Luke 1:34-35 NIV
“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
I had often wondered why exactly Jesus had to be born in the flesh, but not of the flesh. I knew on a broad scale it was because sin dominated the world because of the actions of one man (John3:14), but then I still knew there was more and I desperately needed an answer.
God graciously explained to me that Jesus being born in that way was to show mankind that perfection is absolutely possible, when one is born of God and then in sight of this birth, lives on "every word that comes out of the mouth of God (Matt4:4).
Hebrews 4:14-15 NIV
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.
Truth is with Christ in us we have the power to be perfect before God, but instead of using the grace He sacrificed His life to give, we use it as an excuse to stick in sin. This we do by NOT living on every word that comes out of Gods mouth. ( Rom6:1, Gal5:16, Gal6:7&8).
Romans 6:1 NIV
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
He explained to me the above through an analogy.
He showed me that continuing in sin for grace to abound, is like putting a Generator on and refusing to switch to the power source..or having electricity and putting all the appliances that need it off..then you start groping around in the darkness, tripping over things etc when the electricty bill has already been payed or fuel for the gen has already been bought. What a waste!
This is yet another dimension to the reason He had to be born. Christ came to show us that perfection is the norm once the flesh stays in absolute connection to the power of the Spirit.
Tomorrow we will delve deeper still into this by looking at the difference between Adam (The man sin came through) and Jesus (the Man through which righteousness came).
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