Two Natures, One Lord: Incarnation

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🗓️ 2 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Christ’s incarnation immediately sets Christianity apart from other religions and disrupts the expectations of religious leaders. So, what is this important doctrine and what do we lose if we deny it? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland consider Christ’s divine and human natures and what Christ’s incarnation means for us.

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0:00.0	Notice, it's not just that God comes as a man, because if you're expecting God to show
0:07.2	up in the flesh, what are you expecting him to show up on?
0:11.1	Warhorse.
0:12.1	Power, glory, light, all these things.
0:15.2	And then he's like showing up washing feet.
0:17.8	He's a rabbi who allows himself to be whipped and scorched and crucified.
0:23.0	The nature of his appearing is utterly shocking.
0:27.1	This is the other side of the Isaiah prophecies that God is with us.
0:31.3	But then you get to the suffering servant, and he's marred beyond human semblance.
0:35.8	You can't even recognize him, and it's the will of the Lord to crush him.
0:40.8	I mean, this is mind-boggling stuff that the nature of God's arrival isn't one of glory
0:46.2	and power and might, at least the first time, but one of humility being born in a manger.
0:51.4	If you want to know God, don't look for the glorious things.
0:54.7	Look to the manger.
0:55.7	Look to the cross.
0:56.7	That's what God's showing up in.
0:57.7	That is very offensive to us.
1:01.7	Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church, this is White Horse's
1:16.9	We are beginning a new series on the works of Christ.
1:35.7	In a simple yet elegant line from George Herbert, he captures two essential features of
1:41.6	Christian teaching about Jesus Christ.
1:44.2	In Christ, two natures met to be thy cure.
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