Why the World Needed a Saviour

“The Lord passed in front of Moses calling out…Yahweh! The Lord God of compassion and mercy! I am slow to anger and filled with unfailing Love and Faithfulness. I lavish unfailing Love to a thousand generations. I forgive iniquity, rebellion, and sin. But I do not excuse the guilty, laying the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren; the entire family is affected – even to the third and fourth generations” (Exodus 34:6-7).

Welcome back dear student, as we approach Christmas, let’s get to know the Lord, and understand what are we celebrating? To first know God, we must return to the fear of the Lord, for He is Awesome. Moses knew God as his Friend, yet he revered Him (Exodus 33:11). God is Holy and sin cannot enter His Presence. Mankind is not holy, for when Adam and Eve sinned our spiritual connection to God was broken through their disobedience. Sins also get handed down generationally – known as iniquities. Even though a person may be kind, doing good things, shunning wickedness, sin nature is still present in the flesh (Romans chapter five).

God keeps Covenant forever; He does not change. Man breaks promises – even the most willing and well-meaning people fail and fall short of His Glory (Romans 3:23). God created man in His own image to have fellowship with. In Genesis chapter one, God called His creation ‘good’ – He was satisfied with His design. But when He created Man, He called him ‘very good’. God delights in us, and desires relationship with us. But sin broke the fellowship. So, He came up with a solution for the sin problem. He would send a Saviour. He looked and found there was no man to bridge the gap between our sins and God’s holiness to save us, so He stepped in Himself and came down as one of us (Isaiah 59:16-17; 1 Timothy 2:5).

Enter the Son of God - the Lord Jesus. The difference was, no man was His Father - God was. The ancestral line comes through the Father, so that is why Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to her first-born - Jesus (Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:31-35). He was conceived when the Holy Spirit fell upon Mary, growing up to become Messiah – the Lamb with God’s sinless bloodline. God’s Word is Truth, and He is true to His Word. He watches over His Word to see that it is performed (Jeremiah 1:12: Isaiah 55:6-11). Every prediction about the Messiah was fulfilled in Jesus. Christ is not His surname; it is His calling – it means Anointed One. “God

anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and with Power, and He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38).

Jesus’ Name is Immanuel, which means “God with us”. We had no way of overcoming the devil and his works in our own efforts. So, Yahweh - God Almighty, sent His Son to take our sins, to wash us clean from the effects of sin, bringing freedom from cursed generational iniquities, so we could be forgiven and reconciled to God, and brought into His family (Galatians 3:13). Simply by acknowledging and repenting for our sins, believing, and confessing aloud that Jesus is Lord, we become ‘born again’ into God’s family, never again to be separated from His Love (Romans 10:9; John 3:7-16). Folks are battling multitudes of problems and chaos in the world: but you can have Peace in Christ friend. And a place to belong in God’s family. The commercial driven, alcohol centred Christmas is a sham. God’s Love for you is real. (Romans 8:31-39). This is the Good News - the reason we celebrate Christmas.