Reflections:
Every person is born with a sinful nature.
because of the sin of our first parents, Adam and Eve.
Each of us is born with our backs to God,
with free will and the ability to choose for ourselves what is right and what is wrong.
However, that leads us on a course without salvation. We are born lost.
We are all lost until we accept Jesus into our lives.
Not one of us has escaped this “struggle with sin”,
which is enjoyable for a season in our lives.
No one, that is, except the Son of Man.
“But, I’m not a sinner. I’ve never killed anyone or robbed a bank.
I’m a good person,
I do good things for people,
so I don’t need to be saved. Right?”
Romans 5:12-17 and Luke 1:30-35
“sin entered the world through one man,
and death through sin,
and in this way death came to all people,
because all sinned”
(Romans 5:12)
It is this sin-producing gene,
inherited from Adam,
that Jesus came to save us from.
So Jesus was born of a virgin,
(What Christmas should be all about)
free from the sin of Adam,
that He might deliver us from our debt of sin.
Our freedom from the bondage of sin,
now and forever,
was the very purpose of the virgin birth!
“But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins.
And in him is no sin”(1 John 3:5).
**In reflection of parts of:
Michael Youssef, Ph.D.
The Purpose of His Birth
