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Why did God become man?
2. Did God become man because the Second Person of the holy Trinity had an opening in His busy schedule?
3. Or did God become man because God the Son felt bored wanted to try something new?
4. Why did God become man? Was it really necessary?
5. Yes, the Incarnation was necessary, and tonight, we will unpackage the “Why” behind God becoming man in order to discover the wisdom and grace of God’s plan.
6. My prayer is that after our study, we will never look at Christmas or for that matter, life itself, the same way again.

John 1:14-18

Context
1. Last week we embarked on a new study through the Gospel of John.
2. During our study of the first thirteen verses from John chapter one, we noted that John boldly declared that Jesus is eternally God the Son, the Agent and Sustainer of Creation, the Life and the Light of men. (1-4)
3. After establishing the eternal deity of Jesus, John turned to another facet of the person of Jesus Christ, His humanity in verse fourteen.

John 1:14, And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. . .
Transition – In order to understand the “Why?” behind John 1:14, we must turn to Genesis 1. From Genesis 1 we learn that. . .

I. “God with Us” is God’s Eternal Plan for Us

• What I mean is, God created us in order to have a relationship with us.
• And in that place of intimate relationship with Adam and Eve, God generously blessed the first couple.

Genesis 1:27-30, God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it. . .” Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you. . . I have given
every green plant for food”; and it was so.

APPL – You see, contrary to popular opinion, God did not create us because He needed someone to pick up His dirty socks or weed the Garden of Eden.
• Nor did God create us because He wanted someone to bully, accuse, threaten, or abuse.
• God created us to have a relationship with us, an eternal, loving, blessed relationship.
• This is God’s heart for us, to bless us forever.
• This means the greatest blessing that God gave to us is Himself; the personal invitation to have a secure, intimate relationship with God.

Psalm 73:28, But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works.

A. But there was a Problem in Paradise
1. One of the blessings that the Lord God gave man is a free will, the freedom to choose the course of one’s life.
2. As a free-will moral agent, Adam was free to choose the good that God intended for his life, or not.
3. This means Adam was free to choose the blessings of the Lord’s presence as he served in the Garden with a worshipful, obedient heart, or he could disobey God and serve and worship something or someone other than the Lord God.
4. One’s choice reveals one’s will.

APPL – This is a critical point for us to grasp because it helps us understand why we are the way we are and, frankly, why our world is such a mess.

5. As I said, the Lord God gifted Adam, and all his children, with a free will; we are free-will moral agents.
6. Then the Lord God gave the first man the opportunity to exercise his free will when He placed Adam in paradise, the Garden of Eden, and issued one positive and one negative command. . .
Genesis 2:16-17, From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.
7. Both trees, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, were located in the middle of the Garden.

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