God is Here!

There is a vital doctrine for victorious Christin living that truly is astounding. The doctrine is wonderful in its implications but also in its existence.

This simple yet profound doctrine quickly separates the wheat from the chaff, the sheep from the goats, the pride from the humble.

It does this because it is a doctrine that without childlike faith, is impossible to believe. As a result many people stumble at this confession.

It is the belief in the incarnation and virgin birth.

To believe in the virgin birth and to confess it takes no small amount of faith. The concept in ludicrous and you risk being labelled as a lunatic if you say you believe it.

God knows its crazy and impossible which is why he chose it. If you say and believe that you believe that God because flesh and came into this word by a virgin giving birth you are making a very bold and very spiritual statement.

There is no evidence for that confession, and it has never happened before or after - the only evidence you have to base that belief on is the bible says so.

Therefore to confess this doctrine is to confess that the bible, not science o man, or experience or nature is your highest authority - and if God said it - i believe it.

The Blessings of the Incarnation

1: To Reveal God to Man

John 1:18 KJV 1900

No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

“Declare” - exegete - reveal/open up/explain.

Hebrews 1:1–3 KJV 1900

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Go0d used to speak to the people through prophets. He would tell the prophet what to say. Now he speaks to you through Jesus Christ. How does Jesus Speak to us? Through the Holy Scriptures.

John 14:9 KJV 1900

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

God is a Spirit - he is, for all our earthly abilities, invisible. Yes we can see his works, and yes we can see his involvement, but we could never see Him.

Colossians 1:15 KJV 1900

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

We cannot know god apart from Jesus Christ.

2: To Redeem Man to God

Nothing is clearer in scripture than the fact that the principle purpose behind the incarnation was to save man from their sins.

Luke 19:10 KJV 1900

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

“Is come” - To travel. From where to where - from Heaven to earth.

Galatians 4:4–5 KJV 1900

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Perhaps the most clear:

1 Timothy 1:15 KJV 1900

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

“Came into this world” - same word - traveled.

The Best example we have of this is the communion Table. The communion Table is all about the incarnation.

How can we have bread - unless Christ had a body?

How can we have wine - unless christ had blood.

Flesh and blood church - flesh and blood is the incarnation.

God and Spirit. Spirits don’t bleed.God needed a body to bleed. Wqhy?

Hebrews 9:22 KJV 1900

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

3: To Connect man and God

Our Salvation is based on an event that occurred 2000 years ago upon a Hill called Calvary.

Our Total Deliverance is based on an event that will happen sometime in the very near future.

What happens in the meantime? In the meantime, right Now, the ministry of Jesus continues.

What type of ministry is it? It is a ministry that he can only do as a result of His incarnation.

Hebrews 2:17–18 KJV 1900

Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

Hebrews 4:14–16 KJV 1900

Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Jesus knows how you feel.

What does an almighty God know about pain?

What does an all powerful God know about sorrow, heartache and Rejection?

What does an all powerful God know about temptation?

The incarnation is vital to me because by it i believe that Jesus knows my pain and can help me in my pain and in my weakness.

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