This is an update and clarification for the “Reading Outside The Box” episode. The clarification is to clearly state, and not assume, that the audience will understand Jesus Christ as being both fully God and fully human at the same time.
While Christ has both fully human and fully divine natures, He is not split up into two persons. Two natures; One Person.
Ideas have implications. Statements in the Bible have implications as well.
In this episode, Hebrews 1:3 is examined alongside Luke 2:8-9 (as well as references to Ezekiel 10). Christ is said to be the radiance of the glory of God. On the night of His birth, shepherds encountered the glory of the Lord. Was Christ specially present to the shepherds as the glory of the Lord while, as a fully human baby, He laid in a manger in nearby Bethlehem?
This episode examines John 17:23. It is taken from Christ’s High Priestly prayer on the night before His death. In this verse, we discover something staggering.
The Lord is praying for those who would come to believe in Him. If we are believers, that’s us, now.
He prays that the outside world would perceive that the love which God the Father has for His Son is the same love He has for us.
This episode contains the reading of a prayer from the eighth century. It is a treasure of our Christian past and gives us insight into the prayer life of our ancestors in the faith.
This episode looks at two different types of “Great Commission” found in the Bible.
The first is found in Genesis 1:28 when Adam and Eve are instructed to be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth.
The second, found in Matthew 28:19-20, along with texts from Acts 1 and Luke 24 instruct Christ’s followers to fill the Earth with followers of Christ.
Both commissions involved those being sent as receiving the blessing of God.
