As we prepare for the celebration of “Christmas” what does the Bible God’s perfect Word say about some of the deeper and more profound things that we should be thinking about during this most joyous season? Is it possible that we would be more grateful about “who” Christmas has made us who believe in Christ Jesus, than we are about the many traditional and commercial type things that human culture has attached to what this season is all about? Our study today promises to encourage us to take a deeper look into the deeper things of what it really means that God the Son was born on Christmas day!
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Genesis 3:15 – 20 (KJV)
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Gen 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Gen 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Gen 3:18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Gen 3:20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
New Testament Scripture Reading: Galatians 4:1 – 7 (KJV)
Gal 4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Gal 4:2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
Gal 4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Gal 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Gal 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Gal 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Gal 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
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Transforming Power Statements:
1) From the very foundation of the world the immeasurable glories of God’s magnificent plan to elevate the Son’s of Adam from dust made in His divine image to a similar glory, which He would implement by not only attaining human flesh to Himself, (Christmas i.e. 1st Advent) by birthing Himself into the actual human process, from supernatural conception by the Holy Spirit into the womb of the virgin, which brought about raising the status of the entire human experience to Christ-likeness for everyone who believes in Jesus unto salvation.
2) From the very beginning God the Holy Spirit by Moses reveals the mind and intension of God in Genesis where it is clearly presented that God had a way to not only cleanse humanity from the atrocities of sin; but also a course through which He would escalate believing human beings and conquer the works of the evil one.
3) The Apostle Paul when writing to the church at Galatia states what many have said is the only mention by him, of the virgin birth (i.e. the incarnation of Messiah) and reveals that His purpose was initially to rescue mankind from their inability to ever attain perfection via the Law of God, but also teaches believers rather that God the Father has made a way through the sacrifice of His Son; in order to adopt all who believe thus raising mankind from the doomed dust of Adam, to the heavenly riches of Christ forever more!