THE REASON FOR CHRISTMAS JOY

THE REASON Jesus came to earth was to do something about death. Jesus is the Redeemer promised in Genesis 3:15 right after Adam and Eve sinned. God warned the first couple if they ate the forbidden fruit, they would die.

There in God’s garden, they became mortals. Their flesh would be subject to illness and dying, and it would affect every person born thereafter.

 Yet, in His mercy, God would do something about death through the Promised One. Sin is so terrible because it hurts us or someone else, so horrendous, the Heavenly Father required a blood sacrifice to atone for it.  But the blood of bulls and goats was only accepted because the Messiah would come, and Jesus became the sacrifice for sin—once, for all, so we can live forever (See Hebrews 10).

 Those who killed Jesus thought the joyful songs that filled the earth after His birth would be silenced. Yet, three days later, the Messiah was out of the tomb, and the singing began again and continues to this day.

JOY TO THE WORLD, THE LORD IS COME