When Jesus Came to Earth John 1:14

Introduction

Now, even as we begin to examine text today, I want you to get something. That Jesus took on flesh for a reason. It wasn't just to be like the illustration of the birds. Have you ever heard that one? I’ve shared it before.

A farmer built houses for the birds around his barn during an unusually cold winter. So that they could go in during winter and not die from the cold. He left the hay door open so they could go in, but they just flew around and around. He tempted with seed, with nets, etc. Nothing worked. Finally the farmer thought, if only I could become a bird and guide them in, he instantly thought, thats what Jesus did for us.

But Jesus becoming human, was so much more than that. We can’t cover all of it in the short time we have this morning but lets examine a few things.

John 1:14  “ And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

John affirms here he was an eyewitness of the things testified of here. We have in the gospels themselves the testimonies of many men and women who never denied their faith even through tourer, death and great losses.

Now, just following some references, Matthew 1:16 NKJV  “ And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ.” We are told this is Jesus in Revelation 19:13  NKJV  “ He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.” So he is The Word, the Christ, the all.

In our text, even the became flesh, isn’t saying he changed from God to human, because the context of this verse is that the doctrine surrounding the incarnation is mindblowing. Some try to say he only took the appearance of a man, which He did, because: he became one, humbling Himself, without giving up who He was!

Turn to: Philippians 2:5–9  NKJV  “ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation ekenose emptied Himself, rendered void, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.Gal 2:20 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,”

This doesn't not mean He wasn't God before, He is eternally existent as the Son, humanity was added onto Him. Through faith in Jesus, we walk or live or work out that “mind of christ” 1 Corinthians 2:15–16 being humbled knowing the majesty and cost there was in saving us.

This infant in the manger, was beyond any comparison we could make. How does one metaphorically measure this? Nuke in a sammich bag? (ask examples, repeat them)

We are told in Galatians 4:4  NKJV  “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,” Jesus was borned, in the blood and mess, no pomp, lots of circumstance, most of it bad.

Hebrews 2:14  NKJV  “ Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,”

This is a hint as to what Christ accomplished when He said it is finished. The problem of sin, death, the enemy not just of the jews but mankind, as I don’t know about yall, but sin is a humanity problem, not just the hebrews.

Christ does this through us all - revealing himself to us - Hebrews 2:11  NKJV  “ For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,”

Since Jesus is pure and sanctifies and we are in Him, whole in Him, this isn't about you being GOOD. God is Good, Jesus is sinless and we are in - Jesus. Therefore as we are being sanctified we are? Sanctified.

Sanctified is hagiazon - set apart, made holy. Even as jesus conforms us to the image of His Son, we are in His son. As it is finished in Him, we are made complete in Him.

SO WHAT DID JESUS COME TO DO? The word tells us in Psalm 68:18 

“You Jesus have ascended on high, made the way to heaven You have led captivity captive defeated sin; You have received gifts among men freely given, freely received, Even from the rebellious, That the Lord God might dwell there.”

it tells us, and really here this beloved, 1 Peter 2:24 “who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes the cross you were healed. saved”

This was why Jesus incarnated (took on flesh). It was an impossible event, a miracle beyond what even modern man can do. Eclipsed only by the cross that put our sin on one who was born to a virgin in the small town of Bethlehem. Who would resurrect from the dead. For us. But it demands something of us

The incarnation is not a show. The death on the Cross is not a tableau. No, no! Assurance, 238

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Welsh Preacher and Writer)

Would you place your faith in Him? Have you? Then be confident, we are with you because we are all in Him! Would you die to the old man and join in the new?