Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Prepare your heart to celebrate the birth of Jesus by discovering how God's perfect plan unfolded.

The child laid in a manger was more than just a baby.

He was the Savior who came to fulfill his purpose.

Join us today for this powerful message on the Ransom for Many.

This is the second in the series of messages on why Jesus came, and if you'll turn to Matthew

chapter 20, I want us to read two verses, and we will depart from these two verses and start

in Genesis and show you one of the most important reasons Jesus came,

in fact, of all the reasons, it is the ultimate reason for which he came. So in this particular

passage, Jesus is talking to his disciples about a request that one of their mothers had made

and she wanted their sons to be able to sit on his right hand in the kingdom.

And so this brought up the subject of having a servant's spirit.

And so he says in verse 27 of Matthew 20,

and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.

Even as the son of man came not to be minister

unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many. A ransom is a substitute for something

else. And what he's saying is that he came as a substitute for many. Not to preach, not to teach, not to heal,

although those things were a part of his ministry. He came to die for you and for me. And to begin,

let's go all the way back to Genesis chapter three, if you will. And if you'll just turn with me to

these pastures and get your

pencil and paper and jot down these verses it'll be far more meaningful to you to do that than simply

to listen without doing so let's begin where the problem started god's perfect creation

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