The Christmas We Didn't Expect
Throughout History
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Jesus’ work as the perfect mediator between God and man is not only dependent on his death in history at the cross but also on his continuing humanity. In his humanness, we are united to him by faith, and only in him are we united to God.
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Jesus didn’t shed his human skin. He still has a body—a “glorious body,” a perfected human body, a body like we haven’t yet experienced but one day will experience when he transforms us.
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Keeping the Form of a Servant
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He went up with a human body. He sits now in God’s presence in his humanity. And he will return “in the same way as you saw him go into heaven”—in his humanity.
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“As You Saw Him Go”
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The eternal, divine Son didn’t simply make a cameo appearance in the created world. He forever joined our humanity to his divinity and for all eternity will be fully God and fully man.
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Epilogue The Permanence of Christmas
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Jesus is not just our substitute but our eternal satisfaction. He not only satisfies God’s just wrath against us but satisfies the human soul forever. And because he is risen and reigning, we can enjoy him with unsurpassed delight forever.