and thinks.
This is what constitutes true believing or what Paul refers
to as “the obedience of faith” (Romans 1:5;
In this age to follow Jesus means to live in relation to our God and our Father as Jesus lived in relation to his God and his Father Yehovah, “as he is so are we in this world” (1 John 4:17).
This indeed is the simplicity of what our God and Father Yehovah wants us to know!
Can we imagine living in the New Age that will come, after the White Throne Judgement, as members of the New Humanity, living as glorified men/women having immortal life in a New Heavens and New Earth. a complete new order to things! What a glorious hope our God and Father Yehovah has given to those who are His.
Revelaton 22:17: 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
2 Corinthians 6:2: For he says, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured you:
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
These words are inspiried and influenced by Eric Changs book, "The Only Perfect Man". The material has been edited by Bruce Lyon
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