INCARNATION FOR AN EVERLASTING REVELATION OF HIMSELF IN HUMAN FORM

GOD BECAME INCARNATE IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PROVIDE FOR US AN EVERLASTING REVELATION OF HIMSELF IN VISIBLE HUMAN FORM

Among honest and careful students of the Gospel records, there can be, no possible question as to the claims of our Lord in the days of His flesh. The same Apostle who wrote, "No man hath seen God at any time." (John 1:18), also records the word of Christ to Philip, "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father" (John 14:9), And Thomas, falling down His feet in the abandon of worship, renders the final. :verdict of those who really knew Him, "My Lord and my God" (John 20:28), Scrutinize asI you will the subsequent history of these men, you will never find any note of uncertainty in their minds about God. Others might doubt or even deny the Divine Existence. But these men knew there was a God in heaven. For the space of three years they had walked and lived with Him, They had seen His face, had heard His Voice, and had believed.

But the Incarnation of our Blessed Lord was more than a transient episode in the stream of history. He did not unite Himself with our humanity for a brief moment and then abandon it: forever when He died as some would have it (Deists). On the contrary, by the resurrection of His Uncorrupted Body, and its subsequent glorification, the incarnation of our Lord became an everlasting fact, The stamp of eternity is upon the Body born of the Virgin, on the Hands which were pierced for us, and upon the Brow which wore the crown of thorns. Writing about Him some thirty years after His ascension, Paul declares that "He is (not merely was) the Image of the invisible God" (Col. 1:15). And lest they should be any remnant of doubt about the matter, we have one last and precious assurance from the lips of the Glorified Lord Himself. (It is recorded in Revelation 22:16). At this point the visions of Patmos are ended. The burden of Revelation is complete. The final Book of Holy Scripture has been written, And now the Divine Author Himself about to authenticate the Book with His own Name. Have you ever noticed how He signs Himself? Out of all that glittering array of names which. are His by right, He does not choose "Jehovah," nor "the Logos," nor "Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, or Father of Eternity," No, not even "The Christos." O, let us read the name He chose, for our eternal consolation. and joy "I JESUS," He signs Himself. "I JESUS" ‑
how infinitely gracious! It is as if, in this final historic word from heaven, He would leave for us who believe one last and unspeakably precious reminder of His Incarnation, lest we forget that the Great God with whom we have to do is also JESUS, "the root and offspring of David," flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone.

"Jesus - O how sweet the name! Jesus - every day the same!

Jesus - let all saints proclaim, the worthy name of Jesus!"