MAINLINE  A message from our REA President

Dr. Magead Salloum
President
2011-2012

The Effect of the Birth of Christ

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace”.

(Isaiah 9:6)

 ^“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel”.    (Isaiah 7:14)

Modernism may deny the virgin birth, scientific knowledge may not be able to explain it, spiritual ignorance may state that it is not possible, but regarding Scripture, it is basic and vital.  The whole New Testament doctrine is based on the virgin birth.  If Jesus was not virgin born, He would not have been sinless.  He would have been incapable of being our Savior, and would have, indeed, needed a savior Himself.  The entire plan of salvation would have been of no effect.  He needed to be born remaining untainted by sin. 

Incarnation (God becoming flesh) was essential to the plan of salvation.  According to Isaiah 9:6, Jesus was totally, fully, completely, the almighty God.  God had become flesh.  This fact is basic Christian doctrine. 

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”.  (John 1:1)

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth”.  (John 1:14)

Colossians 2:9

“For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily”.

Because Jesus brought the fullness of God to humanity, WE can now experience the fullness of God in us. 

John 14:17 … “for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you”. 

The fall of man made incarnation necessary.  When Adam (all humanity) sinned, he/we came under God’s death penalty, and, therefore, we needed someone to redeem us from this judgment. 

The only man that could redeem us had to be sinless.  Since no one qualified, God Himself (being sinless) had to become a man, and in doing so, had to remain sinless in the process, thus, necessitating a virgin birth. 

In becoming a man, Jesus did not cease to be God.  He was God before, during, and after His incarnation.  At the incarnation, God added human nature to His already existing divine nature, making the provision for us also, to add divine nature to our already existing human nature. 2 Peter 1:4 “ Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

Because Jesus took on our nature, we can put on His nature. 2 Corinthians 5:21 “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
 

Have a blessed Christmas
DR. Rev. Magead Salloum

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