Episode 1613: ASTOUNDING PART THREE .... in the shadow of six feet deep

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DECEMBER 2020

THE INCARNATION IN LIGHT OF EVERYTHING ELSE

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was

God. 2He was in the beginning with God. 3All things were created through Him,

and without Him nothing was created that was created. 4

In Him was life, and the

life was the light of mankind. 5 The light shines in darkness, but the darkness has

not overcome it.

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 This man came as a

witness in order to testify concerning the Light, that all men through Him might

believe. 8He was not this Light, but was sent in order to testify concerning the

Light.

9 The true Light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 10He was

in the world, and the world was created through Him, yet the world did not know

Him. 11He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him. 12 Yet to all

who received Him, He gave the power to become sons of God, to those who

believed in His name, 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,

nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1

‘’Wayne Grudem states the significance of the virgin birth to Christ’s humanity

similarly: The virgin birth also makes possible Christ’s true humanity without

inherited sin. . . . All human beings have inherited legal guilt and a corrupt moral

nature from their first father, Adam (this is sometimes called “inherited sin” or

“original sin”). But the fact that Jesus did not have a human father means that the

line of descent from Adam is partially interrupted. Jesus did not descend from

Adam in exactly the same way in which every other human being has descended

from Adam. And this helps us to understand why the legal guilt and moral

corruption that belongs to all other human beings did not belong to Christ. . . . Such

a conclusion should not be taken to mean that the transmission of sin comes only

through the father, for Scripture nowhere makes such an assertion.

It is enough for us merely to say that in this case the unbroken line of descent from

Adam was interrupted, and Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. . .

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. Reflection on that fact allows us to understand that through the absence of a

human father, Jesus was not fully descended from Adam, and that this break in the

line of descent was the method God used to bring it about that Jesus was fully

human yet did not share inherited sin from Adam.

Clark, John; Johnson, Marcus Peter. The Incarnation of God (p. 107). Crossway. Kindle Edition.

PREEMPTOR

NEWS

1. THE ALTERNATIVES

• From nothing to nothing

• Just the misery

• The counterfeits

• Made in …. Finiteness

2. THE CLARITY OF THE INCARNATION

• Did I say…….. massive communication?

• They all declared the same thing

• They all bowed

3. THE ASTOUNDING NATURE OF THE INCARNATION

• It is totally personal

• It is the only fix

4. THE PERFECT MIX GOD AND MAN

• Who is Jesus

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5. EVEN THE DARKSIDE KNOWS!

• Before

• During

• After

• Forever

You believe that there is one God; you do well.

The demons also believe and tremble. James 2