The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - The Christian Faith

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00:00:41.700 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone,

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00:00:52.280 One of the wonderful things about the Christian faith

00:00:55.720 is that it is a historical faith.

00:01:00.820 Actual, real events that took place in human history.

00:01:07.400 It's a proclamation of good news.

00:01:11.860 The good news of something that God actually did.

00:01:16.360 That God actually performed.

00:01:18.840 Real events.

00:01:21.740 The Christian faith is a life, yes.

00:01:23.840 but it is also before it is alive how we must live it is doctrine what we must believe and before it

00:01:32.620 is even doctrine it is history the christian faith begins with history it begins with an event it

00:01:40.300 begins with something that god actually did and what we believe about this event what god did is

00:01:48.380 doctrine and how we live in light of what we believe about this event is character and godliness

00:01:56.920 our life but it all begins with history it all begins with god doing something

00:02:05.340 in his imminence in real time in real human history on this planet something was manifest

00:02:16.260 seen in the flesh

00:02:19.520 some one name was manifest

00:02:23.060 his name is Jesus

00:02:26.300 Jesus Christ is God revealed in the flesh

00:02:30.060 and in John the gospel of John

00:02:33.280 chapter 1 verses 1 through 2

00:02:35.080 we find these words

00:02:37.140 in the beginning was the word

00:02:39.560 that is the living word

00:02:41.280 Jesus

00:02:42.540 and the word was with God

00:02:45.260 and the word was God.

00:02:48.180 But then just a little later in verse 14,

00:02:51.220 John writes this,

00:02:52.660 and the word became flesh and tabernacled,

00:02:56.360 dwelt among us.

00:02:59.340 See, there are many religions

00:03:00.440 which speak of appearances of gods,

00:03:05.440 lowercase g, false gods.

00:03:08.320 However, only Christianity takes the position

00:03:11.580 that the God who existed from all eternity

00:03:14.700 and through whom all things were created actually became a human being.

00:03:21.900 As St. Augustine said, he is divinity wrapped in flesh.

00:03:29.000 Jesus emptied himself, as it were, Philippians chapter 2,

00:03:33.960 but he emptied himself not by subtraction, but rather by addition.

00:03:39.480 He did not empty himself of the divine nature,

00:03:42.380 but rather he emptied himself by taking upon himself a second nature,

00:03:48.180 the human nature, the divinity concealed in flesh.

00:03:57.020 Jesus, the God-man, who in the beginning was with God and was God,

00:04:04.040 and the word by which all things were created and even now are being held together,

00:04:09.380 Together, according to Colossians, this Jesus took on flesh, was born in a manger.

00:04:18.980 This Jesus, as an infant, crying beneath the stars that he both created and was presently sustaining.

00:04:30.760 this jesus in flesh crying while in his divinity upholding sustaining galaxies

00:04:41.120 this jesus later hanging bleeding out on a cross that every single molecule and splinter

00:04:52.980 of this cross is being fastened together by the same jesus who's bleeding out upon it

00:04:59.900 he was manifested in the flesh.

00:05:06.640 Hebrews chapter one, verses one through three says,

00:05:09.500 long ago, at many times and in many ways,

00:05:12.160 God spoke to our fathers by the prophets.

00:05:15.820 But in these last days, he has spoken to us by his son,

00:05:19.780 whom he appointed the heir of all things,

00:05:23.080 through whom also he created the world.

00:05:27.680 He, that is Jesus,

00:05:29.900 is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint, not similar, but the exact imprint of

00:05:40.040 his nature, God's nature. And he upholds the universe by the word of his power.

00:05:48.480 Now, Jesus, in his divine nature, is not of a similar substance to the Father, but the same substance.

00:06:01.840 So that he can say with all confidence and truthfulness, if you have seen me, you have seen the Father.

00:06:10.420 People must see God.

00:06:12.920 And if they are to see God, they must see his Son.

00:06:17.660 For he is the agency by which the father in these last days continues to speak.

00:06:26.320 In the days of old, God spoke to us at many times and in many ways.

00:06:33.940 God spoke in his special revelation through dreams, through visions, through impressions.

00:06:42.680 God spoke in manifestations and theophanies.

00:06:47.660 God spoke with stars guiding and angels manifesting.

00:06:53.100 But in these last days, God has spoken to us in his final word, in his final revelation.

00:07:02.960 It is final because it is perfect.

00:07:06.560 In these last days, God has spoken to us through his son.

00:07:10.380 and his son still speaks to us today through the apostolic testimony of Jesus contained in

00:07:19.360 the scripture and these scriptures are still expounded to us today through the faithful

00:07:25.700 preaching both in life and in doctrine of the body of Christ that is his church thanks so much

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The NXR Podcast - December 26, 2022

DAILY TRUTH - The Christian Faith

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