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Job 7:17

Job 7:17

  Job 7:17, “What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, visit him every morning and test him every moment?” (c.f. Psalm 8:4) Job here associates his suffering—and, indeed, the sufferings of humanity—with the attention of the Lord. If mankind were not under the scrutiny

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John 13:4

John 13:4

  John 13:4, “He laid aside His outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.” When Jesus dresses Himself for service in the upper room, He is re-enacting the incarnation by revealing the same inclination of God’s heart that moved the Son to lay aside the outer garments of manifest glory and

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John 1:14

John 1:14

  John 1:14, “The Word became flesh” At the center of the Christian faith is the doctrine of the incarnation, which confesses that the Second Person of the Trinity has taken human nature to Himself, binding humanity to divinity “inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly and inseparably” in perfect union to the Person of God the Son. One

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Hebrews 2:10

Hebrews 2:10

  Hebrews 2:10, “…it was fitting that He, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.” The God-Man becomes Humanity’s perfect savior by sharing in and overcoming the fullness of humanity’s suffering–climactically so in His death on the cross.

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