Unto you is born a Savior

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord

What glorious good news – a Savior! I heard this verse read in church last Sunday and I have been meditating on it since then.  How does He save us? By His:

INCARNATION
By the incarnation the door to heaven is opened.
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same…For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

LIFE
By His life he revealed the Father, He taught us the ways of God; He lived a life of faith and obedience.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

CROSS
His death on the cross He purchased salvation for us.

RESURRECTION
This man took on death and overcame it. For us!
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;  And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

ASCENSION
Jesus Himself is our hope and our Hope has entered heaven.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus

EXALTATION
The Son become a man, who lived among us, died for us, rose again, and ascended into heaven. This Jesus now sits at the right hand of the Father, where He makes intercession for us, pleading His blood for us, that where He is we might be also; waiting to return in glory.

RETURN
When He returns Jesus will bring the promised salvation with Him!

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; 
for he hath visited and redeemed his people

And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us 
in the house of his servant David