The Christmas Story

When God created man, He had wanted man to reign on earth. When God created man, He had wanted man to rule over all His creations. When God created man, He had wanted man to enjoy all that God had created. When God created man, God had wanted to fellowship with man and wanted man to live forever!

Unfortunately, man believed in the satan's lie and forfeited the glory of God. With that one act, man had given up what was rightfully his. Man was cut of from God for there was sin in man.

God knew man would succumb to satan's lie and He had a masterplan to redeem all of mankind. God proclaimed that there will come a Seed of Eve that will crush the head of satan and restore man to the place as if he had not fallen.

Since then, satan was afraid of this Seed that will crush his head and destroy him completely. He was not aware of who the true Seed will be. As a result, he caused the elder son of Adam to kill the younger son of Adam for he thought that the younger of Adam was the Seed. He continued his plan of destruction to mankind especially to women for it will be a Seed of Eve that will crush him completely. He mastered the plan to completely corrupt mankind by sending fallen angels to cohabit with women and to produce giants so that the Seed will also be corrupted, i.e. the Seed's blood was to be tainted with sin.

God already knew the devil's plan and to preserve mankind, He caused the flood to come over all the earth and preserve the lives of Noah and his wife and his three sons and his three daughter-in-laws for they were the only ones that were fully human. When the flood had completely subsided, God proclaimed that He will never flood the earth again.

The devil heard the proclamation and continued his plan of corrupting mankind. He continued his plan of destruction for he knew not who the Seed was.

Then one day, God proclaimed that Abraham's Seed will destroy satan. As a result of that, satan tried to get other men to sleep with Sarah. However, satan's plan was once again destroyed by God for God foreknew all satan's plans and God is always ahead of the devil. God raised a group of people to destroy all the that the devil had created and this group of people was later known as Israelis.

However, the Israelis didn't and couldn't completely destroy all that the devil had created. Finally come the time for the Seed to be born.

More than two thousand years ago, a baby boy was born from a virgin Mary. He was born to die for all mankind for He is the kinsmen Redeemer. On that night, Jesus was born, the Saviour of the world. He was born to redeem mankind from all his sins. He was born to completely destroy all that the devil had created, pain, diseases, sorrows, and death. That day that Jesus was born is now known as Christmas day.

Jesus had done it all

What exactly did Jesus do when He was crucified at the cross?

Because of our sins, Jesus had willingly taken our place at the cross to take all of God's punishment. He had taken all God's wrath at the cross on our behalf. He had divinely exchanged His position of righteousness for our position of sin. He had qualified us to be seated at the right hand of God. He had given us the victory ground.

Jesus had borne our mental suffering at the garden of Gethsemane. He sweat blood so that we will have His peace of mind. So that we will have clarity of thought. So that we shall not be stressed for He had borne the stress of the mind on our behalf. When the crown of thorns was pressed unto His head, Jesus had redeemed us from painful thought.

Jesus was striped 39 times on our behalf. At the cross, He was burnt by God's wrath. And He was pierced on His side. All these were done so that we can be the healed of the Lord. All these were done so that no weapon formed against us shall prosper. All these were done so that we can have robust health.

At the cross, Jesus was devoided of all material possession. Even His robe of righteousness was gambled at the foot of the cross. By His grace, though He was rich yet He was made poor at the cross so that we through His poverty shall be made rich. So that we can enjoy all material blessings. So that we lack nothing in our life time.

His precious blood was shed to establish a new covenant: a covenant where God is our God and our lawless and sinful deeds He shall remember no more. With this new covenant, we are drafted into the Kingdom of God. We are sons and daughters of the most high God. We can have every blessing that God had bestowed upon us. We shall be blessed, favoured and loved by Abba Father.

Jesus had redeemed us from the curse of the law by hanging on calvary tree. He had taken away all curses that we rightfully deserved. We are no longer under the curse and therefore we can be free. We can enjoy all the blessings that God has for us. We can live lives victoriously for what Jesus had accomplished. We can reign in life because of Jesus' finished work at the cross. Hallelujah!

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want.

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want.

Jesus is the all providing Shepherd. He had already provisioned all things that we need in our lives. At the cross, He had borne all our sins so that we can be made righteous before God. He was striped, pierced, and burnt on our behalf so that we can have robust health. At the cross, He was stripped of all material possessions so that we are made rich in all things.

The bible also says that the Lamb was slain before the foundation of the earth. Jesus knew He was going to be the sacrificial Lamb on the cross, for cursed is anyone who is hanged by a tree. Christ was resurrected on the third day after His crucifixion. Together with Christ, Christians are also resurrected in the spirit. The resurrected life of Christ now dwells in every Christian.

The resurrected life of Christ gives us His shalom peace. It gives us joy in the Holy Spirit. Christian can rejoice for the good that Christ had done. Long before we face a challenge, Jesus had already implemented a way for us to be victorious. He will always make a way of escape in our trials for He had completely completed the work at the cross.

The word of Christ says that He will prepare a table for us in the battle field. During the olden days in the old testament, a blood covenant was cut between two persons. When one is in trouble, the other one will step in to rescue the one in trouble. When Jesus lays a table for a Christian in a battle field, He is telling the enemies to flee as He is the other covenant party in the blood covenant.

Jesus will always lead us to victory. He will never put a Christian, whose trust is in Him, to shame. He will never play a Christian out. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is the all providing Shepherd. In Him, I shall not lack. Hallelujah.