Title: The Word of God Made Flesh
The Word of God made flesh
“The Word became 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” (John 1:14).
The text is about the Word that became flesh. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. What does it mean that the Word became flesh? Although he was born as a human being in a physical body, it was not the first time Jesus was born, but a way to put a human body into the person of the original One from eternity. The soul of Jesus Christ did not come from Mary and Joseph, nor was God created immediately when Jesus was conceived in Mary's body.
What does 'The Son is the Word' mean?
First, when we speak of the Word, it is a name that has in mind the relationship God has with this world. This demonstrates God's use of Jesus Christ as the Mediator who created, redeemed, and finally completed this world. Another pronoun of the Son, the Word, means that he became the mediator and created the world. God, who created the world, has the Son primarily involved in making all material worlds come into existence. So, the Son is the thought, the plan, and the Word in God, through which God creates the world. And by allowing the created world to be in the Holy Spirit, God is creating the order of government, the living organic order, so that all these worlds can form a beautiful connection.
We explain why Christ became incarnate in two ways.
First, Jesus incarnated to show the existence and disposition of the true God. Through miracles, miracles, and a sacrificial life, there was something God wanted to show. It was to show people who God Himself is through the person and life of the incarnated Jesus Christ. But on the one hand, Jesus showed God to mankind because he was a true God, but also because Jesus was a true man, he was able to show people what a true man is. Therefore, believers can understand God's true God in the incarnation, and discover the model of what kind of human can become when a person becomes a true human being in the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
The second reason Jesus became incarnate was to die as a sacrifice. He had to be put to death by God by imputing the sins committed by man instead, but God could not die because He is eternal and infinite life. Moreover, God cannot kill yourself. So, the only thing that God was angry with and put to death was the flesh of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ himself died as a sacrifice as a fulfillment of the Old Testament sacrifice, but in a unique way. You yourself are the sacrifice, and you bear the kind of death you have sacrificed yourself. The amazing thing is that His body, who died on the cross to bear the wrath of God, was a sacrifice, and in the divine person, you yourself become a high priest who is your own sacrificial disciple, offering your own human body as a sacrifice before God. And God's great wrath fell upon this human flesh, and he suffered a tragic death. In order to die like that, he had to come in the body of a true man.
The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ came into this world in the flesh of a true human being and learned something. As the incarnate humanity, Jesus hid all-knowing omniscience under His humanity, and there were parts in which He acquired knowledge in a natural way. So, he learned what it means to suffer for the Father, and experienced what it means for Jesus to die for the Father. And through the living knowledge of death in human flesh for us, Jesus Christ came to love us more. May you today be saints who, in the present experience of Christ Jesus, know with joy to love God, to obey, to serve Him, to sacrifice for Him, and to endure. 2010-12-29