{"id":10133,"date":"2021-12-02T08:32:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T13:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=10133"},"modified":"2021-12-02T08:32:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T13:32:36","slug":"theunexpectedchild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/12\/theunexpectedchild\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unexpected Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Series: The Christmas We Didn&#8217;t Expect<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>TITLE: The Unexpected Child<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Scripture: John 1:1-5, 14 (and others)<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>What evidence is there that Jesus is God?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Jesus\u2019s Own (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Claims<\/strong><\/span>)<br \/>\nThe testimony of the (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>disciples that Jesus accepts<\/strong><\/span>)<br \/>\nJesus (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>does things that only God can do<\/strong><\/span>) \u2013 He demonstrates supernatural power and authority<br \/>\nJesus demonstrates perfect, (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>self-sacrificial love<\/strong><\/span>) on our behalf<br \/>\nJesus teaches by (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>his own authority<\/strong><\/span>)<br \/>\nHe demonstrates (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>flawless and complete obedience<\/strong><\/span>) to the Father<br \/>\n(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Divine affirmations<\/strong><\/span>): God-enacted events that affirm Jesus as God<br \/>\n(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Resurrection<\/strong><\/span>)<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Really Human \u2013 Really God \u2013 Really United into One Person<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Incarnation<\/strong><\/span>): the in-fleshing of the eternal Son of God<br \/>\n(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Hypostatic union<\/strong><\/span>): Jesus has two distinct but inseparable natures in one person.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cRemaining what he was, he became what he was not.\u201d<\/em> \u2013Wayne Grudem<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Why would Jesus do this? Why would Christ eternal take on human nature?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>He did it (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>for you<\/strong><\/span>)<br \/>\nHe did it (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>for the Glory of God<\/strong><\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge Series: The Christmas We Didn&#8217;t Expect TITLE: The Unexpected Child Scripture: John 1:1-5, 14 (and others) \u00a0 What evidence is there that Jesus is God? Jesus\u2019s Own (Claims) The testimony of the (disciples that Jesus accepts) Jesus (does things that only God can do) \u2013 He demonstrates supernatural power &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/12\/theunexpectedchild\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-notes","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10134,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions\/10134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}