Bible Readings:
Luke 1:26-38, 46-55
Luke 2:1-20
Sermon Outline:
1 John 4:8 (NKJV)
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:9 (NKJV)
9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
1 John 4:10 (NKJV)
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:14 (NKJV)
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.
I Trinity
II Incarnation
III Atonement
IV Reconciliation
V Adoption
Christ became what we are
Athanasius
that he might make us what he is.
Filling the world he lies in a manger!
Augustine
The Son of God became the Son of Man in order that
John Blanchard
the sons of men might become the sons of God.
When Jesus came to earth,
John Blanchard
it was not his Godhood he laid aside, but his glory.