Incarnation God Through Man

 Before I get started this article from FAI publishing is clear and true regarding the necessity of the flood and the necessity of wiping out whole nations when Israel entered the promised 

land.  https://www.faipublishing.org/articles/generations-days-of-noah

This line in that article added to my thoughts on incarnation. "Noah became an heir of righteousness which is according to faith." Hebrews 11:7

Art Katz has a series of teachings on incarnation which are also being played in my ears as I seek to convey this truth.  Most of the series is on this page, but you would have to go back one page (index is at the bottom of the page) to get the first one in the series. 

Lastly this podcast episode starting at about 31:45 minutes is very good for understanding the incarnation as a dance.

https://www.ivoox.com/en/dancing-with-the-spirit-gal-5-16-18-the-audios-mp3_rf_97023476_1.html

When our humanity is fully submitted and surrendered to God what is left is incarnation.

Incarnation is a place that is gained in the heavenly realm because of the death and resurrection of Yeshua.

Incarnation is a process as we die daily to self.  Self in both the sinful things and self in the desire to be known as a great person.  The only source of power for that process is faith that God's Life is enabling

 you to ferret out all of self.

This is the teen lesson that resulted from these thought on Incarnation.

Incarnation - The Life of God Being Lived Through a Human Life

Finding Purpose - Why Am I Here?

“When our humanity is fully submitted and surrendered to God what is

left is incarnation.”

Luke 8:43 And there was a woman with a blood flow for twelve

 years, who could not

 be healed by anyone. 44 She came up from behind and

touched the tzitzit of Yeshua’s garment. Immediately, her blood flow

stopped. 45 Yeshua said, “Who touched Me?”   When everyone

denied it, Peter said, “Master,

the crowds are surrounding You and pressing in!”   46 But Yeshua

  said, “Someone touched Me,

 for I recognized power going out from Me.”

47 Then seeing that she did not escape notice, the woman came trembling

and fell prostrate before Him. In the presence of all the people, 

she confessed

why she had touched Him and how she had been healed immediately.

48 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. 

Go in shalom.”

A touch of faith is totally different from being jostled by

the crowd. 

Yeshua, as a human being,

recognized that someone had just transacted with God

through His human body, and

He wanted to give the person the opportunity to glorify God

for the healing.

There is an inner “knowing” when a human is aware

that God wants you to do something, so I would say,

God the Father gave Jesus an inner knowing that a woman

had just been healed by touching His “prayer tassel” with faith.  

Acts 19:13-14 Some itinerant Jewish exorcists noticed Paul’s

success in this regard, so they tried to use the name of Jesus,

the King, in an exorcism they

were performing.  Imagine this: There are seven of them,

all sons of a Jewish chief priest

named Sceva, gathered

around a demonized man in a house.   One of the Jewish Exorcists: I

 command you to

 depart, by

the Jesus proclaimed

by Paul!  Evil Spirit: 15 Jesus I know. Paul I know. But who are you? 

16 Then the man leaps up, attacks them all, rips off their clothing,

and beats them so badly that they run out of the house stark naked

and covered in bruises.17 Word of this strange event spread

throughout Ephesus among

both Jews and Greeks.

Everyone was shocked and realized that the name of

Jesus was indeed powerful and praiseworthy. 

Paul had been faithful to the process of dying to self to the point

that He was an incarnation of God. 

The demons in this case know,

“Yep that is the name of a man we have to submit to

just like we have to submit to Jesus name,

because Paul is so “dead to self” that he is incarnating God.”  

Philippians 2:5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

6 Though he was God,   he did not think of equality with God

as something to cling to.

7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble

position of a slave    and was born as a human being.  When he

appeared in human form, 8 he humbled himself in obedience

to God and died a

criminal’s death on a cross.

John 5:19 So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son

can do nothing by himself.

He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the

Father does, the Son also does. 

John 5:30 I can do nothing on my own. I judge as God tells me.

Therefore, my judgment is just, because I carry out the will

of the one who sent me, not my own will.

John 6:38  For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God

who sent me, not to do my own will.

So here is the ultimate answer to the question

“Why am I here?” for the follower of Yeshua. 

You are here to be the human representative of the Life of God

and in community with other humans who are vessels of His life,

you are a witness to the world of what can happen when a human being

gets totally out of the way and lets the Life of God flow through them. 

This is the purpose of our lives to glorify God by being a vessel

of His Life.