Deny the Incarnation and you deny the deepest Divine Fatherhood. "In Him was life; and the life was the light of men." What think you would be the testimony of the widow of Nain to the gracious character of our Lord? (1) Miraculously (Luke 1:34, 35); which was necessary to exempt the assumed human nature from Adam's sin (Luke 1:15). He does not hide the truth, however terrible; but He utters it with infinite compassion. For God can have no fellowship with sin, and had Christ been a sinner He could not have satisfied for the sins of others (Hebrews 7:26). There are some who say this name was given because so many excellent words of prophecy and promise, and all of Him, are spoken in this Book — the Word objective.2. Not A NIMBUS or halo as seen in pictures, or it would never have been denied. He is neither an insignificant atom nor God. Thus the Tabernacle of God was with men, and He dwelt among us.(G. A difficult character to understand fully, for its beauty only grows upon us by degrees. This verse is the text of the whole gospel, and each succeeding chapter presents us with some new manifestation. Add the Incarnation to Theism and we have peace, "Ye believe in God, believe also in Me." We become "partakers" of it. But we can only surrender ourselves to its power when we admit that it is the life of the Word made flesh. It sanctifies affliction. But then we might see and hear A word and yet not understand it. (1) By nature man is a spiritual slave. In order to understand the statement thoroughly, we must ask: First, what does St. John mean by "The Word?" The poor prisoner in the dock represents the ineffaceable, indestructible greatness of man. Left to himself he has no solid ground of confidence in any estimate he may form. )The relation of the Incarnation to modern problemsProf. THE AFFIRMATION HERE MADE CONCERNING THE WORD "became flesh." He knows the Hebrew word, and he tells us in English what it means, and so we come to learn. THAT MANY MAY HAVE A SYMPATHETIC AND POWERFUL MEDIATOR at the right hand of God. His OUTWARD GLORY. It was a custom of old among the shepherds, they were wont to clothe themselves with sheep-skins, to be more pleasing to the sheep; so Christ clothed Himself with our flesh, that the Divine nature may be more pleasing to us. When He became man to elevate and redeem the human family He chose the scene where the Divine work would be best achieved.III. Christ shows God as He was never seen before, full of grace and truth. Every great man, especially every poetic genius, is strongly marked by womanly softness and delicacy in countenance, feelings, life. It is not for the Christian, who has had so much done for him, and who constantly needs more, to be a selfish man.(S. How can we behold?1. The process by which the two natures were united in one person is wholly mysterious. (3) Others to the phrase, "the Word of the Lord came upon him," in the prophets, understanding by that not an influence or a communication, but a person. Deity in the abstract is unrevealed; only through the Word has He made Himself known. O. Deny it, and the universe loses its unity and integrity; it is despoiled of much of its grandeur and poetry. Full of grace.3. Cynddylan Jones, D. D.It is often thrown in the face of believers in the Incarnation that we paint human nature in colours too black, that we recklessly and unduly disparage this creature of God. The Father prepared His body; the Spirit formed it; the Son assumed it.3. We beheld: not at a blush, but at full sight, and at leisure and for long. It is not for the Christian, who has had so much done for him, and who constantly needs more, to be a selfish man.(S. THE WORD.1. The poor prisoner in the dock represents the ineffaceable, indestructible greatness of man. In the Son of God alone could the necessary merit be found.3. But as soon as I say "John," then you know the word I was thinking of. If we begin in the remote past, with Samson and Hercules, we shall not experience any very formidable difficulties in grasping the principle which fashioned their characters. From that radiant dayspring the light is reflected back to Eden, and shines forward to the Apocalypse. Here the advocates of Pantheism will find all they want, the two factors, Infinite and finite, reduced into one. We become "partakers" of it. Over the sunset mountains Jesus my Saviour I`ll see.' No one was ever more energetic in opposition to wickedness; but what strikes us more forcibly is His unprecedented meekness under wrong; and thus He originated a new type of goodness.V. The scribe and the Pharisee, the philosopher and the guide into the paths of pleasure, the bringer forth of things new and the bringer forth of things old, whatever their pretensions, alike failed to satisfy the cravings of human hearts, so manifold and deep, and left them sighing, "Who will show us any good?" Nor does it matter that His life was lived on a small planet. (2) Made, not converted into flesh, as Cerenthus, nor the flesh converted into the Word as Valentinus. At His Resurrection.6. He does not hide the truth, however terrible; but He utters it with infinite compassion. A. On this same Rock of the Incarnation of the Eternal Word, Life, and Light, we can securely build all the other truths of our most holy faith; the Fatherliness of God, the brotherhood of men, and all else that most concerns us to know and believe for our souls' health. Thus, then, it appears, on St. John's showing, that that which became human was truly Divine; and that which became subject to the conditions and limitations of space and time was truly Eternal. It was inevitable that the possibility of the Incarnation should be questioned; but what is man but a sample, at an immeasurably lower level of a union of two totally different substances, one material, the other immaterial, under the control of a single human personality? H. Barrows, D. D.).The Hypostatic UnionJ. We see our calling. If I make the Incarnation the measure not only of that in God which it is necessary for our eternal life to know, but also the measure of God Himself, I am exposing your faith and my own in the truth of the Incarnation to a very perilous strain. His engagement with the enemy cost Him His life, but saved ours.VI. Through the lantern of Christ's humanity, we may behold the light of the Deity shining.God incarnateR. "The Word was made flesh."1. Denton, M. 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