Mysteries of the Incarnation : No 1

HE CAME FOR US
The Mysteries of the Incarnation

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When Can I Go?
The Longing Savior


Jesus WasWaiting...

❖ To rescue us from eternal damnation

❖ To fulﬁll His prophesied destiny as Messiah

❖ To destroy the works of the devil

❖ To show the world the Father’s love and Kingdom

❖ To begin “The last days” countdown before He returns to
end all evil, end time and begin reigning with His saints!


Daddy Promised..
❖ “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and
between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head,
and you will strike His heel." ( Gen. 3:15)

❖ “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel.” (Is. 7:14) (Matt 1:23)

❖ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the
government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace.” (Is. 9:6)


When Did God Decide?
And What Does That Mean for Us?


WHEN DID GOD DECIDE
TO SEND JESUS

Eph 1:4-6: For He [Father] chose us in Him [Father]
before the creation of the world to be holy and
blameless in His [Father] sight.

In love, He [Father]predestined us for adoption to
sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His
[Father’s] pleasure and will—to the praise of His
[Father’s) glorious grace, which He [Father]has freely
given us in the One [Jesus] He [Father] loves.


WHEN DID GOD DECIDE
TO SEND JESUS

Rev. 13:8: “All inhabitants of the earth will
worship the beast--all whose names have not
been written in the book of life belonging to
the Lamb that was slain from the
creation of the world.”


IF THAT IS TRUE, THEN...

God knew He would have to wait 10-20K years before
sending Jesus while the humans persistently defied Him

God had to be very motivated to adopt us as His children if
He created us knowing that we would break His heart with
rebellion for thousands of years.

God valued us so much, it was worth it to Him.

His plans for us in heaven are so important that He was
willing to do all that to make sure He got us home.


WHY THE INCARNATION?

Why would the Creator become a creature to save creatures?

Wasn’t there another way to bring the New Covenant?

What does it say about God and us that would require God
to become flesh and blood?

God’s love is greater than we could ever imagine

Our bondage to sin blinded us so strongly


One
Example
Why God Had to Become
One of Us.


Motilone Indians (Bari)

❖ Stone-age culture

❖ Fearsome killers

❖ Worshipped other gods

❖ Hated white men

❖ Hard to ﬁnd in jungle


God Put These Stories in
Motilone Legends...
❖ A man with yellow hair
would come and tell them
how to get over the
horizon after death.

❖ God would come out of a
banana stalk that a
prophet would bring.

❖ A man had to become an
ant to help the ants build
a home for themselves.


“Christ in You...” (Col. 1:27)
❖ God became a human to
reach humans with the
Gospel

❖ “Just as the Father sent
me, I am sending
you.” ( John 20:21)

❖ God now lives in humans
to ﬁnish His work
❖ The Incarnation continues in
us. We are Jesus “with skin on”
to all we meet. “Christ in us,
the hope of glory. (Col.1:27)


Prayer Time


Love One Another


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