THE REAL KISSING THE IDEAL. TO THE DOCTRINE OF GRACE. We become "partakers" of it. Others were that. (1) Some have traced it to the Jewish Targums, where the angel of the Lord of the Old Testament is designated the Word of God. The Incarnation in relation to GOD. The Word: personal, eternal, Divine, the active energy of the Divine Nature. His ALMIGHTY POWER, able to minister to every need and relieve every suffering.V. (2) As priest; had He not been man He could have shed no blood; and if not God it had been no value, for us (Hebrews 2:17; Acts 20:28). The intelligence that built the world, made the Bible.IV. Three things:1. The FEMININE AND MASCULINE VIRTUES in sweetest harmony. We have not been able to cope with the ancients in marble, but it is generally admitted, I believe, that we have greatly surpassed them on canvas. And how could it thus become outward, save in a human life; that sweet and lovely and altogether exquisite human life which the Gospel pages mirror to us? By this reading, innumerable difficulties, which have given superfluous trouble, disappear. Is not such an innovation on the association, if not on the conditions of His Eternal Being? )And dwelt among us and we beheld His gloryChrist the tabernacle of GodArrowsmith., G. J. Did you ever see a Hebrew book? Instead of a God evolving the creation out of Himself, here is a God involving Himself in the creation. If he would worship an ideal humanity, he must take Christ. JEHOVAH IS AWFUL IN HIS INEFFABLE PURITY, BUT THAT WE MIGHT HAVE COURAGE TO APPROACH HIM the Word was made flesh.VI. Unless you take John's point of view, you cannot understand Luke's story.I. (1) Manicheus holding that he had no true body. The latter brings sunshine to the soul and ever advancing blessedness. At His Resurrection.6. Humanity begins again with a possibility and offer of a restoration which is salvation to all who will receive it. THE ASSUMPTION ITSELF. "Beheld His glory": not heard or read of. Were I to write it you would know it, because the word would be made ink, and you see it. Of Christ's complex person as God and man.2. "In Him was life; and the life was the light of men." We, not one but many.3. The Incarnation was to man a revelation of God; to angels an inveiling of God.III. Infinite wisdom has here left an everlasting mark.4. C. Jones, D. D.The noblest objects never disclose their best meaning at first sight. R. Howat.I am thinking of a word. THE AFFIRMATION HERE MADE CONCERNING THE WORD "became flesh." (3) His are the intimations of God derived through conscience and intuition. The Word, who was in the beginning, and was in the beginning with God, did not make man, as man makes a thing — a piece of furniture, or a house, or what not — turning it out of hand, and so leaving it to shift for itself. His generation in time, the Word made flesh, is as the uttering it forth with the voice. How did this happen? What are you doing?". O. Mackey.One of the secrets of Victor Hugo's power over the French people was their memory of the following: When the disasters of the Franco-German war were falling thickly, and the iron band was closing round Paris, word came that Victor Hugo was coming to the city. R. Howat.I am thinking of a word. The word is that from whence a theatre is derived; as men with good heed behold things there. (1) Surely, most kindly. The Incarnation in relation to MAN.1. If we were so much beholden for the Word spoken, how much more for the performance; if for the Word that came to flesh, how, then, for the Word become flesh.2. These are all true, but short. He is so called because He comes forth from God like a word, a revealing medium from us.II. This appears in THE TWOFOLD FORM OF A FACT AND A PERSON, both being far more conclusive than any course of abstract reasoning in theodicy, or any theological demonstration. What privilege! The doctrine is woven in the very texture of the sacred books. Left to himself he has no solid ground of confidence in any estimate he may form. Christ not only watches His family from above, He dwells and works within it. (2) Others to Philo, who spoke much of a semi-divine person called the Word of God. From the tiniest atom to Absolute Being there is one continuous ascent.II. Christ incarnate shows that God has a place in His heart for the guiltiest of men.III. H. Spurgeon.The greatest glory of the Jewish Church was thai God tabernacled in its midst. No one was ever more energetic in opposition to wickedness; but what strikes us more forcibly is His unprecedented meekness under wrong; and thus He originated a new type of goodness.V. THE DOCTRINE OR THE FACT HOLDS A LIKE CENTRAL AND INCLUSIVE POSITION IN HOLY SCRIPTURE. We become "partakers" of it. He was known by this name in the Jewish Church long before His advent.2. In Him we witness a dignity, a loftiness, a nobility which never show to better advantage than when compared with the highest ideals of Greek culture. Culross, D. D.Here is an answer to Solomon's wondering exclamation: "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? (2) Nor physically as soul and body are united. It involved the possibility of the fall. Divine love. Prior to the Incarnation a wide gap divided the Creator from His creation, but the Incarnation filled it up, and did away with the antithesis. His engagement with the enemy cost Him His life, but saved ours.VI. The Incarnation is, in short, the sacrament of the eternal grace of God; an outward and visible sign, an effectual sign, of a grace, of which time is no measure.3. The depth and manifoldness of Christ's character form the reason for the well-nigh two hundred lives and harmonies which have been launched upon the world. His generation eternal as the Word of God is as the inditing of the Word within the heart. THE WORD.1. In a palace, cradle of ivory, robes of estate! )The grand purpose of the IncarnationW. No one need be ashamed of his poverty, since Christ was poor.III. The truth is gracious truth, steeped in love, saturated with mercy. And so consequently to qualify and prepare Him for a full discharge of His Mediatorship. There is grace in other men; but they have it as water flowing through a pipe: He as water in its fountain. Think of our Lord's life from this point of view, of putting such high and exceptional honour on our nature. Yet the Positivist tries to keep his religion after he has denied his God. General in the case of all believers.3. Humanity begins again with a possibility and offer of a restoration which is salvation to all who will receive it. And so consequently to qualify and prepare Him for a full discharge of His Mediatorship. C. Jones, D. D.The noblest objects never disclose their best meaning at first sight. TO THE DOCTRINE OF GRACE. 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