Jesus Christ's Human Parentage,
Human Limitations,
Human Relation to God, Human in all Things
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III. Human
Parentage
(1)
Luke 2:7, Acts 2:30,
, Acts 13:23, Rom. 1:3, Gal. 4:4, Heb. 7:14
FIRST PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ had a human parentage and human ancestry. He was Mary’s son and
David s seed.
Mary was as truly the mother of
Jesus Christ as God was His
Father.
IV. Human
Limitations
(1) Physical
Limitations
(a)
John. 4:6
Jesus Christ
was weary. Compare
Is. 40:28
(b)
Matt. 8:24
Jesus Christ
slept. Compare Ps.
121:4, 5
(c)
Matt. 21:18
Jesus Christ
hungered.
(d)
John 19:28
Jesus Christ
thirsted.
(e)
Luke 22:44
Jesus Christ
suffered physical agony.
(f)
1 Cor. 15:3
Jesus Christ
died.
FIRST PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ was subject to weariness, hunger, thirst, agony and death—to the
physical limitations of human nature.
(2) Intellectual
and Moral Limitations
(a)
Luke 2:52,
ESV
Jesus Christ
advanced in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man. He was subject
to human conditions of physical, mental and moral growth.
(b)
Mark 11:13, 13:32
SECOND PROPOSITION: The knowledge of
Jesus Christ was subject to limitations.
(Compare Luke
2:52.)
Note
1.—His knowledge was self-limited. (Phil.
2:5, ESV “Emptied
himself.” Must not press this verse too far. The context shows an emptying of
glory rather than of attributes.)
Note
2.—John 3:34
As a teacher
Jesus
was divinely and fully inspired so that he spoke “the words of God.”
Note
3.—The indwelling Divine Nature often burst through the veil of flesh (see
passages under Chapter I), but
as a man
he was a real man in his mental make-up.
(b)
Heb. 4:15, Heb. 2:18
,
(Compare
Jas. 1:13)
THIRD PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ was tempted. He was subject to the essential moral limitations of
human nature.
Note
1.—A carnal nature is not an essential part of human nature. It does not
belong to human nature as God made it. It is what has become part of human
nature by sin.
Note
2.—Heb. 2:14, Phil. 2:5–8
Jesus
Christ in His moral
limitations was self-limited. He voluntarily placed himself underneath the
essential moral limitations that man is under in order to redeem man. Wondrous
love!
Note
3.—He was tempted “without sin.”
GENERAL PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ was subject to the intellectual and moral limitations essential
to human nature.
(3) Limitations
of Power
(a) Mark 1:35,
John 6:15, Luke 22:41–45, Heb. 5:7
FIRST PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ prayed (25 times mentioned). He obtained power for work and for
moral victory as other men do, by prayer. He was subject to human conditions
for obtaining what He desired.
(b)
Acts 10:38
SECOND PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ obtained power for His divine works not by His inherent Divinity
but by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. He was subject to the same conditions
of power as other men.
(b)
John 14:12
THIRD PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ was subject to limitations in the exercise of power during the
days of His humiliation.
GENERAL PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ was subject to human conditions for the obtaining of power and
human limitations in its exercise. This was during the days of His
humiliation.
IV. Human Relation
to God
John 20:17
FIRST PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ called the Father “My God.”
Jesus Christ
bore the relation of man to God the Father.
V. Human in All
Things
Heb. 2:17, ESV
FIRST PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ was made “in all things” like unto His brethren, subject to all
the physical, mental and moral conditions of existence essential to human
nature.
GENERAL PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ was in every respect a real man. He became so voluntarily to
redeem man. (Phil.
2:5–8; 2 Cor. 8:9.)
He partook of human nature that we might become partakers of the Divine
nature. 2 Pet. 1:4—“Whereby are given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye might be partakers of
the Divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through
lust.”
Question:
How shall we reconcile the Bible doctrine of the true Deity of
Jesus Christ with the Bible
doctrine of the real human nature of
Christ?
Answer:
That is not our main business. Our first business is to find out what the
various passages mean in their natural grammatical interpretation. Then if we
can reconcile them, well; if not, believe them both and leave the
reconciliation to increasing knowledge. It is a thoroughly vicious principle
of interpretation that we must interpret every passage in the Bible so that we
can readily reconcile it with every other passage. This gives rise to a
one-sided theology. One man becomes a one-sided Calvinist and another a
one-sided Arminian, and so on through the whole gamut of doctrine. Our
business is to find out the plainly intended sense of the passage in hand as
determined by usage of words, grammatical construction and context. Remember
that in many cases two truths that seemed utterly irreconcilable or perfectly
contradictory to us once are now, with increased knowledge, seen to
beautifully harmonize. Truths that still seem to us to be contradictory
perfectly harmonize in the infinite wisdom of God, and will some day, when we
approach more nearly to God’s omniscience, perfectly harmonize in the infinite
wisdom of God, and will some day, when we approach more nearly to God’s
omniscience, perfectly harmonize in our minds. How fearlessly the Bible puts
the Deity and manhood of Jesus Christ
in closest juxtaposition.
Matt. 8:24–26, Luke 3:21,
22, John. 11:38,
43,
44, Luke 9:28,
29,
35, Matt. 16:16,
17,
21, Heb. 1:6,
(Compare
Heb. 2:18”),
Heb. 4:14,
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