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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
Matthew 22:42
‘What think ye of Christ?’
Read John 1:1-34
Who do you think he is? Most people acknowledge that he was a prophet, a religious teacher, a good man, who promoted morality and truth and justice. Many would like to make his life of morality, self-sacrifice, self-denial and devotion a good example for men to live by. Even Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews, acknowledged, ‘We know that thou art a teacher come from God’ (John 3:2). But the Word of God declares that Jesus Christ was and is God the eternal Son. Mary’s Son is also Mary’s God, Mary’s Lord and Mary’s Savior. The great, miraculous mystery that took place in Bethlehem two thousand years ago is just this: ‘God was manifest in the flesh’ (1 Timothy 3:16). Jesus Christ is more than just the fair, little baby of Bethlehem. He is ‘over all, God blessed for ever’ (Romans 9:5).
Why did the Lord Jesus Christ come to this earth in human flesh? The answer to that question is plainly declared many times in the Bible: ‘Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins’ (Matthew 1:21). ‘When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law’ (Galatians 4:4-5). “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief’ (1 Timothy 1:15). Yes, the Son of God took upon himself human flesh, according to the will of God our Father, and came into this world as a man, to save sinners. He lived in righteousness to establish righteousness as a man, even the very righteousness of God which is imputed to every believer. He was made to be sin and died as the sinner’s Substitute, in order to satisfy the law and justice of God against sin. He came to save sinners, to die as the sinner’s Substitute, so that God might be just and yet justify all who believe.
Where is the Lord Jesus Christ now? Having finished the work which he came to do, he has ascended back to heaven, to reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, until he has put all his enemies under his feet. By his one great sacrifice for sin, he put away the sins of his people, redeemed and justified them, and now he ever lives to save all who come to God by him.
