The Cosmic Significance of Christ's Incarnation
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The incarnation is a cosmic event; it touches the whole universe. Incarnation is about Christ coming into the world of matter, flesh, matter generally. The reconciliation that is spoken of there is a wonderful, ravishing thing. [00:01:07]
God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not counting their trespasses against them. You know, God does not regard sin as the last word. The last word is love and grace and forgiveness and a way of dealing with all of that. [00:05:31]
Participating in what Jesus is now doing on earth, it's not about what's going to happen to you later. There's a lot of good stuff there too, but it'll take care of itself. The way you engage that is by participating in what Jesus is now doing on earth. [00:09:28]
We have to have a greater view of matter. We have to understand that God made it, and it's very good. There's so much power in it that, like a baseball, if you could get the atomic power out of a baseball, all of it, you could run an average car 65 miles an hour for 5,000 years. [00:11:59]
Flesh is a great reality that binds us together. Sometimes binds us together in ways that are not good, but flesh itself is not a bad thing. You want to understand that there's great misunderstanding. That's one of the reasons why we can't appreciate incarnation. [00:19:36]
Your natural powers are good as long as they are subordinated to God. When they are taken out of subordination of God, they go crazy because flesh away from God is just unvarnished human desire. That's all it is. [00:20:36]
The battle between the flesh and the spirit, in the first instance, that's not the Holy Spirit that it's talking about. In the first instance, it's talking about your spirit. You have one. The human spirit is the human will. [00:21:59]
The problem for human beings is not so much that they don't know what is good and right. There are some problems with that. It's just that they want something else. Thank you. Let's see, and now you look at Eve in the garden contemplating the fruit. [00:25:36]
The gospel brings to us is not what we want but what's good for us, and we will want it later, but we don't want it now. See, that's the way that works, and when we surrender our will to our desires, then our mind goes crazy trying to justify doing what we want to do. [00:27:21]
Christ has come into the flesh and defeated sin in the flesh. See that passage that goes on now from, uh, in for those who are in Christ Jesus, there's no condemnation. They walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. [00:39:09]
The spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending the Son, his Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh. [00:39:36]
Let's see Christ in his greatness. Let's remember how great he is, and, uh, let's draw on our scripture teachings. I like the passage in Revelation 1 where John has a vision of Jesus and passes out. What you do when you really get a look at this. [00:48:37]
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God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not counting their trespasses against them. You know, God does not regard sin as the last word. The last word is love and grace and forgiveness and a way of dealing with all of that. [00:05:31]
Participating in what Jesus is now doing on earth, it's not about what's going to happen to you later. There's a lot of good stuff there too, but it'll take care of itself. The way you engage that is by participating in what Jesus is now doing on earth. [00:09:28]
We have to have a greater view of matter. We have to understand that God made it, and it's very good. There's so much power in it that, like a baseball, if you could get the atomic power out of a baseball, all of it, you could run an average car 65 miles an hour for 5,000 years. [00:11:59]
Flesh is a great reality that binds us together. Sometimes binds us together in ways that are not good, but flesh itself is not a bad thing. You want to understand that there's great misunderstanding. That's one of the reasons why we can't appreciate incarnation. [00:19:36]
Your natural powers are good as long as they are subordinated to God. When they are taken out of subordination of God, they go crazy because flesh away from God is just unvarnished human desire. That's all it is. [00:20:36]
The battle between the flesh and the spirit, in the first instance, that's not the Holy Spirit that it's talking about. In the first instance, it's talking about your spirit. You have one. The human spirit is the human will. [00:21:59]
The problem for human beings is not so much that they don't know what is good and right. There are some problems with that. It's just that they want something else. Thank you. Let's see, and now you look at Eve in the garden contemplating the fruit. [00:25:36]
The gospel brings to us is not what we want but what's good for us, and we will want it later, but we don't want it now. See, that's the way that works, and when we surrender our will to our desires, then our mind goes crazy trying to justify doing what we want to do. [00:27:21]
Christ has come into the flesh and defeated sin in the flesh. See that passage that goes on now from, uh, in for those who are in Christ Jesus, there's no condemnation. They walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. [00:39:09]
The spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending the Son, his Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh. [00:39:36]
Let's see Christ in his greatness. Let's remember how great he is, and, uh, let's draw on our scripture teachings. I like the passage in Revelation 1 where John has a vision of Jesus and passes out. What you do when you really get a look at this. [00:48:37]
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