Holiday traditions are popular and attractive, but they fail to deliver on the essential desires of the heart. Many are thirsty, but to them the holidays are like “a well without water,” not entirely satisfying.

The fact is that we as humans live between two worlds, one is a world outside of our human being and the other is in our soul. The outer world is filled with conflict, turmoil, hatred, international tension, wars, struggle and strife. Then inside we must deal with temporal hurts, disappointments, discouragements, and fears – and none of us are free from these difficult inner situations.

How can these essential desires of the heart of man be satisfied? One can only be satisfied through embracing and receiving the crucified and resurrected “Lamb of God” as their Savior and source of His eternal life.

Jesus said, “… I am come that they might have life (Gk. Zoë, God’s Spirit life), and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). If we receive God’s Christmas Gift, we can have inner peace and strength to endure and overcome the suffering, negativism, fear and chaos. Jesus said;

John 16:33 (AMP) I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation [pressures] and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]!

For I have overcome the world. [depriving it of the power to destroy you.]

We may contrast the tension, struggle, strife, and fear of non-believers with those genuine believers who have faith and hope for the future because of God’s Gift of “the life” of His “only begotten Son.” The Son’s life and His Royal Blood was given for us at the cross that we might forever have life eternal now and forever (2Cor 5:1b).

His Son’s “Spirit of life” is given to us believers to be our ever-present life-source, as “a well of water” within our spirit. (John 4:14). “Christ in you” (Col. 1:27) … means the resurrected Christ is not only with us, but He also in us. This means… the end of loneliness… and the end of facing life’s trials alone, and the end of hopelessness.

That first Christmas came as result of Jesus of Nazareth being the only person ever born as result of what some call the immaculate conception. Jesus’ conception was a spotless, being conceived of the “The Holy Spirit of God the Father,” entirely free of the human begetting as of a human father. We know that only fathers can be the progenitors of “life,” while mothers importantly nourish and bear that life to term.

The Bible says it was the Holy Spirit of God the Father that came upon a young Jewish virgin, Mary. The power of the Spirit of the Highest “overshadowed her.” Mary, being then pregnant, carried, nurtured, and gave birth to “the Son of God” (See Matt. 1:18-23, Luke 1:30-35), who was born as “the Son of Man” (Matt. 8:31), by birth being given in a human ‘Mary-body’ that could suffer death of the cross for us.

Luke 1:30-35 (AMP) And the angel (Gabriel) said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found grace (free, spontaneous, absolute favor and loving-kindness) with God. ³¹ And listen! You will become pregnant and will give birth to a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus. ³² He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to Him the throne of His forefather David, ³³ And He will reign over the house of Jacob (Israel) throughout the ages; and of His reign there will be no end. ³⁴ And Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I have no [intimacy with any man as a] husband? ³⁵ Then the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you [like a shining cloud]; and so the holy (pure, sinless) Thing (offspring) which shall be born of you will be called the Son of God.

The immaculate conception of Jesus of Nazareth is The Key to mankind’s redemption and reconciliation with God, their creator. Otherwise, all mankind is hopelessly lost in sin and death. It was this “immaculate conception” of Jesus of Nazareth that made His Royal Blood and pure life, qualified to be sacrificially offered for “the sins of the world” at the cross of Calvary. Thus, He was the perfect sacrifice to redeem mankind … to merit every believer’s salvation from perdition (judgment).

Jesus of Nazareth was conceived of God the Father’s sinless Spirit-life. Thus, there was no sin in Jesus at His core, innermost, that is in His Spirit, even though He had a ‘physical body of humiliation’ as we do.

Jesus today is the crucified and resurrected “life-giving Spirit” (1Cor 15:45), referred to as that life-giving “Seed, which is Christ.” (Gal. 3:16, cf. 1Peter 1:23). It is Jesus Christ’s Spirit-seed’ that “giveth life” (2 Cor. 3:6) to all who will believe to receive His Seeded-life. For “Now the Lord is that Spirit…” (2 Cor. 3:17a) who indwells every genuine believer at their core, in their spirit.

Understand that Jesus’ “Spirit of life” was in HIS BLOOD.

“For the life of the flesh is in the blood ...” (Leviticus 17:11).

As we shall see, it was the shedding of Jesus’ ‘Royal Blood,’ which flowed in His human veins at the cross that is the sole means of man’s justification and reconciliation with God. Jesus’ Royal Blood shed for us renders every genuine believer justified, forever free from their sin-debt… if they simply Trust In Jesus’ Death And Resurrection For Them.

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Romans 5:9-10 Much more then, being now Justified By His Blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. ¹⁰ For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

It is clear from Scripture that Jesus Christ lived in a very human body, just as we have... a body with the sin-nature in it. Yet… Jesus Never Committed Any Act of Sinning... before He poured out HIS LIFE and ROYAL BLOOD at the cross.

Mary, Jesus’ human mother, was born the daughter of her father “Heli,” who as all men was born in the line of sinful fallen Adam by whom “sin entered the world” (cf. Rom 5:12, see Jesus’ genealogy in Luke 3:23, 38). So, while Jesus had “the Holy Spirit life” of God the Father in His Spirit, Mary could only pass onto Jesus what she received of her human father… a sin-laden ‘body of flesh.’

Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made (Gk. ginomai, generated) of [out from] a woman, made under the law.

Mary’s function was to give Jesus of Nazareth His genuinely human ‘body of flesh,’ one that bore all the human frailties that we all have of our fallen forefather, Adam. Adam, the first human sinner, was and is the federal head of sinful humanity.

John 1:14 (AMP) And THE WORD [Jesus Christ] BECAME FLESH [INCARNATE] and tabernacled [fixed His tent of flesh, and lived awhile] among us; and we [actually] saw His glory [His honor, His majesty], such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace [favor, loving-kindness] and truth.

Though Jesus lived in “His tent of flesh” given Him by Mary, Jesus never actually sinned. Note this precious Scripture (below) that describes just how human Jesus was “Tempted in Every Respect as We Are” but never sinned!

Hebrews 4:15 (AMP) For we do not have a High Priest Who Is Unable to Understand and Sympathize and Have a Shared Feeling With Our Weaknesses and Infirmities and Liability To The Assaults Of Temptation, But One Who Has Been Tempted In Every Respect As We Are, Yet WITHOUT SINNING.

How is it that Holy Jesus of Nazareth could be tempted “as we are”? It is only because Jesus had the same sin-nature that is common all men of human flesh. Again, though He was tempted “as we are” … He never sinned! So, at the core of His real self, Jesus remained pure in spirit and soul… thus remaining a worthy sacrifice for “the sins of the world.” Jesus knew who He really was in His Spirit as the God the Father’s Son… and He remained faithful to the Father.

In being genuinely human, Jesus even today in heaven is marked with His humanity, such that He “could be touched with the feelings of our (human) infirmities” (Heb. 4:15a; above).

Also, it is only by His having never sinned while in a corruptible flesh body, that He could physically die in body to Pay Our Sin-Debt. Jesus’ flesh body contained the fallen Sin-nature that we all have… yet Jesus, with such a corruptible sin-laden body as ours… never sinned.

“For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son In The ‘Guise’ [outer appearance] of ‘Sinful Flesh’ and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned Sin In The Flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice], (Romans 8:3 (AMP)

The sinful fallen human nature of all people with flesh bodies is vividly described by the Apostle Paul concerning his own frustration in trying to overcome Sin through his own feeble self-effort. (cf. Rom. 7:17-23.)

Who was the real Jesus of Nazareth? Some note that Jesus said the Devil “hath nothing in me” (John 14:30). From this verse alone, they erroneously claim Jesus had no sin-nature in His flesh. But we need to note that, as with all humans, the human flesh body of Jesus of Nazareth was not His person, nature, or core life source. We should all know that we are not our temporal body of flesh… we are who we are in our spirit and soul.

Where exactly was Jesus’ life located? The Scripture says, “the life” of all humans is located not located in the flesh itself ... but more precisely, “the life of the flesh is in THE BLOOD ...” (Leviticus 17:11)

Being conceived humanly of God the Father by His Holy Spirit, Jesus of Nazareth had the eternal Divine Spirit-life of the Godhead, in His Human Blood... making His blood ‘ROYAL BLOOD.’ It was ‘Royal Blood’ that flowed in and from the veins of Jesus’ sin-laden body of flesh at the cross! It was this precious ‘Royal Blood’ that qualified His Blood to effectively pay “for the sins of the world” at the cross.

Oh, the wisdom of God!!!

The Godhead planned, before the world began, that “the Son” would shed His ROYAL BLOOD and die as the sacrificial “Lamb of God” for us, to pay our sin-debt.

In the next installment I will explain medically how Jesus’ ‘ROYAL BLOOD’ and core life was not at all the same as Mary’s blood and human life.