 Okay welcome back to class. So in the first hour we were looking at the why of the Incarnation. Why did God have to become man and we looked at various reasons and we were looking at how he conquered sin in the flesh and we looked at Romans chapter 8 verses 3 and 4 and we said that what the law could not do was God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh. Now what the law could not do, the law could not help us keep the righteous demands that God demanded from us to keep his righteous ways. The law also did not provide any spiritual strength or did not offer any spiritual aid for us to help us to keep the laws, the righteous demands of God's laws and hence we see and we read in the Old Testament that man failed from time to time to keep the laws, the commandments, the righteous demands of God's law and we hence see that sin dominated man's flesh and there was no way they were able to overcome the sin that dominated their flesh and hence because sin dominated their flesh they were not able to keep the law, they were not able to keep the commandments of God and hence they always fell short of the righteous standards or the demands of God. So we see that God took that step and sent his own son in the likeness of human flesh and Jesus came with all the limitations, the frailties, the weakness of human being. He took on the physical body so that he can be that body which can make the atonement for our sin or he took on the physical body which for man was a vehicle or a means to indulge in sin and ungodliness so God sent his son in the likeness of human flesh with all the weakness and frailties but yet God showed us that in the flesh we can overcome temptations, we can overcome the sinful dictates of the flesh we can keep the righteous demands of God's law. So what the law could not do does not mean the law was insufficient or the law was unholy or it was not able to, the law was given by God so it was not that but it was because of man's flesh, you know man's flesh was dictated by sin, it was dominated by sin, man's sinful nature was dominated by sin and hence they could not keep the law, they fell short of the law and also the law was no way able to strengthen or aid people to keep the righteous demands of God and hence we see that you know Christ came in, Jesus came in the human flesh with all its weaknesses, with all its frailties but yet showed to us that we can in this human flesh keep the righteous demands of the commands of God, keep the laws and the commandments of God, we can still do his will and we can also overcome the sinful human nature or the human nature which is dominated by flesh and God showed it to us, Jesus showed it to us by living himself as a human being and setting us an example and being the model so we don't have any excuses and we also will see how God made a way to help us, to aid us, to strengthen us to keep his righteous demands, his righteous commands and his laws. We look at that as we go through this chapter. Now we look at two reasons why God sent his son in the likeness of sinful flesh. He sent his son in the likeness of sinful flesh on the account of sin. We read that in Romans chapter 8 verses 3 and 4. It says in verse 3, we read, for what the law could not do that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh on account of sin. So if you look at this phrase on account of sin in the little Greek translation, it has a very sacrificial connotation to the whole meaning of this phrase. So if you read Romans chapter 8 verse 3, the latter half of that verse, if you read it in the new international version, it says, God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And if you read the same verse in the Amplified Bible, it says, sending his own son in the guise of sinful flesh as an offering for sin. So we just look again at this whole aspect of sin offering or the sacrificial offering, God sent his son in the flesh so that he could be the sin offering. And it's referring here again to the sin offering that was made on the day of atonement. So we have this recorded for us in Leviticus 16. I already told you that two goats were taken for this special day, for this day of atonement, for the sacrifice, for this atoning ceremony. One was the sacrificial goat and the other was the scape goat. The sacrificial goat was the goat which was made for the sin offering and hence it had to be killed. And the blood was taken by the high priest into the holy of holies and was sprinkled on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant. And then there was the scape goat, basically which was a sin bearer. So like I said, the priest would lay his hands on that goat, signifying laying the whole sins of the entire Israelite race on this scape goat. And it was led away into the wilderness. And hence it was very symbolic in a way that it carried away the sins of the people. And so we see that the writer of Hebrews is presenting Jesus as both our sin offering and our sin bearer. So Jesus bore our sins. He took upon the sins of the entire mankind like that scape goat that was on which was laid the entire sins of the Israelite. And was sent off in the wilderness in the same way Jesus became the sin bearer where he bore the sins of the entire mankind on his body. He took upon it upon himself. And he died on the cross. He became our sin offering. And he made that full sufficient, perfect sacrifice. So in Romans chapter eight, verses three and four, which we read, it specifically speaks about Jesus coming in the flesh to be our sin offering and also be a sin bearer. And he came in the flesh to be the sin offering to be sacrificed on the account for all of our sins. And then we also read in the same verse that he was condemned. He condemned sin in the flesh. We see that God condemned sin, which means condemn sin means he subdued. He overcame and he deprived sin of its power. If you read the same phrase in the amplified version, it says he subdued, overcame and deprived of its power. So in the flesh Jesus subdued, overcame and deprived sin of its power. And he did it in the same environment where sin reigned. So where does sin reigns in our flesh? And that is why we are not able to keep the righteous demands of the law. Why? Because sin dominates our body, sin reigns in our body. But we see that Jesus Christ had to come in the same flesh. And in the same flesh, we see that he subdued, overcame and deprived sin of its power. So where sin reigned in the flesh, we see that God in Christ Jesus, who became incarnate, broke the power of sin through the very means that leads us into more sinfulness. He broke it. He broke sin power in the flesh. So in the incarnation God broke the power of sin. Therefore, you know, he sets us an example. He gives us the assurance. And he also gives us this great hope that, you know, we don't have to be subjected to the dictates of the flesh. We can overpower our carnal, fleshly nature, our carnal, fleshly desires. We can bring into subjection, you know, the dictates of our flesh, the power of sin that reigns in our flesh, in our body. And instead we can do this with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Okay. So why we could not keep the law because the people could not keep the law because they did not have anyone to aid them spiritually or strengthen them. But, you know, we as the new covenant believers, the New Testament believers, not sorry, not New Testament, New Covenant believers, you know, we have this great hope. We have this great privilege compared to people who live in the Old Testament that, you know, we have Jesus as our model who in the same flesh with all its weakness and frailties was able to overcome every temptation, was able to overcome every dictates of the flesh and not given to sin, remain sinless. And hence he sets in as an example that we too can overcome the dictates of the flesh. And we also see that he did it through the empowering power of the Holy Spirit. And we have also received the promise of the Father, the promise gift to the Father that is the Holy Spirit who lives in us, who guides us, who leads us, who teaches us, leads us into all truth. And he empowers us and strengthens us to overcome the dictates of the flesh to keep the righteous demands of God and the Holy Spirit in us is also sanctifying us to help us to be blameless and live holy lives so that we can be presented holy, blameless without fault and without any blemish before the Most High God. Okay, so to keep the righteous demands of God's law and the commandments by the righteousness of Jesus and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. So we can keep the righteous demands of God's law because we have the righteousness of God. We are being clothed with the righteousness of God. We are covered with the righteousness of God of Jesus Christ. And we are also empowered by the Holy Spirit. Okay, so we'll look at why did Jesus have to partake or become flesh and blood and why did Jesus have to share in our humanity. We've also, we've looked at certain aspects of it. We will look at it more in detail. We'll study Hebrews chapter 2 verses 14 and 18. And then we will also go on to talk about the law and how Jesus came to fulfill the law and how he helped us keep the law. Okay, so we look at the law and a little more study, a little more in detail. Before that, we will answer this question. Why did Jesus have to partake of flesh and blood and why did Jesus have to share in our humanity? So we'll look at the passage in Hebrews chapter 2 verses 14 and 18. And we look at three purposes for the incarnation and the consequences of it. So can somebody please read Hebrews chapter 4, 2 verses 14 and 18, please. Hebrews 2, 14 and 18. Inasmuch then, sorry, you want to go ahead, Zaleen. Who was reading? Nikol, Nikolson, please go ahead. Zalatoli has read so we can hear your voice. Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared in the same that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, a power of death, that is the devil. 15, continue to 18 or just 18? Yes, please continue to 18. And release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For indeed he does not give aid to angels, but he does give aid to the seed of Abraham. Therefore, in all things he had to be made like his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make a propitiation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself has suffered being tempted. He is able to aid those who are tempted. Thank you, Nikolson. So this is a very, very powerful, fully loaded verses which is talking about, you know, what Jesus did for us in his flesh and blood. So we look at the three, four purposes in this verses. Firstly, we look at this point that Jesus shared in our humanity to destroy the power of death. So we've already looked at it, Christ shared in our humanity so that through his death he could destroy the one who had the power of death, that is the devil. Okay, we studied about this when we looked at it in Genesis chapter 3 verse 15. Can somebody read Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 and somebody else can read 1 John chapter 3 verse 8. So can somebody read Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 and 1 John chapter 3 verse 8, please. Okay, Genesis chapter 3 verse 15. And I will put empty between thee and the woman and between thy seed and our seed. He shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his ear. Thank you. Someone else can read 1 John chapter 3 verse 8. He who does what is sinful is of the devil because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. Thank you John. So here we are looking at the first point in what we can learn from Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 and 18, that Jesus shared in our humanity that he might destroy him who had the power of death and that is the devil. So Jesus shared in our humanity so that through his death he could destroy the power of death that is the devil. And we looked at this Old Testament prophecy in Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 which we've already studied about it in the previous classes. We learned from this word that the seed of the woman which is a capital S is referring to the Messiah, referring to the Logos, referring to Jesus Christ. He would come and he would crush the head of the serpent, serpent symbolic of Satan. And we see that Christ came to fulfill this prophecy. We also heard as was read in 1 John chapter 3 verse 8 where John writes that Christ came to destroy the works of the devil. Not only did Christ destroy the works of the devil through his death but Christ destroyed the devil himself, destroyed his power, nullified his power and he's rendered powerless. But if you think, oh, but you know the devil is still so powerful, it's because we give him the power. But we have been given, we have greater power because Scripture tells us that everything that we need for life in Godliness, God has given us, he has given us the weapons, our weapons are not of carnal nature, but is powerful in Christ Jesus for bringing down or tearing down every works of the evil one. So the word destroy here in, we see we saw that Jesus destroyed the works of the devil, again destroyed the devil himself. The word destroy here in Greek means to paralyze, to undo, to bring to nothing, to make to no effect. So we see that Christ reduced Satan's power to nothing. He undid everything that the devil had planned. He has paralyzed him totally and he has brought him to nothing and he has no effect. So you can celebrate with this great victory that Jesus has won on the cross and this victory that he has not just won for himself but this victory he also shares with us. And so don't be intimidated or afraid of the devil and don't think that he's causing a lot of confusion, pain, sickness. In your life you have greater power because he's already rendered as nothing, he's paralyzed. He cannot do anything but he can do it to the extent that you give him the room or you open the doors or you give him the freedom or you assign him the authority and the power to do so. But we see that on the cross in the flesh Jesus also destroyed the devil himself. He basically made him of no effect and paralyzed him. Colossians chapter 2 verse 15 tells us that on the cross Jesus disarmed all principalities and powers. So can somebody read that please? Colossians chapter 2 verse 15. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. Thank you. So here principalities and powers are referring to demonic hosts. So on the cross Christ Jesus openly displayed his triumph over the power of Satan, over the power of sin. He destroyed Satan and he openly displayed his triumph in the heavenly rems as well. So if you notice here that Christ defeated the devil or he triumphed over the devil as a human being and not in his or him being deity or not him being God. We see that Christ defeated the devil triumphed over him as a human being and in his humanity Christ defeated the devil and he was hence a representative of the human race. And that is why Hebrews chapter 2 refers to him as the captain of our salvation. So the captain of our salvation that is Jesus Christ who became like one of us defeated the devil on our behalf. And so as our captain Jesus shares his victory with us and hence we share in his victory as well because he was one like us and being one like us. He defeated Satan, he defeated sin and he shares his victory with us and hence we also can share in his victory. And we also have this assurance that we don't have to be under Satan, we don't have to be under his power. And we also don't have to live according to the power dictates of the flesh that reigns in as we can overcome it. The second thing that we can learn from this verse, second aspect that we can learn from this verse in Hebrews chapter 2 verses 14 and 18 is that now having destroyed the devil Christ can now bring deliverance. So you know people in this world have no assurance about life after death and hence they are so afraid to die because of where they will land up or how they will be or what they're going to become. So the fear of death holds people in bondage and even as we as believers some of us can be under this whole cloud or this whole bondage of being under the fear of death because we are so afraid to leave this world. We're so afraid to go into an unseen realm that we do not know of but people who have tasted death and have gone to heaven and have come back, they said it was such a wonderful experience just to be in that glorious body. They did not want to come back into their physical body. They just kind of tested it. Even though they had their husband, their children, their spouses, they didn't want to come back even though they had their responsibility. Even though they left their family because they didn't want to come back into this frail, weak, sinful and sick bodies because of the glorious body that they had received which was something that they just can't even comprehend or even explain and the beautiful place that heaven is. So we see that we too can live in that bondage of fear that does not have to be only unbelievers but when Christ triumphed over the devil on the cross and destroyed him, he has released us from this whole fear. Not only fear of sin, fear of bondages, fear of addictions but also the fear of death that we were living under, that we were submerged under. And so we have this great news that we can assure ourselves that on the cross in the human body Jesus destroyed the devil, destroyed death and death has no longer can bring about fear or intimidate us. And we can also share this good news with the world who are held in the fear of death. The third thing that we can look at here from this verse in Hebrews is that Christ is the merciful and faithful high priest who make the atonement for the sins of the people. So can somebody again read Hebrews chapter 2 verse 17 please? Hebrews chapter 2 verse 17. For this reason, he had to be made like his brothers in every way in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Thank you, John. So here it says that Jesus became like us. He had to become like one among us so that he can be a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God so that he can make the atonement for the sins of the people. Like I said in Leviticus chapter 16 where the high priest enters into the holy of holies and makes the sacrifice for the sins of the people. So also we see here that Jesus became like one of us so that he could take the place of being the merciful and faithful high priest and minister to us with things relating to God and also to make the atonement for the sins of the people. So we see the Old Testament that is the high priest who offered sacrifices on behalf of the people to atonement for their sins. He also was the one who represented the people before God when he went into the holy of holies and hence the high priest had to be one like the people. Therefore we see that one of the main purposes of the incarnation was also that Christ could become one like us and therefore he could represent us before the Father and not only just represent us before the Father he could also be a compassionate and faithful high priest because he became like us. He understands our weaknesses and frailties and he can intercede on behalf of us. He can mediate on behalf of us before the Father. Look at what one John chapter 2 verse 1 says. Can one of you read that please? One John chapter 2 verse 1. My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense, Jesus Christ, the righteous one. Thank you John. So here in the Bible we read that Jesus became our advocate, our lawyer, our intercessor. He stands and he defends us. He defends our case. He fights on behalf of us and he intercedes on behalf of us. He mediates on behalf of us because he had become one like us and hence he became our faithful and merciful high priest and he's still continuing the role of being a mediator, of being a high priest, interceding on behalf of us and also telling God the Father to ask him to forgive us since because of the sacrifice that he has made, the atoning sacrifice that he has made for our sins. So this is Jesus Christ, the righteous one who has become our mediator, who is our lawyer and our intercessor. One more aspect of the incarnation we see in Hebrews chapter 4 verses 14 and 16. It says therefore, because of the incarnation, because Jesus walked as man, he too was tempted just as we are tempted, but he overcame temptation. Okay, we read only one of his temptations mentioned in Matthew, but we know that he would be tempted in various other ways as well. So Jesus Christ became like one of us and being a man, he was tempted just as we are, but he did not give into temptation. So hence he also sets us an example in that way and saying that while we are tempted, we can overcome temptation because he too overcame temptation, he too overcame the dictates of the flesh, he did not give into that. He overcame temptation by speaking the word of God and hence he gives us or sets us an example or shows us how we too can overcome temptation and it says here that, you know, he was tempted in every way and but he overcome and he is able to assist and aid and relieve those who have been tempted or those who are being tested and those who are being tried. So we have this no faithful high priest, the faithful God who became incarnate so that, you know, he can understand our human faith, he went through temptations, he went to various tests and trials, and he overcame it and he sets us an example. And because he was tempted, he understands what we go through. And he's able to assist us when we go through temptation is able to aid us. And he is also able to help us. So very powerful words that we have in Hebrews chapter two, versus 14 and 18. And what 16 says, you know, for indeed he does not give aid to angels, but he does give aid to the seed of Abraham. So how wonderful that we have this God, who understands us was gracious and compassion merciful. He knows us. He understands our weaknesses because he came in the flesh basically to understand what we go through and because he's able, he came in the flesh, he's able to give us the needed aid and the strength to help us. Like I said, you know, that in the Old Testament, they were not able to keep the righteous demands of the law, because the law did not give them the spiritual aid, did not strengthen them did not help them. But thanks be to God that we have Jesus who's, you know, he's there always to aid us, give strength to the seed of Abraham that is you and I. And also we have the promised gift of the Holy Spirit who's able to help us. Okay, so these are the three powerful things that we learned through Hebrews chapter two, versus 14 and 18, the three fold purpose of why Jesus had to partake in flesh and blood, and why did he have to share in our humanity. Okay, we look at another point about why he had to come in the flesh is to redeem those under the law. Okay, Galatians chapter four, versus four to seven, can somebody who's never read, can we hear your voice? Can somebody please read Galatians chapter four, versus four to seven, please. Anyone Galatians chapter four, versus four to seven. Jeffina, can you read please? Shall I read? Galatians chapter four, sir. Thank you, success. Okay, we'll, thank you, John, but we'll just have success read. Okay, success, go ahead. Galatians chapter four, versus four to seven. Okay, four to seven. Galatians chapter four, versus four to seven. And from verse four now, that I may make it manifest as how to speak, verse five, working wisdom towards them that are without Galatians. Yes, it's Galatians success. It's Galatians chapter four, versus four to seven. Sorry, I can't hear you because your volume is too low. No worries. Galatians chapter four, versus four to seven. Thank you, John. I'll read Galatians chapter four, versus four to seven. But when the time had fully come, God sent his son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the spirit of his sons, spirit of his son into our hearts, the spirit who calls out above father. So you are no longer a slave, but a son. And since you are a son, God has made you also an heir. Thank you, John. Sorry, success. Maybe the next time we'll get you to read a verse. Okay. So here we see God always fulfills his word. We read here in Galatians chapter four, versus four, when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son. So we see God always fulfills his word in the fullness of time. Although the incarnation had been told thousands of years before, it was at the right time, the appropriate time in the due season that God sent his son. Now in this passage, it reveals, you know, the many purposes of the incarnation. We see Christ came to redeem those under the law that we might receive the adoption as sons. So we basically look at a brief background to the book of Galatians and the passage and why this passage is being quoted and help us to understand in a greater measure what Christ came to do. So the epistle of Galatians Paul is writing to the group of churches located in Asia Minor in a region called Galatia, which basically included the towns of Antioch, Iconium, Lystra and Derby. There were both Jews and Gentiles who had come to faith in Jesus Christ in this region of Galatia. And there were some Jews, Judaizers, who thought, who were, you know, who had accepted Jesus, who came into the church. And they thought that, you know, they thought the Gentiles and others that they had to keep certain Old Testament practices even after they became believers. And one of them was, you know, the ritual of circumcision. Okay. So they said, in addition to exercising your faith in Christ Jesus, you also have to fulfill this ritual of circumcision. And this was not what Paul thought. So, you know, because Paul had not thought this and Paul was totally against this teaching. The Judaizers began to discredit Paul's Apostleship saying that he's not an Apostle. They declared him as someone being inferior to all the other leaders in Apostles. And in this background, you know, with this issue, Paul is addressing this letter or writing this letter to the churches at Galatia. So in chapters one and two, Paul defends his Apostleship by declaring how he received the Gospel, that he received it from Jesus himself and not from any other Apostles. And hence, he's not inferior. The calling of God as an Apostle was not something he took upon himself, but it was the will of God. And then in chapter three, Paul declares how the Gentile Christians became the descendants of Abraham through Christ. And as I mentioned, it was Abraham did not have the law, but he was credited as righteous in God's sight. He was accounted as righteous not because of him keeping the law, because the law had not been given to him at that time, but it was because of his faith. And so Paul is saying, all those who believe by faith in Christ Jesus, they automatically become descendants of Abraham. They come under the covenant blessing, they receive the blessing. And that is not by keeping the law, not by keeping certain rituals, but it is through faith in Christ Jesus. And then he states that the law was intended only as something, as an intermediary disciplinary system. But when Christ came, the law was put to an end. And then Paul proceeds to show how those who belong in Christ will inherit the blessings of the covenant blessings of Abraham, the promise of the covenant blessings to Abraham and how they can escape the condemnation and the curse of the law. So if you look at this, we will think, okay, is the law cursed? Is the law not holy? Is the law not right? Was the law when God gave it, did it fall short of certain standards? No. The law served, the law was good. It served its purposes. The law made the people aware of sin. It does still make us aware of sin. If there is no law, we would not know where we have gone against God, where we have missed his righteous standing, righteous demands, what he requires of us. So the law makes us aware of sin. Yes, the law is good. It served its purpose. It served its purpose in the sense that it exposed sin and the sinful desires of the flesh. We also see that the law is holy and just and good because it is given by a God who is holy, a God who is just, a God who is good. And the law is spiritual because it was given by God. So the law served its part in pointing out to our sin and it also pointed out to Jesus Christ. So as Paul explains in Galatians that the law in fact served in preserving the people through whom the saviour would come. So the law had been established. It was appalled. It was made to stand. So the law was good that it served the purpose. It made us aware of sin. The more we were aware of sin, the more people wanted to break it. So why do we break it? Because sin dwells in us and in our flesh there was nothing good, but sin reigned in our mortal body, sin reigned in our carnal nature. And the law of sin was working in our flesh. The law of sin was dominating our flesh and the sin was a law that was controlling our body. And because of the sin that was a law that was controlling our body or the law of sin that was controlling or working in our flesh, we could not keep the righteous demands of God's law that was holy, that was good, that was perfect. And so Paul reveals that just as a believer is debt to sin, the believer also now is debt to the law of sin that controls the body, the law of sin that dictates the flesh, and hence he says they are free from the law. But when he says that, he does not mean that the law is sinful or evil in itself. The real problem is not the law, but it's the sin that rules and dominates the flesh and the members of our body. So the law required people to do things in the strength of their own flesh which was impossible for them, which I already said. And hence we see that sin kind of dominated the flesh because they could not control it. They did not have the Holy Spirit to help them, they did not have the model that Jesus Christ said. So sin was more noticeable than people keeping the righteous demands of the law. And hence we see that more and more people's sin or the weakness of their flesh was exposed. And we read in Galatians chapter 4 verse 3 that Paul says that Christ came to set us free from these weak and beggarly elements which he mentions in Galatians chapter 4 verse 9. So Paul is basically saying that these rituals of circumcision, the skipping of the law is not going to give us freedom. It's going to push us down even more into giving in to the sinful dictates of the law of sin that reigns in our body. But he says now we can be free, we can live as sons and daughters because we have been set free by Jesus Christ. And he says we need to realize this truth and not go back into keeping the rituals or just keeping the law because the law could not do anything to help us. So God does not want his people to be bound on the rituals and traditions. But Paul admonishes us saying that we need to stand firm therefore in the liberty which Christ has made us free and not be entangled again in the yoke of bondage which he talks in Galatians chapter 5 verse 1. So here the whole thing is that we need to balance our liberty. Yes we've been set free, we have freedom in Christ. But Paul states that because you have this liberty, don't use this liberty to again as an opportunity to give in to the sinful dictates of the flesh. But he says you know overcome the sinful dictates of the flesh and love and serve one and other. So in this context he brings about the law. So we see how the law was holy and good but the law was not able to aid us and strengthen us. But what overtook us was the law of sin. The law of sin that dealt in our body that kind of controlled us and Jesus came to give us even freedom from that law of sin that reigned in our mortal bodies. And we'll end by looking at the divine exchange that happened on the cross in 2 Corinthians chapter 8 verse 9 where it says, For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor and you through his poverty might become rich. So we have seen a great deal in all that was involved in incarnation and we can sum up this whole purpose of incarnation in just this one verse that is given in 2 Corinthians chapter 8 verse 9 where it says Christ became poor for our sakes so that we through his poverty could become rich. So we see that Christ came down to our level to lift us to his level to be at the right hand of God and that's what it says in Ephesians chapter 2 verses 4 and 6. We're seated at the right hand of God. Christ became what we were so that we can become what he is. 1 John chapter 4 verse 17 Christ became our sin so that we can become his righteousness. 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 and Christ became was cursed on the cross so that we could experience the spiritual blessings or we could be blessed with every spiritual blessing as we read in Ephesians chapter 1. Christ took upon our sickness. We read in 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 24 that by his stripes we are healed. He took upon our sicknesses so that we can receive his healing. We can receive his wholeness and we can live whole lives. Christ became the son of man so that we can become the children of God. John chapter 1 verse 12 Christ was born in subjection to the law so that those under the law could be redeemed. 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verses 4 and 5 and Christ came to earth to tell us about the Father that he went to heaven to tell the Father about us. That means he's interceding on behalf of us. He's our advocate, our lawyer, a great high priest who is advocating, who's interceding, who's fighting on behalf of us. And we see that in the incarnation God taking on the human form is God coming down to be with man and in the resurrection we see that man is being raised back to be with the Father. That's why we're seated at the right hand of God as it says in Ephesians. And then also the last thing is Christ was separated from the Father and hence we who were separated from God were enemies with God, no longer enemies with God but we can be reconciled back to God. So this was chapter 7. We look at the last bit again in the next class. We'll read all the verses but chapter 7 basically talked about the purpose of incarnation. Any questions, any comments, any doubts? No, if not I would request you all to please. Yes, Nicholson. Can you hear me, Pastor? Yeah, a little louder please. So I just wanted a clarification if I was right in understanding this. So like you had mentioned, the first covenant was not wrong in any way but if you look at Hebrews 8 verse 7, it talks, I'll just read out Hebrews chapter 8 verse 7. Sorry, Nicholson, I can't really hear you. Can you read out? Yeah, what we'll do is you can just maybe post your question on the stream page in Google Classroom because we've already run out of class and I have to get to my next class. I have overshot time, sorry. So we take up your question on the stream, I'll answer it or I can also explain it next class if that's okay. Sure, sure. Thank you. Sorry, Nicholson. But you can surely post it on the stream and I will look at it and I will clarify your doubt. Sure. Okay, I request all of you to go through the notes and then maybe next week we can discuss on this chapter more even as we look at the last bit again. And if you have any questions, comments, doubts, we can answer that. Okay, thank you all for joining class. Have a good day and a good week ahead. But bless all of you. Thank you.