What if the most mind-blowing thing about Jesus is not just that God became a man, but that he chose to wear our weakness.

By the end of these few minutes, I'm hoping that you're not just going to admire the incarnation, but that you're going to feel the weight of it and you're going to understand

why the love of God in Christ still leaves heaven mind blown after all these years.

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I've been enjoying this year is understanding that Christmas doesn't end on December 25th. It's

beginning. It's 12 days of Christmas. And we're leading up to tomorrow, which is the Epiphany,

or Three Kings Day. And we've been meditating on and worshiping the love

of God in Christ, God becoming man. And that love was great. It was great not just in its scale,

but in its kind, in the way that God loved us.

And there's never been anything else like it.

There's never been another religion that has anything close, not the Muslim religion or the

Buddhist or the Hindu or the whatever.

No movie, no poem, no song, no story has ever even come close to this scale and kind of love.

God didn't merely visit humanity. He literally clothed himself in it. He didn't show up as an outsider.

He became an insider. And he put on flesh that grows tired and weary.

He wore skin that can be wounded and he took on a body that can suffer and die. Think about that. God didn't just borrow our humanity temporarily.

He wore it to the death. And that sets a pattern that nothing else can compare to.

The Bible reminds us that we come from dust and we will return to dust. We're fragile,

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