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Jesus, Son of Man, Son of God

by Michael Hume  
5/31/2017 / Christian Living

 

God created man in His own image. Not literally like God the Father, but like God the Son. Adam was created in God’s likeness. So was Jesus. Adam blew it. Jesus didn’t. Since Jesus is the perfect image of a Son of God, we should strive to become like Him, and we know quite a lot about Him.

 Aspects of Jesus like any other human being.

 The Son of Man. Jesus liked calling Himself that. He was the son of Mary. He grew to manhood like any other male. He ate, drank, slept and wept. He observed life around Him, had friends and a job.

 Jesus was a Most Godly Man, which is what we can become. Every one has to start somewhere. Even Jesus had to learn from scratch. On the one hand He had no advantage over us into His growing in faith. Paul writes of Jesus, “Though He existed in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in human appearance as a man, He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Philippians 22:6-8.

 He had trials. He had to taste the full spectrum of being a human including affliction so that he could be a sympathetic priest and identify with man’s sufferings.

 He lived out a new path to God showing how it was done in human form, expecting others to follow in His steps. They did. Eleven friends were new disciples to the new way of living before God.

 Paul says Jesus was a priest in the order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek was a priest and King of Salem, now called Jerusalem. He had no beginning or end, and no father or mother. From a faith view you and I have no beginning or end either. We too are priests forever and we are kings, sons of One Great King, God Himself. We have a direct link and relation with God the Father.

 He knew the scriptures. He quoted it to Satan as a spiritual weapon. He quoted it aptly to the scribes and Pharisees who He was often annoyed with. He announced His arrival in public with Isaiah.

 He prayed a lot, sometimes all night. He often went to solitary, wild places to pray.

 He knew God really well.

 He fasted. Once for forty days. He hoped His disciples would fast and they did.

 These are all things common to God’s chosen people, us. We are meant to do all these things.

 He did miracles, healings, raised the dead, cast out demons, performed signs and wonders, and preached the kingdom of God. All these we can do.

 Some things were exclusive to Jesus.

 The Son of God. Jesus was the Son of God. He was God’s Son and had God as His ‘natural’ and spiritual Father. We can be a son or daughter of God.

 He died on a cross for each person’s sins as a one-off sacrifice that counts for all time. He was buried and rose to eternal life on the third day. He reconciled us to God the Father thus undoing what Adam did. Now we are back in Eden restored to God with full rights as God sees fit, and one day we will be in Heaven with God. He had to die for our sins since “Without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.” Hebrews 9:22.

 God the Father was both His natural and Supernatural Father. Mary His human mother was a virgin when she conceived Him and was told in advance about it by Gabriel. She was only mother to His human, natural side, not to the God and faith side of Him.

 He had no sin.

 Only He was pure, worthy and right enough, and had the caliber to go to death on a cross, get buried and rise again for the redemption of all the rest of us going to heaven. “Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals? Asked a strong angel in heaven’ Revelation 5 :2. Then it says “No one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it.” Revelation 5:3 No man, or angel, was worthy enough to open the book and the seals. Then Jesus stepped forward. An elder said to John “Stop weeping, behold the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, had overcome so as to open the book or to look into it.” Revelation 5:4. Only Jesus was able to overcome Satan for us and He is worthy to be our Savior and King.

Now and then He revealed He knew of His existence before as God. Before Abraham, was born I am.” John 8:”58. ’”I and the Father are one.” John 10:30

 He pioneered a new way of relating to God. He was the first in the line of many who would be of this new order. The old Jewish order of priests came from the tribe of Levi, but this new one started with someone of the tribe of Judah.

Paul also says Jesus was a priest in the order of Melchizedek. The new order lines up with Melchizedek’s style of priesthood.

 

 

Michael Hume. The Holy Spirit teaches you everything. Copyright belongs to author.

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