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Summary

“Incarnation Planned & Promised” - Eph. 1:3-10, Gen.3:15

Do you know that Christmas & what you do w/your life are inseparable?
“Incarnation” - “the act of clothing w/flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body & nature.” Theologically, it is “the union of the 2nd person of the Godhead w/manhood in Christ” (Webster’s).
J. I. Packer (Knowing God) - “The real difficulty, the supreme mystery w/which the gospel confronts us, does not lie [in the virgin birth or the Gospel miracles]…not in the Good Friday message of atonement, nor in the Easter message of resurrection, but in the Christmas message of Incarnation. The real staggering Christian claim is that Jesus of Nazareth was God made man - that the 2nd person of the Godhead became the ‘2nd man,’ determining human destiny, w/out loss of deity, so that Jesus of Nazareth was as truly & fully divine as He was human.”
God had/has a plan - Ephesians 1:3-10
Jesus Christ is the One who has carried/will carry out the Father’s eternal plan.
But how?
The incarnation.
Genesis 3:15 - The seed of a woman would defeat/crush Satan.
David Gudzik - “There is no doubt this is a prophecy of Jesus’ ultimate defeat of Satan. God announced that Satan would wound the Messiah, but the Messiah would crush Satan…Gen.3:15 has been called the ‘protoevangelium,’ the 1st gospel. For God to see the defeat of Satan at Satan’s 1st flush of victory shows God knew what He was doing all along. God’s plan wasn’t ‘set back’ when Adam & Eve sinned, because God’s plan was to bring forth something greater that man in the innocence of Eden. God wanted more than innocent man; His plan is to bring forth redeemed man.”
Genesis 22:18; Galatians 3:16
Genesis 49:10 - “until He comes to whom it belongs” (NLT)
The King has come! He broke into humanity thru the womb of a woman, just as God planned & promised.

If from eternity past God planned the redemption of fallen man & to bring all things together in Christ, then don’t you want to be on the right side of that plan?

If Jesus, God incarnate, is He to whom tribute belongs, is King of kings & Lord of lords, then shouldn’t you & I focus our whole lives, existence upon Him?

If the eternal, almighty, holy God would take on human flesh to carry out His eternal plan & bring whoever will believe into relationship w/Him for eternity future, then shouldn’t that relationship with Him be what our lives are about?