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Luke 23 26-43 THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS Christmas 2
📖 Luke 23:26-43
Fri24Dec2021 - Born to be our Saviour - Christmas 2 – Bible reading: Luke 2:10-11
“Thank You, Lord Jesus, for You were born to be our Saviour. You have saved us to the uttermost from all of the terrible predicament that we had got ourselves into. You have saved us to bring us into the fullness of life in You. In Jesus name. Amen”
We look today at our second Christmas message, which is, Jesus was born to be our Saviour.
Luke 2:10-11 Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. (11) For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
This was the message of good tidings or the Good News, which the angels gave to the shepherds. This Good News would bring joy to all people. Jesus was born to be our Good News by being our Saviour.
The Good News, at its very core, consists of three parts. It consists of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus went through these three experiences to become our Good News. The Good News becomes ours when we receive what Jesus has done for us, by faith and identify ourselves with Him, in His death, burial and resurrection.
I Corinthians 15:3-4 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, (4) and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
This is the Good News that we must appropriate, to know Jesus, who was born to be our Saviour.
I Peter 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
The death of Jesus on the cross was necessary for it was there that He bore our sins in His own body and then died in our place. To appropriate what Jesus has done for us, we too die to our sins, by faith, which is the old nature and then we begin the new life of righteousness.
This was how Jesus was being our Saviour, for which He was born.
In seizing what Jesus has done for us, we experience the forgiveness of our sins, by faith. He has paid for our sins and therefore as we receive what Jesus has done for us, in gratitude, in repentance, in surrender and joy, our sins are forgiven.
Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
Not only has He provided us with the forgiveness of our sins because of what He did by dying for us, but He also enables us to live in righteousness. This too is part of His being born to be our Saviour.
Jesus was born so that His body would be the place where there would be victory over sin.
Hebrews 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU DID NOT DESIRE, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME.
It is this body of Jesus that He now makes available to us in order for us to live in righteousness. This body of Jesus did not have sin for He came to do the will of the Father.
Hebrews 10:9-10 then He said, "BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD." He takes away the first that He may establish the second. (10) By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
We have been sanctified, when we receive Jesus and give our life to Him by faith. As much as we have been sanctified forever, we are also, simultaneously, ‘being sanctified’.
This sounds paradoxical but it is a wonderful reality. We are sanctified forever and we are also being sanctified. This is how Jesus is being our Saviour, for which He was born.
Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
It is this work of sanctification in us that enables us to enter into the presence of God, into the Holiest of Holies, by the body of Jesus.
Hebrews 10:19-20 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, (20) by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
Jesus is our Saviour by His death for us on the cross and He is also our Saviour by His burial when our old man is buried with Him.
Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
We need to be buried with Christ in order for us to rise with Jesus in the newness of life.
Romans 1:3-4 concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, (4) and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.
We identify with Jesus in His death, burial and His resurrection and that is how Jesus becomes our Saviour.
Besides, Jesus is also our Saviour for He releases and saves us from the control of the devil.
Hebrews 2:14-15 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, (15) and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Jesus was born to be our Saviour. We can have salvation to the uttermost in Jesus .
Thought to ponder
He has saved us to the uttermost.