Part
1 of 5 – God’s Gift for Needy Mankind
We as
humans live in two worlds, one outside of our being and the other inside, in
our soul being. The outer world is filled with conflict and turmoil, hatred
and international tension, struggle and strife. Inside we must deal with hurts
and disappointments, discouragements, and fear – none of us are free from
these difficult inner situations. But if we receive God’s Gift of
Christmas, we can have inner peace and strength to overcome suffering,
negativism, and fear of the chaos.
John
16:33 (AMP) I (Jesus) have told you these things, so that in Me
(Jesus) you may have [perfect] peace and
confidence. In the world you have tribulation and
trials and
distress and
frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain,
undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to
harm you and have conquered it for you.]
We
may contrast the tension, struggle, strife and fear of non-believers with
those believers who have faith and hope for today and the future because of God’s
gift of His only begotten Son…His Son’s life given for us
at the cross, and then also…His Son’s “Spirit of life” given to
us to be our ever-present life-source within our spirit. “God with
us” means the end of loneliness…the end of facing life’s trials
alone.
The
first of Christmas was such that Jesus was the only person ever born as result
of what is called the “immaculate conception.” Jesus’ was
a “spotlessly clean conception,” being conceived free of
human begetting by a human father in the lineage of fallen Adam. The Bible
says the Spirit of God came upon a young human Jewish virgin, Mary, and the
power of the Spirit of the Highest overshadowed her, and she gave birth to “the
Son of God” (See Matthew 1:18-23, Luke 1:30-35).
Luke
1:30-35 (AMP) And the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have
found grace (free, spontaneous, absolute favor and loving-kindness) with God. 31
And listen! You will become pregnant and will give birth to a
Son, and you shall call His name Jesus. 32 He
will be great (eminent) and will be called the Son of the Most High;
and the Lord God will give to Him the throne of His forefather David, 33
And He will reign over the house of Jacob (Israel) throughout
the ages; and of His reign there will be no end. 34
And Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I have no
[intimacy with any man as a] husband? 35 Then
the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power
of the Most High will overshadow you [like a shining cloud]; and so the
holy (pure, sinless) Thing (Offspring) which shall be born of
you will be called the Son of God.
We know
mankind has now been able to “clone” sheep, cows, and other species.
Scientists believe it is now possible to clone a human being. Have you ever
consider that every clone by man is “a virgin birth,” since no apparent
human “fathering” is involved. This should then make it possible to
convince skeptics of the “immaculate conception” of Jesus. If man
is able to do this then why is it so difficult to believe that God
accomplished this about 2,000 yeas ago.
This “immaculate
conception” of Jesus is the key to man’s redemption by the shed blood
of Jesus, as we will see in the next installment. Being conceived of God the
Father’s sinless Spirit-life there was no sin at Jesus’ core, in His
Spirit, and as we shall see, neither in His blood.
Mary was born
the daughter of her father Heli, in the line of fallen Adam, by whom sin
entered the world (Rom 5:12). Galatians 4:4
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth
his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.
Mary gave Jesus
of Nazareth His genuinely human body of flesh, one that bore all the
human frailties that we have by Adam’s fall. John 1:14 (AMP) And
THE WORD (CHRIST) BECAME FLESH (HUMAN, INCARNATE) and tabernacled
(fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually]
saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son
receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth.
Though Jesus
lived in “His tent of flesh” given Him by Mary, Jesus never
actually sinned. Hebrews 4:15 (AMP) For we do not
have a High Priest WHO IS UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND AND
SYMPATHIZE AND HAVE A
SHARED FEELING WITH OUR WEAKNESSES AND
INFIRMITIES and
liability to the assaults of temptation, but ONE WHO HAS BEEN TEMPTED IN EVERY
RESPECT AS WE ARE, YET WITHOUT SINNING.
Thus, being
genuinely human, Jesus “could
be touched with the feelings of our (human) infirmities”
(KJV Heb 4:15a, above in AMP) as we are,
He could physically die just as our bodies will one day (unless we are first
raptured). As with all real humans, Jesus’ body contained the
fallen Sin nature that we all have, and as described by the Apostle Paul of
his self in Rom 7:17-23… yet - Jesus never sinned
(Heb 4:15)!
As with all
humans, the human body Jesus of Nazareth was not His life source…
the life of all human is located not in the flesh but in the blood. Leviticus
17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the
blood... Being conceived of God the Father by the Holy Spirit, it
was God the Father who gave Jesus the ROYAL LIFE
that was in His human blood, making His blood ROYAL BLOOD!
In
the next installment we will look more closely at Christ’s Royal Blood.
