(Pt. 2)
“Therefore the Lord himself will give
you a sign: The virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will
call him Immanuel.”-Isaiah 7:14.
Although
Jesus’ coming was announced by angels at His birth; the details of His coming
were being proclaimed by prophets long before. Isaiah prophesied that He would
be born of a virgin; Jeremiah prophesied that He would be born of the line of
David; and Micah prophesied that He would be born in Bethlehem.
These are
just a few surrounding His birth; there are hundreds of prophecies nestled
within the pages of the Old Testament regarding His life, ministry, death,
resurrection, and second coming.
God wanted
mankind to know that He was going to reveal Himself to us through Jesus and
described for us specifically the events surrounding His coming. Scripture and
history bear out the fact that Jesus came just as it was foretold through the
Holy prophets; but why did He come?
The simple
answer to that question is “He came for you!” Jesus came to earth to satisfy
man’s desire to know God more intimately. He came to reveal to us His true
nature, His will, His workings, His truth, and His power. He also came to correct
the many misconceptions people had about Him. He did this by becoming the
audible expression of God:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God.”-John 1:1.
Author Ralph
Riggs describes it this way in his book entitled “The Life of Christ”: “A word
is an audible expression of an inaudible thought. Jesus would take the
inaudible, invisible God and clothe Him in such a way men could see Him.”
The Apostle
Paul recognized this when he wrote in Colossians 1:15:
“He is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn over all creation.”
The writer
of Hebrews declared:
“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and
the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful
word.”-Hebrews 1:3
Jesus came
to earth to display God’s love, compassion, patience, humility, and wisdom in
such a way that you and I could truly know Him. Jesus said in John 14:9: “I am in the Father and the Father in me.”
If you want
to know who God is, look to Jesus. God has and is revealing Himself to us still
today through Jesus Christ.
Pastor Scott
Burr
Dayspring
Community Church
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