Incarnation

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

God’s Response

There must be a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and attitudes. You must display a new nature because you are a new person, created in God’s likeness —righteous, holy, and true. Ephesians 4:23-24

God in his gracious kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking away our sins. For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God’s anger against us. Romans 3:24-25

God’s mission was to save us for eternity and to show us how to live. The Incarnation (the Son of God coming to us “in the flesh”) 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 for our salvation. 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 full price for our sin, thus opening the way to eternal life. But he is also able to show how to live in surrender and obedience to God (see John 14:12-14).

God’s Promise

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