(Verse 14) "All right, the Lord (God) himself will choose the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel-'God is with us.'"
This is the most important statement God can make. It is God speaking of himself as the Immanuel to come (God with us). That is, when he is born on the earth as Jesus, he will be God saving his people from their sins.
Let's say it this way. Only God can save us. And only God can forgive our sins. In other words, just as God saved his people from the Egyptians, it is the same God now, as Jesus, who saves us from sin.
I am so thankful that God did not send some lesser figure to try to do a job that only he could do. It would never have been accomplished. But God came himself, as only he could do, and save us from the folly we brought on ourselves!
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This is the most important statement God can make. It is God speaking of himself as the Immanuel to come (God with us). That is, when he is born on the earth as Jesus, he will be God saving his people from their sins.
Let's say it this way. Only God can save us. And only God can forgive our sins. In other words, just as God saved his people from the Egyptians, it is the same God now, as Jesus, who saves us from sin.
I am so thankful that God did not send some lesser figure to try to do a job that only he could do. It would never have been accomplished. But God came himself, as only he could do, and save us from the folly we brought on ourselves!
God bless you!
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