Everything made has a Maker. In other words, the beginning had to have a beginning. The Bible tells us -- in the beginning there was God. God began the beginning point. Our world’s existence was not formed by a big bang accident; it was formed by a great Architect --and that great Architect is God!

2.     God is the Almighty.

Psalm 147:5: Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.

There are many things that have might or power in this world. And even the Evil One is mighty – just look at what the devil has done and is doing to this world. But God is not just mighty – He is Almighty! Nothing is beyond His ability or His resources because He is all mighty.

Jesus said in Matthew 6:9: "This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.’"

Human fathers can be very imperfect. Some people have not had positive experiences with the earthly father. They grew up with an absentee father, or an abusive father, or an apathetic father. They hope that God is not like that. That’s why Jesus qualified that title by saying "Our Father in heaven." The Bible tells us that our Father in Heaven is consistent (James 1:17); caring (Matthew 6:31-32); and close (Psalm 34:18).

The first part of The Apostle’s Creed is about God the Father. The second part of The Apostle’s Creed is about God the Son, Jesus.

Here’s what followers of Jesus have rallied around for the last two thousand years concerning what we believe about Jesus:

If Jesus is the eternal Son of God, why did He leave heaven and to do all these things on earth?

1.     Jesus was born to be my Savior. "Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary…"

Luke 1:26-28;34-35: In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you." "How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?" The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God."

Some people struggle with the idea that a virgin could give birth to a child. The person who would have the biggest problem with this is the person who wrote these words – Luke, who was a doctor. As a doctor, he understood biology 101, but as a believer, he understood that nothing is impossible if God’s in it. Since God made the first man, Adam, without human help, God could do the same with His Son.

The birth of Jesus needed to be divine otherwise, He would have received the same sinful human nature we are all born with.

Have you ever noticed how you have to teach a child the right things to do, but you never have to teach a child the wrong things to do.

You never have to teach a child to scream, to hit, or to scream and hit while saying, "Mine!" Why? Because we are all contaminated with a sinful nature – except One – the One born of a virgin named Mary.

Luke continues to tell us in Luke 2:11: Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ.

Recently, a man asked me, "Why do you believe people need a Savior?" There are several reasons why this is so but the main reason is because God says so. If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator. If our greatest need had been understanding our world, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been just being good, God would have sent us a moralist. But our greatest need was forgiveness, so God sent us a Savior.

In our world today, society is often offended when believers point to Jesus as the Savior of the world. Christianity is often labeled as intolerant, divisive, and mean-spirited because we believe Jesus is the only way to receive forgiveness and everlasting life. But that’s not hate – that’s hope! Christianity would only be exclusive if we said only certain people can be saved, but the good news that Christians shared is "If anyone believes in Jesus, shall never perish but have everlasting life."

2 Corinthians 5:21: For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

If every person is a sinner -- and that's easy to prove -- then every person needs a Savior. Only Jesus -- the sinless One -- qualified to save us from our sins. Jesus left Heaven and came to earth to be my Savior.

2.     Jesus suffered to pay the price for my sins. "Suffered under Pontius Pilate …"

Matthew 27:26: Pilate set Barabbas free. Then he ordered his soldiers to beat Jesus with a whip and nail him to a cross.

Some might say, "There is historical evidence that Jesus was a real person and that Jesus really was crucified, but that only makes Him a martyr – not a Savior." That’s why it’s important that we see "the rest of the story" told throughout the Bible. For instance, Isaiah 53:5: He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed.

"I should have been crucified.
I should have suffered and died.
I should have hung on the cross in disgrace.
But Jesus, God’s Son took my place."

3.     Jesus was crucified to do for me what I could not do for myself.  "Was crucified, died, and was buried; He  descended to the dead."

Romans 5:10: When we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son …

The only way we could be forgiven of all our sins, is by someone doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. The reason people sometimes fail to see the need for a Savior is because they fail to see the enormity of our sin debt.

By the time your life is over, how many times do you think you will have sinned? Of course, no one knows the answer to that question but allow me to try to paint a picture of what that sin debt might look like. Let me give you a number that most of us have recently become familiar with: the number 700 billion. 700 billion is the number of dollars given for the government rescue bill. Most of us are just grateful if we have $700 in our checking account so it really difficult to try to get our minds around the concept of 700 billion dollars.

Consider this: there is no one person who can come along and bail us out of that debt. Warren Buffet is the supposedly the richest man in the world but even if he gave all his money that would only be about 62 billion dollars -- nowhere near enough money to rescue us. What is true with this financial debt is also true for our sin debt. Am I’m suggesting you might sin 700 billion times in your life? No – maybe more!

Before you consider that an exaggeration, consider that when we lie, when we exaggerate the truth, when we give in to an impure thought, when we lose our temper, when we gossip, when we judge, or when there are things we should do but don’t, we sin.

Is there anyone that can save us from our sin debt? Since the beginning of time, God had His own rescue plan! He would sent the only person qualified to do for us what we could not do for ourselves – His Son, Jesus. I could never be good enough or do enough good things to have my billion of sins wiped away – thank God for His rescue plan in sending His Son to do for me what I could not do for myself!