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1. What is the Incarnation?

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2. The Incarnation Foretold

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3. The “Virgin Birth”

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Dr. Mike Fabarez • Focal Point Radio Ministries • September 30, 2010 • Christology week 3 • CD 10-53

4. Why the Incarnation?

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1. What is the Incarnation?A. The 2nd Person of the Trinity

takes on Humanity

B. "Humanity" without the Sin

C. "En Sarki" (1Jn.4:2)

D. "In Carne" (1Jn.4:2)

E. "In the Flesh" (1Jn.4:2)

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2. The Incarnation Foretold

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B. "God"/"Eternal" born to Us

C. "Immanuel" = God with Us

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3. The "Virgin Birth"A. i.e., "Virginal Conception"B. It Fulfilled ProphecyC. It was a Suspension of

Natural LawD. Human with 23 instantaneously

created ChromosomesE. A Comment on Genealogy

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Philipp Melanchthon(A top-notch systematic theologian!)

"We do better to adore the mysteries of deity than to

investigate them.""To know Christ means to know his benefits, and not as the Scholastics teach, to reflect upon his natures

and the modes of his incarnation."

4. Why the Incarnation?A. To Fulfill All Required Human

RighteousnessB. To Perfectly Pay the Penalty

for Human SinsC. To Perfectly Represent

Mankind (i.e., "High Priest")D. To Sympathetically Help Us

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Leon Morris(Australian NT scholar)

"The man who yields to a particular temptation has not felt

its full power. He has given in while the temptation has yet

something in reserve. Only the man who does not yield to a temptation, who as regards

that particular temptation, is sinless, knows the full extent of

that temptation"

4. Why the Incarnation?E. To be a Perfectly Apt Judge

F. To Reveal God's Attributes

G. To be a Template for Living

H. To Be a Visible King

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