So why was Jesus born, just to die and rise again? It started at the beginning after God created the world and all that was in it. Click here to read the whole text. Adam and Eve walked with God and communed with Him in harmony, in the Garden of Eden. God created them for eternity to love and have fellowship with them, and them with him, in holiness, purity, and honesty. And then.... they lied and disobeyed God. God told Adam not to eat the fruit of the tree of life. Satan's representative enticed Eve and she ate and gave the fruit to Adam and he ate in direct disobedience/rebellion to God. At that moment of disobedience, an eternal breach or separation between God and man occurred for all eternity. This disobedience I will call sin. The perfect union of acceptance, purity, love, and harmony changed to one of destruction, separation, mistrust, and discord. Does that sound like society still is, today? Creation was now tainted and unable to have the fellowship Adam and Eve once shared with their and our maker. As payment for this sin, God set up animal sacrifice through the blood sacrifice of a pure lamb.
So why did Jesus, the light, come to shine in the darkness?
As we unveil the purpose of Jesus, we see that He shed light in the darkness and the darkness could not hide the light. Jesus came to repair this breach and pay the penalty for our sins, which is eternal separation from God, through the shedding of His pure blood. God sent His son to be the pure, human, lamb sacrifice to pay the penalty of man's sin of disobedience/rebellion.
Who wants separation? It is lonely and cold and is not good news. But we can choose something else! Jesus came so that we could have the same type of fellowship with God that Adam and Eve had, in the beginning. We can have acceptance, love, purity, and harmony with God, our creator! Jesus came to conquer death through His resurrection so that we could live eternally with God rather than eternally separated. Once we truly and sincerely accept what Jesus did for us, He gives us His Holy Spirit to live within us! This is indeed the GOOD NEWS!
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Nancy Williams