Jesus comes on the scene
Having looked at how God created everything perfect for us, how sin destroyed, how bad sin is and the reward of sin - we will now continue to look at the GOOD NEWS, so here comes point 95-110 of 285.
Finally, the time is come and as God said at the very beginning and then repeated around 800 years before this moment, a virgin will now give birth to the Son of God with no man involved.
So to explain this to Mary; “the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man, whose name was Joseph, of the house of David and the virgin’s name was Mary.” (Luke 1:26-27)
96.
“And the angel said unto her; Fear not Mary, you have found grace with God. Behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and shall bear a Son and shall call His name Jesus.
He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest. And the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David. And He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of His kingdom shall be no end.” (Luke 1:30-33)
97.
“Then said Mary unto the angel; How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
And the angel answered and said unto her; The Holy Spirit shall come upon you and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you.
Therefore also the Holy which shall be born, shall be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:34-35)
98.
Mary was not yet married to Joseph and an “angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream saying; Joseph, the son of David, fear not to take unto you Mary your wife. For that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Spirit.
She shall bring forth a Son and you shall call His name Jesus.” (Matthew 1:20-21)
99.
The angel then points out to Joseph that Jesus “shall save His people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21)
And points out that “All this was done to fulfill that which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet saying; Behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a Son and they shall call His name Emanuel, which is by interpretation, God with us.” (Matthew 1:22-23)
100.
When Jesus is born there are shepherds in the field and; “the angel of the Lord stood by them and the brightness of the Lord shone around them and they were greatly afraid.
And the angel said unto them; Be not afraid. Behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, that shall come to all the people” (Luke 2:9-10)
This was indeed tidings of great joy for us humans that otherwise would have been lost with no way to get salvation from the consequences of our sin.
101.
Finally the wait is over and as the angel said; “for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Luke 2:11)
(If you are not used to read the Bible, I might here point out that Christ is the Greek/English version for the Hebrew/English word Messiah.)
102.
Our Saviour had now come and it is God Himself, Christ the Lord, that has come to earth to take the penalty for our sins.
This is it.
Now the salvation project is really under way.
103.
When Mary and Joseph take Jesus to the temple the following happens;
“And behold there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. And the same man was just and feared God and longed for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was in him.
And an answer was given him of the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.” (Luke 2:25-26)
104.
“And he came by inspiration into the temple. And as the father and mother brought in the Child Jesus, to do for Him after the custom of the law. Then took he Him up in his arms and said;
Lord, now You let Your servant depart in peace according to Your promise.
For mine eyes have seen the Saviour sent from You, which You have prepared before the face of all people.” (Luke 2:27-31)
Just as the prophet Isaiah had foretold 800 years earlier, we see that Jesus has now come to be our Saviour.
105.
Jesus grows up and at 30 years of age He starts His work on earth.
Before He starts He comes to John the Baptist who exclaims;
“Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29)
Not only that Jesus is the Messiah – He is also the Lamb of God.
106.
Many lambs had been offered over the years since our great, great, great grandparents first sinned, to cover sins, but these offers could never remove our sins and make us righteous, as we read in Hebrews 10 where it is written, that the law;
“can never with the sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.” (Hebrews 10:1)
107.
And God points out that “it is impossible that the blood of oxen and of goats should take away sins.” (Hebrews 10:4)
But now the Lamb of God Himself had finally come.
108.
God Himself would be the sacrifice, that would not cover our sins – but take them away as it is written;
“By the which will we are sanctified, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” (Hebrews 10:10)
109.
And as it is written of the other sacrifices that they; “can never take away sins.
But this Man after He had offered one sacrifice for sins, sat Him down for ever on the right hand of God and from henceforth waiting till His foes be made His footstool.
For with one offering has He made perfect for ever them that are sanctified.” (Hebrews 10:11-14)
110.
When John the Baptist said “Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world”, there were still a few years left before Jesus would take our penalty on the cross
– and Jesus spent that time to show us a love that is hard to grasp.
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