Saviour | Part 4

"She will give birth to a son and you are to name him ‘Saviour,’ for he is destined to give his life to save his people from their sins.”

Jesus came for one big reason - to save us! Many were looking for a Saviour from the political regime that surrounded them, others were looking for a Saviour from hardship. Jesus came as a Saviour who would deliver us from sin and death. Without Jesus, Christmas loses permanent significance and wherever He is accepted and received salvation enters!

Transcript

2. A SAVED STORY
4. “She will give birth to a son and you are to name him ‘Saviour,’ for he is destined to give his life to save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21 (TPT)
5. His mother, Mary, had promised Joseph to be his wife, but while she was still a virgin she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit. Her fiancé, Joseph, was a righteous man full of integrity and he didn’t want to disgrace her, but when he learned of her pregnancy he secretly planned to break the engagement. While he was still debating with himself about what to do, he fell asleep and had a supernatural dream. An angel from the Lord appeared to him in clear light and said, “Joseph, descendant of David, don’t hesitate to take Mary into your home as your wife, because the power of the Holy Spirit has conceived a child in her womb. Matthew 1:18-20 (TPT)
6. “She will give birth to a son and you are to name him ‘Saviour,’ for he is destined to give his life to save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21 (TPT)
7. This happened so that what the Lord spoke through his prophet would come true: Listen! A virgin will be pregnant,
 she will give birth to a Son,
 and he will be known as “Emmanuel,”
 which means in Hebrew,
 “God became one of us.” When Joseph awoke from his dream, he did all that the angel of the Lord instructed him to do. He took Mary to be his wife, Matthew 1:22-24 (TPT)
9. And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 (NLT)