As we approach Christmas and celebrate Christ’s first Advent, we can see there are more Visitation Principles for why Christ came. Jesus came to make the righteousness process of the “old covenant” obsolete. The Holy Spirit is like new technology, and He couldn’t come until after Jesus’ birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension. Our hearts […]
“But God found fault with the people and said: “The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead […]
We’ve now arrived at Visitation Principle 15: Jesus Came to Transcend the Expectations of Men in our look at the Letter to the Hebrews. On one hand, expectations can be good. They show a predictive functioning of one’s brain to analyze data and create theories about what comes next. The amount of data pointing in […]
As we continue our look at the Letter to the Hebrews and find visitation principles for Jesus’ first Advent, we come to this one: Visitation Principle 14: Jesus Came to Display the Reward of Obedience Hebrews 5:8 Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9 and, once made perfect, he became […]
Hebrews 5:5 “In the same way, Christ did not take on Himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to Him, “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.” God’s Son??? It’s inheritance and appointment language. Jesus is not a created being. Jesus is eternally God and the quotation of […]
Let’s face it: God can be scary. Especially if He’s angry with you. But even when He’s pleased with you overall, He’s always holy and that alone can be scary. Jesus made a point of demonstrating in His life that we should view God the way Jesus did: as Father. While God is Jesus’ Father […]
Visitation Principle 11: Jesus Came to Simplify our Options Hebrews 3:12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. One can only turn to or turn away, believe or don’t believe, be forgiven or remain in one’s sin without forgiveness. That’s […]
Walking in victory isn’t just a matter of being appointed to victory, it’s a matter of being faithful to it. Jesus came to show us how it’s done. Continuing our look at Visitation Principles we can find in the Letter to the Hebrews, we come to a tenth. Visitation Principle 10: Jesus Needed to Show […]
Hebrews 2:17 For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. The Virgin Birth is first among the many reasons why […]
To fully understand the reasons why Jesus came, we must begin by appreciating the role of the priest in Jewish life. A holy God simply cannot be approached by sinful people as if there is no distinction between us. The Jewish people of Jesus’ day dating back to Abraham took that as a given. Modern […]
