Jesus was not only a man despatched from God, He was God.
That is crucial assertion of the New Testomony. On this fact hangs all different truths.
If Jesus was solely a person, then no matter how good He was, His life might solely present an alternative to one different man. However since He was God, His life was value greater than each human life since creation. Certainly it was value greater than the sum complete of the universe that He created.
Any compromise on this level will negate the work of Christ in our lives. Jesus was God manifest within the flesh (1 Tim. three:16)! But this Almighty God got here to dwell in a human physique. He humbled Himself and took the type of a servant (Phil. 2:7).
Christ’s humanity actually made Him considered one of us. He suffered the identical temptations and pressures that we endure (Heb. four:15). It was His divinity, nonetheless, that gave Him the ability to save lots of us to the max (Heb. 7:25). We must not ever let His humanity blind us to the truth that Almighty God Himself grew to become our pal (Jn. 15:13-15). And we must not ever let His divinity blind us to the truth that He is aware of precisely how we really feel and cares for us.
Let the Holy Spirit provide you with a real revelation of the deity and humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ all through this new yr.