Thursday, December 24, 2015
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given ... And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God ...
THE SIN SOLUTION? IT'S A MIRACLE!
Simple counseling couldn't solve the sin problem. So how could our Wonderful Counselor solve our impossible problem? Because He has possesses the Name that is impossible for any mere human to live up to. None is greater than the name, and only One could live up to that name, "Mighty God."
When something seemingly impossible happens people say, "It's a miracle!" If a person survives a car accident without injury, it's a miracle that no one was hurt. Someone survives what the doctors said was a terminal illness, and it's a miracle that he recovered. People who study anatomy say that the way the body is put together is miraculous. A miracle is, by definition, something only God Himself can accomplish. People recognize that it takes great power to accomplish great things, as Jesus Himself says, "With God all things are possible" (Mt 19:26).
Man's sin problem is impossible for man to repair. All people are sinful and no one who is a sinner can pay the price for their sins. Because we are all conceived and born in sin (because we start off sinful), it's not possible for any one of us to even begin to pay off our own debt of sin, much less the sins of anyone else. "[No one] can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him, for the redemption of their souls is costly" (Psalm 49:7). And even if we could overcome our original sin, the fact is that each of daily sins much.
Jesus, who is true Man, could live a holy life as our Substitute because He neither began life as a sinner -- having been conceived without a sinful, human father, conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary by a miraculous operation of God the Holy Ghost -- nor did Jesus ever say "yes" to sin during His entire life. So, being free from sin, Jesus Christ was the perfect Sacrifice we needed to pay for our sin. The Bible says that Jesus came to suffer "once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God" (1 Peter 3:18).
