Immanuel (God with us)
Immanuel There you have it, the simple message of the Gospel in the baby Jesus. The promised Messiah, the Son of God. The prophets foretold his birth some 600 years prior it happened. “Behold the virgin shall be with child and give birth to a Son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”--- which, when translated, means, “God with us" (Matthew 1:23) Now this might seem obvious that any god could be with us. But this Almighty God is living and almighty. Have you heard the story in the Bible in 1 King 18:26-29 where the prophet Elijah along with the prophets of Baal called on their false gods to get some attention from them but obviously since they were not real, they never responded. (verse 27) At noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry out with a loud voice, for he is a god, either he is occupied, or he is out or he is on a journey. Perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened…. In the end, the living God is the only One who responded by fire and burned the sa