Godhead Part 3
June 10, 2009 by Jason DeMars
Filed under Biblical Teaching
In part three of this series I want to discuss the manhood of Jesus Christ.
First of all, we believe in the message that Jesus is a God-man, but we define this in a different way than Trinitarian or Jesus only thought. As we covered before, Jesus was God because the fullness of God was expressed through him, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.
Here are several points we mentioned in previous posts:
1. Jesus is not God the Father.
2. The Father is the only true God. (John 17:3)
3. Jesus is the Son of the one true God. That is he was created by God in the womb of Mary.
Let’s establish biblical truth. Jesus was a man. He grew in knowledge.
Luk 2:40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
He did not possess all knowledge as God does.
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
(Mark 13:32)
Jesus died and God cannot die. God is the only one who is immortal. No man has ever seen God at any time.
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
(1 Timothy 6:16)
However, Jesus holds the most exalted position in heaven and earth. God created everything in and for him. He is the very reason for creation; that God might reveal himself perfectly through Jesus. Jesus is the express image of God’s divine nature. In him does all the fullness of God dwell.
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Colossians 1:16-17)
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (Hebrews 1:3)
Jesus is a man that fully expresses who God is. If you want to get to God you must go through the man Christ Jesus.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: (Colossians 1:15)
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (1 Timothy 2:5)
“Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.” (Galatians 3:20)
By implication this is telling us that a mediator is not a mediator of one person, but God is one person. If you mediate, you do it between two people, but God is one person. God is one and Jesus Christ is the man that mediates between God and mankind. He is the perfect man that expresses perfectly God’s will. Jesus was a man that a will seperate and apart from God. He continously chose to do the will of God, “not my will, but thine be done.” He was perfect, the only man that was ever perfect!! Hallelujah!
God highly exalted Jesus and gave him a name above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow and every tongue should confess.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
(Philippians 2:9)
If we express who Jesus is according to scripture we are not taking away anything from him, but we are rightly describing who he is and who God is.
Our desire is to always go back to the bible and stand for the bible just as God has written it through his chosen vessels. We don’t want any doctrines that are outside of Scripture or that need to bring implications or to say, “we can’t explain it, we just believe it, it’s a mystery.” Any doctrine that I teach must be able to be explained by Scripture. If it can’t then it’s wrong and should be rejected.
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