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Galatians 4:4, 5
We invite you to join us for worship each Sunday morning at 9:30. You can also download our service at Baptist-Christian at iTunes. This month we have studied how the Savior was promised, and the world prepared! All that was so God could present The Savior. Presentation is promises and preparation becoming reality. On a personal level – you can promise God and prepare all your live to be a “good” Christian, but until you present all that in daily living, it just talk! God always carries through on His promises and preparation to make them reality. There are many reasons why the Savior came, here are three that sum them up.
- CHRIST CAME TO FULFILL PROPHECY! Jesus fulfilled at least 332 specific OT prophecies when He became Man. Reread Matt. 1 and Luke 2 and see how many prophecies you can find in just these two passages Jesus fulfilled at His birth. What’s the significance of fulfilled prophecy? Fulfillment in both OT and NT means complete, full, or finished. Prophecy means one who speaks before, or, foretelling. Prophecies were truths from God that had not happened yet. In Christ the God of Truth brought into reality what He had promised or predicted about Messiah. The next truth Christians are waiting for is the return of Christ to take us to heaven. When we consider the promises of God we must ask ourselves if we are willing to allow God to fulfill His promises in us?
- CHRIST CAME TO MANIFEST DEITY! Deity is one of those words we use to describe the nature and character of God, but God never uses the word Himself. How did Jesus manifest deity? According to John 1:1-3, 14 (and many other verses) Jesus showed us God is real. In Gen. 1:25, 26; 3:6; 3:15; John 14:9-11; 15; 17:6-8, 20-23 (and many others) Jesus show us God is relational. Jesus’ power over all creation is a “real” revelation of God. In fact, all of Scripture is a divinely inspired record of God’s relationship to His creation. Read 1John 1:1-3. Next
- CHRIST CAME TO REDEEM MANKIND! It is primarily for our salvation/redemption that God promised, prepared, and presented the Savior, Jesus Christ. God’s nature is to save, not to destroy. God chose to save us by redeeming us from sin. He comes to get us where we are, the way we are – then recreates us into a new creature in Christ’s image. The current lie of easy-believism wants us to think God recycles us. If God did that, He would be doing nothing more than reusing what we already are. 1 Corinthians 5:17, 18 (and many others) clearly teach that God recreates us into an entirely new creature! The recreation begins at the instant of our salvation and will continue until every last piece of trim is in place. So the question is Dear Reader, have you been as extravagant in giving yourself to God as you have been in giving to others this year? Or is the reality that God gets only the left overs! Shouldn’t the God Who has given all to you have all of you there is to give? Wouldn’t this be the perfect time to give Him all of you then allow Him to make you into His finished workmanship?
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