Last time we talked about from ChristMAS to Christ-MUST. M stands for MUST- we need Christ in Christmas. Pagan Intended for a sun Worship, but as we understand it, true Christian never worship the sun but the Son.
This time, the next letter to give emphasis in M-A-S is A. A stands for Awesome God.
Awesome means Amazing, splendor of God, Majestic God woohhh! something like His greatness cannot fathom by our limited mind or understanding. That's our God.
Imagine God incarnated.
We had incarnated God through Jesus Christ.
Incarnated Christ
Incarnation is a term used by theologians to indicate that Jesus, the Son of God, took on human flesh.
(Source: https://www.gotquestions.org/incarnation-of-Christ.html)
The word incarnation means “the act of being made flesh.” John 1:14
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
The Gospel supported Jesus humanity. Jesus’ human needs including sleep (Luke 8:23),
food (Matthew 4:2; 21:18), and physical protection (Matthew 2:13-15; John 10:39).
He also perspired (Luke 22:43-44) and bled (John 19:34).
Jesus also expressed emotions including joy (John 15:11), sorrow (Matthew 26:37), weeps John 11:35,
and anger (Mark 3:5).
Purpose of Incarnation:
1. To fulfill the Law
First, it was necessary to be born “under the law” (Galatians 4:4). All of us have failed to fulfill God’s Law. Christ came in the flesh, under the Law, to fulfill the Law on our behalf
He has shown unto us how to lived and fulfill in the Law as human, but unfortunately human being always fail in it. always fall into sinning. That give way into the next point, to save us from the Law.
Matthew 5:17
17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
Galatians 4:4-5
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born[a] of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
2. To save humanity, through shedding His Blood at the cross
Jesus story of Incarnation for the purpose of saving humanity is the basis and pattern of all stories that was written by great authors, story tellers, film writers and book writers. It is the great life story of Jesus that was copied not the Bible copied from other written stories.
It was necessary for the Savior to shed His blood for the forgiveness of sins (Hebrews 9:22). A blood sacrifice, of course, requires a body of flesh and blood. And this was God’s plan for the Incarnation. Without the Incarnation, Christ could not really die, and the cross is meaningless.
Hebrews 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.
Jesus claimed and confimed His deity (being God):
1. Juan10:30 "I and My Father are one.”
2. Juan 14:9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
CONNECT:
God did an incredible work in sending His only begotten Son into the world and providing us with a salvation we do not deserve. Praise the Lord for that moment in which “the Word became flesh.”
Philippians 2:6-8
6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it [a]robbery to be equal with God, 7 but [b]made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
This Christ-must reminds us not to celebrate it as the pagan do. Christmas became so materially and commercially hooked, we tend to forget that Christ has come not for that reason, but for the sole reason of God and that is to save us, giving us eternal life to those who receive and believe Him.
