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Part of what I feel like I want the Lord to do for us in these messages that we give around the Christmas season is to just help you to be fresh in your understanding of the glories of Christ for those very opportunities that will come to you to answer questions, enter into dialogue with people who may not have committed their lives to Christ, just to give you a fresh and a new insight. It's not as if we don't know the story of Christ, it's not as if we don't understand the depth of the incarnation, the theology of what was going on in Bethlehem, we do know that and that's why we're here. We love these truths. We worship. And they're familiar like an old song that we love that brings back rich and wonderful memories. That's part of what makes Christmas the celebration that it is, it's so loaded with history and memories from the past and we sort of dive back into the pool of all that's gone before and enjoy all of the memories that have made up the Christmases of our past.
And so from the standpoint of the Word of God, not to introduce anything new to you but to go back to the familiar ground of John chapter 1, John's account of the incarnation, as I told you last week. John tells the Christmas story without Joseph, without Mary, without the baby, without the stable, without the manger, without the shepherds, without the wise men, without the star, without the angels, without all the familiar components of the Christmas story, John gives us the real story of what was happening. It's a theological look at Christmas, rather than the historical facts that we find in Matthew and Luke's account.
And the key verse that we're looking at in the first chapter of John's gospel is verse 14, and the opening phrase, "The Word became flesh." The Word became flesh. With an economy of words, marvelous, profound simplicity captures our minds. "The Word became flesh" says it all. When you unpack that, there's an infinity in those four words, the Word became flesh. That is the theology of Christmas.
The Word, as we learned last time, is the eternal God, God the Son. The Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, have existed always, eternally and the Word became flesh explains that the second member of the Trinity, the eternal Son of God became a man. As I told you last time, God is eternal, pure being, no beginning and no end, and no changing. God is pure eternal being. Everything else that has been created is becoming. God is ami the verb to be. Everything that is created is ginomai, becoming, changing, altering, mutating, moving, growing. And here the amazing miracle is the Word, eternal pure being, entered into the universe of the becoming ones and became a man.
John's point is clear. God became something He had never been without ceasing to be what He had always been, the Word became flesh, the eternal God became a man. The Word, pure eternal being, became a man, a creature becoming, starting out as an embryo planted by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, growing there for nine months, and then born as an infant, a child, a young adult, and a man subject to all the change of being part of His creation.
This didn't happen on December 25th by the way. And it didn't happen on the Jewish equivalent of that in their calendar. But that really doesn't matter. It shouldn't matter. No celebration could be too great to overstate the incarnation. No celebration could be too grand to overestimate the impact of the incarnation. I'm fine with picking a day a year. The only thing better than that would be just to be reminded of it every single day. We cannot overstate the importance of this, the impact of the incarnation. As Christians, we get that. We understand that. We grasp this with all our spiritual might and make everything we can out of it so that we can fully focus our attention for a month a year on the glory of the greatest event in the history of the world, the incarnation of God in human form.
It is, however, a very strange and bizarre paradox that another figure has intruded into the middle of our celebration. And there doesn't seem to be any way to get rid of him. He is everywhere at this time of the year and is far more prevalent than any representation of Jesus Christ. Oddly enough, his name is a rearrangement of the letters that are the New Testament title for the demonic archenemy of Jesus Christ Himself.
And by the way, there is a hymn to this intruder. There is a hymn with his theology in it and you know the hymn and you're kids know the hymn. It goes like this, "You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town." You probably couldn't quote Robert Burns. You probably couldn't quote Emily Dickenson. You probably couldn't quote Keats and Shelley, but you can quote that…unfortunately. Meager effort at poetry at best, and a hopeless attempt at theology. "He's making a list and checking it twice, going to find out who's naughty and nice, Santa Claus is coming to town. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He's knows when you've been good or bad, so be good for goodness sake. You better not pout, you better not cry…oh, you better watch out, you better not pout…no, you better watch out, you better not," You can see I'm not familiar with this theology. "You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town." That was written by two guys, Coots was one of them, and a man named Haven in 1934 and established a hymn to this intruder.
As I said, you all know it, you hear it all the time, your children may know it, and it teaches a false theology about a false non-existent person, sets up a set of false doctrines and a means for you to gain heavenly favor from this individual if you're good.
What is interesting about this whole Santa Claus thing is that he has powers that are paralleled to God. Now I know that to sort of talk against Santa Claus is to line up with the Grinch who stole Christmas, and at the risk of being a Grinch for a moment or two, I'll bear the stigma to point out the bizarre nature of this Santa myth.
First of all, it teaches that Santa is a transcendent being…he is a transcendent being; he's not subject to the powers of this world. He can fly and he can cover the entire planet, stop at every single house and do it in one night. He is a very powerful being. He lives at the North Pole, but if you go to the North Pole, there's a town in Alaska called North Pole, you're not going to find him there because he's way north of that, he's a heavenly being and he's surrounded by other heavenly beings who aren't subject to normal constraints in life of the rest of creation. He is also all-knowing. He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been good or bad, so be good for goodness sake. He is omniscient. He is omnipresent. He knows what's going on. And by the way, he also promises and threats. If you're good, you'll get gifts; and if you're not good, the idea is if you're naughty you're not going to get any gifts. At that point he doesn't keep his word because we're all naughty and we still get our gifts. And so this guy doesn't tell the truth. He's not consistent with his promises.
He makes threats and doesn't follow through on them. My parents threw that at me when I was a kid. If you expect anything for Christmas, you better be good. And they gave me things anyway. The good thing about Santa is, you only have to worry about him once a year. And by the way, because he does bring gifts anyway, even though we're all bad, I've decided that theologically he's a Universalist. You will ultimately receive his favor even if you're bad.
It's a powerful kind of figure, this Santa who favors people on the basis of them being good. That's a familiar line, isn't it? That's essentially what makes up every religion in the world but Christianity. Good works will earn you favor with transcendent God. Santa represents a transcendent being who doesn't exist, who doesn't tell the truth, who has empty threats, who has a works system, rewards people on the basis of their doing good and who only shows up once a year.
On the other hand, this obliterates the true God, the true Christ, the living Son of God who speaks only the truth, gives salvation not by works but by grace. Keeps all His promises. Will judge those who reject Him. And always be gracious to those who receive Him and is always present, not just one night a year. It's just an odd juxtaposing, isn't it?
Well let's look at John's account, enough of Santa Claus, that's really kind of a hard thing for me to talk about from this pulpit, Santa Claus…who'd a thought, huh? We'll go back to John chapter 1 and we'll talk about the real story of Christmas, the Word became flesh…the Word became flesh. The incarnation is a reality in time/space history. This is Christianity. If we don't have an incarnation, we don't have Christianity.
The world is consumed at this time of year with the frivolous joy tied to a fantasy and reinforcing good works is the epitome of self-elevation. And in the celebration of Santa, the true Savior, the only source of true joy, eternal joy, is obscured. But we get it and that's why we're here. And I know there are a lot of churches that canceled their Sunday services because they didn't want to intrude into Christmas. What a bizarre idea. Of all times to meet together it would be on this day, wouldn't it?, to celebrate the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It was 1934 when those two men gave us the theology of Santa. It was two thousand years ago when John gave us the divine theology of Jesus Christ. John opens his majestic account of the life of Christ, called the gospel of John, by establishing Him as the incarnate God. That's the whole point of the opening 18 verses. He starts out referring to Him as the eternal Son who is preexistent, coexistent and self-existent. And that identifies Him as God.
You know these familiar verses, "In the beginning was the Word." The Word is identified here as the second member of the Trinity, the Son of God, who came into the world in human form, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is called the Word because in the Greek world, in the secular world, the Gentile world, they had taken the term logos which is the Greek word for word, and they had used that as a title to identify the mind, the intelligence, the wisdom and the power that created the universe. They knew there was an intelligent mind, that there was a massive power. There had to be a cause for this effect called creation. They knew that. Philosophers knew it. They gave it a name, logos, it was impersonal. It was a power. It was a force. It was some kind of an entity without being a person.
And John borrows that and simply says, "That which you identify as the force that made everything that is, that embedded it with wisdom and intelligence is none other than the person of Jesus Christ. He is the Creator of the universe. He says that in verse 3. There isn't anything that exists that He didn't make.
So, He is preexistent. In the beginning, that's the beginning of the creation, Genesis 1, "In the beginning God created," in the beginning when God created the Word was. In other words, He was already existing at creation which makes Him preexistent which makes Him God. Anything that is preexistent to creation is outside of creation and that can only be God. He is also co-existent. The Word was God. He is not only with God, preexistent, He is God coexistent. And then the third evidence of His deity in verse 4, "In Him was life, He is self-existent." Nobody gave Him life. He didn't take life from someone else.
Somebody said to me last week, "What about John 5:26 where it says the Father gave Him to have life in Himself." All that simply means is that in the incarnation, the Father did not withdraw from Him in His humiliation the power to give life. He is life. "I am the way, the truth and the life." The Father gave Him to have life in Himself, only in the sense that in His self-emptying and His incarnation, He retained all that He was before His incarnation. This is the eternal one, the eternal Son called the Word.
Word works also for the Jews because the Word of the Lord was an expression they were familiar with. Whenever God revealed Himself, disclosed Himself in the Old Testament, He was speaking. Sure there were appearances of God and in fire and a cloud and the glory of God and things like that, but when God communicated, He spoke. And so, the Word became the manifestation of God. So for the Gentile, God is manifest in the person Jesus Christ. God the one who is the power behind creation. To the Jew, God has spoken in His Son. He spoke in time past, Hebrews 1:1and 2 says, through the prophets, now He has spoken to us by His Son. And He is speaking more clearly than ever in Christ. So He is the communication of God, the manifestation of God, the proclamation of God, the declaration of God in human flesh, the eternal Son.
In verses 6 through 8 we read that He is not only the eternal Son, He is the manifest Son. He is the manifest Son. He comes as light into the darkness and He lights every man who sees Him and believes. The eternal Son becomes the manifest Son. Sadly verses 9 to 11 tell us He became the rejected Son. He came into the world, the world didn't know Him and that's the broad sense, He came to His own people, the Jews, and they refused Him. They did not receive Him. In fact, they rejected Him.
The eternal Son becomes the manifest Son in His incarnation. Life, eternal life becomes light and that's simply to say He becomes visible. He is the rejected Son, verses 12 and 13, we closed off last Sunday by saying He is still the sovereign Son, as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God even to those who believe in His name who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. A divine miracle occurs to those who believe and the Son Himself gives them the right to become eternal children of God. That's salvation.
John is pointing us in the direction of this child that is born in a manger in Bethlehem in saying He's the eternal Son, He is the manifest Son, the rejected Son and the sovereign Son. And that brings us to verses 14 to 18 for just a little bit this morning. He is the glorious Son. John pulls all kinds of things together here that He's already indicated and adds a few that he hasn't and plays off this opening statement, "The Word became flesh…The Word became flesh." That, my dear friends, is the most important reality in human history. It is the most important essential truth in Christianity. No incarnation – no Christianity. It is essential for Christianity, it is essential for salvation. Unless God becomes a man, unless there is a perfect sacrifice, a man to die in the place of men and God at the same time to conquer death, there is no salvation. So the eternal Word became flesh, pure eternal being becomes something He had never been before without ceasing to be what He always was.
This is the mystery of Jesus Christ, fully God and fully man. It's a staggering concept. It's a stunning declaration by the apostle John and there have been people very early on in the Christian world who felt that this was just too irreverent. There was this idea that flesh, mortal flesh was bad and evil, and you wonder where they got that idea? Not hard to conclude that. Sinful people recognize they couldn't comprehend humanity without sinfulness, and for Christ to take on humanity seemed to be too demeaning and out of misguided reverence they came up with this notion that He only appeared to be human, it was only an apparition, it was only a phantom, only a kind of ghost humanity. They were called docetists because they were drawn from the Greek verb dokan which means to seem to be. Docetism is a famous heresy that was debunked very early on. In fact, John even writes against it, that's how early it was. Even in New Testament times at the end of the first century in the nineties, John is writing in 1 John 4:2 and 3 and saying this, "Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, truly human, is of God. And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God." Fully God, fully man and John is speaking against that dosatic heresy already developed.
The apostle Paul addresses it in a brief line in that hymn in Timothy 3 when he speaks of Christ, the mystery of godliness, "He who was revealed in the flesh." The marvel remains that this is true and so beautifully and simply stated the Word became flesh. The Word—fully God. Flesh meaning fully human.
And then John says, "And dwelt among us." And that is so important. The Greek verb sknosend means to tent, or literally tented, tented, pitched his tent. Had Christ ever appeared before, had the second member of the Trinity ever appeared before the incarnation? That's a very good question and starting in January when we do our Old Testament series on looking for Christ in the Old Testament, we're going to find out that He did appear in the Old Testament in what are called Christophanies, appearances of Christ before the incarnation. There are occasions when an angelic being called the angel of the Lord appears in a human form and these are Christophanies, these are pre-incarnate appearances of Christ. They are marvelous to behold, but wherever you see them, and they're scattered throughout the Old Testament period, they are brief…they are here and gone immediately, momentarily, fleeting appearances. But this time He dwelt among us, 33 years. The Christophanies of the Old Testament, and there are many, there are some that we're going to be looking at in more detail, they were very brief and only previews, only preliminary. Now we see the Word and He stays 33 years, 33 years He dwelt among us.
And then John says this, "And we saw His glory." John never got over this. We saw His glory. What do you mean, John? Well, if you went to the Old Testament the glory of God came down in Exodus chapter 40 into the tabernacle as light, remember that? And it led the children of Israel as a pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day. When the temple was finished in 1Kings 8, the glory of the Lord came down and it filled the temple to such a degree that people couldn't even function in there. So the glory of God had shown up.
There was one occasion in the ministry in the life of Jesus Christ recorded by Matthew and by Luke where Jesus took Peter, James and John up into a mountain and He revealed His glory. You remember that? It's called the Transfiguration, He pulled back the veil of His flesh and they saw the glory in light, they saw manifest glory reduced to light and that was to let them know that He is the same glory that appeared in the glory, the Shekinah that walked with Adam in the Garden, the same glory that came into the tabernacle in the fortieth chapter of Exodus and filled it, the same glory that came into the temple in 1 Kings 8 and filled it, the presence of God.
So when Jesus showed His glory, they were seeing His glory. And, of course, they were immediately literally knocked to the ground and went into a semi-coma under the fiery fury of that blazing light. Peter, James and John were there. Is that what John's talking about? Peter made reference to that. Peter said, "When we were with Him in the holy mount, we beheld His glory." We saw His glory. Is that what John is referring to here?
I don't think so. I don't think so. We saw His glory, John says. What kind of glory, John? Glory as of the only begotten from the Father. Glory has an only begotten from the Father? Yes, glory that is connected to God. Glory that is connected to God. Glory that is possessed by one who must have the same life as God. Only begotten is a word that needs an explanation because from our viewpoint when we would look at that word, we would say well that seems to sound like there was a time when He didn't exist, right? And He's the only begotten. That's not what the word means. The word is the word in the Greek monogenes…monogenes. The emphasis is two-fold. First of all, shared life…shared life. What John is saying is that He possessed the life of the Father…the life of the Father. But what about the monogenes? What exactly does it mean only begotten?
I'll give you an illustration of it. This word cannot mean simply that God brought Him to life and He's the only one that God ever brought into life because I'll demonstrate that in Hebrews 11:17…Hebrews 11:17. Talking about Abraham, "By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac." And we remember the story, don't we? Genesis 22, he offered up Isaac and he who had received the promises, that's Abraham, was offering up his and the NAS says the same thing, his only begotten son. Now let me ask you a question. Was Isaac Abraham's only begotten son in the sense that he had no other sons? No. He had another son named Ishmael. Ishmael was born before Isaac was born and was a son of Abraham. Here is evidence that this term, monogenes means the son of privilege, the son of inheritance, the son of right. Not only the possessor of the nature of the father, but the one who possesses all the inheritance of the father. Jesus Christ then is called monogenes one, because he bears the nature of the father; two, because the Father has given Him all that He possesses. He is the monogenes, eternally the Son and eternally the heir. That is why Jesus Himself said, "All authorities in heaven and earth have been given to Me. All authority in heaven and earth has been given to Me." John 5 He says, "All judgment has been given to Me." All the kingdoms of this world are Mine. He is the heir to the Father. He bears the Father's nature and He is the only heir to the Father.
So John is saying, "We saw His glory and it was the same glory that would belong to one who possessed everything that was true of God." You say, "Well was he talking about the light that he saw on the Mount of Transfiguration?" No, because he goes on to say this, "Full of grace and truth." He moves away from sort of manifest glory, manifest glory to moral glory, one way to say it. What's the glory of God? Is it just light? Isn't light just a representation, kind of a symbol?
If you go back to the thirty-fourth chapter of Exodus, Moses says to God, "Show me Your glory. I want to see Your glory." He says it in chapter thirty-three, he asks God to show him His glory. Moses is afraid to go ahead without God and to be sure that God is there he says, "I want You to show me Your glory." And God is gracious and God responds. Verse 18:33, Exodus 33:18, Moses said, "Show me Your glory." And what did God do? He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, I'll proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I'll be gracious, I'll show compassion on whom I will show compassion." And then you go down in to chapter 34, "The Lord, the Lord God as the Lord passes in front of him to show him His glory, He identifies Himself as compassionate, gracious, show to anger, abounding in loving kindness and truth, who keeps loving kindness for thousands, forgives iniquity, transgression and sin, will by no means leave the guilty unpunished," etc., etc.
What are these? These are all attributes of God. They're all attributes of God. The glory of God is His love, His grace, His mercy, His wisdom, His knowledge, His power, His justice, His holiness, His immutability, His compassion, His omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, anger, wrath, kindness, patience, all of His attributes. And when John says we saw His glory, that's what John saw. Those three years that John was with Christ, we saw His glory, the very glory that belongs only to God and therefore proves Him to be the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. Why out of all the panoply of attributes does he pick grace and truth? Because they're related to salvation. They're related to salvation. John says we saw it.
In fact, he never really got over that. Turn to 1 John, he introduces that to us in the beginning of his gospel, and he does the same thing in the beginning of his epistles. He wrote three epistles, 1, 2, 3 John, but notice the similarity in how he begins. First John 1, again he refers to the Son of God as the Word, the Word of life, the same as he does in chapter 1 of the gospel, what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands concerning the Word of life and the life was manifested and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us, what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also.
This is such an important passage of Scripture; I memorized it years ago in Greek, just to familiarize myself with it. John never got over this. We saw His glory. We heard, we saw, we stared at, we touched, it was manifest, we saw full grace on display, full truth on display. That's what he's referring to. Those things which were known to them to be attributes of the eternal God were manifest in Christ. Grace and truth relate to salvation. They saw grace in Him. They saw grace, that's a big category. His message was grace which encompassed compassion, mercy, kindness, patience, tenderness, but more importantly, forgiveness of sins, transgressions and iniquities as Exodus 33 describes God. They saw grace in Him, the grace that they were familiar with as belonging to God and they heard truth from Him. He said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life."
In John chapter 8 he said, very simply, "When you find Me, you find the truth. You'll know the truth and the truth will…what?...set you free…from what?...from the search for the truth…the search is over." They saw not just grace and truth in Him, as sort of over-arching attributes, but he was full of grace and truth, no half measures, no fractions, perfection.
When John has an opportunity to pull two attributes for the sake of illustration, he pulls two most wonderful attributes, always truthful, always gracious, full truth, full grace. That is in the sense that it is consistent with all that God is. Let me demonstrate that to you from Colossians chapter 1, Colossians chapter 1 and verse 19 says, referring to Christ, and this is a great text on Christ, Colossians1, verse 15, "He's the image of the invisible God," again He is the first born, the monogenes. "By Him all things were created, in heaven on earth, visible, invisible, thrones, dominions, rulers, authorities, all things have been created through Him and for Him, He's before all things, in Him all things hold together. He's the head of the body, the church. He's the beginning, the first-born from the dead." Again the prototokos of all that have ever been raised, He's the premier one, He Himself comes to have first place in everything. And then this, "It was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, all the fullness to dwell in Him." Everything that God is, dwells in Him. When the incarnation happened and Christ came, God was not diminished in Him at all. He was fully God as He had eternally been and fully man, no less God.
To show you even more deeply the reality of this, verse 19 again, the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him. Then you go to chapter 2 verse 3, "Therefore in Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." If all fullness dwells in Him, then all wisdom and all knowledge is part of that all fullness. And then verse 9, "In Him all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form." And then here's the most amazing truth, "In Him you have been made complete. All the fullness of God dwells in Him, He dwells in you and all the fullness of God dwells in you and you're complete. That's just a stunning reality. Follow it in this passage. John testified about Him and cried out, John the Baptist, saying, "This was He of whom I said, He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me." Even John the Baptist that everybody recognized to be a prophet, all men perceived John as a prophet, said, "He came after me."
What did he mean by that? When it came to birth? John the Baptist was born Jesus, right? Elizabeth was pregnant long before Mary, months. John the Baptist in regard to birth, born before Jesus. Regard to ministry, John begins his ministry before Jesus, so in terms of birth John comes first. In terms of ministry, John comes first. But John says, "In terms of existence," he says, "He existed before me." He ranks higher than me because He existed before me. If He existed before he was born, then He's the eternal one.
Here's the testimony of the prophet that everybody recognized to be a prophet of the eternality of Christ, the full deity of Jesus Christ. So you have not only the testimony of John the apostle writing this, but John the apostle borrows from his namesake, John the Baptist, to make the same testimony. And then this wonderful news, verse 16 of His fullness, as I said a moment ago, we have all received. Just think of it, all the fullness of deity dwells in Him, He dwells in us, therefore of all that fullness we receive. Just think of it. And grace upon grace, grace upon grace. That verse…that verse has almost infinite possibilities of discussion. There's a book in that verse, maybe several.
What do you mean grace upon grace? What does he mean? He means grace literally grace in the place of grace. That's the Greek. Grace in the place of grace. Grace in the place of grace. Grace just keeps replacing itself. It's overlapping. It's like waves. If you go down to the beach, and you watch the waves, you don't know where one ends and one begins, they just roll on top of each other. That's the notion expressed in the way this is framed. Waves of grace rolling on us. Romans 5:2 says, "We stand in grace, we literally are engulfed in waves of grace." You don't live on past grace, you don't live on stale grace, you live on grace replacing grace replacing grace, replacing grace. Grace on top of grace, His mercies are new every morning. There are no gaps in His grace. This is an amazing, amazing statement.
You as a believer in Jesus Christ not only have received the authority to become the children of God, but you have been given eternal life and you will be the recipient of endless grace without any break, without any gaps, there's just grace and more grace. Grace is like a stream flowing constantly every moment of every hour, no moment, no split second is ever apart from the satisfying overwhelming goodness of God in giving grace to sinners such as we are.
And then verse 17, he says, "It came through Christ," the Law was given through Moses, there's no grace in the Law, the Law will kill you, the Law will hold you guilty, the Law will hold you accountable, the Law will render a judgment and a verdict on you and the verdict of the Law is death. Kill the sinner, the soul that sins, it shall die. The wages of sin is death. Hebrews 10:28 says it this way, "The one who despised Moses' Law died without mercy. There's no mercy in the Law, there's no grace in the Law, the Law is the Law. Paul calls the Law the ministration of death.
So if you're going to try to live under the Law, you're going to live Santa Clause way, you're going to be good, you're going to end up eternally dead cause the Law will only kill. But grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. This is the good news of the gospel, isn't it?
We come then to the final verse in John's prologue where he kind of sums everything that he said up. No one has seen God at any time. The Old Testament says no one can see me and live. No one has seen God at any time. And by the way, that's one of the reasons why many Bible scholars believe that the appearances of God in visible form in the Old Testament were appearances of Christ rather than the Father, preincarnate appearances of Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The monogenes, God, there's another way to say that, the only begotten God. Well God isn't born, there wasn't a time when God wasn't, so if you compare the only begotten from the Father, with this designation, the only begotten God, both of which refer to Christ, then you know that monogenes isn't talking about something that brought Him into existence. It's talking about the fact that He bears the same nature and possesses all the inheritance, all the goodness, all the greatness and all the gifts and all the possessions that belong to His Father, the one who is called the monogenes God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father, the one who is wrapped up in the Father. Again this emphasis of Trinitarian unity, He has explained it.
You want an explanation of God? I'll give you one. Read the four gospels. That's the best explanation of God you'll ever have. You want to know what God is like? John says we'll tell you, we saw Him, we heard Him, we looked at Him, we touched Him, we walked with Him, we were there every day 24/7 for three years, we saw His glory. And it wasn't human glory, it was the glory of one who bore the same life as God and it was full of the things that characterize God, grace and truth. Moses saw the back parts. We see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4:4. We see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
God showed Moses His back parts. God showed us His face. And His face is the face of Jesus Christ. You read John's gospel and he never gets over the wonder of the fact that He is seeing God every day. The whole gospel of John focuses on the things that reveal that Jesus is God. And that's how he ends the gospel. Chapter 20 verse 31, "These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that believing you may have life in His name."
The eternal, incarnate, omnipotent, glorious Christ, and wonder of wonders of His fullness, we have all received, and grace, upon grace, upon grace. It would be one thing for Christ to come into the world and reveal Himself, it's quite another for Him to take up residence in us, isn't it? But that's the truth. When we come together like this to worship Christ, we do not worship a Christ who is above us, or apart from us, or outside of us, but we worship a Christ who is inside of us. And we are the recipients of grace upon grace upon grace. As Christians, we never get to the place where God can stop giving us grace because we can make it on our own, right? We need grace until that day when we enter into the heavens and are made perfect. Until then we need what He gives, grace upon grace, upon grace, grace for all our sins as He keeps us by the power of the Holy Spirit to eternal glory.
This is why we celebrate. This is why we honor the Lord on this occasion. Let's bow in prayer.
We are deeply grateful for the clarity with which the Word of God speaks to us on these matters and so thankful, Lord, that You have given us such revelation so that we don't have endless questions that are unanswered, speculations, fears. That You have revealed Yourself in words that are simple enough for a child to understand, clear to us, and yet beyond comprehension. How could we ever understand that You would step inside Your creation, pure eternal being would make Himself a part of those who are becoming, that You, the Creator, become part of Your creation. How could we ever comprehend that in Christ would be all the fullness of deity, bodily and Christ would come to live in us and we would be complete in Him and receive from Him all the fullness and grace upon grace. This is the wonder of our salvation. This is the motivation for our worship. And may we lift up our hearts in true worship as we celebrate this day, we pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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Kelvin Taylor has yet to play a down of college football.
Still, many expect the Florida Gators' running back signee to make an immediate impact during the 2013 season.
The website AthlonSports.com, which also publishes an annual season preview magazine, lists Taylor as one of the "10 College Football True Freshman Likely to Make an Impact in 2013."
It's a national list, so Taylor earning recognition as one of the top-10 true freshmen in the country is certainly noteworthy.
The 5-foot-11, 216-pounder enrolled in classes at UF last month, meaning he's already on campus working out and will be with the team for spring practices. That will give him an even better opportunity of contributing early than he would have had if he had enrolled this upcoming summer.
Although a starter has not officially been named, sophomore Matt Jones is in line to start the season opener against Toledo on Aug. 31. Taylor is vying for playing time along with returnee Mack Brown and fellow signee Adam Lane, who'll arrive on campus this summer.
Here's what Athlon wrote about Taylor's chances:
"Florida must find a replacement for Mike Gillislee … Even if Jones starts the opener, look for Taylor to see plenty of action next season."
Taylor, of course, is the son of former Florida and NFL running back Fred Taylor. Athlon ranks Kelvin Taylor as the No. 3 running back in the country in the Class of 2013.
After breaking Emmitt Smith's state of Florida career rushing record as a junior, he also received scholarship offers from Alabama, Auburn, Florida State, LSU, Miami and South Carolina, among others, before becoming one of the first verbal commitments of UF's 2013 class on Feb. 18, 2012.
Florida fans will get their first look at Taylor in his No. 21 Gators jersey — the same number his father wore — during the Orange & Blue Debut spring scrimmage at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on April 6.
Taylor is reportedly working on his speed to lower his 4.63-second, 40-yard dash time. He also recorded a 31-inch vertical leap in high school.
Athlon's list features three true freshmen from the SEC among the top 10. The others are Ole Miss defensive end Robert Nkemdiche and Texas A&M receiver Ricky Seals-Jones.
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UC Irvine women's golfers Michelle Park and Luciane Lee have been selected to participate as individuals in the NCAA West Regional, May 9-11 at the Stanford Golf Course.
Park, a senior, has posted four top-10 finishes this season and leads UCI with a 75.33 scoring average.
Lee, a freshman, has a 76.05 scoring average. She was second at the Fresno State tournament and third at the Juli Inkster Invitational.
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Theoretical models
From Proteopedia
This article needs to be improved, expanded, and more references need to be cited.
The term theoretical model refers to a molecular model obtained, wholly or in part, by the use of theory, such as homology modeling, energy minimization, molecular mechanics or molecular dynamics. Such theoretical models are distinguished from empirical models, which are usually obtained by X-ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
The distinction between theoretical and empirical models is important because when theoretical models are compared with empirical models, the theoretical models often contain significant errors. In contrast, when the structure of a particular macromolecule is determined using empirical methods by different laboratories, or both by crystallography and NMR, the agreement is usually quite good.
1,390 theoretical models were historically deposited in the Protein Data Bank but removed from the main database in 2002. The structure displayed in the pages automatically generated in Proteopedia for these theoretical models should be interpreted with caution (see Category:Theoretical Model).
Empirical Models
Empirical models are not theoretical models, but are mentioned here for the sake of completeness. Empirical models, usually determined by X-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance or cyro-electron microscopy, are the most reliable and accurate models available. Methods for judging the reliability and quality of empirical models are discussed at Quality assessment for molecular models. Independent determinations of the same protein by empirical methods generally agree within about 0.5 Å RMS for carbon alphas (reference needed).
Homology Models
Method & Limitations
Homology models, also called comparative models, are obtained by folding a query protein sequence (also called the target sequence) to fit an empirically-determined template model. The registration between residues in the query and template is determined by an amino acid sequence alignment between the query and template sequences.
- Imagine that the template's polypeptide backbone is a folded glass tube. Now imagine that the query sequence is a thin metal chain that can be pulled through the tube. The chain (query) will adopt the same fold as the tube (template). The sequence alignment specifies how far the chain should be pulled into the tube; that is, how the residues in the query sequence match up with the structure of the template.
Errors or uncertainties in the sequence alignment result in errors or uncertainties in the homology model. Portions of the query sequence cannot be modeled reliably when there are Insertions/deletions in either sequence, or portions of the template that lack coordinates due to crystallographic disorder. Provided there is sufficient sequence identity between the query and template, the main chain in homology models is usually mostly correct. However, the positions of sidechains in homology models are usually incorrect.
Nevertheless, homology models are useful for seeing low-resolution features, such as which residues are on the surface or buried, which are close to other features of interest (such as a putative active site), and the overall distribution of charges and evolutionary conservation.
Attempts to improve homology models by molecular dynamics simulations have not been successful: "in most cases, simulations initiated from homology models drift away from the native structure"[1].
For further information, please see Practical Guide to Homology Modeling.
Paucity of Templates
Empirically-determined templates with adequate sequence identity are available for less than half of all protein sequences. One of the major goals of structural genomics is to increase the sequence diversity of the available empirically-determined structures that can be used as templates for homology modeling.
A number of free servers have libraries of homology models generated in advance for protein sequences, and many will create homology models for a submitted protein sequence. For more, please see
When no suitable template exists, the Structural Genomics Target Database should be searched with your sequence. In some cases, a sequence-similar protein has already been crystallized and diffracted, but the model may not have been completed, or the completed model may not yet have been deposited in the PDB. In such cases, it may be worthwhile to contact the team that has made the most progress on a closely related sequence.
See Also
- Homology modeling
- Practical Guide to Homology Modeling
- Homology modeling servers
- The list of resources at User:Wayne Decatur/Homology Modeling.
- Homology Modeling in Wikipedia
- Structure of E. coli DnaC helicase loader concerns a homology model.
Ab Initio Models
When there is no template with sufficient sequence identity to use for homology modeling, one can use ab initio or de novo folding theory to predict the structure of a target protein sequence. Such theory is about 70% successful at predicting secondary structure[2]. Tertiary structure prediction has modest success for small protein chains (80 amino acids or less), but is generally unable to predict the fold for longer chains. In about one out of four cases of small domains of less than 85 amino acids, the best predictions are within about 1.5 Å (RMS for carbon alphas) of the true structure[3]. (Independent determinations of the same protein by empirical methods generally agree within about 0.5 Å RMS for carbon alphas.)
The success of fold prediction methods is assessed biannually in the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competitions[4]. Crystallographers submit sequences which they have solved, but for which the structures have not yet been published. Modelers predict the folds which are then compared with subsequently published structures. Beginning in CASP5 (2002), the ability to predict intrinsic disorder was included[5]. There are also competitions to predict protein-protein docking interactions[6]
Assessment of CASP results is done in a double-blind manner: the predictors do not know the empirical structures, and the assessors do not know the identities of the predictors, which are coded. In CASP8 (2008), there were 13 "template free" targets, that is, sequences for which no significant sequence identity occurred for any empirically solved entry in the PDB. These are the most difficult to predict, as they must be predicted by ab initio methods. 102 groups submitted predictions. Assessing the quality of a prediction is not simple, given that even "good" predictions can have high root mean square (RMS) deviations for alpha carbon alignment, e.g. due to a hinge[7]. Several assessment methods were used, each emphasizing different qualities. A number of groups submitted good predictions for six of the thirteen targets[7]. None of the submitted models was judged to be satisfactory for four of the thirteen templates[7].
See Also
- Theoretical models displayed in Proteopedia must be clearly identified: see Proteopedia:Policy#Theoretical Models using methods explained at Proteopedia:Cookbook#Theoretical Models.
- Category:Theoretical Model
- Homology modeling
- Practical Guide to Homology Modeling
- Homology modeling servers
- Structural genomics
- Folding@Home and Rosetta@home use distributed computing to fold proteins and address structural biology issues.
- Protein Folding Game called Foldit: Are humans good at folding? Can crowdsourcing help the folding problem? Game to assess how well you folded a solved protein. Structures given as folding puzzles aren't include solved structures and necessarily derived from theoretical; however, the goal of users is to produce a theoretical model that matches the known structure without referring to known structure. Check out an article on it in Nature[8] and this coverage of the project.
- Zhou and Robinson[9] discuss integrating mass spectrometry and structural models to understand location of post-translational modifications. They include examples of superimposing homologous proteins in a complex and superposing on that the location of modifications to better understand complexes and the interactions of modified portions of proteins in such complexes.
- RNaseA Nobel Prizes for discussion of protein folding.
- Biological Complexes
References & Links
- ↑ Raval A, Piana S, Eastwood MP, Dror RO, Shaw DE. Refinement of protein structure homology models via long, all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. Proteins. 2012 Aug;80(8):2071-9. doi: 10.1002/prot.24098. Epub 2012 May 15. PMID:22513870 doi:10.1002/prot.24098
- ↑ Accuracy of Protein Structure Prediction at Stanford University.
- ↑ Bradley P, Misura KM, Baker D. Toward high-resolution de novo structure prediction for small proteins. Science. 2005 Sep 16;309(5742):1868-71. PMID:16166519 doi:309/5742/1868
- ↑ Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP).
- ↑ Noivirt-Brik O, Prilusky J, Sussman JL. Assessment of disorder predictions in CASP8. Proteins. 2009 Aug 21. PMID:19774619 doi:10.1002/prot.22586
- ↑ CAPRI: Critical Assessment of PRediction of Interactions.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Ben-David M, Noivirt-Brik O, Paz A, Prilusky J, Sussman JL, Levy Y. Assessment of CASP8 structure predictions for template free targets. Proteins. 2009 Aug 21. PMID:19774550 doi:10.1002/prot.22591
- ↑ Cooper S, Khatib F, Treuille A, Barbero J, Lee J, Beenen M, Leaver-Fay A, Baker D, Popovic Z, Players F. Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game. Nature. 2010 Aug 5;466(7307):756-60. PMID:20686574 doi:10.1038/nature09304
- ↑ Zhou M, Robinson CV. When proteomics meets structural biology. Trends Biochem Sci. 2010 Jun 3. PMID:20627589 doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2010.04.007


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In the coming 2012 U.S. presidential election, it is likely that several minor political parties will run candidates. The Libertarian Party will probably nominate Gary Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico, as its candidate, and Americans Elect, may have Buddy Roemer, a former governor of Louisiana, heading its ticket.
Minor parties have been around for a long time in the United States. And they have sometimes had an impact on elections and policies.
In this blog post, I'll focus on the two minor parties in the 1888 election and one in 1892. They all issued interesting posters, too.
The Prohibition Party, which had been established in 1869 to pressure state legislatures to ban "the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages," had done poorly in four prior presidential elections, getting less than 1.5 percent of the popular votes in each of them. It did a little better in 1888, with its ticket, headed by Temperance leader Clinton Fisk, receiving 2.2 percent. One of its posters illustrated the party's moralistic principles in a unique way, suggesting that prohibition would lead to a better, religious America (an insane asylum, grave, and distilleries are seen in the foreground; a church and Sunday school in the background). Although the Prohibition Party did not gain many votes nationally, it did influence state party platforms, and eventually helped encourage support for the Twenty-first Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
The Union Labor Party was formed in 1888, and got only 1.3 percent of the popular vote, doing best in states with few industrial areas, most notably Kansas (11.4 percent), Texas (8.2 percent), and Arkansas (6.8 percent). Its platform attempted to appeal to both American farmers and laborers by opposing land monopoly and calling for a limitation on land ownership, nationalization of communication and transportation systems, the free coinage of silver, equal pay for men and women (as well as demanding women's suffrage), a service pension bill, a graduated income tax, the direct election of U. S. senators, strict enforcement of laws prohibiting the importation of foreign workers, and the passage of specific legislation to prohibit immigrants from China. The poster for the Union Labor ticket (shown above), headed by Alson Streeter, was beautifully done by the Chicago firm of Kurz & Allison, and obviously targeted laborers and farmers—showing them, their implements, and featuring the slogan, "The Product of Labor Belongs to the Producer."
The People's (or Populist) Party
(established in 1891) did quite well. It made many of the same
proposals that had been in the Union Labor Party's platform
in the previous election, and issued conventional posters (with
symbols of workers and the slogan "Equal Rights to All; Special
Privileges to None"), but its ticket, led by James Weaver, was more
successful in delivering its message, getting 8.5 percent of the
popular vote (and 5 percent of the electoral vote), probably due to
the increased economic difficulties of many farmers. Its fiery
platform charged that governmental policies had "bred"
"two great classes—tramps and
millionaires," with "the fruits of the toil of
millions…badly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a
few…." In 1896, the Populists nominated
the Democratic Party's candidate, William
Jennings Bryan (who espoused many of their


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Interview: Bible Answer Man Hank Hanegraaff on 'Afterlife' (Part 1)
NASHVILLE – For millions of Americans, Hank Hanegraaff is known as the "Bible Answer Man" as they listen to his daily talk-radio show. Now Hanegraaff has addressed many of the most common questions about heaven and the eternal life in his latest book, Afterlife: What You Really Want to Know About Heaven and the Hereafter.
Hanegraaff sat down with The Christian Post during a break from networking at the National Religious Broadcasters convention to discuss the book and how Christians should prepare themselves for heaven and what they can expect.
CP: How did you get started in Christian Radio?
Hanegraaff: Actually, the show has been broadcasted for over two and a half decades. It's a broadcast focused on the fact that the Christian worldview can stand up to scrutiny when poised in a respectful and gentle manner.
CP: Of the thousands of calls you receive on your show, how many deal with heaven or what happens when believers and non-believers die?
Hanegraaff: Based on the number of books on heaven, such as Heaven is for Real and others, we have been getting more and more questions about the afterlife in general. I think it's because the death rate is one per person so we're all going to make it. Based on the subset of people who call themselves Christians, there is a limited amount of perspective on the issue. Most people think we're going to go "up there" (pointing upward) and imagine that we may all end up like Casper the ghost strumming a harp on a cloud.
The biblical worldview is completely different from that. A paradise lost will become a paradise restored. God doesn't scrap things; he redeems them. So what happens to the universe and what happens to our bodies goes hand in hand. This body that is now perishable will become imperishable. We'll go through a metamorphosis and we should understand what that entails but understand principally that this is a very platonic relationship. It's these rivers; these mountains and these hills will be restored.
CP: Explain what happens when we die. Do we get our new bodies immediately? Where does our spirit go? What will happen?
Hanegraaff: I've divided the book up into three sections explaining that very thing and many misconceptions lie at the center of your question. What we do now counts for all eternity, then life after life, which is the transitional heaven, and then life after life after life, which is the eternal heaven.
So, to directly respond to you your query, if I were to die now I would be absent from the body and as a believer my spirit would be present with the Lord. However, that is not the eternal state. If you think about it this way, when a woman gives birth, she gives birth to a body/soul unity. At death there is a natural rendering of body and soul. The body goes back to the ground from which it came and the soul now is with God. Souls by definition are not physical – they are non-physical.
Souls don't have locational properties, they have relational properties. But there is a time when it's going to have locational properties again and that will be when Jesus appears a second time. When he appears again then the soul returns to the body and that body is resurrected in an immortal, imperishable state.


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