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Thanks so much for joining me for today's encouraging

word. Whatever you're going through, wherever you are, may God give you strength. May God give you strength.

This scripture, John 316, has everything we need to give us hope in these difficult days.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him

shall not perish, but he shall have or she shall have eternal life. The Jesus of history was the

God of heaven, the incarnation of Christ.

And the idea is simply this. The incarnation refers to this dual nature of Christ at once and

equally God and man. Now this is all over the New Testament. The Apostle Paul contends that God was born in human likeness, Philippians 2.7.

Peter, the Apostle, confessed Jesus as the son of the living God, the great confession.

Thomas in the upper room, once delivered from doubt, he declared my Lord and my God.

Again, the Apostle Paul applauded Jesus

as the God blessed forever.

He urged Titus to anticipate the blessed hope

and the appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior,

Jesus Christ. Titus 2 in verse 13. And to the Colossians, he summarized in him, speaking of

Christ, all the fullness of the deity dwells in bodily form. Colossians 2 in verse 9.

The Hebrew writer was all over this too. He went so far as to call Jesus Christ, the Nazarene

carpenter. Here's what he said. The radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his nature. Hebrews 1 and verse 3. So this idea of

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