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Grace Unfolded: Incarnation's Divine Promise
The talk explores the profound theological implications of the Nativity, emphasizing the transformative nature of the Incarnation whereby God's sending of His Son transcends the confines of the Law and ushers in a new covenant of grace. The discussion extensively revolves around themes of redemption, adoption, and the fulfillment of divine justice through Christ's life and sacrifice. It draws parallels between Old Testament prophecies and the realization of these promises in Christian theology.
Referenced Works:
- Isaiah (Old Testament)
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Frequently cited to highlight prophecies concerning the coming of a savior and the new order established through the Incarnation.
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Second Book of Samuel (also known as Second Book of Kings)
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Mentioned to illustrate the theme of new beginnings and divine promise represented by David, a precursor to the fulfillment seen in Christ.
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Canticle of Canticles (Song of Songs)
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Utilized to express the intimate and mystical relationship between Christ and the Church, symbolizing divine love.
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Apostle Paul's Letters (New Testament)
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Provides the framework for understanding the transition from Law to Grace, emphasizing redemption and adoption through Christ.
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St. John Chrysostom (Early Church Father)
- Quoted for his theological insights into the Eucharist and Christ's sacrificial role in overcoming the death sentence of the Law.
AI Suggested Title: Grace Unfolded: Incarnation's Divine Promise
The series will be engaged in the school, by setting the prize in the final present. And the one who are the eight blue shepherds. They began to advance an instant plan. Three people could want to have a secret. And the next time, when the girl will be sick, we join us together on the table at the shepherds. We join us together on the table at the shepherds. We join us together on the bread of no sleep. We charge the things against invisible enemies. We charge open up our debates of character. We charge dawn on the rest we speak there. We charge complete things of heaven, we charge with freedom. We charge full things of earth, charge the goals with the heaven. We chose the physical coverage of the victims.
[01:06]
We chose girls to walk with faith. We chose family from the place. We chose to improve the outcomes with glory. We chose to break it up. The second day in the year is the day of the morning, and the shepherds were not well, has over at 1.0 to Bethlehem. We remember, as we celebrated it this morning, by all things we're in quiet silence,
[02:09]
and the night was in the midst of her corpse. That was yesterday. As Isaiah says, in the time of evening, behold, there shall be trouble. He had meditated on that verse yesterday. Seeing the evening of disobedience and falsehood sitting over our first realm. Seeing the evening of jealousy and hatred over the two brothers. Seeing the evening of aversion and vital in the whole human way. Yet the time of velvet, the evening of pride, we barely had less labor.
[03:23]
Yet the efforts of an organized man so bad to build the trouble of faith. And we saw how he to each of these knights extended in one way or another the word of God from his heavenly throne. God himself, as Holy Scripture says, walking in the evening breeze, calling Adam where all of you, calling him out of his hiding into the clear light of God's truth and judgment. But that judgment at the same time judged and still full of mercy, the death sentence was not in.
[04:34]
but the sentence of renouncement was imposed upon those who had eaten against God's command. Again, the call directed to Cain, where is your brother? Intended to pierce his heart, And still, he was protected by the mercy of God's judgment from being killed because he received the son, the toughness that makes the sign of a cross on his way. Into the emanating of conversion by the Descendants that, victims of edification, directed to the one who was destined and sick to save the record.
[05:54]
And into that evening of pride, rebellion and slavery, that word led us distant. A world full of divine ivory, and still it rocks. There were still other evenings that we could only indicate yesterday. The evening of fear, coming over Abraham, when he the father All the new people anticipate in his heart the dread and sufferings of the exile Egypt. It was the Gethsemane night of Abraham, the father of our days, faith.
[07:05]
But he sees the glory, darkness, of God's God passing through the covenant sacks. Jacob, three will be not faint-heartedness, but they are overcome by three. He is in the bridge of the ladder, that bridge between God and Mesa. Human. Creature. Mesa. Else, they ask. Keeper. Which from then on runs like a red thread of hope. Through the whole of the Old Testament, until it is fulfilled in the coming of our Lord and Savior, I need that word.
[08:06]
I am with thee. erected to Jacob and fulfilled in the Emmanuel God's witness. Then there is the night of despair, Jacob resting with the angel. But again he began blessing as the sun rises. and a new day in the age. Then in our second meditation we spoke about the night of the prophets. The word of the prophets was sent. He sent it from his heavenly throne into the night of apostasy.
[09:09]
The apostasy of the chosen people from their faith, from their religion. That is a new kind of night, answered by the prophets, with the dark prophecy of the day of God, generally being darkness and not light. The apostasy of a false externalism, keeping the ritual, keeping the religious exercise, the prayer of the lift, and stopping that push of false security, worldly security to men. Behold the temple, the temple, the temple of the Lord.
[10:16]
And therefore we are assured of his presence with us. Nothing but that. God does not want sacrifices but obedience. That means complete Be the immersed of the whole being in the full truth of the I am, John, the God I am. There is the false security not only of religious ritual, but also the false security of keeping the walls.
[11:20]
And trying to revive from that is such a state of justification. The danger of what we call a happy season. Oh Lord, here I am I am the one who offers you all the time, who does everything that's written in the law. I am certainly better than discovering a babe in the bank. They established a version where the devil uses the very service of God to blow up people with pride for their achievements.
[12:20]
We have worked the entire day and I would give so much to those who have not worked at all. That is a bitter zeal. of false human justice, where man tries to secure for himself a title before God through what he managed to live in the service of God. Instead of remembering that, remember our entire life and always remain unworthy so. There's also in a social religion that means in a religion which has become the public interest of a people.
[13:28]
There is that danger of going and acting with lying with their national and racial interests. Against that danger of odds, the trumpet for the judgment, the word of the trumpet, is directed. I stay asleep after saying, don't fear their being. Let the Lord be you of me. But in this light and darkness of judgment, which, where it is presented to us in all its seriousness,
[14:41]
This darkness of judgment day, which seems to be a dead sentence for every, that then turns into the light of love, into that light which is described in the canticle of Catech, and which it would be in the bright our Lord Jesus Christ who longed us up to the end, giving his own body and giving his own blood that they may lead them our life. There Christ himself fulfills all justice fulfills all justice by taking the death sentence of the dull judgment upon himself.
[15:59]
For us, for our sake, we are invited as well to abstain his death as our death. to drink that blood that he is shedding for us, that in this way, and in this way only, we may transcend ourselves and all of the limitations of our human and earthly nature, which never wants to die. in some way cannot, transferring ourselves in the death of the one who died for us, that we may feel for him.
[17:07]
All right, we might be loved. It might be loved. That is the new indicators in Isaiah, in the 43rd chapter, remember not before one day, before I do new things, and now they are springing forth. And that now they are springing forth That is today. That is Christmas. That is the today which the world was made play, and we ask thee in his glory. What is that, this new thing?
[18:12]
It is what we call in our Christian language, the marvel of the By this reverse theory we try to defy or try to label as it were this completely new relation which is established between God and man through the fact that while the Night was in the midst of a call. The all-white and worthy of his head did drop. In this form of the incarnation, the nativity is coming to us as one of other others, not ceasing to be however the star.
[19:16]
Then he is still. Before, when Isaiah says, Remember not all one thing, of which are these more things? There are those things, by which God has sought their place before him. to the members of the chosen people by giving them the law. The law is the way which determined the position of man before God in the Old Order, what we call the Old Testament. And men is gone out as time man's position before him?
[20:21]
Who the commandant do this? Does it wear an invitation? It's more of a challenge. But now the new thing happened. And that is the throne of this time. to us, our place, before him. Not by giving us an order, but by giving us his song. That is the tremendous difference. That is what we call them still. That the song was made back Now, when they become gods, that is the new thing.
[21:27]
That is the mysterious connection, that exchange, which is not, we cannot emphasize that, you know, limit is to the moment of the Lord's historically earthly life. On the contrary, when he was with the apostles and with the Jews, if it is earthly historic life, His death has not yet sealed and completed its work. His death which is the gate of hope for all of us.
[22:35]
His death which is the beginning of life for all. When the flesh as it were was killed, Spirit of the Lord was free. This spirit there, deep breath, the heart is awesome, but ever since you forgive them, they shall be given. And this spirit descended into the very house where the Apostles and our baby were gathered together and hid in dreams of art. Now, my dear sisters, in the past, the time in which this happened is called in today's epistle, the planning to do with it.
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fullness of dying walls come. And that is exactly the difference between the law and the Christian era. That the law is expectation but is not fullness. The law is looking forward to something that will come Now into our life, into our time, the fullness has descended. Just listen to today's work in the epistle, and you must realize, you cannot help realizing what this fullness of time is. It's this. The fullness of God.
[24:45]
That's fullness, isn't it? He's sent. That's fullness too. That means he does not wait for the one whom we sent. But he is sent. God sent. That's full of medicine if you compare that with the congregation on the floor of Mount Sinai through Moses. God sent. He did not wait for the person who sent to him. As evidently everyone in power in this world And under the juvenile law, thus, the woman who is in power, willing, to be sent to by the woman who approaches him with a petition.
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And as long as he is not being asked, he is inclined for reasons of political trudence, Not to make any move, he'd say. At the door of the mighty ones and of the rich ones, he whispered. But in the fullness of time, it's different. God said. And what did he say? Not the prophet. not a representative. That would be, again, the way of human laws. They would not go themselves, but they were a single strong body to represent them.
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But God is a single person. Fullness is full. God is in his soul. His soul, I say. That means in whom all the fullness of divinity dwells in what I am. The one who has the spirit without passion. The world is full of grace and truth. God sent his son full. Even more, if you consider the way of his sin, made of the world, made of the love.
[28:10]
The sun made. The warning of all things were made, he himself made. He emptied himself. Fullness. Now I would say a new dimension of fullness. God sends his song. May. That means not in his divine glory, but in his cotton distinction. May. He really descends. He stays on the level of which Made of a woman.
[29:12]
That means not an angel. But any other creature. Made of a woman. He steps in. Down to earth. The son of man. Made under the law. And that is the fullness of God. Because made under the law means that he himself takes upon himself. The law, what does that mean the law mean? It's the death sentence of the law. We were under the law before God sent his son. That does not mean that we had to observe the divine rule But that means that we were sentient.
[30:17]
The law is concentrated in the sentence. And that sentence is the dead sentence. That sentence which was pronounced already in campus. Dost not die, an unto dozen pounds have returned. made under the law, so that in his empty cell, he not only takes upon himself the limitations and independence of the creature, not only the limitation and dependence at the suffering of the sudden man made of womb, but also that's the penalty of the prayer of God's end.
[31:21]
He did all this and that sending is full. It's full because it is the sending of the Son of God and it is the sending of the God, Son of God, in such a way That the one who is thin really beats us on our own ground foot. By taking on the nightless of this flesh of sin, by a thin old good sin becoming a curse for us. That is true. fullness of sin. That is really Christmas. What is that? Christmas.
[32:22]
Christmas. Christ is being sinned. But then comes the fullness of the one you sinned. And who is sin, then gives us fullness, the fullness of the receiver, the recipient. What is that fullness? The fullness of the recipient is that he might redeem them that were under the law. That we might receive the adoption of sons.
[33:28]
That's the fullness of the received, that he might redeem them that were under the law. Say, Lord, in the happy procession of the beautiful fullness speaks of those that are under the law in the third person that he might redeem them that were under the law the death sentence has been changed the Tirogrado may surely skip St. Paul Paulson has given it all to peace. When Christ carried the brother was our burden, and that check which states our debt was paid.
[34:34]
So we are not debts anymore. Now that is goodness, isn't it? Great goodness. We consider it as goodness of a gift going to be received from those who are able to give, a gift, a son of nothing. That takes us out of the world That is not the fullness which is expressed in these further words, that he might redeem them that were under the law. Because that our being under the law is more than proper. It's dead. We have to see it that way. We have to call it that way.
[35:38]
It's dead. We are according to the law. We are a big player. capital British that was our sentence and then that is remitted by the son of God made man pay for it so that justice was absorbed into the fullness of divine shepherd. Justice and peace kissed water cup on Christmas when it was stayed under the law made under the law.
[36:40]
That is the fullness of all being redeemed. That is not the whole fullness, said Paul continues, and we might receive the adoption of souls. Who can do that? Not only destroy the dead sentence, but give life. That is the fullness that only the power of our life can give to us and he gives that to us in and through his own soul. That is fullness of adoption of souls. This adoption of souls is not only a legal declaration not for the illegal picture, yes, that a good man may be able to do.
[37:49]
But here, this adoption of solace, in which he sends the spirit into our heart, who calls in us our body. That is more than a doctrine in the legal sense. You see, the one who dies for us, who takes upon himself our death, he then says, the spirit should make his declaration of freedom full for us, that we may have a freedom not of vacuum, not of emptiness, doing what we may want. But the freedom in the fullness of the spirit, that where there is the spirit of God, there alone is freedom.
[39:02]
So he saves his spirit. That means he gives us a heart in his own divine nature. in which we then can say about them. Then, my dear sister in Christ, there is the meaning of these beautiful words, when the fullness of time was gone. God sent his song, made from the world, made from the world, the Lord, that he might receive them that were not of the Lord, that we might receive the adoption of some, that he set his spirit in whom we cry.
[40:02]
You see, fullness of tongue, the one who says full, will still The thing that he stands for the matter of safety. Those who receive the sons of God through redemption and adoption made up of the Lord way of evil. So there is the morning that comes after the evening. The morning of the adoption of souls. In looking for an expression in which the freshness and beauty of this morning would be just shining forth to us.
[41:14]
taught this little sentence from the second book of Sabbath, or the second book of Kings, the last words of David. David is the Old Testament figure of God's trumpet of the soul. David, the sweet singer of Israel, who says in his last words, The Spirit of the Lord has spoken by me, and his word is on my tongue. The God of Israel said to me, The strong one of Israel spoke as the light of the morning, When the sunrise shines in the morning without clouds, and as the grass springeth out of the earth after Abraham, that is the picture of David and of his house.
[42:38]
That is the picture of Christ and of his church. He is all my salvation and all my will, David continues. Neither is there fault there, but that will not come. Everything is great. Everything is a new beginning, but he is always nature, and all my will. You see that standing on the part of the Father, of his son, in the fullness of his divinity. Becoming bad, he stepped to us in that full manner, in which he certainly meets ourselves by taking us
[43:46]
into him. That full standing, that fullness with which God fills our time, that of course urges us to give an answer. The fullness of a recipient in which we answer the fullness that God sends to us is He is all my salvation and all my will. That is what we call perfection. And certainly that perfection that we have found in our religious life. That is the answer. How can we do it? Only in and through you understand that now. Only in and through the mystery.
[44:48]
I mean, through that holy action which we are called here today. In that holy action in which Christ did really and truly becomes our death. In which the Father's name did so. Made under the law. Because as Saint Chrysostom says, if we say this is my body, this is my blood, its blood is stored. Made under the law. This holy sacrifice again kills the dead sin. More than that, it leads us into the fullness of the Spirit, in which we say, Our Father, who art here, hallowed in thy name, I take the call.
[46:02]
I say this here just in a parenthesis, but according to the new directions of directives published by the congregation writes, In any time of mass, this part of the apostle can from now on be said by all. And that certainly is today a new step with the church invites us to make, not simply as a new liturgical living works, as a little Precious, the greatness of the villages cooked up in the offices of the congregation of Ryman. The great is to say, well, mixed reactions, either the part of many who are, let's say, by nature, low gear when it comes to the village.
[47:14]
No. This is the expression of the inner truth of the Mysterio that we celebrate. And why should not the Virgin respond to that truth? It is true, you know, in Devova liturgy always had this idea, but we expressed it in the moment, right? by having all the people say the last things of that prayer. And that stood for the partisanship in the whole prayer, and thus goes still, especially in the sovereign arms. But now, in the dying of arms, we can be made straight. The power of my mother all took it, together with the priests, as we do it on Good Friday.
[48:16]
Good Friday, in that style, when the night has reached its centre of its course, in the midst of her course, they are to get together, and remembering the death of the Lord, but in the fullness of the Spirit. We sleep there, How this death of the Lord is the danger of the new life. The one who was made under the law. He has redeemed those who were under the law. Else, have given us the doctrine of sons. In the book we say, cover from what happened to God's name. So that is what I wanted to focus your attention on the mystery.
[49:21]
The night is revealed to us not as the night of loneliness, in which man is thrown back upon himself, but as the night into which the light of the word of God, these things. Really, if we came to recall one of us who need us, and pay what we are not able to pay, then the sentence which God chose this, the justice of the law has pronounced the word, is fulfilled by him as man, but at the same time, God.
[50:23]
And therefore, the fulfillment of the death sentence in him is the manifestation of infinite, endless life in the Lord, whose sovereign dollars that we made the one colour of wheat, falling into the ground, that's making the whole way rise. The one who is the first water to make me breath. So that is then The mysterious witch, in holy birth, we celebrate. Where Christ descends again and again into our night, but turns then night into morning, and that morning consists in this, that all from being isolated, all from being alone, we are born.
[51:41]
The ball may be in the mystical body of ours. He in the head. And we, the members, all of our family, in the morning where our next new family is, our brother, what can't ever be one. and lead us over some new creation, and he appeared to us who came in talking. Police plan for seekers move and take a shift as a warning, and see if there are no way but seek to go and say, Rejoice, love of me, watch. Rejoice, come, [...] watch, watch out of sight of the switch.
[52:41]
We charge the power source clearly to die to pay attention. [...] Because you found what we can say to you, and we can live in one cap. Because what we did, or the justice took. Because not that that is all that money. Because not that you brought.
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