Fully God and Fully Man

Day 3

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Don’t complicate the simple!

When Jesus is called the Son of God it is a direct repudiation of Caesar who was treated as a god.

Big Idea: Jesus is Fully God and Fully Man.

Philippians 2:5-8: “You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.”

Jesus existed from the beginning. John’s gospel calls him the Word of God, which, when you connect that concept to Genesis 1’s creation story, leads us to the conclusion that it was through Jesus all things were made. Jesus is fully God!

Yet, through the womb of a virgin in the virgin birth, Jesus is fully man. Jesus started as a helpless infant like me and you. Jesus had a childhood like me and you. Jesus experienced the teenage years and learning adulthood like me and you.

Everything we have experienced on this earth, Jesus experienced something similar. He mourned the loss of friends and family. He was scraped and bled. He hungered and thirsted.

While every other religion requires man to try to attain the divine through perfection and holiness, Christianity shows God stepping into our world as one of us—enduring, suffering, and experiencing all the heartaches of this broken world.

Jesus, the almighty and all-powerful, takes on flesh and dwells among us, dies for us, and defeats death once and for all. As Paul writes in Colossians 1, Jesus is the image of the invisible God, and the fullness of God dwells in him.

Today, I encourage you simply to be overcome by the fact that God became man to suffer and save.