The Bible is the Book of Redemption; it’s one theme from the beginning to the end is salvation through a Saviour.

Luke 24:27

“And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.”

Luke 24:44

“And He said unto them, “These are the words which I spoke unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms concerning Me.”

All through the law, the psalms and the prophets, God is unfolding to man His plan of salvation through a Saviour. By the sacrifices of the Old Testament, He foreshadows the one supreme Sacrifice. By pen pictures and prophetic promises He foretells Him who is “The Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.”

The story of His life with the record of its words and works; His death, resurrection and ascension as recorded in the Gospels; His doings as continued in the history of the Acts; the deeper revelation of Himself as the living, victorious, glorified Lord in the Epistles, and the promise and prophecy of a coming King in the Revelation; all have but one underlying purpose: namely, to reveal Him, not as the founder of a new religious order, nor as the propagator of a new ethical code, nor as the teacher of moral principles, nor as the reformer of man’s external environment, but to reveal Him as the Saviour of mankind. The Father announced the coming of His Son as the coming of a Saviour.

Matthew 1:21

 ^“And she shall bring forth a Son, and thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.”

Luke 2:11

“For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.

Jesus Christ did not come only to teach or to preach or to heal: He came to save. Jesus Christ came for but one purpose which He Himself states in these words:

Luke 19:10

“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

He came to bridge the chasm which sin had made between God and man. No one else and nothing else could do this.

Source: “Life on the Highest Plane” by Ruth Paxson

Lord, the world celebrates what it does not understand. It celebrates Your birth without understanding what it really means for mankind. We all needed to be saved!!!! We were all going to die in our sin. May we see your birth in its true meaning – You came to “die” for us.