Dedicated To The Men of God
Who Preach the Word of God As It Is To Men As They Are
"Preach The Word"
God Sent
Forth His Son
"But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, ‘To redeem them that were under the law (Galatians 4:4-5)
These words, written to the church of Galatia by the Apostle Paul, tell us that a promise of God had been fulfilled. Way back in the beginning of creation, when the fall of man had just taken place, God appeared on the scene and said that the seed of the woman would bruise the serpent s head (see Gen. 3:15). That was the promise that Jesus Christ would one day come into the world and would defeat the old serpent - -the devil - - and win victory over sin and Satan for the human family.
1. GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). The words "only begotten" mean the only one of His kind. Jesus Christ had no earthly father. He was always the Son of God and God the Son, and His coming into the world was only His incarnation, or His taking on a body.
2. MADE OF A WOMAN
It was the seed of the woman that was to bruise the serpent's head (see Gen. 3:15). When the angel, Gabriel, came to the virgin Mary and announced to her that she would be with child, he told her that the power of God would overshadow her, that she would conceive and bear a son, and that He would be called the "Son of the Highest" (see Luke 1:32). With the birth of Christ, God became man in order that man might be brought back to God.
3. TO REDEEM
The purpose of God sending forth His Son, begotten by the Holy Ghost and born of the blessed virgin Mary, was to redeem the world. Jesus became our kinsman-redeemer by becoming man and remaining God. Praise God, in the fullness of time, He came and accomplished our redemption. "In whom we have redemption through His blood" (Col. 1:14). In the fullness of time, He will also come again to take His redeemed to heaven. Are you ready?
FROM BILLY BRYANT
MARION, NC--USA
