God had many reasons to send His Son to earth in human flesh and shares many of those reasons with us in the Scriptures. I pray they would bless you as you meditate on the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect,so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,.
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,. By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance.
And he went out, not knowing where he was going. In the one case tithes are received by mortal men, but in the other case, by one of whom it is testified that he lives. So that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
But declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.
You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.
And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power.
When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice. When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching; for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes. Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man. But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. Jesus is the true solution to our sin problem. Let me anticipate another possible objection. How many is all?
But we also know this to be true apart from the Bible. Remember the ransom has been paid. God has taken the first step. Now Jesus is calling sinners to respond to that act of grace. Jesus is inviting all people to turn to Him and put their trust in Him.
Now this is the greatest Christmas gift one can receive—the gift of eternal life. Jesus came to give eternal life to whoever believes in Jesus. It only comes once you put your trust in Jesus. You have to believe in Him. What does Jesus mean by condemned already? The bad news is that we are all sinners and the wages of sin is death.
God is an absolutely holy and just Being. He cannot allow sins to go unpunished.
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