{"id":3265,"date":"2018-12-19T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.azurewebsites.net\/nlt\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T09:22:11","slug":"the-word-became-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/2018\/12\/19\/the-word-became-human\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word Became Human"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Article from the<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2rJtqa5\">\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2rJtqa5\">Swindoll Study Bible<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read John 1:1-18<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE SON OF GOD, as \u201cvery God\u201d (to quote the Nicene Creed), arrived on this earth as a man. He came to the mountains He created. He faced the rivers with their rushing currents. He crossed the valleys. He gazed upon the sea. He walked beneath the skies and the stars and the moon and the sun. But the tragedy of all tragedies is this: \u201cHe came into the very world he created, but the world didn\u2019t recognize him\u201d (John 1:10). The world didn\u2019t recognize the One who had created it. In other words, \u201cHe came to his own people, and even they rejected him\u201d (John 1:11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/12\/TetonsSmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3269\" width=\"540\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/12\/TetonsSmall.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/12\/TetonsSmall-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>In our world, people look at the beauty of creation but refuse to acknowledge the Creator. Imagine Walt Disney coming to Disneyland on its opening day in 1955\u2014but nobody even acknowledging him or acknowledging the fact that everything in the park had come from his imagination and creativity. Imagine them all saying, \u201cOh, it just happened.\u201d Such an illustration can\u2019t really do justice to this magnificent passage of Scripture, but you get the picture.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/12\/blueskysmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3270\" width=\"530\" height=\"279\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We all know the Christmas story: The Creator came to our planet as a baby, but there was no room at the inn for the One who had created the rocks from which that inn was made. There was no welcome mat for Christ. Isn\u2019t it remarkable that the One who is coequal, coeternal, and coexistent with the Father and the Spirit\u2014the One who divinely decreed the events that would run their course on this earth in perfect timing with His profound plan\u2014could come to the earth and be beaten and spit upon, have spikes driven through His hands and feet, be hung on a cross, and be cursed until He died? Even after being raised from the dead, He is still denied, rejected, and refused some twenty centuries later. There is still no room for the Savior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/12\/CrossSmallNature-1024x617.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3271\" width=\"504\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/12\/CrossSmallNature-1024x617.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/12\/CrossSmallNature-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/12\/CrossSmallNature-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/12\/CrossSmallNature.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>What about you? Do you know what it means that God, who made everything, reduced Himself to take on skin, subject Himself to the very gravity that He put into effect, and limit Himself to a tiny space of property\u2014for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the vanishing point of the past to the vanishing point of the future, Jesus Christ remains in His nature and His attributes very God. But Christ, in order that human beings might be able to see what God is like in tangible form, became a human for all eternity future. This introduction to the Gospel of John concludes, \u201cNo one has ever seen God. But the unique One, who is himself God, is near to the Father\u2019s heart. He has revealed God to us\u201d (John 1:18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com\/nlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/12\/ThinkingSmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3272\" width=\"539\" height=\"701\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you wonder what the Father is like? Make a study of Christ. Do you wonder how God could be a God of grace, at the same time both gentle and full of justice and purity? Look at Christ. He shares the Father\u2019s divine nature, and He explains it and models it in perfect terms so that we can grasp the person of the Father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world didn\u2019t recognize the One who created it. Do we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a look inside the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperturn-view.com\/?pid=MTQ14443\">Swindoll Study Bible<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article from the\u00a0Swindoll Study Bible Read John 1:1-18 THE SON OF GOD, as \u201cvery God\u201d (to quote the Nicene Creed), arrived on this earth as a man. He came to the mountains He created. He faced the rivers with their rushing currents. He crossed the valleys. He gazed upon the sea. 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