BABY BORN IN SHED

SAVES THE WORLD

Week 1

God becomes human

Matthew 1:20-23 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. {21} She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." {22} All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: {23} "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" - which means, "God with us."

John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

“the doctrine of the incarnation is essential to any belief in a God who encounters us in a genuinely personal way”

– Brian Hebblethwaite

Matthew 1:21-23 "She will give birth to a

son, and you are to give him the name

Jesus, because he will save his people

from their sins … and they will call him

Immanuel" - which means, "God with us."

“If Christ was only man, then He is entirely irrelevant to any thought about God; if He is only God, then He is entirely irrelevant to any experience of human life.”

– Dorothy L Sayers

John 14:9 Jesus answered: "… Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father…“

“God is not one thing in Christ and another thing in himself”

- T F Torrence

“The death of Christ is sufficient for all sinners who have ever lived, for it was not merely a finite human, but an infinite God who died”

– Millard Erickson