Tabor Baptist Church

Introduction

• Reading v14-18
• Concentrating on "The Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us"
• The testimony of the apostles - they saw Jesus Christ
• The transfiguration:
• Something of His deity shone forth from His very being
• This was the God man
• He is the only begotten of the Father
• The apostles beheld His glory
• Christianity is about the vertical and the horizontal
• The vertical: the God man
• The horizontal: our relationships with one another
• Overview:
• The miracle of His incarnation
• The person of His incarnation
• Those who benefited from His incarnation

The Miracle of His Incarnation

• Incarnation:
• God became man
• The blessed Eternal God, one who has no beginning or end, one who is infinite
• He who took on human nature
• A miracle that the eternal one should frame Himself in humanity
• He limited Himself to time and space
• A virgin birth
• A sinless body
• 2 Cor 8:9
• He would know human frailty and go to the cross
• He made Himself of no reputation
• Jesus was an agent of Creation
• Yet the Creator becomes like one of His creation
• He dwelt, He tabernacled amongst us
• This is an awesome miracle
• If you do not accept the virgin birth then you reject Christianity
• He came to reveal the Father
• He came to identify with us in all our weakness
• He came to redeem our fallen humanity
• He came to raise our bodies
• All those who believe in Him will be resurrected

The Person of the Incarnation

• God has a one and only Son
• They are equal
• He is full of grace and truth
• Grace:
• The Ten Commandments condemn us
• The law came through Moses
• Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ
• All of your sins may be forgiven
• Isaiah 1:18
• 1 John 1:9
• The Grace of Life
• He gives life to your dead soul
• John 1:4
• He is the way, the truth and the life
• He is the Resurrection and the Life
• He will keep you in this grace until the end
• He understands every human experience
• As a Christian you can come confidently to the throne of grace
• Truth:
• He is full of truth
• In Him there is no deceit
• He is the way, the truth and the life
• What is truth?
• Only Jesus Christ is true/truth

Those who benefited from His incarnation

• John 1:16
• We cannot gain our salvation through doing good works
• (Only through Jesus Christ)
• Jesus Christ is our elder brother
• May you be a beneficiary of His incarnation this Christmas