Sermons About Humanity
God is Imaged
God created. He created with His word. This has very vital implications for us as Christians in how we see ourselves, how we understand what we are here for, and how we treat all other people and animals on the planet.
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Part 2: A People Who Know God
God created humanity to live in community--community with one another and with God. This perfect community was shattered during the Fall and the result is the world we now live in--a world characterized by conflict. God's redemptive plan for the world is unveiled in the good news to Abraham; Abraham is promised a people who know God. God will restore his people to one another and to himself.
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John 1:1-18 - This is Jesus: True God and True Man (The Prologue - Part 2)
I want to spend our time this morning meditating on the first five words of verse 14. In this passage, John introduces us to what systematic theologians call “the doctrine of the incarnation.” As Wayne Grudem summarizes it, “The incarnation was the act of God the Son whereby he took to himself a human nature.” [1] We sometimes refer to is as “God becoming a man.” What we see in this verse is that the Eternal Second Person of the Trinity (the Word) gained a full and genuine humanity. We therefore affirm that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully Man, in one person, simultaneously.
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Valuing Humanity
The culmination of God's creative activity is the creation of humanity in his own image. We reflect what God is like all the way down to the level of our gender. The question we have to wrestle with is, "Does God love me because of what I do or does God love me just because I'm me?" The answer that emerges in the Scriptures beginning in Genesis is that God loves us because he created us, end of story.
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