Immanuel
Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis
Jonny Ardavanis
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🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In part II of this Advent series, Jonny Ardavanis considers the wonder of the incarnation by examining the Creator’s design and desire to dwell with His people. When Adam and Eve sinned, they were not only banished from the garden of Eden, but from God’s presence. Therefore, the purpose of their humanity was lost. How then can Eden be restored? How can we dwell in the presence of God once again? Initially, in the Old Testament, the way God brokers access to His presence is through the tabernacle, mediated by the priest. God’s glory that once filled the Garden would once again, descend into the tabernacle, but who can enter? Only the priest. There remained this longing for fellowship, for full access to God’s presence. An understanding of the structure of the tabernacle gives new meaning to the words of John’s opening words in his gospel: “The Word became flesh and dwelt (tabernacled) amongst us and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten, full of grace and truth.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis and this is Dial In. |
| 0:03.0 | In this episode, we'll consider the second part of our three-part series on Advent |
| 0:08.0 | regarding the birth and arrival of our Savior, Jesus Christ. |
| 0:12.0 | Let's dial in. |
| 0:18.0 | The phrase can't see the forest for the trees is an idiom you may be familiar with. |
| 0:27.2 | It speaks to the idea that often we can focus on certain details but miss the big picture. |
| 0:32.8 | We can look at one tree and miss the forest right in front of us. |
| 0:41.6 | If we return to our story that we examined in our previous episode, |
| 0:48.2 | Jesus is having a conversation with two travelers on the road to Amas who have done exactly that. |
| 0:51.3 | They have missed the forest because of the trees. They have missed the big picture about who Jesus is and what he came to do. |
| 0:57.7 | Celebrating the Christ of Christmas is dependent upon considering why he came in the first place. |
| 1:03.3 | And truly, as we consider his Advent, we can agree with the words of J. I. Packer, that there is |
| 1:08.6 | nothing as fantastic in fiction than the story of the incarnation, |
| 1:13.6 | meaning that you cannot make up a story this wonderful, that the baby in the feeding trough |
| 1:18.7 | was the king of the universe. Luke 24 details that Jesus joins the conversation of a man named |
| 1:25.3 | Cleopas and his companion. Their joy had been collapsed |
| 1:29.8 | like a house of cards and their spirits are now scraping the ground and they are confused and |
| 1:34.9 | bewildered because of the previous weekend's vents, namely that the one who they had thought was the |
| 1:40.7 | Messiah had been crucified. And the Savior of the world joins them now as he had |
| 1:45.5 | been resurrected from the grave, and he joins them in their journey and consequently joins them in |
| 1:51.5 | their conversation. Jesus asked them a probing question as he walks alongside these two men, and he |
| 1:58.8 | asked them, what are you talking about? What an interesting thing to |
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