1. Pt. 2: To Reveal The Father
Why God Became Man
Pt. 2: To Reveal The Father

2. John 1:14-18
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. ( John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’ ”) And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

3. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

4. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

5. No, the revealed “glory” of the Son of God, the glory of the Word, the glory of Jesus Christ, in his first coming, is mainly a spiritual glory, a spiritual beauty. It’s not something you see with the physical eyes, but with the eyes of the heart (EPHESIANS 1:18). We look at the way he speaks and acts and loves and dies, and by grace, we see a self-authenticating, divine glory, or beauty.
- John Piper

6. Faith sees the glory of Jesus
Faith sees the glory of Jesus. Faith looks back to the man who lived and died for us, and sees glory in his shame, honor in his disgraces, riches in his poverty, might in his weakness, triumph in his conflict, and immortality in his death.
- Charles Spurgeon

7. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

8. Exodus 33:20 But he added, "You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live."

9. Isaiah 6: In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;the whole earth is full of his glory!”
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

10. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

11. the only God, who is at the Father's side
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
the only God, who is at the Father's side

12. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

13. Matthew 11:27
All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

14. We looked for God in what we could see, because God was unseen; therefore, the Son became visible and tangible to lead the eyes of men to Him, and thereby, upward to the Father who dwells in heaven.
- Danny Hyde

15. John 12:44-45
And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.

16. Yet all that mortal man is capable of knowing about God the Father is fully revealed to us by God the Son. He, who was in the bosom of the Father from all eternity, has been pleased to take our nature upon Him, and to exhibit to us in the form of man, all that our minds can comprehend of the Father's perfections.
J.C. Ryle