Immanuel
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21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel”
(which means, God with us).
Immanuel is a word that you hear every Christmas season, but rarely throughout the year. This actually should be an odd thing.
Sometimes a repeated word in the Bible brings a much needed emphasis, but it can also become very failiar. The rarity of a word can causes great curiosity and bring you to a very specific place.
For instance, the rarity of the word Ephphatha. Jesus says it once… it is recorded once in the Bible () when opening the ears of a deaf beggar who could barely speak.
Illustrations of the
Immanuel as incarnation.
We are doing a Bible study in the Gospel of John and Jesus is always getting into trouble because of His claims to divinity.
God experiences the human experience?
the incarnation gave experiential understanding to God. He knew, but hadn’t experienced.
We can never say, “God you just don’t know what its like!” He was “acquainted with grief” (.
God saw and heard and knew, but had not experienced our plight. Because of this, He ever lives to make intercession for us. ()
Humans see God and live?
The incarnation allowed us to see what God was like. The people and especially the disciples saw Jesus handle criticism, betrayal, hunger and thirst, and temptations yet without sin. ()