But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Galatians 4:4-5.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Never lose the Kingdom over the fleeting joys of this life. Never put the temporal ahead of the eternal and your temporal will become supplied like the eternal. Seek first My Kingdom and My righteousness and ALL things for the temporal will be added besides. I know what you need before you even ask and I have it ready for you in your heavenly account—everything you need for life and godliness all supplied in advance. Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, and knock and you shall enter. But you notice, I tell you to ask so that I am authorized to give it to you. Some of you have not because you ask not. And I do not mean beg, I mean take possession of your possessions of promise.
Jesus is your answer to everything. I gave Him to you as the solution for all that would harm you, destroy you, or cause you to perish, and that, as descendants of Adam, is where you were all headed but Jesus came to reverse the curse and give you the Blessing instead. When I bless you, no one can revoke that no matter how many curses they throw at you. Numbers 23:20. The weapons formed against you, I turn back on your foes. Isaiah 54:14-17.
The wages of sin is death, that is justice, but My free gift given you by My singular justice is eternal life in Christ Jesus your Lord. Romans 6:23. He came to take your sins and give you His righteousness, exactly as the sin offerings I taught the children of Israel through Moses took their sins and put them on the head of the unblemished lamb.
If you have Jesus, you have eternal life. If you do not have Him you have eternal death. Why? Because you are still in your sins and the wages of sin is death, eternal death. Sin has no entrance into My Kingdom, for sin has nothing to do with love. They cannot co-exist. You cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve the devil and Me.
Jesus summed it up for you: My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. John 15:8-11.
Jesus is My Word so keeping what He speaks, in this age I speak to your through My Son, places you in the abode of love and gives you joy that makes your joy full. Love and joy come to you by My Word—by hearing and living My Word. My Word is imperishable seed and once planted in you it will make your life fruitful. You will be producing Jesus in your mortal bodies as His body in the world.
Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. Romans 7:4.
And now let us continue our Christmas journey and see the fruit the seed of My Word bore in the fullness of time. I had spoken it in the Garden of Eden, it planted in My Covenant people, beginning with My prophet Abraham, , and was cultivated by more and more details of the prophecy being generated by My Spirit upon faithful men and women until the fullness of time came for it to blossom.
And He was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil; and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know. The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head. But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” Mark 4:26-29.
My Word spoken with faith into the earth, into the soil of your heart as well, will produce in kind.
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:10-11.
Mary treasured and pondered My Words in her heart. So let us now turn to what blossomed in her life for in the fullness of time I sent forth My Word who became flesh as My Son, born of a virgin, born under the law of sin and death, so that He might redeem those who were under the law to receive adoption as sons. Galatians 4:4-5.
Now, when the fullness of time had come, Galatians 4:4-5, I sent My angel Gabriel, the same messenger I had at prior times sent to Daniel in his exile to reveal My answers to him and tell him of the things to come, Daniel 8:16; Daniel 9:21, to Nazareth in Galilee, to speak My Word to Mary, Luke 1:26, the virgin who I had spoken of through My prophet Isaiah, Isaiah 7:14, and the woman I had foretold to Adam and Eve after their fall from authority over the earth. Genesis 3:15.
When Gabriel arrived, He gave her the message I also give to each of: “Rejoice, highly favored one (full of grace), the Lord is with you.” Luke 1:28.
The word you see translated as “full of grace” or “highly favored,” is the Greek word “charitóō (χαριτόω), which is from chárisma, which with grace. Charitou means you are highly-favored because you are receptive to My grace. Charitóō is used only twice in the New Testament, once here as Gabriel’s greeting from Me to Mary and then in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians where I call you that who are in Christ (He preordained us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us and highly favored us in the Beloved. Ephesians 1:6), both times speak of Me extending Myself to freely bestow and endow you with grace (favor).
When Mary saw Gabriel, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. Luke 1:29. Mary was humble of heart. Then My messenger Gabriel assured her not to be afraid for she had found favor with Me. Luke 1:30. My message to you is the same, do not fear I am with you! Isaiah 41:10. You are all My delight.
But this was only the beginning of My message to Mary, the angel Gabriel then conveyed to her the magnificent truth that she would ponder for her whole life and never would forget for she kept it in her heart. Luke 2:19. When you treasure My Word in your heart and keep it constantly before you as your joyful connection with Me, who am love, you will not sin. Psalm 119:11.
My angel told Mary that she would conceive and bring forth a Son whom would be named JESUS. Luke 1:31. Then what I had Gabriel tell about Jesus sounded like My Word to David twenty-eight generations before, 1 Chronicles 17:11-14.
He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end. The throne of David and reign over the house of Jacob forever! Luke 1:32-33.
My promise to David was fulfilled.
Now remember that Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but this was before they came together. Matthew 1:18. This had to be in order that My prophecies in the Garden to Adam and later to Isaiah that the Seed would be of a woman, that is a virgin, would be fulfilled. Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14.
So Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know man?” And My angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.” For with Me nothing will be impossible. Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her. Luke 1:34-38. It was then that My Word took flesh in the womb of the Virgin.
My Son is the root and offspring of David, the bright morning star. Revelation 22:16. He is the seed from Heaven planted by the Holy Spirit in the line of David, that took root hidden in the womb of the virgin Mary, and fulfilled the promise made to Adam in the garden that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head, that is, the devil’s dominion over the world and mankind that Adam had given to him. It may have looked like that promise had failed, Psalm 89:38-40, but it was in the making for about four thousand years. What looked like failure and defeat turned into an astounding victory and success.
And My Word incarnate is Jesus. John 1:14. You see, His Blood is pure blood with no taint of sin. The seed of the body for My Son was formed like Adam with no earthly father, so My Son, when He took flesh, was born as the seed of the woman and formed from Heaven just as the first man, Adam. He is the only man besides Adam that I formed directly by My Word. Just as I spoke and then formed Adam from the clay so I spoke and formed the last Adam from the flesh of the virgin. For once I had made flesh from the clay, I spoke the Word and formed Eve from the flesh of Adam. So now I spoke the Word and My Son took flesh from a woman, but in a normal pregnancy period and birth so that He would be fully your brother, born as you are, though miraculously conceived. Jesus had no earthly father to generate the seed. He is incorruptible seed. 1 Peter 1:23. You originally were, but Adam corrupted the seed by sin and made it subject to decay and death. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:19; 1 Corinthians 15:22. My Son changed all that for you. Those who believe in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16.
When you receive My Son as your Lord you are born again in the Spirit, and, unlike your physical birth from your biological father, you are born of imperishable seed. 1 Peter 1:23. And you again have Eternal life. For My Son gave His eternal life as He died on the cross to pay the debt you owed and redeem you back from the slavery to sin and death into which you had sold yourselves. That is why My Son later told the Pharisee Nicodemus that you must be born again to enter My Kingdom. John 3:5. The perishable cannot inherit the imperishable. 1 Corinthians 15:50.
Mary understood what had taken place in the context of the Covenant. Listen to her words after she had received the message from Gabriel that she later declared to her cousin Elizabeth:
My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for He has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me—holy is His name. His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation. He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts. He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty. He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, even as He said to our fathers. Luke 1:46-55.
Mary authorized My plan to be done on the earth by her decision to accept the Word spoken to her. Joseph, however, did not know what had taken place so, thinking Mary unfaithful to him, he decided to divorce Mary quietly. Matthew 1:19.
But after he had considered this, My angel appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” Now, all this took place to fulfill what I had said through the prophet, Isaiah: “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”—which means, “God with us.” Now, when Joseph woke up, he did what My angel had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus. Matthew 1:18-25.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among you. And He was born of a virgin of your own people, a woman of the tribe of Judah of the line of David. A man like you in all respects except sin. Hebrews 4:15.
At this point I would like to share with you the genealogy of My Son Jesus according to the flesh. But that will be for the next life lesson, for there are many treasures hidden therein of lives lived in obedience and lives lived in disobedience, and every life that makes up that family tree has a life lesson to teach you in order that you may learn how to live so as to have good success in this life and the next. Learn from other’s successes but also from other’s failures so you will know what to do, so you will understand the signs of the times.
I love you. Remember, I do not want you to be in ignorance, but to know just what to do. Not by human, earthly wisdom, not by mere human strength and might, but by My Spirit in you and on you forever. But above all, I want you to know and enjoy Me. And how can you unless you know what life is all about. I AM your reason to be and your eternity.