Sermon Tone Analysis

Why Do We Need the Incarnation?

Chalcedonian Creed

We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man, of a reasonable soul and body; consubstantial with us according to the manhood; in all things like unto us, without sin; begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the virgin Mary, the mother of God, according to the manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the prophets from the beginning have declared concerning him, and the Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the Creed of the holy Fathers has handed down to us.

Deity of Christ

Humanity of Christ

Jesus is fully divine and fully human

The Hypostatic Union The union of a perfectly human nature with the eternal divine nature without confusion of the two natures in the Son of God

How is does one Being have two natures?

In a letter called Leo’s Tome in 449 to Flavian of Constantinople Leo maintains that Jesus Christ is one person of the divine Trinity with two distinct natures that are permanently united.

These two natures share properties through the so-called communicatio idiomatum or sharing of attributes between the divine and human natures of Christ.

Why is the incarnation of the Son of God so important?

To bear the penalty of sin

Hebrews To redeem the body , , To restore unity to God and man

To redeem the body

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To restore unity to God and man

Why is the incarnation of the Son of God so important?

To Condemn sin

To Reconcile creation back to God

To be the perfect Mediator between God and humanity

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