By this you know the Spirit of God by Brian Coatney

Thought for the day “By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God” (1 Jn 4). There was always the Son in eternity. He was not a human being though, nor did He need to be. Perfection of fellowship and love was enjoyed in the Godhead—the Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit. They collaborated to create a human family, but the first parents fell, taking us with them in the fall. And so we became sinful humans, not just humans. Yet it is not defective to be human: sin is the defect in the human, and it can be removed, but not by us. For God to save us, the Son would have to be come as a human without sin (the mystery of the virgin birth) and die for our sins, and even more than that, make His death our death as well. We died in His death (Rom 6). All of this required that Jesus Christ be fully human as well as fully God. That’s what we confess—that He had to come in the flesh to save us. One who was only spirit could not accomplish that. He had to become one of us, so that in His resurrection and ascension, the Trinity could unite with us and we with them. In Christ, we gained back more than Adam lost. Grace upon grace abounds.

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