Temple Baptist Church - 12-7-2025
Matthew 1:18-25; Genesis 3:15-16
Introduction:
Genesis 3:15-16 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (16) Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
A. What about the coming of the Messiah? The most prophesied event in the Bible is that of the birth of the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. The first man was given this blessed hope in Genesis 3:15, four thousand years before His birth.
1. He was and is the Hope of mankind. The promised Savior!
2. He was and is the Hope of Israel. The promised King!
3. He was and is the Hope of the Church. The Promised Eternal Bridegroom!
B. The Old Testament saints looked forward to the coming of the promised “Seed” with as much anticipation as the New Testament saints look back to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with exaltation.
1. The Jews still place notes into the “Wailing Wall” and pray for the promised Messiah, realizing that He is their only Hope!
2. We, as New Testament saints, look back with thrill and wonder that God so loved us that He gave His only begotten Son to die in our place. God help us never to lose that!
C. There are literally hundreds of prophetic verses (324) that detail the first coming of Christ, beginning with the “seed of the woman,” and her offspring, Israel’s Messiah. Each of these verses is filled with precise specifics, not general ones. Not a single prophecy, given thousands of years before His arrival, failed!
When you use the mathematics of probability and statistics to analyze these prophecies, the likelihood of all of them coming true is nearly beyond human comprehension. The odds of any one person fulfilling just 8, not 324, Old Testament prophecies are astronomically low, calculated as 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000 ( in
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Ill. The state of Texas covers 268,820 square miles. The odds of just 8 prophecies being fulfilled by the coming and life of the Messiah and our Saviour are like covering that 268.820 square miles with 18 inches of silver dollars. Placing one marked silver dollar anywhere in Texas, underneath the 18 inches, blindfolding a man, and letting him roam over 268,820 square miles, he would need just a single pick to find the marked coin!
If just eight prophecies only have 1 in . Probability, what would 324 fulfilled be?
D. What a blessed, wonderful Book the Bible is! What a wonderful God our Heavenly Father is! What a wonderful Savior!
E. I want to look at prophecies of the Coming of Christ, “The Seed of The Woman.”
1. The Foundational Prophecy of the Seed. Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
a. This is often called the Protoevangelium (Proto-evangelium), a theological term meaning “the first gospel” or “the first announcement of the good news.” Protoevangelium comes from Greek proto = first; evangelium = gospel.
b. A miraculously born Redeemer. There has never been nor ever will be a conception without the seed of man being involved. A virgin birth!
c. Genesis 3:15 specifically states that the “seed of the serpent” would bruise the heel of Messiah on the cross, and the seed of the woman would one day crush the serpent’s head—Christ’s triumph!
2. The Precise Lineage of the Seed. The coming of the Messiah narrowed down.
a. Eve. Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
b. Abraham. Genesis 12:2-3 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: (3) And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
c. Judah. Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
d. David. 2 Samuel 7:12-13 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. (13) He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
e. Mary. Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Luke 1:26-27 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, (27) To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
f. The Holy Ghost. Matthew 1:19-20 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. (20) But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
3. The Suffering of the Seed.
a. The Prophecy of the Cross Isaiah 53:6-11 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (7) He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. (8) He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. (9) And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. (10) Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. (11) He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
b. The Performance of the Cross. John 19:17,30 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha … (30) When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
c. The Price of the Cross. Philippians 2:6-8 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: (7) But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: (8) And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
d. The People of the Cross. Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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