Monday, June 15, 2020

how we should see Jesus as fully God and fully Man

John 8:1-11
but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
    But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let any of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stopped down and wrote on the ground.
    At this, those who heard began to go away at one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
   "No one, sir," she said.
   "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "God now and leave your life of sin."

John 1:14
    The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the flory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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Jesus -> the Word
Jesus -> God incarnate
Jesus -> became man. fully God and fully man.

Jesus is the only diety who became flesh so he could feel what we felt and know how we live and do what we do so He could understand everything about us.
Incarnation = empathy.

He is able to empathize with us because He knows what it's like to be human.
But at the same time, He is perfect and He never did anything wrong, so therefore He was able to die on the altar (the cross- Old Testament prophecy becoming truth) as the perfect blameless lamb.
This is and was the only way we could come to know God.
Through the sacrifice of the perfect Lamb.

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