{"id":3009,"date":"2007-12-18T00:10:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T00:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/12\/christmas-words-immanuel.html"},"modified":"2007-12-18T00:10:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T00:10:27","slug":"christmas-words-immanuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/12\/christmas-words-immanuel.html","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Words: Immanuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the richest Advent texts is this one:
\nAll of this happened to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet:
\n<\/em>
\n“Look! The virgin will conceive a child!
\nShe will give birth to a son,
\nand he will be called Immanuel
\n(meaning, God is with us)<\/em>” (Matthew 1:22-23).
\nAdvent is about “God with us.” It is about Incarnation. But “God with us” is more than simply a proposition about Incarnation, a proposition about God doing the really unthinkable — taking up humanity by becoming human — a proposition about christological natures. “God with us” is more than that.
\nImmanuel is promise — promise given from Adam and Eve and Abraham on, promise expected from the days of Israel’s yearning for redemption, and promise now fulfilled.
\nImmanuel is redemption — God with us is the good news, the gospel story that God has now taken up our case completely, God identifying with us in order to redeem us<\/em>. “Immanuel” explains “Yeshua” (YHWH saves).
\nImmanuel is mission — if God is with us by sending the Son, the Son is with us as carry on the mission of making disciples (Matthew 28:16-20). It is not accident that Matthew both begins his Gospel on this note: “God with us in promise” becomes “Jesus with us in mission.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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