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Why
did Christ come to earth?
During this Christmas season, it’s important for every
believer to stop and consider the wonderful reason that we
celebrate. Christ came to earth to save us. But we must also
consider the reason for His birth . . . and His death upon
the Cross.
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God gave us the entire Bible, and every verse is
important. The book of Genesis is especially important because
so many details in Genesis are directly tied to our understanding
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For example, Galatians
3:13 says Christ was “made a curse for us.” We
can’t understand the “Curse” unless we understand
that it originated in the Garden of Eden when God judged Adam
for his sin. Christ then took this judgment for us on the
Cross.
1 Corinthians 15 says Christ is the “last Adam [who]
was made a quickening spirit.” We understand what God’s
Word means by telling us that Christ is the last Adam because
the Bible also tells us about the first Adam!
After Jesus rose from the grave and met some of His discouraged
disciples on the road to Emmaus, the Bible indicates in Luke
24 that “beginning with Moses and all the prophets,”
He explained to them why He had to suffer and die. “Moses”
refers to the books of Moses: the first five books of the
Bible, starting with Genesis. If we want people to fully understand
why God took on flesh over two thousand years ago, we need
to teach and preach the book of Genesis!
Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative
of those things which have been fulfilled among us, just as
those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers
of the word delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also,
having had perfect understanding of all things from the very
first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent
Theophilus, that you may know the certainty of those things
in which you were instructed. (Luke 1:1–4).
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