{"id":13481,"date":"2017-01-02T22:18:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T05:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hisriches.com\/?p=13481"},"modified":"2017-01-03T23:25:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T06:25:09","slug":"fully-man-fully-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hisriches.com\/fully-man-fully-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Fully Man; Fully God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Jesus was fully God, He was fully human.
\nHe became hungry:
\n\u201cAfter fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.\u201d Matthew 4:2 Luke 4:2<\/strong>
\n \u201cEarly in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry.\u201d Matthew 21:18 Mark 11:12\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

He was tired:
\n\u201cJacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well\u2026\u201d John 4:6<\/strong>
\n\u201cAs they sailed, he fell asleep\u2026.\u201d Luke 8:23<\/strong><\/p>\n

He suffered:
\n\u201cbecause he suffered death\u2026perfect through suffering.\u201d Hebrews 2:9-10<\/strong>
\n\u201cBecause he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.\u201d Hebrews 2:18<\/strong>
\n\u201cAlthough he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered\u201d Hebrews 5:8<\/strong>
\n\u201cTo this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps\u2026When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.\u201d 1 Peter 2:21-23<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026since Christ suffered in his body\u2026\u201d 1 Peter 4:1<\/strong><\/p>\n

He felt intense emotion:
\n\u201cJesus wept\u2026\u201d Luke 11:35 <\/strong>
\n\u201cAs he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it\u201d Luke 19:41<\/strong>
\n\u201cThen he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” Matthew 26:28 Mark 14:33-34<\/strong>
\n\u201cAnd being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.\u201d Luke 22:44<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus was tempted which means that He could have sinned:
\n\u201cJesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil\u2026\u201d Matthew 4:1-13<\/strong>
\n\u201c and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan…\u201d Mark 1:13<\/strong>
\n\u00a0\u201cJesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted[a] by the devil\u2026\u201d Luke 41-13<\/strong><\/p>\n

He did not know the time of His returning to earth at the time He was on earth:
\n“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.\u201d Matthew 24:36 Mark 13:32<\/strong><\/p>\n

He relied solely on His heavenly Father for direction while on earth:
\n\u201cJesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me.\u201d John 7:16<\/strong>
\n \u201cHe who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.\u201d John 14:24<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am the one I claim to be and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.\u201d John 8:28<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following passages and others show that Jesus was fully God:
\n\u201cWho, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death\u2014even death on a cross!<\/strong>
\n Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.\u201d Philippians 2:6-11<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.\u201d Colossians 1:15-20<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus claimed to be God. Examples are as follows:
\n\u201cVery truly I tell you,\u201d Jesus answered, \u201cbefore Abraham was born, I am!\u201d 59 At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.\u201d John 8:58-59<\/strong>
\nThe Jews picked up stones to stone Jesus because they knew he was referring to Exodus 3<\/strong>:
\n\u201cMoses said to God, \u201cSuppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, \u2018The God of your fathers has sent me to you,\u2019 and they ask me, \u2018What is his name?\u2019 Then what shall I tell them?\u201d<\/strong>
\n God said to Moses, \u201cI AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: \u2018I AM has sent me to you.\u2019\u201d Exodus 3:13-14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just before He gave Himself up to be crucified, Jesus told His disciples:
\n\u201cPhilip said, \u201cLord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.\u201d<\/strong>
\n Jesus answered: \u201cDon\u2019t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, \u2018Show us the Father\u2019? Don\u2019t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the<\/strong> Father, living in me, who is doing his work.\u201d John 14:8-9<\/p>\n

At His trial before the Sanhedrin, Jesus clearly told who He was when asked to swear under oath:
\n\u201c\u2026The high priest said to him, \u201cI charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.\u201d<\/strong>
\n \u201cYou have said so,\u201d Jesus replied. \u201cBut I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.\u201d Matthew 26:63-64<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus said of Himself:
\n\u201cI am the Alpha and the Omega,\u201d says the Lord God, \u201cwho is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.\u201d Revelation 1:8<\/strong>
\n \u201cI am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.\u201d Revelation 22:13<\/strong><\/p>\n

How wonderful that Jesus who is fully God came to earth to also be fully man. We can know that He fully understands us:
\n\u201cFor surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham\u2019s descendants. For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.\u201d Hebrews 2:16-18<\/strong>
\n \u201cFor we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been<\/strong> tempted in every way, just as we are\u2014yet he did not sin.\u201d Hebrews 4:15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although Jesus was fully God, He was fully human. He became hungry: \u201cAfter fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.\u201d Matthew 4:2 Luke 4:2 \u201cEarly in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry.\u201d Matthew 21:18 Mark 11:12\u00a0 He was tired: \u201cJacob’s well was there, and<\/p>\n

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