Born A Sacrifice

Tonight my family and I will be celebrating the birth of the Savior. He was born a sacrifice to save us from our sins. Clarke's Commentary on the Bible states, "He shall save his people from their sins - This shall be his great business in the world: the great errand on which he is come, viz. to make an atonement for, and to destroy, sin: deliverance from all the power, guilt, and pollution of sin, is the privilege of every believer in Christ Jesus. Less than this is not spoken of in the Gospel; and less than this would be unbecoming the Gospel. The perfection of the Gospel system is not that it makes allowances for sin, but that it makes an atonement for it: not that it tolerates sin, but that it destroys it."

This was His purpose of coming into the world. We see the baby lying in a manger. He is cute and cuddly as any newborn baby. This is all pleasantness and warm feeling. However, we should not forget that this baby will one day grow up to become a man. He will be a man that will give his life as a ransom for many [1 Timothy 2:6]. He laid down his life on the tree so that we could have eternal life. Eternal life is to know the Father and the one He has sent [ John 17:3].