Jesus Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords1. He is the ruler of Israel2 and of the kings of the earth3. At his name every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father4 and his reign will never end.5
From before the beginning, it was God's intent to make us like himself. It was his plan that his love, his glory, his goodness, and all that he is be seen in us who were not only created by him but adopted as his own sons (this includes women also).
Shortly after the beginning of things, man thought he would help God by partaking of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He tried to become like God on his own. He tried to have a life apart from the Giver of Life and it resulted in death for him and all his descendants.
Now how was the purpose of God to be accomplished, to have a body through which to express Himself in the earth? Man had separated himself from God through his sin. How to redeem him? How to restore him to the purpose for which he was created?
Through Moses, God gave the family/nation of Israel a law by which they were to live. It stipulated the rules for man's relationship with God and with his fellow man. Though the law was holy and righteous and good, it was not sufficient to enable man to walk in relationship. To know what we should do was not enough. It was necessary also to have the desire to do it and then the power to do it. The law demonstrated for us, in a very personal way, that the knowledge of good and evil was not enough to make us like God, because in ourselves we lack the motivation (love) and the power to do good.
Through of our rebellion towards our righteous and holy God we have separated ourselves from him and have condemned ourselves to eternal death. But God is not willing for us to suffer that end and sent his Son, born of a woman, to take our sin and our iniquity upon himself and die on the cross in our place so that we might have eternal life and relationship with our loving Father.
At our request, Jesus comes to live in us, to rule over us, changing our hearts. He sets us free from the bondage of sin, giving us the desire to obey God and the power to do so.
What does it take to receive this gift of life? He asks us to believe in Him.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:16, 17).
1Revelation 9:16, 2Isaiah 9:6, 3Revelation 1:5, 4Philippians 2:9 - 11, 5Luke 1:33