Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hey friends, welcome back to the Year in

the Bible podcast. My name is Alexa, and I'm here with my friend and co-host Beth.

Hi. Today we are going to be talking through day four of week three, which is the day where we make

the Christ connection. Yes, I'm super excited about this. Could you give us a quick recap of what we

talked about yesterday? Sure. Yesterday, as we sat with Colossians 1 15 through 17, we discussed how Jesus was

there at creation. In fact, it was through him that all of creation was made. For in Jesus,

we find the very image, nature, an imprint of God himself. Yeah, which is just so, so fascinating.

And so what we're saying is that Jesus is God.

What would you say to someone who might respond by saying, wait, I thought Jesus was human?

That is such a good question. And it hits it one of the most important tenets of the Christian faith.

Jesus is fully and completely God, as we said, but he is also fully and

completely human. Ancient church teachers called this the hypostatic union, which is just a fancy

way of saying that Jesus has two natures, one human and one divine, and that they are both

perfectly united and his person. So when we talk about Jesus being God and having all

of God's attributes, this is not intended to diminish his human nature at all. Yeah, that's

super helpful. So why is all of this about Jesus' nature important? Yeah, it's important for many

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