The Incarnation!The Incarnation!

Knowing God—part 4

Typical Difficulties of Faith:

Atonement.   Resurrection.

Virgin birth.

Miracles.

The Incarnation

Jesus Christ was God made manman , fully human without loss of deitydeity .

The Baby’s Identity

John 1:1-2 In the beginningIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with with GodGod, and the Word was Godwas God. HeHe was with God in the beginning.

The Word’s Eternity

John 1:1 In the beginningIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,

The Word’s Deity

John 1:1-2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was Godwas God. He was with God in the beginning.

The Word’s Personality

John 1:1-2 … HeHe was with God in the beginning.

The Word Creating

John 1:3 Through himThrough him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

The Word Giving Life

John 1:4 In him was lifeIn him was life, and that life was the light of men.

The Word Revealing God

John 1:18 No one has ever seen God, but God the only Son, who is at the Father’s side, has made has made him knownhim known.

The Word Revealing God

Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the the exact representation of his beingexact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.

The Word Incarnate

John 1:14 The Word became flesh and lived for a while among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

The Word Incarnate

 The Christmas message rests on the staggering fact that the baby born at Bethlehem, the child in the manger was – GodGod!