Traditional formulations and controversies regarding incarnation have tended to focus on issues surrounding the conjoining of divinity and humanity conceived in existential and philosophical terms rather than biblical ones. Put differently, the Scriptures aren't concerned with philosophical notions of natures, persons, hypostases, etc., but with incarnation as fulfilling God's long-standing promise to arise in His world and put all things right, so that His eternal intentions for His creation could be fully realized. In biblical parlance, incarnation is about Yahweh returning to Zion to end the exile of the Abrahamic people and restore them to covenant fellowship so that they should fulfill their own election and calling to mediate His blessing to all the earth's families. This message considers that perspective and what it means for a truly biblical doctrine of incarnation.
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“ Incarnation Excellence! ” This is the best sermon on the Incarnation. The incarnation is about so much more than simply how the second Person of the Trinity became human so that he could die for our sins. As Kit says in the notes (and expands upon in the sermon), "Incarnation does pertain to atonement for sin, but atonement in the Scripture isn’t about legal satisfaction in the way people typically conceive it. That is to say, God’s intent wasn’t to exact payment for the debt and guilt associated with violating legal demands, but to see His human creatures conformed to their created nature and purpose. His goal wasn’t justice under ‘law,’ but a human race of faithful image-children" (pg. 92 1.b). This is an atonement that includes Jesus' work at Calvary but is not solely or even primarily defined by Calvary. In this sermon Kit explains the cosmic (creational) scope of "atonement" that is only accomplished through incarnation. Only by joining himself to humanity in the very “fallenness” of Adamic sinful nature does God accomplish his goal and purpose of establishing Shalom (complete and total creational harmony and flourishing) within and throughout His creation. This sermon will reward multiple listening as it engages the biblical story of God's redemptive purpose to recover Sacred Space in Christ.
