2024 Advent Deeper Christmas Devotion Day 3: that you may believe

 Who is He, where is He from? How is it that the whole world is celebrating His birthday? According to the New Testament, the key identity of Jesus Christ is that He is the Son of God.  This is seen in the importance of the need to understand, confess, and believe this about Jesus in the following verses:

 Matt 16:13-17 That You May Believe

³⁰ And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; ³¹ but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

John 20:30-31

²² Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. ²³ Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

1 John 2:22-23

⁹ If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of ^[a]God which He has testified of His Son. ¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. ¹² He who has the Son has ^[b]life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. ¹³ These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, ^[c]and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

Footnotes

• 1 John 5:9 NU God, that
• 1 John 5:12 Or the life
• 1 John 5:13 NU omits the rest of v. 13.

Application: Ponder this crucial verse: He who has the Son has ^[b]life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. That means there is no option to eternal life with God and the Son of God in us (and we in Him) guarantees this status after this life on earth. It means our destiny hinges on Jesus’ birth and our belief in Him as we hear and read all about Him in the Bible. 

Prophet Isaiah prophecies the birth of Jesus in his well-known prophecy of the Messiah, given about 700 years before Jesus was born to Mary,...

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