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The Pilgrim Path (7-15-2020)

The Pilgrim Path---Luke 1: 43 

“And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?”

HE CAME TO US

The Son of God actually “pitched his tent” in human form (John 1: 14). Elisabeth could not get over this awesome reality when pregnant Mary paid her a visit---The Christ was within her womb. The Lord Jesus comes to deliver His people from transgression and eternal woe. He unites a people by sovereign grace from every race and tongue on the earth. The World is still scratching its head. It wonders, “How do those Christians from such diverse backgrounds and races do this?” As we heard in the “Race and Reconciliation Seminar from a Biblical Theological Perspective” ----the Church of Jesus Christ is the only entity that “can confess sin---and profess the Savior from sin.” We may begin to participate in some achievements in the Church and in Culture. We are not perfect, but our Redeemer is more than able to mature us and establish us in growing sanctification, understanding, and practice. We fall, He lifts us up. We learn to love and live together with all people as image bearers of the Living God. It normally starts with the people just down the street. Taking time. Hearing. Loving others in Jesus’ Name.

From St. Gregory the Theologian (330-390):

Once He wasn’t a man, but only God the Son, existing before all the ages, and He wasn’t connected with a body or indeed anything physical; but now in these last times He has become man too, taking our humanity upon Himself for our salvation. Thus---

He suffers in the flesh, but He is unable to suffer in His divinity;

He is limited in the body, but He is unlimited in the Spirit;

He is on the earth, and at the same time in heaven;

He belongs to the visible world, and also to the eternal order of being;

He can be understood, yet He is beyond understanding.

Christ blended together these elements in His person so that the whole of our human nature, which had fallen into sin, might be remade afresh by One who was wholly human and at the same time God.

“Sure I am he is the far best half of heaven; yea he is all heaven, and more than all heaven.” Samuel Rutherford

Elect from every nation, yet one over all the earth,

Her Charter of salvation one Lord, one faith, one birth;

One holy name she blesses, partakes one holy food,

And to one hope she presses, with every grace endued.

Samuel J. Stone, 1866

Grace and Peace in Jesus Christ Our Risen LORD, Pastor Jason