Matthew 1:18-25

Can you imagine being a very young girl, 13 or 14 years of age, and finding yourself unmarried and pregnant……with the very Son Of God? 

Side by side with the unspeakable joy you are experiencing you are also placed in the very vulnerable position of being pregnant out of wedlock. Who would believe you that this Holy One growing inside of you was conceived of the Holy Spirit? At the same time the man you are engaged to has very serious questions of his own about the conception of this child. Talk about being elated and fearful at the same time.

God handpicked Joseph knowing that he was a godly and compassionate man who listened and obeyed. 

Joseph  must have felt betrayed initially but lived his life close enough to God to be able to hear from Him.  Miracle upon miracle would be witnessed by these two Jewish people. 

Never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined the road that they would be placed upon in fulfilling Scripture.

In Jewish culture, this covenant was made about a year before the consummation of the marriage. It was during the one-year period of betrothal that Mary was found to be pregnant. It would take a divorce ,according to their laws, to end this engagement.

Matthew 1:18-25

¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. ¹⁹ Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. ²⁰ But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. ²¹ And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

²² So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: ²³ “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”

²⁴ Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife, ²⁵ and did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son. And he called His name Jesus.

Luke 1:35 

³⁵ And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. 

Acts 13:23 

²³ From this man’s seed, according to the promise, God raised up for Israel a Savior—Jesus—

Galatians 4:4 

⁴ But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,