Strength for the Journey: How the Incarnation Should Grow Us in Our Sanctification

The Christmas season is upon us once again, and once again we’ll be reminded many times of the old familiar story of God who became man, who was born of a virgin in the little town of Bethlehem and was laid to rest in a manger.  It’s a story we are all familiar with.  ​

​The Bible offers many reasons why God had to take on human flesh.  The most prominent of which was to be a proper substitutionary sacrifice on behalf of his people.  However, we are also told that God, in the form of his son Jesus Christ, had to be made fully human in every way so that he could be a “merciful and faith high priest”, so that through his sufferings and temptations he would be able to sympathize with our weaknesses (Heb 2:17-18; 4:15).

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