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Intro
In the New York Times Magazine, Nancy V. Raine told a story she heard twenty-five years earlier from a friend named George.
In those days, work crews marked construction sites by putting out smudge pots with open flames.
George’s four-year-old daughter got too close to one and her pants caught fire like the Straw Man’s stuffing.
The scars running the length and breadth of Sarah’s legs looked like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
In the third grade she was asked, “If you could have one wish, what would it be?”
Sarah wrote: “I want everyone to have legs like mine.”
When we suffer pain, we want others to understand.
We want others to be like us so they can identify with us.
We don’t want to be alone.
God does understand.
When Jesus became a man, he did something far more difficult than having legs like Sarah’s.
Jesus took on flesh.
He left Heaven and the throne room where forever the angels would sing and praise.
He was above the angels and he left his high position temporarily to give himself over to serving our needs.
He set aside all the rights and privileges of being God, but at the same time he never ceased from being God.
But made himself nothing, he emptied himself, choosing not to use some of his divine attributes, humbling himself, he chose to serve His creatures.
Phil 2
Even the creatures who had rejected him.
The same creatures who were his own and who he knew would crucify him on a cross.
To the point of death.
Jesus took on flesh.
He left Heaven and the throne room where forever the angels would sing and praise.
He was above the angels and he left his high position temporarily to give himself over to serving our needs.
He set
“For the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
The Incarnation of Jesus Christ is one of the most marvelous events of all time.
Before you can even get to the cross, you must first have God incarnate.
Body
There are many important passages in the Scriptures that help us to define our understanding of God’s revelation to man.
Passages such as revealing to us how God created everything.
It tells us where we came from.
Or There is only one God.
Or how salvation is available for all who believe.
But when we are talking about the doctrine of the Incarnation, the doctrine that God became human.
That Jesus is God in the flesh, there is no other more important verse than .
Now we already have looked at how Jesus is the Word, the Logos.
And so this Word, that takes on flesh here in is the same Word we read in .
The Word that was from the beginning, that was with God, and that was God, not in past tense as though he was God but became something else.
But in a state of being, when you think of Jesus, we know He is God for all of eternity.
We must be careful not to overemphasize the humanity of Jesus so that we remove the divinity .
Some may feel the tendency to want to speak of Jesus only in terms of this.
A more “liberal” view of Jesus sees him as just a good example for us to follow.
Just a man with strong morals and principles that are good for us to exemplify.
However, he is more than that.
But you do not want to go to the other extreme and see Jesus as only divinity.
To make this claim is to remove all association between him and us.
To say that he died for our sins and faced the same temptations that we face but not being like us would nullify the point.
- “51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven.
If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever.
The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
” He became flesh so that he could die.
So he could give himself up.
And you cannot do that if you do not have a body.
The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version.
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He became flesh so that he could die.
So he could give himself up.
He had a body.
A real body.
“19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it up in three days.”
20 Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days?”
21 But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body.”
He is always going to have a body.
We are going to have a body, a glorious body, like Jesus.
Always and forever, Jesus will be the God-man.
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Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.”He is always going to have a body.
We are going to have a body, a glorious body, like Jesus.
Always and forever, Jesus will be the God-man.
He is always going to have a body.
We are going to have a body, a glorious body, like Jesus.
Always and forever, Jesus will be the God-man.
So He is truly human in the sense that we are human in the post-Fall realm.
With one exception: no sin.
He is without sin—holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, without sin forever.
, He knew no sin.
MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (2014).
John MacArthur Sermon Archive.
Panorama City, CA: Grace to You.
And this God-Man, did more than just come in the flesh and just hide out from everyone.
No, He dwelt among us- is to get near to us, to have access to us, proximity.
When you reflect on the Old Covenant system, God would tabernacle in the tabernacle.
In the center of the camp.
He would dwell on the mercy seat in the Temple in the Holy of Holies.
But here, we read of God being in the flesh.
He is literally with the people.
The tabernacle itself...
It represented the place of the law, the abode of God, the source of revelation, the site of sacrifice, and the focus of worship.
Now in the new covenant, Jesus provides all these.
And so God dwelt among us- is to get near to us, to have access to us, proximity.
And also for us to have a way to Him.
But you do not want to go to the other extreme and see Jesus as only divinity.
To make this claim is to remove all association between him and us.
To say that he died for our sins and faced the same temptations that we face but not being like us would nullify the point.
- He became flesh so that he could die.
So he could give himself up.
John speaks of how “we observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth”
And this was new.
You could not just see the glory of God.
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