Sermon Tone Analysis

8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.

10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.

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

12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version.

(2016).

(Lk 2:8–12).

Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.

Born = Incarnation

What is Incarnation?

INCARNATION—that act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into union with his Divine Person, became man.

Christ is both God and man.

Human attributes and actions are predicated of him, and he of whom they are predicated is God.

A Divine Person was united to a human nature (Acts 20:28; Rom.

8:32; 1 Cor.

2:8; Heb.

2:11–14; 1 Tim.

3:16; Gal.

4:4, etc.).

INCARNATION God’s becoming human; the union of divinity and humanity in Jesus of Nazareth.

Definition of Doctrine Incarnation (Lat.

incarnatio, being or taking flesh), while a biblical idea, is not a biblical term.

Its Christian use derives from the Latin version of John 1:14 and appears repeatedly in Latin Christian authors from about A.D. 300 onward.

As a biblical teaching, incarnation refers to the affirmation that God, in one of the modes of His existence as Trinity and without in any way ceasing to be the one God, has revealed Himself to humanity for its salvation by becoming human.

Jesus, the Man from Nazareth, is the incarnate Word or Son of God, the focus of the God-human encounter.

As the God-Man, He mediates God to humans; as the Man-God, He represents humans to God.

By faith-union with Him, men and women, as adopted children of God, participate in His filial relation to God as Father.

Incarnation means

God became man

100% God and 100% man

The God-Man

Christ is the Mediator of God to humanity

God meets us right where we are

God is approachable

God is willing to forgive

The Man-God

Christ represents us to God...our advocate

One of the things I am noticing is that we tend to mistake the word advocate for the word activist.

An advocate works on behalf of another to reach a beneficial result.

An advocate usually has some form of reason for being in that role.

An activist on the other hand uses activity to create a desired result, but usually outside the normal

The perfect man was tempted, but never sinned as we do

The perfect man bore our sins

The perfect man offers salvation to all who would receive it