Children can expect loving parents to care for them and give to
them things that are safe and good. Jesus once asked, "Which of you
fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake
instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?"
1*.
Let me tell you a true story of something a good Father once gave
to His Son that seemed very strange and very wrong.
Jesus is the Son of God, and He called God in Heaven His "Father".
2*. This Father and
Son were unique - there never was, and never will be, another
Father and Son like this!
When we think about Jesus, "the Christ, the Son of the Living God,"
3*. we must never
think that He started out as a child born to God! Jesus Christ
is the eternal Son of God - He had no beginning. There was
never a time when He became God. He always "was with God and He
was God." 4*.
But, there was a time when He became a Man!
This wonderful person, known to us as God the Son, 4*. was the key person in God's
wonderful plan for our Salvation. He willingly left heaven and
became a Man by a miraculous virgin birth. 5*. He was called "JESUS", meaning
Saviour, because He came to save His people from their sins.
6*. This was NOT the
beginning of Christ Jesus; this was God taking a very different
nature by being changed into one of us! 5*.
When Jesus humbled Himself by becoming human, He also became
subject to the laws God had given to mankind. As the Son of Man He
was willing to keep those laws and to do all God required of Him in
order to become the Saviour for mankind. 7*.
Have you noticed how the Father seemed to mistreat his special Son?
"God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we
might become the righteousness of God." 8*. God gave to His special Son the awful
punishment for countless sins that He did not commit; yet he was
NOT being unfair to His Son! Jesus was willingly being our
substitute! By doing this for us He would then be able to freely
offer us forgiveness of all our sins and an undeserved place in
God's family!
Today God has children, many of them,
adopted into His family because of all He did for us when He became
a Son of Man. 9*.
What a wonderful privilege! Sinners like you and me can be made
members of God's family! All those who put their faith in that
wonderful Jesus as their only Priest and Saviour become God's
children and have the right to call God in Heaven their "Father"!
10*.
Although we are all sinful by nature yet we know how to give good
gifts to our children. Jesus said, "how much more will your Father
in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
True children of God by faith in Jesus should be interested in
reading this great promise in Luke chapter 11, verses 11-13, for
themselves. And God has made many many more promises to His
children throughout the Bible.
Bye for now,
John Nixon, Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland. P31HD98. Contact: jnixonj@gmail.com
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Bible quotations from N.I.V.
1 Luke
11:11-12.
2 John 17:1-5.
3 Matthew 16:16.
4 John 1:1-4. Hebrews
1:1-12.
5 John 1:14. Luke
1:26-35.
6 Matthew 1:20-21.
7 Hebrews 10:5-7.
2:9-18.
8 2nd Corinthians
5:21.
9 Galatians 4:4-7.
10John 1:10-13. 1st
John 3:1-3.
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