God Becomes A Person

Why did God send his Son into the world as a baby?

God’s Response

God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past. Romans 3:24-25

God’s mission is to save us for eternity and to show us how to live. The Incarnation (when the Son of God became a man) means that God, in the form of a human baby, entered into our world to identify with our situation, to experience our suffering, and to suffer so that we could be saved. We can never claim that God doesn’t understand us, because God truly stood where we stand. Refusing to stand aloof or apart from us, the Lord entered fully into our lives (see Hebrews 2:14-18). As one of us, yet as one who is also fully divine, he was able to pay the price for our sins and open the way to eternal life. He also showed us how to live in surrender and obedience to God (see John 14:12-14).

This Is Promising

God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16