The Incarnate Purpose PDF Download

The nature of the Incarnation is of supreme importance in our understanding of God's purpose in the Provision of Redemption. The Redemption in the Old Economy of the Law was principled on the Innocent for the Guilty. The blood of the innocent animal was offered upon the altar before the Lord for the remission of the sin of the guilty. This principle was based on even a greater principle, The Atoning Blood of The Son of God, The Lamb slain before the foundation of the World. The Trinity foreknew that man would have failed the TEST of Obedience in the Garden of Eden before Adam and Eve were created. However, God's foreknowledge did not prevent the creation of man. It was in Eternity The Son offered to die on man's behalf to redeem him. So on looking on the blood of the innocent animal, The Father saw the blood of His Son and thus forgave the guilty under the Law. The external consideration of the Fall did not influence God's purpose in the creation of man, neither did the Fall of Lucifer and his angels. God's purpose in creation is eternal, and external factors will never change it.Of necessity, it must be emphasized that the innocent animal, under the Law, was far inferior to the guilty sinner for whom it was offered. The Eternal Lamb was far superior to guilty man, being the Son of God, holy and separate from sin. A student of Theology may want to ask the question, Why would God go ahead and create man, knowing that he would FALL? To this , we may reply that God's eternal purpose in man's creation was far greater than man's failure in the Garden of Eden. Simply on the basis of Divine Economy, it makes eternal sense. God created a pair of people, but today there are more than 7,000,000,000 people who are the descendants of Adam and eve.The Incarnation is one of the greatest mysteries and because of its eternal purpose, the angels desire to look into it. It will be talked about throughout eternity by the saints and angels. But fundamental to and prior to the Incarnation was a great mystery. Sometime before The Son assumed human nature, He merged with the Father and became One with Him; yet maintained His personal Distinction. These Distinctions which some Theologians call Emanations, the sharing of The Father's Divine nature with The Son and The Holy Spirit, are immutable and cannot be reversed. The Theology of Immutability is not only applicable to the merging of the Son with The Father before the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary, but it also applies to other Divine acts. Once a human being is born into the World, he will continue to exist in some form for eternity.For the sake of continuing of this line of thought, The Son was actually transported from Heaven to Earth by this miraculous act of The Holy Spirit. His earthly life then began and became subject to the biological laws of nature. Since Divinity cannot be created, neither can it be changed, The Son could see Himself when being conceived in Mary's womb. However the Babe in Mary's womb would have no human consciousness, because to be true human, one does not self-consciousness in the womb, but later after birth. Now that the great mystery of the Miraculous Conception is better explained, we are ready to consider more fully the human nature of Jesus Christ, man's Redeemer.Without the human nature of Christ, the Provision of Redemption would not be possible. Christ needed a human body to offer the Vicarious Sacrifice of himself unto The Father on man's behalf. Angels are immortal beings and could not die on behalf of mankind. In His Pre-Incarnate form, Christ could not have died. Redemption requires a blood sacrifice, The Innocent for The Guilty. Death by sin had reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned. None of Adam's descendants could die for man's Redemption. The Atoning Sacrifice had to be sinless. By the Virgin Birth or the Miraculous Conception of Mary, a sinless and holy human body was provided for The Son of God.