Divine Intervention: He Came 

Christ came. God sent His son into our world. He came with a mission. God’s love intervened. He made a way for us to return to Him. 

Our Condition 

We are born into sin. Sin entered the world in the beginning. Ever since we have inherited our sin nature. We are naturally sinful. We are bent towards rebelling against God. We want to go our own way, a way that seems right to us but only leads to spiritual death and separation from God. (Proverbs 14:12, Romans 5:12)

Darkness 

The world without God is a dark place. The human condition is bleak and desperate apart from God. We are powerless to help ourselves, to save ourselves from our sin nature. We will always rebel without Gods help. (Romans 3:11-12, John 1:5)

Only God can help our ways to change. Only through His power can we gain a new nature to obey and have abundant life. On our own we cannot gain Gods favor through our own efforts. We are lost in our sin apart from God. We have no hope apart from Christ. (Romans 7:24-25)

Light

God sent His son. The light of God came, but the world didn’t recognize Him. In fact we rejected Him and killed Him. As long as we live apart from Him we are actively rejecting Him. Light reveals. Darkness hides. Humanity likes the darkness. The world rejected Christ. Most of His own people rejected Him. He had no home and constantly wondered from place to place, preaching that God has come to save. Many disregarded His message. Some thought He was possessed and others that He was drunk. Some considered Him a prophet and others a good teacher. Overall Christ lived a lonely life, rejected by many. He loved them but they didn’t believe so that they could be saved. (John 1:10-11, Matthew 16:13-14, Luke 7:34, John 12:37)

Judgment 

The only right judgment against our sin, our rebellion against Him is death and separation from Him. We are spiritually dead without God. He cannot look upon our sin. God is holy and cannot tolerate sin. In His righteousness He must judge sin, but God is also full of mercy and grace. He is slow to anger and full of love. (Romans 2:12, Psalm 98:9, Psalm 145:8)

The Remedy 

What could bring relief from our sin? How could we be saved? God came. He sent His son into our world. Jesus came with a mission to save. He did not come to judge but to save. (John 12:47-48)

The Entrance 

Through a virgin, God came. He entered the world as we all do, but without the sin nature we are born with. Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, not by human means, so He did not inherit our sin nature. Adam brought sin and death to humanity, but Christ released humanity from the grip of sin and death. (Matthew 1:18, Romans 5:17-19)

The Son of God took on human flesh and entered our world as a helpless baby. The Creator became one of us. He subjected Himself to human frailty and limitation. He experienced hunger, thirst, exhaustion, and pain. He faced temptation and sorrow. Yet He remained sinless. (Matthew 4:1, 1 Peter 2:22, Hebrews 4:15, 2 Corinthians 5:21)

His Life

Christ grew up just like everyone else in His time. He had a childhood and learned a career as a carpenter. He attended synagogue and was raised with all the law and all the traditions of the temple religions leaders. His parents raised Him to do right and be a productive member of society. He had brothers and sisters. He was known in His hometown as the son of Joseph the carpenter. (Matthew 12:47, Matthew 13:55-56)

The Mission 

Jesus had a mission no one knew about. It’s the reason He came. It’s what He set His sights on from the beginning. Even as a child He was focused on His mission.  (Luke 2:49-51)

Jesus had a deep calling by God, His Father. He constantly talked to God and spent time alone with Him. He taught the people God’s ways and spoke against the rules and traditions that burdened the people. God never made the laws to burden people, but instead out of His love He gave boundaries. Christ showed the way back to God through belief in Him. Jesus showed compassion and mercy to many. He healed, raised the dead, did miracles, and spoke truth, preaching and teaching in His love and kindness. (John 12:49-50)

The Response

God sent His son to save, but people didn’t recognize or receive Him. They didn’t like His message. They had a different idea of who the Messiah would be and what he would do. The religious leaders were full of pride in their rules and traditions and so were blinded to His message. (John 3:32, John 7:41-42, John 7:43-44, John 7:45-47, John 7:50-52)

So Jesus was misunderstood and mistreated by those He came to save. He came to the world to offer salvation in Him, not judge the world. To offer hope and freedom from sin and the hold it has on us. To give life with Him our creator. He loves us each individually and rather than leave us in our sin, in our filth and darkness doomed to death and separation from Him, He came to us to offer a way back to Him. He was motivated by His compassion and love for each of us. (John 3:16-17, Romans 5:6)

The Exit 

Christ was ultimately put to death in the most torturous way nailed to a cross, beaten and whipped beforehand with a crown of thorns dug into His head. He died loving us, but it was the plan of God. The purpose of Christ’s coming was to offer Himself as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. (John 19:1-3, Luke 23:21, Luke 23:33)

The only way sin can be remedied is by the shedding of blood, the life giving blood. It was foreshadowed by the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament laws. Once and for all God sent His son to be the final sacrifice for all sin if we believe. (Matthew 26:28)

On the cross, Jesus bore the full weight of God’s righteous judgment against human sin. His death satisfied divine justice and made forgiveness possible. (Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24)

Our Hope

In three days Christ rose from the dead and appeared to His disciples and many others. Then He returned to Heaven to sit at the right hand side of God having completed His mission. (Acts 10:40, Acts 13:30-31, Hebrews 1:3)

Fulfillment

He fulfilled the law of the Old Testament and offers salvation to anyone no matter background, race, past, family or anything else. We can all come to Him for forgiveness and redemption. He will give us a new start and hope in Him. He will fill us with His joy and be with us through everything giving us strength to overcome throughout our life. (Matthew 5:17, Romans 8:1-2, Romans 8:3-4, Galatians 3:28)

Victory 

Jesus rose victorious over sin and death. His resurrection vindicated His claims and secured eternal life for all who believe in Him. His power now works in us to transform us into His likeness. Because of Christ’s coming, we now have a living hope that sustains us through life’s trials and points us toward a glorious future. (1 Corinthians 15:55-57, Ephesians 3:20, 1 Peter 1:3)

Confidence 

Because of Christ coming, because of God sending His son we have confidence. Christ died and rose again one and for all to give salvation to all who believe in Him. All who call on His name for salvation will be saved. (2 Corinthians 3:4, Romans 10:13)

Our hope is not wishful thinking or blind optimism. It’s a confident expectation grounded in the biblical and historical fact of Christ’s resurrection. This hope is alive and active, shaping how we live and view our world and present circumstances. (Romans 8:24-25)

Our living hope in Christ gives us strength to persevere through life’s challenges. Because we know the final outcome is secure in Christ, we can face trials with courage and even joy, knowing God is using them to refine our faith. (Philippians 4:13, Romans 5:1-2, Romans 5:3-4, Romans 5:5)

Return 

Since God came to us, He promised He will return for us someday. We must always be ready. Our eager anticipation of Christ’s second coming should motivate us to live with purpose and purity. We know that one day, our faith will become sight as we see our Savior face to face. (John 14:1-2, John 14:3-4, 1 Corinthians 13:12)

He will return for us either to bring us to Heaven or make all things new by creating the new earth and new Heaven. He is preparing a place for us so we can be with Him forever. For now he is working in and through us for a purpose here on earth.

God Came

God came into history. He came to us. He was human just like us. He was born to a young couple, had a childhood, young adulthood and became a man. He had a mission from God did God’s will not His own. Out of His great love, mercy and grace, God came and lived among us, like us. (John 5:30, John 10:18)

Immanuel – God With Us

God Himself came to us in the person of Jesus Christ. The eternal, divine Word – God the Son – took on human nature without ceasing to be God. In Jesus, we encounter God in human form. One of Christ‘s names is Immanuel which means “God with us”. He walked among us as one of us. He had feelings, emotions, struggles, passion, hope, sorrow and joy. (Matthew 1:23)

Image of God

In Christ, we see the fullness of God’s character displayed in human form. His compassion, wisdom, power, and sacrificial love give us the clearest picture of what God is like. God came and showed us the way. He showed us how to live and be His children. He provided salvation through His death and resurrection. He is calling all back to Him in His love. (Colossians 1:15-17, John 12:32)

The Incredible Truth

The God of the universe humbled Himself to become one of us. He entered our broken world to rescue and redeem us. God became flesh and lived among us. God came. Without His coming we would still be lost in our sin doomed to life and eternity without Him. (Philippians 2:8-9, John 1:14)

Christ’s coming changed everything. It revealed the depths of God’s love for us, provided the remedy for our sin, and gave us living hope for today and eternity. As we reflect on this profound significance of His incarnation, let’s respond with wonder, gratitude, and wholehearted devotion to our Savior who came to seek and save the lost. (Ephesians 3:18-19)

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