BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL; FOR HE HATH VISITED AND REDEEMED HIS PEOPLE.

BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL; FOR HE HATH VISITED AND REDEEMED HIS PEOPLE. Luke 1:68

This is the time we have set aside for the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. I pray that you will take time from your busy day and contemplate on why Jesus Christ was born. I pray that you read about the purpose of His coming and His perfect Sacrifice. Jesus Christ was born for one reason and one reason only, to redeem the people back to God Almighty. God created man to have a close relationship with Him. God prepared a place, it was a garden in Eden. The garden was created for the man to live, to be loved and protected under the watchful eye of God Himself. Now we all know what happened, man chose to go against God and His command. This is called the fall of man, and this was also the first sin. The very definition of Sin is going against what God Says. Adam sinned and was thrown out of the garden in Eden, his life, and his relationship with God changed forever. The Bible says in Genesis 3:17,22-24 "And Unto Adam He Said, Because Thou Hast Hearkened Unto The Voice Of Thy Wife, And Hast Eaten Of The Tree, Of Which I Commanded Thee, Saying, Thou Shalt Not Eat Of It: Cursed Is The Ground For Thy Sake; In Sorrow Shalt Thou Eat Of It All The Days Of Thy Life; [22] And The Lord God Said, Behold, The Man Is Become As One Of Us, To Know Good And Evil: And Now, Lest He Put Forth His Hand, And Take Also Of The Tree Of Life, And Eat, And Live For Ever: Therefore The Lord God Sent Him Forth From The Garden Of Eden To Till The Ground From Whence He Was Taken. So He Drove Out The Man; And He Placed At The East Of The Garden Of Eden Cherubims, And A Flaming Sword Which Turned Every Way, To Keep The Way Of The Tree Of Life".

As you read in  Genesis 3:17 THE CURSE came upon the ground, and in 22-24, Adam was sent out of The garden in Eden because of THE TREE OF LIFE. If Adam had eaten of THE TREE OF LIFE he would have lived forever. So in other words, Adam died, and ETERNAL LIFE was out of the reach of Adam, because of sin. Romans 5:12

"Wherefore, As By One Man Sin Entered Into The World, And Death By Sin; And So Death Passed Upon All Men, For That All Have Sinned". 

ENTER THE LAW. God wrote The Law for men to live by, so they could know what He commands from them. The man that kept The Law fully, was considered Righteous. Any man that broke The Law Of God was against God until that sin was atoned for. Because of Adam, sin came on everyone born, no one is excluded. ENTER JESUS CHRIST. Hebrews 4:15 For We Have Not An High Priest Which Cannot Be Touched With The Feeling Of Our Infirmities; But Was In All Points Tempted Like As We Are, YET WITHOUT SIN. Jesus Christ is the only Man born of a woman that is sinless and that is because His Father Is God. God made Jesus Christ "Like As We Are, YET WITHOUT SIN". Jesus Christ was tempted and tried, but overcome because HE IS RIGHTEOUSNESS.  

JESUS CHRIST IS NOT JUST RIGHTEOUS, HE IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. Romans 3:25-26

"Whom God Hath Set Forth To Be A Propitiation Through Faith In His Blood, To Declare HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS For The Remission Of Sins That Are Past, Through The Forbearance Of God; To Declare, I Say, At This Time His Righteousness: That He Might Be Just, And The Justifier Of Him Which Believeth In Jesus".

Romans 3:21-22 

"BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WITHOUT THE LAW IS MANIFESTED, Being Witnessed By The Law And The Prophets; Even The Righteousness Of God Which Is By Faith Of Jesus Christ Unto All And Upon All Them That Believe: For There Is No Difference". 

Romans 5:18-19

"Therefore As By The Offence Of One Judgment Came Upon All Men To Condemnation; Even So By The Righteousness Of One, The Free Gift Came Upon All Men Unto Justification Of Life. For As By One Man's Disobedience Many Were Made Sinners, So By The Obedience Of One Shall Many Be Made Righteous".

Romans 5:13b. BUT SIN IS NOT IMPUTED WHEN THERE IS NO LAW.

Romans 3:20-21 

Therefore By The Deeds Of The Law There Shall No Flesh Be Justified In His Sight: FOR BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. BUT NOW THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WITHOUT THE LAW IS MANIFESTED, Being Witnessed By The Law And The Prophets;

Romans 3:24,28 

BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY BY HIS GRACE THROUGH THE REDEMPTION THAT IS IN CHRIST JESUS: 

[28] THEREFORE WE CONCLUDE THAT A MAN IS JUSTIFIED BY FAITH Without The Deeds Of The Law.

Romans 6:14

FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU: FOR YE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE.

Romans 4:8 

BLESSED IS THE MAN TO WHOM THE LORD WILL NOT IMPUTE SIN.

Romans 5:19-21 

FOR AS BY ONE MAN'S DISOBEDIENCE MANY WERE MADE SINNERS, SO BY THE OBEDIENCE OF ONE SHALL MANY BE MADE RIGHTEOUS. MOREOVER THE LAW ENTERED, THAT THE OFFENCE MIGHT ABOUND. BUT WHERE SIN ABOUNDED, GRACE DID MUCH MORE ABOUND: THAT AS SIN HATH REIGNED UNTO DEATH, EVEN SO MIGHT GRACE REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE BY JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

Revelation 2:7 

HE THAT HATH AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAITH UNTO THE CHURCHES; TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH WILL I GIVE TO EAT OF THE TREE OF LIFE, WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE PARADISE OF GOD.

THE BLOOD OF JESUS IS ENOUGH TO GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE! 

YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS, BECAUSE OF THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS CHRIST!  YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD, AND HAVE THE TREE OF LIFE WITHIN YOUR REACH! 

YOU ARE REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB! 

MERRY CHRIST mas! 

Donna K Purifoy 

12/24/2022-THROUGHOUT ETERNITY