He who created humanity has provided for our development in body, mind, and soul through Himself. Only His miracles and prescriptions for life can heal bodily illness, mental illness, heartbreak, guilt, and sin.

The promise of His work was first given after the fall of man’s deception by Satan: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Genesis 3:15).

Sounds familiar?

The promise was realized through the virgin birth when the angel visited Joseph, Mary’s soon-to-be husband, saying, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). On entering His ministry on earth, He proclaimed,

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted; to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

Luke 4:18

The death that we who sin would receive he took on, and that’s the reason we needed a savior. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). Without Him, we die at the meager age of 99, some 50, and some stillborn. Tragedy turned to triumph on the cross of Calvary for the simple reason that;

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

John 3:16

He says of Himself to the prophet Isaiah,