The Word Unleashed

The great English puritan Thomas Watson wrote that “prayer is ... the soul’s breathing.” In that brief statement, Watson captures the seriousness of prayer: it is to your spiritual life what breathing is to your physical life! In other words, without prayer, your Christian life can’t survive.

The Bible teaches that God is one being in three distinct persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. But unfortunately, the Holy Spirit is the most misunderstood member of the Trinity. In this series, Pastor Tom seeks to shed light on the powerful working of the Spirit in the life of the believer, that the Spirit serves not only as our seal but also as God's down payment on our future inheritance.

The third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, is the most misunderstood and neglected person of the Trinity—and there are several reasons that have contributed to a lack of care for the Spirit. But there is one particular aspect of His ministry that is often overlooked or even sometimes forgotten and that is His “sealing.”

The virgin birth of Jesus Christ is a fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith that must be embraced and never ignored or rejected. The fact that the eternal Son of God took to Himself human flesh is a nonnegotiable aspect of the gospel message and is absolutely necessary for the salvation of mankind.

As we continue studying Matthew's account of Jesus' birth, we have to ask a key question: Why, when announcing Jesus’ birth, does the angel Gabriel explicitly quote Isaiah 7:14? What does that Old Testament passage have to do with Jesus Christ? On today’s broadcast, Pastor Pennington helps us understand an important prophecy from Isaiah chapter 7 that describes the virgin birth of Christ 700 years before it happened.