What was the Meaning for the First Coming of Jesus?

Who is Jesus Christ and why did he have to come to this earth? Many of us know the story of Christmas, how a king was born in a humble stable, in humble circumstances. How the angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary, and announced that she would become pregnant through the Holy Spirit and that her son would be the Son of God. What does all this mean? Yes Jesus is the Son of God, and he is also the Saviour of the world, (Luke 2:11). Jesus came with a message but the real reason he came was to die!

How can you say that, you ask? Well, because it is through the death of Jesus Christ that we have forgiveness of our sins, (Ephesians 1:7). As human beings we were created with a sin nature, our natures were corrupted through Original Sin, when our forefather Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden. Eden was a place of perfection, but man was given the freedom to choose, and we chose to sin. I say we because Adam’s sin was credited to us (Romans 5:12) 12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.

Death is the result of sin, and through Jesus’ death and resurrection he redeemed us from the power of death, and eventually from the power of sin. God offers humanity “new Life” through the death and resurrection of His Son, the Lord Jesus. Will we still have to die? The answer is yes, but Christ redeemed death, and when we die we won’t have to suffer for the consequences for our sins.

We enter this new Life through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 10:9) and what he did for us by dying on the cross for the payment of our sins. When we place our trust in the cross, we understand that Salvation is a free gift! It cost Jesus his life, but God offers it to us freely. We can do nothing at all to earn Salvation, all we have to do is receive it by faith! You can pray a prayer like this one if you want to receive the free gift of Salvation:

Dear Jesus, I believe you are the Lord. I believe you died for the payment and forgiveness of my sins through your death on the cross. I believe in my heart that you rose from the dead, and that you are in Heaven right now. I turn from my sins, and I ask You to be my Lord and Saviour now, and for all eternity. I thank you that now I am forgiven, I am saved, I am born again. In Jesus name, Amen.

Welcome to the family of God!

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