MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
November 26, 2025
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration
The Purpose of the God Creator’s Incarnation: SO THAT FALLEN HUMANITY MIGHT BE RAISED FROM ITS DEGRADATION OF SIN
“Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift.” 2 Cor. 9: 15, KJV.
Christ, “the Word from the beginning,” “thenonly-begotten Son the Father,” did not cease to be God, when, in the divine condescension, He partook of “the likeness of sinful flesh” and thus became “the Son of man,” the very “promised Seed of a woman, born under the law,” in fulfillment of the first promise and prophecy of the Bible. Rom. 8: 3, 4; Gal. 4:4; 3: 16; Gen. 3: 15, A. V. This is part of “the great mystery of godliness—God manifest in the flesh.” 1 Tim. 3: 16.
God’s end-time messenger wrote (all emphasis mine):
“Laying aside His royal robe and kingly crown, Christ clothed His divinity with humanity, THAT HUMAN BEINGS MIGHT BE RAISED FROM THEIR DEGRADATION, and placed on vantage ground. Christ could not have come to this earth with the GLORY that He had in the heavenly courts. SINFUL BEINGS COULD NOT HAVE BORNE THE SIGHT. He veiled His divinity with the GARB of humanity, BUT HE DID NOT PART WITH HIS DIVINITY.
“A divine-human Savior, He came to stand at the HEAD OF THE FALLEN RACE, to share in their experience FROM CHILDHOOD TO MANHOOD.
“That human beings might be PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE, He came to thjs [fallen, sin-cursed] earth, and lived a life of perfect obedience.” – E. G. White, Review and Herald, June 15, 1905, p. 8.
Clearly then, in order that the Creator could become the Redeemer of man, who alone was “made in the image and after the likeness of God,” but became fallen sinners by disobedience to His eternal, immutable law of righteousness, He, the Lawgiver, partook of the likeness of the sinful flesh nature four thousand years after the fall in Eden. In this eternally- adopted human nature He, “Jesus of Nazareth,” perfected obedience to His law through sufferings of the fallen human nature, and thereby became the Savior-by-Example for all man, from childhood to manhood.
Let us all praise and thank God for “this unspeakable gift” this Thanksgiving!
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.