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The Four Reasons for the Incarnation
(i.e. God becoming man) & How It

Relates to the Mass (i.e. the Eucharist)

If you ever want to know how much God loves you and
how much he has done for his people over the course
of human history, just open up the scriptures. You’ll see
a father who cares for his children so much that he even sent his only son to save us
from our sins.

Jesus Christ is unlike any other person who has
ever walked the planet. Now that might seem
like a really obvious statement but think about
it – no other religious leader of consequence
ever actually claimed to be God except for
Jesus and no one ever backed it up like Jesus
did. All those religious leaders like Buddha,
Mohammed never actually claimed to be God
except for Jesus Christ. This itinerant carpenter
minister from this nowhere town Nazareth
shows up on the scene and literally claims to be
God. And people follow him. And he does
things that no one else can do because that is
how God works – he does what we cannot do.

You might say to yourself why, why would God
come to earth, why would God take flesh? You
see, all the way back in Genesis, everything is
going really well until sin enters; until Adam
and Eve out of their pride choose themselves and sin enters and now we have a problem
because sin pushes out God’s divine life that we call GRACE (God’s life in us) and
when we choose ourselves and sin enters God loves us so much that he actually creates
a plan to save us from ourselves, a plan
to redeem us; he has a plan to send us a
savior. We hear about it all the away back
in chapter 3 of Genesis that God is going
to send us a savior and his name is Jesus
(which means God saves). But century
after century God kept trying to gather
his family back to himself; he kept trying
to save us from ourselves; and we would
lean in for a while; we would follow God
for a while but then they would break
their end of the

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