✨Jesus Is The Reason For The Season 🎄✨

Hello again and welcome to Advancing The Kingdom’s Agenda. We are happy that you’re here and pray that God would bless you mightily through your visit with us. Today our study will be coming from the book of Isaiah chapter 9, beginning at verse 6.

As we find ourselves in this holiday season once again it’s easy to get lost in all of the festivities and forget the reason for the season. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by having to buy all of the gifts. Many have lost loved ones that won’t be here this year.
Many are distracted by the fear of current events and the state of the world. With so many tragic events happening everyday It’s so easy to lose sight of what's important.

So I submit to you today that what’s important is actually found in Isaiah 9:6 where it says:

For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Again in Matthew 1:23 these words are recorded:

“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel”

And In Luke 1:35 the Bible says:

And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For nothing will be impossible with God.”

This historical event has way more significance than most know. The birth of Jesus is an event that should be celebrated daily. It’s a big deal and when we dig a little deeper into the scriptures, we find that Jesus came to accomplish four specific things during this advent.

In Matthew 5:17 Jesus says this of Himself, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

One of the reasons that Jesus came was to fulfill the law and the prophets. So what do we know about the law? We know that the law was given to Moses to show man how far from God he was.

We know that man could never have fulfilled the law himself. Jesus came to live out the law and live the perfect life, required of God the Father, that none of us could ever live. This single act satisfied the judgment of our righteous God and gave all of mankind access to eternal life once again.
Jesus also says that He came to fulfill the prophets, meaning that He came to demonstrate that what the prophets predicted was in fact true. Let's take a quick look at some of these prophecies and their fulfillment.
In Isaiah 7:14—Isaiah prophesies that a pure young woman will give birth to God’s son. That prophecy is fulfilled in Matthew 1:18-23.
In Micah 5:2—Micah prophecies that Jesus will be born in Bethlehem. In Luke 2:4-7 those same words come to pass.
Hosea 11:1 speaks of God calling His Son out of Egypt and again in Matthew 2:14-15 we see this scripture fulfilled.
And lastly, in Isaiah 61:1-2 the prophet says: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and in Luke 4:18 we find Jesus reading these exact words and stating that today these words are fulfilled in me.

So we know that Jesus’s birth and life came to fulfill the law of God but He also came to give validity to the words of the prophets. The crucifixion of Jesus was also the fulfillment of the law because we know that God’s Judgement had to be satisfied by something or someone dying for sin.

This is why when Adam and Eve sinned and covered themselves with fig leaves, God killed an animal and gave them the skin of the animal for their covering.

The second reason I’d like to highlight is that Jesus came to show us the Father. In John 17:5-8, Jesus is praying for His disciples because just moments after He was to finish speaking these words, He would be arrested and ultimately crucified.

So in verses 5-8, Jesus is praying and asking the Father to glorify Him with the glory that He had from the foundation of the world. He says in the 6 verse that I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me.

And again, in verses 25-26 of this same chapter He says, ``I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Jesus through His appearing has shown us the Father and what He’s like. Col 1:15-19 says, Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Verse 19 says, For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. So the second reason for His coming was to show us the father.

Alright so we have discussed two reasons that Jesus came but there are two more very important reasons for Jesus’s coming and dwelling with man on earth. Thank God He fulfilled the law and satisfied God’s judgement.