St. Luke 1:30-35

Introduction

There was a great need for deliverance and God had a plan. Your salvation you must understand was not a last minute idea. But from the foundation of the world, God thought about your deliverance. A deliverer who was at one and the same time man and God.

He Had To Be Man Enough

In order to be a deliverer, it was of necessity that one would be kin to humanity. He had to be able to relate to us in a way that made deliverance relavant to us.

• He had to be man enough to know that difficulties were ahead and still move in the direction of ultimate end.
1. He had to walk through this world and see the things that we should go through.
2. He had to understand the human side of life.
3. He needed to know the struggles that we encounter.
4. Therefore he could not simply be God, he had to be man enough to save.

He Had To Be God Enough

In order to be a deliverer, it was necessary that he be as much God as he could be.

• He had to be God to know what was best for man.
1. He needed to have power enough to conquer sin in the flesh.
2. He had to have enough power to break the power of sin.

Human Met Divine

So the angel comes to Mary and says to her that you are a part of the plan of God. For centuries and millenia people had looked for the promised Messiah.

• Human/Divine
1. He had to be man enough to go to sleep like everybody else, but God enough to wake up and rebuke the sea.
2. He had to be man enough to be hungry like everybody else, but God enough to take two fish and five loaves of bread and feed five thousand.