Notes of Faith December 1, 2025

A Marvel!

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:14

Spider-Man, the Marvel Comics superhero introduced in 1962, is about a teenager who was bitten by a radioactive spider in a laboratory. The boy became a person with two natures—he is both human and spider. He can operate in both realms. But Spider-Man is fantasy. A person can only have one nature. We are humans.

Jesus Christ goes beyond our imaginations. He is God-Man. He is the only person who possesses two natures in one personality. He is Son of Man (human) and Son of God (divine). He is both God and human. It’s not a laboratory accident. It was God’s perfect plan for becoming one of us so He could atone for our sins by His suffering and death on the cross.

We can never fully understand the marvel of what Jesus did for us, but we can enter each day—including this one—thanking Him for it!

How necessary it was that Christ the Mediator, should be both God and man; for unless he had been man, he would not have been a fit sacrifice; and unless he had been God, that sacrifice would not have been of sufficient virtue.

William Ames

Too many people believe that they can do good deeds and earn their way to heaven, access to God, perfect peace. Only God can deal with our sin. I know that you try to be obedient to God…so do I…and we still sin. One day He has promised to do what we cannot…take away our sin…even better, sin will not exist! We do need to strive to be holy as God commands, perhaps by His grace succeeding in various areas of our life, but the battle of the flesh and the Spirit remains until we are taken to be with God forever. Look up, for your redemption, transformation and perfection draws near!

Pastor Dale