JESUS CHRIST IS MAN

 JESUS CHRIST IS MAN

TEXT: For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, to be testified in due time …”  I Timothy 2:5-6

Jesus Christ is fully God is one affirmation of who Jesus is. The Biblical testimony is that Jesus  Christ is also fully man. He is God and He is man. Hence, the term in verse 5, the God Man. He was not two people but one person with two natures. He had a divine nature and He had a human nature. He demonstrated attributes of deity and he demonstrated attributes of humanity!

Jesus was born of a virgin woman. Luke 2:7

A descendant of David according to the flesh. Acts 2:30

He experienced physical needs such as hunger, thirst and fatigue. Matthew 4:12; John 19:20 and John 4:6

He wept and sighed and groaned. John 11:35; Mark 7:34 and Mark 8:12

He was like us in every respect, except for one thing. He was sinless and perfectly holy!

Why the God man? Why did God take upon Himself human flesh? He did so in order to do something for us as a Man that He could never do as God and that is to go to the cross and there --- on the cross of Calvary --- die for our sins. On that cross, He, Himself, paid for our sins, as our sacrifice, as our substitute and became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. This was a judicial exchange.

He gave His life as a ransom, a payment, a "lutron" for our freedom.

He reconciled us to a holy God. He redeemed us.

That is WHY He became a man!

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