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“The Manifold Wisdom of God”

Displayed in the Incarnation of Christ Our Redeemer

Ephesians 3:10

 

The incarnation of Christ reveals the manifold wisdom of God (Isaiah 7:14; Philippians 2:5-8; 2 Corinthians 8:9). No mind, but the infinite mind of the infinite God could conceive and accomplish such a thing as this: ¾ The great, eternal, incomprehensible God assumed our nature and came into this world!

·      God became a man!

·      He who is the eternal Jehovah became Jehovah’s Servant.

·      He who is the eternal Spirit was born of a woman.

·      The immortal God became flesh and blood!

·      God, who is independent, self-sufficient, and all sufficient, stood in need of food, clothing, and shelter.

·      God, who owns all things, became a man who owned nothing.

·      He who upholds all things by the word of his power lived upon the charity of men.

·      God, who knows all things, as a man, had to learn how to walk, talk, read, and write (2 Corinthians 8:9).

·      He who wrote the law and gave it to Moses in the Mount became subject to the law, and performed obedience to the law as a Man.

·      The holy Son of God came under the obligation and sentence of the law as a guilty sinner.

·      He who is life was made to die.

·      God, who is infinitely, immutably, unchangeably happy, was made to suffer sorrow, pain, torment, and death.

·      He who is the object of God’s perfect love became the object of God’s unmitigated wrath.

·      The infinite, omnipotent God became a finite, feeble man!

·      The great sovereign of heaven and earth became a worm (Psalm 22:6).

·      The Holy One was made sin!

·      The Innocent Lamb of God was made guilty!

·      The Darling of Heaven was made the cursed thing, made a curse for us!

 

      No man can ever grasp the reality of the incarnation, much less understand it. But God, in infinite wisdom, planned it before the world was, and brought it to pass for the accomplishment of our redemption (Galatians 4:4-6).

 

See fulfilled the Gospel promise ― Christ, the woman’s promised Seed,

Born a babe, by birth mysterious, came to crush the serpent’s head!

Come and worship! Come and worship! Worship Christ our God and King!

 

Crush, O Lord, his power within us. Break our chains. Our woe undo!

Pull down every wall between us. Let us love and cleave to You!

Come and worship! Come and worship! Worship Christ our God and King!

 

 

 

 

Don Fortner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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