Christ incarnation, the supreme revelation

Throughout history, humans have longed to see God. After all, this is partly the reason idolatry was a huge part of the ancient world. However, people cannot see God and live. Despite this impossibility, God veiled his glory in human flesh. The reason of incarnation is revelation. By revelation I mean God’s communication of himself. My aim today is show that Jesus Christ is God’s supreme revelation which came to reveal himself inidivdually to each and every one of us. The purpose of this revelation is to transform us and establish a relationship with us. Jesus Christ is God’s best way to show / communicate himself to us, and his purpose in showing himself to us is to transform us and to establish a relationship with us. To make it simple, Jesus Christ is like an ambassador sent to establish a official relationship with a foreign country. The first thing that an ambassador does is to tell the people about the one who sent him.

I. God means to reveal himself

God’s wants to reveal himself. To tell us about himself.

a) Why?

Our mind, emotions and will has been affected by sin to such a degree that we cannot learn from God by intelectual investigation, but by revelation. Knowledge of God is not discovered, is revealed.

The problem is that when God’s reveals himself to us we can react in three ways:

By being troubled (Herod) - God’s reveals his lordship.

Fearful - his holiness (Shepherds)

Joyful - his beauty (Wise men)

II. Methods of revelation

Creation

a) the star / the skies or the heavens declare the glory of God and Hebrews 1:3 says that Christ is the radiance of God’s glory. Oglindirea slavei Lui.

2. Scripture

The wise man were lead to Scripture. The Scripture points to Christ. In John 5:39 “You search the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me.”

3. Christ

III. Motive of revelation

1. reformation

Jesus - salvation from sin

2 Corinthians 3:18 “We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.”

2. relationship - a new relation

Immanuel - relationship with his people.