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Who in here knows what the “Hypostatic Union” is?
The Hypostatic Union is the perfectly blending of earthly and heavenly.
Jesus was fully man right?
He was born of this earth.
Yes, he had a heavenly father and his mother, Mary was inseminated with the power of the holy spirit.
This was not a sexual act, it was an act of the Holy Spirit indwelling Mary and giving her the seed that would germinate in her uterus and penetrate her egg.
This human was in fact a human.
Did Jesus breathe?
Yes, of course He breathed.
Did Jesus bleed?
Yes, of course He bled.
He was, in fact, fully man.
He experienced pain like all men do.
His body relied on its organs to function just as ours did.
His body, like ours, had scars.
Did he have freckles
Introduction:
The Apostle John was one of few men who had the distinguished privilege of experiencing the drama, joy, and glory of Jesus’ incarnate ministry spanning from his baptism to his ascension to the Father’s right hand.
So because of this, John, the disciple whom Jesus loved, serves as an authority to the matter of the Christ’s incarnation which we celebrate through the remembrance of his miraculous birth.
John began his Gospel account by providing a theological preamble and one that in this regard speaks to the incarnation, not by addressing a detailed account of the birth of the baby Jesus, but explaining the theological glory that this birth proved to be: "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us….”
John provided the cornerstone to a proper understanding of the “Hypostatic Union”
This is the two natures of Jesus Christ.
Wholly God
Wholly Man
This may also be understood as the deity of Christ:
Faith in the deity of Christ is necessary to being a Christian.
It is an essential part of the New Testament gospel of Christ.
Yet in every century the church has been forced to deal with people who claim to be Christians while denying or distorting the deity of Christ.
At the Council of Nicea in a.d.
325, the church, in opposition to the Arian heresy, declared that Jesus is begotten, not made, and that His divine nature is of the same essence (homoousios) with the Father.
This affirmation declared that the second person of the Trinity is one in essence with God the Father.
That is, the “being” of Christ is the being of God.
He is not merely similar to Deity, but He is Deity.
The confession of the deity of Christ is drawn from the manifold witness of the New Testament.
As the Logos incarnate, Christ is revealed as being not only preexistent to creation, but eternal.
He is said to be in the beginning with God and also that He is God ().
That He is with God demands a personal distinction within the Godhead.
That He is God demands inclusion in the Godhead.
Elsewhere, the New Testament ascribes terms and titles to Jesus that are clearly titles of deity.
God bestows the preeminent divine title of Lord upon Him ().
As the Son of Man, Jesus claims to be Lord of the Sabbath () and to have authority to forgive sins ().
He is called the “Lord of glory” () and willingly receives worship, as when Thomas confesses, “My Lord and my God!” ().
Paul declares that the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Christ bodily () and that Jesus is higher than angels, a theme reiterated in the book of Hebrews.
To worship an angel or any other creature, no matter how exalted, is to violate the biblical prohibition against idolatry.
The I ams of John’s gospel also bear witness to the identification of Christ with Deity.
In the fifth century, the Council of Chalcedon (a.d.
451) affirmed that Jesus was truly man and truly God.
Jesus’ two natures, human and divine, were said to be without mixture, confusion, separation, or division.
1 Sproul, R. C. (Ed.).
(2015).
The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version (2015 Edition) (p.
1851).
Orlando, FL: Reformation Trust.
This subject can and has been a matter of substantial struggle in properly understanding with absolute clarity.
There is a natural struggle in holding these two natures in proper balance.
It is easy for us to over-emphasize one over the other.
It is easy for me to stand on Christ as being the Almighty God.
What is harder for me to understand is how Christ was flesh and how He struggled with life, as we do.
Finding this balance is a difficult one of coming to grips with the mortality that he possessed in his absolute immortality.
As we seek to pry open the matter of Wholly God and Wholly Man I want us to primarily focus on two Scriptures.
The Gospel of John, chapter 1:1-18
and,
As a way of application my prayer is that throughout this Christmas seaon your minds would drift in worshipful wonder of the glory of God in Christ’s incarnation.
To that end the first element of worshipful application for this lesson would be to plead with God to open your eyes to these unbelievable and yet magnificiently true truths of the Scripture.
This week we will walk with Jesus through John’s first-hand eye witness account provided through the Gospel of John.
John, who identified himself only as the disciple whom Jesus loved.
John, who walked closely with his Lord.
John, who laid upon Jesus at his final passover.
John, who was given the charge to care for Jesus’ mother while he hung on the Cross.
John, who ran to the empty tomb and beheld his risen Savior.
This John, who will unfold for us how we might better appreciate Jesus’ incarnation.
Lets read now, The Gospel according to John, Chapter 1, verses 1-18
Now, I want to drive home points of focus as we consider the following matters:
As God, Jesus demonstrated the authority, power, mercy, compassion, justice, and judgment of God.
As man, he demonstrated profound gentleness and various ways that he served his disciples and others.
The tension that was present with those around him as Jesus was clearly seen as a man and yet his signs, wonders, and his testimony forced the matter of his deity to be seen, understood, and accepted.
Jesus articulated the three persons of the trinity - he had a profound identification with the Father and his sending of the Spirit in his stead.
The overwhelming love Jesus had for his disciples and the enormous desire he had for them to love one another.
Consider this, for a moment.
Jesus, who had from eternity past perfectly knew every moment of time and he himself was outside of time.
He inserted himself in the construct of time.
In that time, he met, face to face with and engaged his apostles.
the foundations of his church and the men who would drink from the wine of his cup and later receive their reward.
Think about the intentionality of Jesus’ life and his clear focus.
He knew every moment of why he was here on earth.
He came from the Father/above and would be returning to his Father.
He accepted worship
The people wrestling with Jesus being the Christ and the Messiah.
Jesus’ human body bore the physical scars of crucifixion.
How scriptures and prophesies are referenced back to Jesus.
What was plainly revealed about the character and heart of God through the Son.
What was plainly revealed about the character and heart of God through the Son.
Demonstrations of the revealed character of God (consider such passages as ).
Demonstrations of the Creator.
Demonstrations of the one true God.
The range of responses to and interactions with Jesus: The disciples, “sinners,” religious leaders, the people in general, the governing authorities, and others.
John provides a purpose statement for his Gospel account.
Within this purpose statement for his Gospel account are five key thematic elements of John’s Gospel:
Signs
Believe
Christ/the Messiah
Son of God
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