Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries. I want to jump into sort of a tie-in tonight regarding Theosis and the incarnation.

So we're going to talk about theosis and the incarnation.

Theosis is a word that was coined by St. Gregory of Nazionzus,

who was a Bishop of Constantinople, he coined the phrase Theosis as a bit of a gift to help

us understand what God was actually saving us for.

And what God was saving us for was not simply

so that we could experience heaven in the afterlife.

He was saving us for glory.

He was saving us for a shared glory,

and he was saving us in order to infuse us with everything that's necessary for us to become a new

humanity.

An old heaven, listen to this, and an old earth have passed away. A new heaven and a new earth have come. In that new heaven

and new earth there's a new human. Let me see this. Let me get you to see this. The old heaven and the old earth have passed away, a new heaven and a new earth have come, and Jesus came to do so much more than allow us to escape judgment after death and enter into heaven.

He came to divinize us and teach us what it means to be partakers of the divine nature

so that we could begin to not only hear this, share in the union he experiences with the Father and the Spirit,

but to partake of what union with the Father's Son and Spirit produces, and union with the father, son, and spirit always

creates new creation. It creates new creation. So we're going to talk about a new

created order and we're going to marry these revelations to the understanding

of how Theosis and the incarnation are married one to another.

Now, here, I'm going to hit it, I'm going to hit this with a strong controversial punch right off the bat and I'm glad it's not my quote.

This is Athanasius of Alexandria who lived from 296 to 373.

This is sort of the lineage of the Apostle John, or one we would call John the beloved.

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