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For ages men were lost in spiritual darkness blinded by the disease of sin, made to grope- searching, guesting, seeking some way out. Man needed someone who could lead him out of mental confusing and could redeem him from the Devil’s prison. From the primitive men in the jungle through the mighty civilization of Egypt , Greece and Rome, bewildered men were all asking the same questions. How can I be better? How can I get rid of this terrible disease? When man deliberately disobeyed Him, he was banished from the presence of God. He had said , “in the day thou eatest thereof , thou shalt surely die”. For centuries man in their blindness have been trying to get back to Eden- but they never been able to reach their goal.
Jesus Christ is Co-equal with God the Father. He was not just the Son of God. The birth of Jesus Christ that we celebrate at Christmas time was not His beginning. The angelic hosts bowed in humility and awe as heaven’s Prince of Princes and the Lord of Lords , who could speak words into space, got into His jeweled chariot went through pearly gates , across the steep of the skies and on the black Judean night, while the stars sang together and escorting angles chanted His praises, stepped out of the chariot , threw off His robes and became man. His origin is shrouded in the same mystery of God. The Bible teaches us , “who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature”. The night Jesus was born Satan trembled. When the decree went forth from Herod ordering the slaughter of all children, eat one purpose was to make certain of the death of Jesus.
Althrough the Old Testament , God gave man the promise of salvation if by faith he would believe in the coming Redeemer. Man have failed on every other occasion when they have tried to work without God, and they must be doomed to seek failures. The only solution was for an innocent party to volunteer to die physically and spiritually as a substitution before God. He would have to be despised and rejected of man, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. He would be the great Mediator of history and have to die in place of sinful man. All this would have to be done voluntarily . The cause of all trouble of root of all sorrow, dread of every man lies in this one small word-sin.
Many casual Christians has no visions of a holy God, so they have no motivation for destroying their sinful habits. They believe they will live their life in the way they choose and then, when they are old and satisfied, they will get right with God. We will not have enough strength on our own to pull ourselves “over the top”. God does not promise that anything will become smooth in your life with material abundance and there will be no problem once you surrender your life to Jesus. The temptation to hunt you will come from godly religious people who are jealous of how you are and how blessed you are in things of the Spirit as well as in the things of the world.
