The Ohio Independent Baptist, December 1969

' t's ~ I'' oy. ,y Rev. J. D. Jennings Over 1900 year ago an announce- 1ent was made 'Its a Boy!" And his child wa the Son of God born ,f the irgin Mary . Thi baby Boy ntered the world through the portals )f a woman'~ life, but unlike any >ther, He bad no human father. Like -I i exit, it was inevitable that the ·ntrance of uch an One as this Boy hould be supernatural , too. In a day when the supernatural i )eing denied, not o much on the )Utside but o n the in ide. within the ounds of Christendom it elf, ome plain preaching need to be do ne lnd the folly of unbelief pointed out and denounced. One can be dog– matic about the Virgin Birth of the Lord Jesus, because it is so plainly stated upon the page of God's Word. It is not a question of interpretation but of acceptation. otice that thi I : U AVOIDABLE T RUTH The gloriou message {b at this baby Boy was born of a virgin is ine capable. "Therefore nhe Lord H imself shall give you a sign; be– hold. a virgi n sh a]l conceive and shall bare a son and sh all call his name Emmanuel" (I saiah 7: 14). I am not unaware of the many attempts· which have been made to escape the pl a in teaching of t hi prophecy, yet in the face of them al l , the passage stands and cannot be expl ai ned away. There is far more in the Word of God on thi s ubject th an on the ubject of Bapti m and The Lord's Supper. Every Bible-loving hristian knows that this truth , a dic;tasteful as it i to the unregenerate. is a very vital part of God's revelation to man. While hristians may not be able to under tand it. ound its depths or calc its heights, they accept it in i111ple faith and praise o<l for the reality it make of the claimc; of J tl hrist to oneness with the at her. rI o explain a~'ay this trt1th i to per,'erl life-giving truth. and to a 1 oid it in preaching and t aching i to dcp, ive n1en of that which they 11 gl1 t t n Y..'. hi i · i r1d eed th u11avoida1,le trutt1 of the Scriptures. t i m t eve, , l1err.., and the 111ore 011e tudie hi Bible, th more he ill l,c con rinc d that the Bi1,te is lit ra]), att.1rat d Vt 1 it t1 it. H OHIO INDEP NDENT BAPTIST I call your attention to the fact that the tory of the appearance of thi Holy Boy i also : U DERE TIMATED TRUTH Little do people seen1 to realize the great importance of the Virgin Birth of our Lord Je u .This tru tlh i o fundamental to the Chri tian cheme of thing that all ~tand or fall at thi·3 poi nt . It i not too much to ay that if Je u were not born a the cri pture ay then the world i without a aviour. It i futile to magnify h r i trna as we do , if this ·3cene in the Manger of Bethlehem i that of a child with a human father and an ordinary birth. It i ea, iiy een that if Jesus Christ were an ordinary person He was not a member of the Godhead ; H ~ h ad no right to forgive in for this i a prerogative of God only~ He had no right to make Himself the object and i~ ue of faith anti Salvation. He would have been a finite being, a inful being a al l n1en are, there– fore could in no wise be the world's Redeemer. Hi death would have an– wered onl y for His ins and not for the in of other . A inful person cannot atone for the sins of another. Do not be deceived by the philoso– phy, hatched in hell , which insi ts that "tibe o]d idea , which tav.sht that the Creator o f this univer e was born of a virQ in ome 2,000 years ago, are pa e." The story which we love aibout the birth of Je u i al o: UPLIFT! G TRUTH All doubt are stripped from the mind with the true under:-· tanding of the truth of the Virgin Birth. The Virgin Birth puts Je u where He belong . It make. Him the God that He really wa a He li ved and move<l among men, and thu give H im the preeminence. It make Him a worthy Rede mer. Thi i the upr me rea on for His virgin birth. The rea. n f r Bethleh em is Calvary. ur ly the irgin Birth f the I... ord Je U \ furni h tt jtt t ground for worsh ipping I-Tin1 and h noring Hi~ name. He i 1od an{l all w r hip hot1ld be dir cted to H in1. When n earth He received the \1\ or htp and homage of n1 n and rightl ~ bccau~e ()f \\ ho rle \Al as. h n J hn wot1ld wor hip a11gcl"i, the rcht1kc<.t h i 111 and sa 1 <l • 0 o 1 \ h I p od" . · his glad sea \On of the ear c ,\ l l\ for ht1n11l1t v and rcvercn t= an I \\l)t – ~hip as e,tch )tlc t,tkt!\ his pl,,ce al ngsi I the n1ange1 1n Bcthleh\;n1. Jt is for tis to fall do~' n an{l cry otll , '· 1\ l orcJ, a11d 111 C,o I'' . " Pastoring At Poland Village The folk at Poland Vill age Bap– ti t Church have a new pa tor. He i Rev. Robert Domoko . H ir:- mini trv .. began there the la t und ay of Sept. Our brother received hi B.A . at Cedarville ollege and hi - Ma ter of Divinity at Grace Theological emi– nar)' · H e has al o completed hi Ma ter of Theology degree e cepting for hl the is . Brother Domokos i a native of Ohio. His wife hirley wa graduated fro m Cedarville with a B.A. in pian and organ. They 1- d ve two children, Mike age four and B;enda age t\.\O. The e ,dear fo lk er\. ed faithfully at the Bible Bapti t Church in Hunti11gton. I ndiana prior to ace p– ting thi call to Poland illage. We are confident the Lord will gr atly ble hi n1 i n i try in Ohio. Brookside Baptist Sets A Goal The Aapti t 111ember hurch. of the Br Ok t .! }C\ \~;~111d ( Rev. t= rge O Keefe, Pa tor) ha"e et a g al t liqt1idat e a "' 32. lJ\) l) n1L)t tgage . till re111aining on th tr t\ ._tart cr 111illi n dollar5 f propert 1 . h~f rt: the end of 1973 . hi \\l)ttld h .... C\. l\Ctl On year ahead of 1 ,chc<lt1lc B11tldi11g 1: t1nti l-i 1r: Pl tln 0 111- ~ 111itn1ent \\Crc rcnc\, ', 1 1 t1r 1ng the r11 t)nth t1 f O.; tol1cr .. \n t .. h \\ ~d , n 1n ' rea c in a111 tint triJ1le t that of 19(17. he,c ('n11111t n1 .. nt·"' arc over anti ,lhL)\ c e,1ch n1c 111her· tithe 111t the httr h. AVAILABLE FOR ••• Pulpit Supply and or Serl"'\ons 1n Song REV . GEORGE P. ZINN P.O . Box 496 Norwalk, Ohio - 44857 Tel . (419) 662-9794 DECEMBER, 1969 11