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CloseDoug Van Meter - 25 December 2014
Meditations on the Incarnation (John 1:14)
The incarnation is the greatest of miracles. As J. I. Packer says, “The supreme mystery with which the gospel confronts us, does not lie here at all. It lies, not in the Good Friday message of atonement, nor in the Easter message of resurrection, but in the Christmas message of incarnation. The really staggering Christian claim is that Jesus of Nazareth was God made man…. Once we grant that Jesus was divine, it becomes unreasonable to find difficulty in any of [these other miracles]; it is all of a piece, and hangs together completely. The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.” As we come annually to the Christmas season, it is most appropriate that we spend our times of corporate worship centred on the glorious doctrine of the incarnation. For the purposes of this study, I have narrowed our consideration to one verse, and primarily to one phrase. The verse is John 1:14 and the phrase is, “And the Word became flesh.”
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