Nuggets from An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith by Dave Hunt - Understanding the Incarnation

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”  —John:1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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Paul reminds us, “Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory” (1 Timothy:3:16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
See All...). What a mystery the incarnation is. How astonishing – and yet essential to our salvation – that God, as the Hebrew prophets in the Old Testament foretold (Isaiah:7:14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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Mary, a virgin when Jesus was conceived and born, knew that God was His Father, but it was too much to understand. He nursed at her breast, grew as a child, and at night His rhythmic breathing mingled with that of the other sleeping children to whom Mary gave birth by Joseph (Matthew:12:47Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
See All...; 13:55; Mark:3:32And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
See All...; Luke:8:20And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
See All...). So “normal” was He as a child that Mary lapsed by habit into calling Joseph His father – “thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.” When Jesus gently reproved her – “[Knew] ye not that I must be about my Father’s business” – she and Joseph “understood not” what He meant. Mary pondered this mystery “in her heart” (Luke:2:19But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
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