some years ago right here in this church when my grandchildren were smaller and younger than they are now maybe 10 or 12 they came in the green room after the service one day and the week before they had come into that green room we had published at Turning Point a little New Testament called the signs of Life New Testament beautiful leather and there were two of them laying on the counter Grace and and Bradley asked me if they could have them New Testaments beautifully stitched leather and I thought for a moment I

said I’ll tell you what you can have them if you promise me you will read them oh poy we’ll read them so the next week I got a call from their mother and she wanted to know she said my kids are reading the Bible you gave them and they’d like to know how Mary and Joseph could have had a baby when they didn’t even know each other I said tell them to ask their father well that was quite a quander wasn’t it Mary was going to have a baby without ever having been with a man and what the angel told Mary was going to happen had never happened

before listen to this in the history of the whole world God created Adam without the channel of a father or a mother he made Eve from man alone he sent Cain Abel and the rest of us through the natural human reproduction cycle he even used miraculous generation to bring children to elderly and Barren women like Sarah and Hannah in the Old Testament and Elizabeth in the New Testament but Gabriel told Mary that she was going to have a baby without a man and that this baby was going to be begotten by the holy spirit that had