The Glory of God in the Face of His Son

 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

(Luke 2:11 ESV)

As we celebrate this time of year commemorating the incarnation of Christ, I’ve been thinking about what Christ became for His people in His birth. Drawing from the verse above, here are a few of my thoughts on the matter:

Jesus is Savior- Jesus’ coming to earth was a tremendously essential part of God’s Sovereign plan of Salvation. He loved His people enough to suffer, to die, and to bear our sins in His body on the tree (1^st Peter 2:24). He ransomed us from our bondage to sin; something we could have never accomplished on our own. He is our redeemer and Sin-bearer!

Bearing shame and scoffing rude,

In my place, condemned He stood,

He sealed my pardon with His blood,

Hallelujah! What a Savior!*

Jesus is Christ- Jesus is the anointed and chosen one; the only one worthy to accomplish His work. Jesus is fully God to bear our sins and fully man to be our great high priest after the order of Melchizedek (Heb. 7). He is the God-man joined in the hypostatic union and appointed to save His people.

Jesus is Lord- Christians confess that Christ is Lord and Master over all aspects of life, but when the risen, glorified Lord returns every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, to the Glory of God the father (Phil. 2:5-11)! Christ came into the world in the humblest of ways—born in a barn and placed in a cattle trough—but when Christ returns, he will come back on a white horse with a sword in His mouth, clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and He will tread the winepress of the wrath of Almighty God (Rev. 19:11-16)! Jesus may have been a little infant at His birth, but let us never forgot that this baby grew into a man, died on the Cross to atone for sin, rose again on the third day, and now sits at the right hand of His father.

Jesus is Master, Lord, King of Kings, the Exalted One, and the Son of God!

                                                                                                Soli Deo Gloria!

                                                                                 

 Merry Christmas,

                                                                                                 -Josh

*Excerpt from a hymn by Phillip Bliss.