1.      He came as a ransom for many

Mark 10:45"The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many."

The reason we need a ransom to be paid for us is that we have sold ourselves into sin and have been alienated from a holy God, when Jesus gave his life as a ransom, our slavemasters, sin and death and the devil, had to give up their claim on us & the result was that we could be adopted into the family of God.

Paul put it like this in Galatians 4:4-5, "When the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons." In other words the redemption or the ransom frees us to be a part of God's family; we had run away and sold ourselves into slavery but God pays a ransom and redeems us out of slavery into the Father's house.

To do that, God's Son had to become a human being so that he could suffer and die in our place to pay the ransom, that is the meaning of Christmas Hebrews 2:14puts it like this, "Since the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death."

In other words, the reason Christ took on human flesh was so that he could die and in dying pay a ransom and free us from the power of death, Is this an elaborate creation of desperate human imagination, or is it God's exact provision for our need?

2.      He came to call sinners to repentance

Luke 5:31-32, "Jesus said to them, 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.'"

Jesus came to call sinners to repentance, First there needed to be a ransom to be paid for sinners then there could be a successful call to sinners the call is based on the ransom & Jesus says he came for both of these things.

He does not leave the ransoming or the calling to others he ransoms and he calls, even today he is calling through the Bible and through the preaching of the Bible, he is calling everyday that is the meaning of Christmas he came to call sinners.

3.      He came to give sight to the morally blind

John 9:39, "Jesus said, 'For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see." And John 12:46, "I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me might not remain in darkness."

Jesus came to open people's eyes so that they can see the light and walk in it, our problem is not just slavery needing a ransom, and lostness needing a call, our problem is also moral blindness, needing the gift of sight we are simply blind to some spiritual realities that are utterly crucial to see and embrace. This is why Christ came: that those who do not see may see.

4.      He came to save from divine condemnation

John 3:17-18, "For God sent not the Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already."

God sent his Son to save us from his own just condemnation and wrath, the need for salvation implies that there is a danger we need to be saved from that danger is sin and death and the devil, But the most serious danger of all is the danger of the condemnation of God; if God is for us, then sin and death and the devil will fail to destroy us but if God is against us, then nothing can save us.

Christmas, the coming of Jesus, is God's way of being for us if we will believe. "He who believes is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already."

5.      He came to give us eternal life

John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes on him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Christmas means that God sent his Son so that we could believe and have eternal life, how do people bear it who has no hope?" The hope is the eternal life and that life is the gift of God through Jesus Christ, believe in Jesus and Receive the Gift of Life and receive this gift of life and to set out in a life that magnifies God and his rich grace as the giver of every good and perfect thing.