Isaiah in Isaiah 9: 6 said,
For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace.
God Himself had promised to David in 2 Samuel 7: 11-14,
The Lord declares to you that the Lord Himself
will establish a house for you: (12) When your
days are over and you rest with your fathers,
I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who
will some from your own body, and I will establish
his kingdom. (13) He is the one who will build a
house for My name and I will establish the throne
of his kingdom forever. (14) I will be his father and
he will be My son.
How do we know that this son is Jesus Christ?
Luke 4:41 says : Moreover the demons came out of many people, shouting, "You
are the Son of God!"
And how do we know He is the promised one, descendant of David, Isreael's second King???
Again we look at Luke 18: 38: The blind beggar called out, " Jesus, Son of David,
have mercy on me!"
And in another place, " (32) He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, (33) and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever and His kingdom will never end." (Luke 1:32-33)
There, 2 out of the many verses in various translations of the Bible that states and verifies that Jesus, born of Mary, was, is and will always be the Son of God, the one promised to be from the line of David, a man who was after God's own heart.
Now, why did I bring this all up?
Why was Jesus even promised to us in the first place? Why did God sent His only son to us?
Let me tell you why....
God on creating the world, created man and woman in His own image to share with Him His life and His glory. This man we know as Adam and the woman, Eve. God loved them so much that He trusted to them the Garden of Eden and all beings that His hands have made only restricting them from the tree of knowledge. But what did they do? Instead of obeying God, their creator, Eve listened to the serpent and ate a fruit from the tree. Tasting that it was good, she shared it with Adam and both soon realised that they were naked and hid from God.
' (8) Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was
walking in the garden in the cool of the day. and they hid from the Lord God among
the trees of the garden.' ( Genesis 3:8)
This was Man's first sin. And this was the sin that banished Adam and Eve from the comfort of Eden. This was the sin that saddened the Lord and made Him doubt His creation. This was also the very sin that drifted Man from God. And this sin is why Jesus came.
This sin caused nations to be in a state of confusion and lost and always searching for the truth. This sin caused the downfall of man.
But God loved us so much, He couldnt bear to watch us drift away. He tried with prophets to bring us back to Him but that failed. He could easily turn our hearts to Him with his majestic powers, afterall it was He who created us, but He wouldnt. He wanted us to choose Him on our own free will. He wanted us to love Him because we WANT to not because we HAVE to. That's why He sent His only son to us; "God loved the world so much that He gave His only son, that whomsoever who believed in Him shall not perish but have an eternal life" (John 3:16) We are His world , His children, His creation.
He sent us Jesus in the form of a man, so that Jesus may feel, know and understand our lives as human. We cannot say that God cannot understand us as He is God and we are mere humans when Jesus himself lived and died a man on earth.
Jesus came bearing this words, " I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to Father
except through me." (John 14:6)
He loved both men and women equally. Examples would be Lazarus, Mary and Martha, the widow of Nain, Jairus, his disciples, his apostles....everyone..He LOVED everyone.
He summarized the 10 commandments into 2 simple ones:
a) Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
b) Love your neighbour as yourself.
(Matthew 22: 37-40)
He loved us. So much as to bleed and die for us on the tree of Calvary.
"but He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds, we are
healed." (Isaiah 53: 5)
Yes, by dying on the cross, our sins were forgiven, our souls healed. We are now called the children of light, God's children. We are princes and princesses of the Most High God, King of all kings. Isnt that great?? Jesus is our only hope, our only way and He promised us a guide, the Holy Spirit : "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you;and you will be my witnesses" (Acts 1:8)
True. All we have to do is confess that Jesus is Lord of All and at His name, every tongue shall confess and every knee shall kneel. Amen.
Besides, what do we have to fear? Jesus said," Do not be afraid. I have conquered the world."
yes my friends, why fear?? Jesus has conquered all!
Reference:
Verses in green indicate the New Testament while verses in red, the Old Testament. All scripture was adapted from the New International Version of the bible.
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