Sermons About Humanity
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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