Incarnation: The Ultimate Self-Revelation of God

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Christian Research Institute

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 127 minutes

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As we celebrate the Christmas season, we encourage you to contemplate the meaning and the magnitude of the Incarnation—the climax of divine revelation: God with us! The very thought that the one who spoke and galaxies leapt into existence should cloak Himself in human flesh is unthinkable. To imagine that the one who knit me together in my mother’s womb would Himself inhabit Mary’s womb boggles the mind. Yet this is precisely what Christianity proclaims—a Creator beyond comprehension who has revealed Himself in Incarnation. In taking on human flesh, God gives us more than the clearest image of who He is. He gives us Himself. To learn more about receiving the book that this is adapted from for your partnering gift, please click here.https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resource-incarnation/

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0:00.0	And welcome to another edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast, a podcast that is committed to bringing the most interesting, informative, and inspirational people on the planet directly to your earbuds.
0:39.2	And today's special addition to the Hank Unplug podcast,
0:44.0	an addition in which I hope to do some more teaching.
0:48.9	So it's the teaching edition of the Hank Unplug podcast.
0:52.6	I want to talk about the most important, the most informative, the most interesting,
1:04.0	the most inspirational person in the entire universe.
1:10.0	And the reason I'm doing this is because we are now in December,
1:18.3	and I happen to be in Charlotte, North Carolina,
1:20.8	sitting in my studio and shivering.
1:25.1	In December, it's always cold,
1:32.4	but in December our hearts are warmed when we think about the person of Jesus Christ. A number of years ago I wrote a book titled
1:40.6	Incarnation, the ultimate self-revelation of God.
1:47.3	And that's what I want to talk about today.
1:50.4	And the reason is that the more I contemplate incarnation, the more staggered my imagination,
2:08.6	the very thought that the one who spoke at a hundred billion galaxies leapt into existence, that that one should cloak himself in human flesh is,
2:16.7	well, unthinkable.
2:20.3	To imagine that the one who knit me together in my mother's womb would himself inhabit
2:29.1	Mary's womb, boggles the mind.
2:39.2	And yet that is precisely what Christianity proffers.
2:48.1	A creator beyond comprehension who has revealed himself in incarnation.
2:56.1	The word incarnation, quite literally coming in flesh, is the greatest of all revelations. In fact, the realization that revelation is axiomatic for knowledge
3:05.3	was the very thing that led medieval thinkers to crown theology,
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