The Birth of Christ is my Birth Too

As we approach the end of the year the season begins to change to a focus of Christmas Day. We begin looking for the celebration of a day we honor as the birth of Jesus by spending time with family and friends, buying gifts, cooking special meals, and decorating our homes. There is an innocence of looking for Jesus to return by celebrating His miraculous birth.

However, as we have gotten older and experienced so many trials and tribulations these past several years across America, the excitement of how we use to celebrate this season changes. The gift buying, the decorating, the gatherings, and tree trimming all retain wonderful memories, but is there more to the birth of Jesus to celebrate that we are missing? Is that it? 

Scripture tells us that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). However, His ways are also new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23). When studying the Scriptures we are to apply the same hermeneutics throughout the Bible, which means if interpreting the Scriptures literally, then all Scripture is interpreted literally. The same method is used spiritually, or metaphysically. If I interpret Jesus to be a male human walking the earth, there would be conflict reading the book of Revelation that says He is the Lamb of God – a four-legged creature. 

I must consider every word and say, "Okay, how does that apply to me, personally?" For example, the word male in Scripture, I can't see it as a gender issue or the word female as a gender issue, that it is only talking about men or only talking about women. But to see it from a position of masculinity as sons of God, or femininity of a Brideship of Christ, that's applicable to either gender.

So, with the Christmas story, I want us to go back and revisit some very familiar Scriptures that are preached every year in celebration of the birth of Jesus. In Isaiah 7:14 we read, “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold a virgin will be with child and bear a son and she will call his name Immanuel." 

Now I want to stop right there and say, "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign." Give who a sign? What's Isaiah really talking about?  Is he really talking about Jesus Christ? The writer of the Gospel of Matthew pulls from the idea that Isaiah is talking about Jesus, but at the time that Isaiah is being given this prophetic word, is he talking about Jesus? Hmm. See, that's the kind of stuff that I want to say, "What is he trying to say to me?"

What is Isaiah’s prophetic saying with the phrase, "Behold the Lord Himself is going to give 'me' a sign." 

"A virgin will be with child and bear a son." Well, what does the word virgin mean? We tend to interpret the word to refer of someone that hasn't had a sexual relationship. But once we do that, we've lowered something that's supposed to have a spiritual application for it. If we only limit the word “virgin” as a label with Jesus’s mother’s sexual situation, and not a spiritual issue, then we're missing something deeper of what I believe the Lord is trying to say to all of us today. 

So, take the word ‘virgin’, this purity, this innocence of a spirit - your spirit man will be with child and bear a son. Consider another layer of this word being “with child” beyond whether you are male or female. What and who is this child? 

This child is all humanity who has been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. In the eyes of God, our spirit man is as innocent as a newborn baby. “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 19:14).

When the Lord gives us a word, a revelation, and He imparts His seed within you, whether you're male or whether you're a female, He says to that seed by the Holy Spirit in the fullness of time, "That seed within you is going to grow.” 

You're going to be just like a pregnant woman would be. And it's going to grow and become a mature state of sonship – male and female – able to decree the power and authority to do greater works in the earth than Jesus did. In a sonship state, you are going to say in your heart, “His name is Emmanuel. God is with me. God is within me. God is dwelling within my spirit." 

This opens a whole different message of the Christmas story. 

Let's go over to Isaiah 9 where he begins in this chapter talking about the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali. Then as we get to verse 6 -7, and we are reading passages taught as the Christmas story. "For, a child will be born to us. A son will be given to us and the government will rest on his shoulders and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal, Father Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of his government or of peace. On the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness, from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this." 

Does the word “us” pop out to you? This prophecy is not about me receiving Jesus as my personal savior. It's about what God doing a Divine move within you and me without care of what gender we are. What is happening here? 

This means as a man, you're going to birth a baby. Not in the natural, but the seed of God comes within you because the Scriptures also tell us that there's only one husband. “For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called” (Isaiah 54:5). 

So, all the gender issues of masculinity must come to a place of what it means to be a wife of Christ, a bride of Christ. We must put aside our human understanding and recognize there's a spiritual application here. The whole spiritual application has an anointing on it from the Holy Spirit, and when the anointing breaks forth as a baby being born, the yoke of bondage is unveiled.

 When we receive Jesus as our personal savior, we're receiving the headship of Christ and incorporating that we are one in Him and He is one in us (1 John 4:17). Just as many cells of our body take their orders from our brain cells, so it is with the mind of Christ. When the mind of Christ and the heart of the Father, which dwells within us, the indwelling of God, unites into oneness, and everything flows within our body. 

Our bodies are at peace, and we know this through our blood pressures, through our pulses, or our temperatures, and all our vital life signs. The same thing goes spiritually.

Spiritually, we birth Christ whether we are a man or woman. However, we are birthing Christ because Christ is in us, and Christ is the power of God. It's the dunamis power of the Holy Spirit working through us. When we use words like Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ, what we're saying is the mind of Christ. We're talking about the headship. 

When Jesus came into the world as a baby, it was just like us in our born-again nature of coming into the awakening that we were first spirit beings before we were conceived in our mother’s womb in a bodily form. And as a spirit we can have a relationship with God as our Heavenly Father because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. When He was on the cross, we were on the cross. When He was born, we were born (Colossians 3:3).

When my great-grandmother was carrying my grandmother in her womb, she was also carrying my grandmother's womb, my mother. And my grandmother was not only carrying my mother, but my mother was also carrying me. All in a seed form within one body of my great-grandmother. Well, so it is with The Word. 

We want to say just like one Adam, we all came into the humanity level of a fallen nature. But Paul also told us that through the last Adam, which is Christ Jesus, we all have been quickened back into the original state that Adam was before sin (1 Corinthians 15). We just don't know it because nobody's teaching us that.

When the Holy Spirit comes upon you, just as the Holy Spirit came upon Mary, our spirit was quickened while we were still just as a virgin – an innocent child. And as a virgin, my spirit and the spirit of the Lord had not united yet. But when the Holy Spirit comes upon the ‘virgin’ within you and me - the spirit within us - a pregnancy of The Word is impregnated within us. The same thing applies with men. This is not just a woman's issue as a Brideship/ wife of Jesus Christ, but it's a spirit realm for all humanity.

Our natural bodies are teaching us something of what's going on in the spirit. Once the Word comes within us, we have the awakening of nine months, the awakening of the nine essences of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control. All of those are essence that are being developed for this baby – revelation knowledge - so that out of our womb flows fountains of living water. 

This living water becomes like living stones that are coming forth out of our inner most being – our womb man. In coming forth, each essence is circumcised by our heart. Then out of the heart, the mouth speaks and decrees. The same thing of heavenly decrees that Jesus did.

Jesus is the rock by which we stand. The essence of the Holy Spirit in us releases lively stones -Divine spirit essence within us- flowing out of our womb-man circumcised by our heart, then out of our mouth the heart speaks as one Divine spirit to the world (Galatians 5:22-23).

It's a process that if you call yourself a Christian, what you're saying is not only do you believe in Jesus as your personal savior, but that you are carrying the same nature, the same identity, and the same character in His name with the power and the authority of the Holy Spirit – just as a wife of Jesus Christ. You are carrying the anointing of the Messiah. It is the Messiah's anointing called Christ in you (Colossians 1:27). That's what the whole Good News is all about. That's what the whole resurrection of Christ Jesus is all about. “That as He is, so are we today in this world” (1 John 4:17).