Who is this Jesus gan self! (Part 1)

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PART ONE

JESUS whose birth we celebrate on Christmas day
(An excerpt from the series: He himself the gospel: JESUS).

God’s love is explained in John 3:16 (Remember, God himself is love 1 John 4:8 says, 
‘Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.’).

Jesus is God’s plan of salvation; in fact, he himself is God’s salvation – Simeon testifying to God’s revelation of his salvation in Luke 2:30

‘For my eyes have seen your salvation.’

and Matt. 1:21 records
‘And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.’ 
It is important also to see here that Jesus purpose was to save (1 John 3:8, John 10:10).

At the beginning of this series, we talked about man’s fall from Adam, the first man and God’s first son (created) immediately, God made the salvation plan for man’s salvation before passing his judgement. He revealed this plan when it was the serpent’s turn to be judged in Gen. 3:15:

‘And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.’

Here, notice God referred to the woman’s seed and even said the seed was going to be a ‘HE’. We know a man often times hold the seed especially when the bible refers to seed but this time it was a woman. This brings us back to the account in Luke 1: 34-35:

But Mary said to the angel, How shall this be, since I know not a man? And the angel answering said to her, [The] Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and power of [the] Highest overshadow thee, wherefore the holy thing also which shall be born shall be called Son of God.
This is where the whole reproduction process started. How Jesus was born of  God. God sent his messenger (Angel Gabriel) His word and Mary accepted Luke 1:38:
Mary said, "I am the Lord's servant, and I am willing to do whatever he wants. May everything you said come true." And then the angel disappeared. 
Then the Holy Spirit came upon her. There is a similar pattern in Acts 1:8:

But you will receive power (dúnamis) when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." 
There is always a coming of the Holy Spirit preceding the receiving of power (dúnamis) when God does his things. Now imagine if it was Joseph that met with Mary sexually, then definitely the baby they’d have given birth to wouldn’t have been Jesus because it would’ve been a product of a corruptible seed of Adam, because it had already been cursed. The Holy Spirit is God so the son is God’s. In John 3:16:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.
It was specified that Jesus wasn’t God’s only son, but the only begotten (born of a woman). Adam was God’s son (created) and Christians are also referred to as God’s (covenanted) sons or children through Abraham. Thus far, we have seen from John 3:16 that:
‘For God so loved the world’. God demonstrated his love towards us by giving us Jesus. Jesus was a love gift to the world NOT only to Christians. Everyone has the right to this love gift but not everyone had claimed Him yet.
‘That he gave his only-begotten son.’ Jesus is God’s Son. He’s not of a cursed seed of Adam but of God through Mary (the woman’s seed discussed earlier in Gen. 3:15).

The next would be ‘that whosoever believes...’ Will I still go to hell (perish) after believing? You definitely won’t! ‘that whosoever believes on him.’ Doesn’t matter what the sins are and how bad the sinner is. What we believe (our trust or reliance) determines whether we have a good basis for which we will be saved. Gen 15:6:

And he [Abram] believed in (trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness (right standing with God). 
Now, what is the stand on which we believe or what do we believe? It must be a right believing (righteousness) so salvation could be sure. We must believe on him. This means we rely on whatever he does. What God has done for us especially, that should be the stand on which we believe. Rom 10:9

That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
We are to believe in what God did through Jesus. The reason why God raised him from the dead was for us to be free from sin. Rom 8:3:

For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh
The death man was doomed to die through Adam, Christ had to die. This type of death isn’t the usual death we see and hear of around but rather it was a spiritual death Christ had to die for our sake. Christ died in our stead and did what we couldn’t have done by ourselves: he condemned sin in the flesh. He took the world’s sin. So much was the sin and the process to redeem us from it that Christ foresaw in the garden of Gethsemane and pleaded if the cup could pass over him. So grievous was the world’s sin that God couldn’t behold his only-begotten son on the cross at Calvary. Christ cried out in Matt 27:46:

About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"-which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

This was a cry to God and not to his father just because at this point the world’s sin was on him. Christ died on the cross and went to Hell for us! Yes, for you and I. You may want to read that sentence again. Christ died on the cross and went to Hell for us!