"the Road To Redemption"

When the world was in darkness and chaos, God stepped out and said, “Let there be Light.” He turned darkness into light and brought order out of chaos. At a time when mankind lost in sin, sitting in darkness with no vision or hope; trapped by Satan and under the judgment of God; in separation and bondage, Jesus stepped out of Heaven into Earth. More than that, He chose to be born of one of our women, in one of our stables, in one of our villages, right here on earth. It's hard to imagine He knew what he was doing or where he was going because of what it would eventually cost him. He journeyed from Heaven to Earth on a mission to shine God’s light in a dark world; on a mission to save lost humanity. Lu 19:10, “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

The earth and humanity had gone terribly wrong, sin had polluted the world, separating man from God and turned man against God. I think if God had asked the advice of any good businessman, the advice probably would have been, "cut your losses, forget about the human race on earth and start over somewhere else. The world has been polluted that sin, chaos and confusion was the order of the day and Satan had trapped mankind in sin and sorrow. But the Bible says, "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believe on him should not perish but have everlasting life." I believe Jesus was willing to step out of heaven, place of abundant light and life because He knew exactly what was needed. In darkness, we need light! In chaos we need order. In confusion we needed peace! In sin we need a Savior. So, Jesus as an act of the Father’s will, stepped into Bethlehem, a place of turbulence, turmoil and trouble to proof to each of us that he can handle our sin problem, our spiritual blindness and our need for peace with God, peace with others and peace with ourselves. He is not afraid to step into the chaos of our lives. Our God is the Light of the World, Prince of Peace and our blessed redeemer! It was an awesome journey, not only a journey from heaven to earth, but a journey from eternity to time.

2. The Road to Redemption Led Jesus from Eternity into Time - It was an awesome journey, not only a journey from heaven to earth, but a journey from eternity to time. This text in John speaks of the beginning. Go back as far as your imagination can go and before that, He was. He was already living and existing before the beginning. Isa 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

And then He took a journey from eternity into time. He came into our calendar, into our time clock, into our way of thinking, into our schedules, into birthdays, anniversaries, bedtimes, get-up times. Jesus must have felt caged by the clock. He had lived in the expanses of untimed eternity, where a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day. He not only came from eternity to time, but he reset the time-clocks of the ages. Before the coming of Christ, our calendars were set by the reign of kings. Throughout the Scriptures, you can read, "In the tenth year of the reign of king so and so." But today, the calendars of the whole world are set in terms of the coming of the Son of God into the world. The Gregorian calendar is the global standard for the measurement of dates. Despite originating in the Western Christian tradition, its use has spread throughout the world and now transcends religious, cultural and linguistic boundaries. Before Christ is known BC and after Christ is known as AD. Today, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and heathens alike use the same time measurements. All peoples of the world set their calendars by the coming of the Son of God from eternity into time. Even heaven itself must use a clock synchronized with earth to fulfill the purpose of God the Father. Jesus came from eternity into time because He realized what sin cost mankind. Satan is master of robbing us of time. Jesus Christ is a master restorer. Joel 2:25 “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the cater-pillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.” I will restore; make up to you or compensate: the lean years of Egypt did eat up the fat, but with you now the fat years shall feed and enrich the lean ones. “You cannot kill time without injuring eternity”. –Thoreau. Jesus journeyed from Heaven to earth, then from eternity into time to restore us. Then he journeyed from Spirit into a physical body.