The Birth of the Savior

Christmas is not all joyous for everyone

A Christmas of firsts

Babies killed

Mary and Joseph

Pre-incarnate Word

He was in the beginning - Eternality

He was with God - Distinct

He was God - Deity

Why did the Word have to become flesh?

The fall of mankind

Genesis 3 sets the story of the coming savior in motion

Genesis 3:15 NASB95

And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

The Old Covenant look forward to the Messiah

The New Testament looks back to the coming of the Messiah

What circumstances did He choose to be born into?

He was born a King, was He born in a palace?

He was born a King, did he choose a wealthy job?

He was born a king?, did He come to be served?

What was the purpose of Christ’s birth?

To die

John 2:4 NASB95

And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come.”

John 12:23 NASB95

And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

To be the sacrificial lamb

Revelation 13:8 NKJV

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Hebrews 9:12 NASB95

and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

Romans 5:8 NASB95

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

To be our mediator

Hebrews 9:15 NASB95

For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

1 Timothy 2:5 NASB95

For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,