From the beginning of Creation, the purpose of Lucifer's sin has been to sever the ties between Man and God. Ultimately the plan and existence of the incarnation of Jesus Christ has destroyed this goal.
Yet those with an earthly understanding wonder in amazement
and disgust. How can God become
man? The pagans, attempted this doctrine
on the half-breed Gilgamesh to no avail.
For Gilgamesh remained a mortal. The Gnostics, in protection of their platonic
“god”, had a spirit adopt Christ. The
early church vomited this notion as they remembered Paul saying, “One Lord, one
Faith”(Ephesians 4:5) and John reminding us that the spirit of antichrist would deny
that Christ came in the flesh.(1John 4:1-3)
Some would attempt to downgrade the divinity of Christ as only
a “son of god”. Yet this would've justified the
scribes retort, “who can forgive sins but God only?” Mark 2:9
Many would later turn against the spiritual realm and strip
Christ of divinity, only with a reputation as a great teacher. Yet, how could Christ be great, or even a
good teacher, if he were a liar claiming to be the only way to heaven? (john
14:6)
Some would return to the gnostic view by claiming a Christ
of Faith separate from a Christ of history. Yet this was only the rejected false teaching
of two Christs, which would be rejected as it had earlier been.
New Age philosophers would claim that Christ was simply a guru who
taught the deification of all mankind.
This contradicts John’s teaching that Christ was the “only begotten Son
in the bosom of the father”. (john 1:18)
Scripture clearly teaches Christ as unique far from the rest of mankind. He was
unique making him an able Savior. John 3:..."that He sent His only begotten Son.."
Many have hoisted up scores of antichrists and pretenders to
replace the Biblical Jesus. But Paul
admonishes us that there is only “one mediator between God and Man, the man
Christ Jesus” 1tim. 2:5
The genealogies plant one step after another up Jacob’s
ladder; as we see Jehovah planting the “seed” of redemption deep in the earth
only to spring forth the first fruits of the resurrection. Luke3:23-38, Genesis 28:10-14, John 1:45-50,
Galatians 3:16-18, Ephesians 4:7-10, 1 Corinthians 15:20-38
Some protest, "How could a Holy God be comprised in sinful flesh?" In Mary, the fetal Jesus was a sanctified temple within Mary's womb("holy thing" Luke 1:35) But how could two become one? There was not two that became one; There was one that became two natures of the one person. John 1:1,14, 1 Timothy 3:16
Many pastors and theologians get fixated upon the title “Christ”. Which though reverent has always come across
to some as less personal. We have a
similar problem when speaking the word “God”.
We often mean to speak abstract about an entity. Yet the scriptures
speak “God” as a personal spirit. It is
in the incarnation that we, like David, can dance before the presence of the
almighty without the curtain under the tent.
It is here that we can look to the Messiah as Jesus. It is through Jesus that we can pray not
simply to an abstract deity; but to pray to our “Abba” Father in heaven. It is here that God reaches to us in the
spirit to bring us past slavery and into adoption.
Romans 8: 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
It is here through the Father that Satan is defeated. Romans 8:35-39. Here we kiss the Son, lest he be angry.( psalm 2) Here we know God; yet here, God knows us.
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