The Word Became Flesh

The Christmas season is the  perfect time to consider the  miraculous virgin birth of  Jesus. However, the truth  about His birth sometimes  gets lost in our Christmas  traditions. In Mark 7:13,  Jesus warns against: 

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. 

I believe many of the  Christmas traditions we  have today distract us  from understanding some  of the greatest truths in  the Bible. These traditions  have overwhelmed the real  message of Jesus coming  to this earth. But I tell you,  Jesus becoming a man is the  greatest miracle of all.  

When considering this miracle, there  are two questions I’ve always wondered  about: one, why did Jesus have to come  to earth; and two, if it was necessary for  Him to come, why did God wait four  thousand years to get Him here? 

To answer the first question, it was a  man—a physical human being—who  had been given authority on the earth  by God. Therefore, it was necessary for  a man with a physical body to take back  that authority.  

God had given absolute dominion  to Adam and Eve. He took His  power—his right to rule and  control the earth—and gave it to  physical human beings. In a sense,  He excluded Himself from ruling over  the earth. I know that’s a new wrinkle in  some of your brains, but it’s true, and  it answers many questions concerning  the sovereignty of God.  

The integrity of God causes Him to  never violate His Word. So when Adam  and Eve disobeyed God, He could not  violate his Word to save man from the  

terrible problems that would come from  their decisions. Yet God knew it was going  to happen and already had a plan in place  to reconcile man back unto Himself.  

When God created the first man, He said,  “Let us make man in our image” (Gen.  1:26). He literally spoke Adam’s body into  existence. At that time, He had the legal  right to do that because He had not yet  given authority over this earth to man. 

However, once He had given that  authority to man, He could not leave him  out of the equation. The last Adam,  Jesus, would still have to be spoken  into existence by God, but He would  have to speak through man. God was  no longer in direct control, and a man  would have to become the voice of His  words. Psalm 115:16 explains: 

The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath  he given to the children of men. 

That is a strong statement. In other words,  everything outside of the earth belongs  to God, but He gave the earth to the children of man. God literally placed restrictions on  Himself through His own words. God had to create  the new Adam through words spoken by someone with  a physical body. 

But what about the second question: why did God  wait four thousand years to send Jesus? To answer  this question, we need to consider Galatians 4:4, which  says, “But when the fulness of the time was come, God  sent forth his Son.” This means that God had to choose  the appropriate moment. Jesus could not come onto  the scene until everything that had to be said was  said. 

For example, it had to be prophesied that Jesus  would be born of a virgin. That was critical because  Jesus would not be just a good man—Jesus was God  manifest in the flesh. Through Mary, Jesus received a  physical body, but it was the blood of God the Father  flowing through Him. He was a God-man. 

Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this  be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel  answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost  shall come upon thee, and the power of the  Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also  that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall  be called the Son of God. 

 — Luke 1:34–35

When Mary asked, “How’s this going to happen,” she wasn’t questioning the possibility, just the how. The angel said the word of God is the incorruptible seed:
“All of the words spoken over four thousand years, through hundreds of people, are going to conceive in you.” First Peter 1:23 says, “Being born again, not
of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”

The Greek word for “seed” in this scripture is spora. It comes from the same root word as sperma, which is talking about the seed of a man. The virgin birth of Jesus was completely natural in every respect except one: it was not the seed of a man. The seed was the Word of God. The Word became flesh! All that had been
prophesied about Jesus became the spora, or the seed. God’s Word is living and alive. His Word is health unto all your flesh and life to them that find it (Prov. 4:22). He sent His Word to heal you and deliver you from destruction. And for those who will place His words in their hearts and allow those seeds to conceive, they will in time see the manifestation of what they believe and speak.

So this Christmas, I hope you’ll take time to step back from some of the traditions that don’t really have anything to do with the miracle of Jesus’ birth and take
time to ponder the power of God’s Word becoming flesh. Miracles are waiting for you when you begin to understand the miracle of Jesus’ birth. I tell you, understanding the power of the Word becoming flesh is critical in your Christian walk. I encourage you to get my full teaching on this topic, The Word Became Flesh. To place an order, go to store. awmaust.net.au or call our Helpline at +61 07 31777681.

We love you!

Andrew and Jamie