The Birth of the Savior
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Christmas is not all joyous for everyone
Christmas is not all joyous for everyone
A Christmas of firsts
Babies killed
Mary and Joseph
Pre-incarnate Word
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?
Why did the Word have to become flesh?
The fall of mankind
Genesis 3 sets the story of the coming savior in motion
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?
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?
What was the purpose of Christ’s birth?
To die
And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with us? My hour has not yet come.”
And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
To be the sacrificial lamb
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.
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.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
To be our mediator
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.
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,