Perfect Human A Man Without Sin example essay topic

Luke chapter 2 brings to our attention of a birth that would forever change our world as it was known so many years ago. 'Do not be afraid! Listen carefully, for I proclaim to you good news that brings great joy to all the people: Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord".

(Luke 2: 10-11) Jesus born in a barn that would exempt him from being born such as a 'king' would be. His family wasn't so much as well off and under the circumstances of his birth you would have never guessed him to be the savior of our world. The baby that Mary wrapped in swaddling clothes and lay in the manger was similar to all other babies in Bethlehem, with one exception: He was the Holy one, born without sin. The human eyes of Bethlehem first gazed upon the human nature of our God. Christ's human nature was only different form us in the aspect that he knew no sin. He was just as dependent upon the love, care and attention of Mary as any other baby would be dependent on its mother.

Simeon recognized the baby when Mary and Joseph brought Him to the temple. He recognized him as the "Lord's Christ", and Anna recognizes Him as well as they were entering the temple. At that moment she noticed Him she gave thanks to the Lord. Just as I would be, Mary did not fully understand who it was that she carried in her arms.

She knew of what the angel told her long ago of her pregnancy but was not fully aware of what was to come. 'Such knowledge would have broken the bond of His humanity to ours, by severing that which bound Him as a child to His mother. We would not have become His brethren had He not been truly the Virgin's Son. The mystery of the incarnation would have been needless and fruitless had His humanity not been subject to all its rights and ordinary conditions.

Applying the same principle more widely, we can then, in some measure, understand why the majesty of His Divinity had to be kept while He was on earth. Had it been otherwise, the thought of His Divinity would have proved so all-absorbing, as to render impossible that of His humanity, with all its lessons. ' (Edersheim: 'Life and Times of the Messiah, p. 192.) What Mary knew from Gabriel and Simeon were only enough to leave her with the duties of caring for her child as they would by any young mother in Israel with her first-born son. Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to Himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary, yet born without sin. When the Second Person in the Godhead assumed our nature, He took human nature into eternal union with His Person, 'a true body.

' The reality of the 'true body' is seen throughout scripture: It was born, it grew and waxed strong. (Luke 2: 20.) He hungered. (Matt. 21: 18.) He slept.

(Matt. 53: 5.) He bled. (Luke 29: 41.) He died. (Luke 23: 46.) He was buried.

(Luke 23: 53.) His body in substance was in no way different from our own bodies; its reaction to circumstances identical and its experiences common to all human nature: 'a true body. ' Christ also looks unto Himself a 'reasonable soul'. He advanced in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man. (Luke 2: 52.) He loved. (Mark 10: 21.) He experienced joy.

(John 15: 11.) He was compassionate. (Matt. 9: 36.) He experienced sorrow and anxiety. (Matt. 26: 37.) He experienced amazement. (Mark 14: 33.) He was sympathetic.

(Heb. 4: 15.) He was tempted. (Matt. 4: 1.) He was angry and grieved. (Mark 9: 36.) He experienced agony.

(Luke 23: 44.) He was moved with indignation. (Mark 10: 41.) He offered prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears. (Heb. 6: 7.) He learned obedience. (Heb. 5: 8.) The Lord Jesus having taken human nature a true body and reasonable soul into eternal union with His deity, human nature could never be separated from his deity.

Christ's humanity never for a moment had a personality independent of that of the Son of David. Paul wrote concerning Jesus, '... who was born of the seed of David' (Rom 1: 3) Again Paul wrote, 'Who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead' (Rom 1: 4). Jesus is of the essence of God the Father, He is fully God Himself. As a result, Jesus is one person who is fully God and fully man. His two natures do not work independently or against each other, but rather in complete and absolute unity with each other while at the same time remaining distinct. The history from long ago of the Israelites, established that the offering was presented for a persons sin.

It was presented by a spotless and perfect animal, an animal without blemish or anything that would cause it to be unclean. In the New Testament, Jesus was the offering. He was the final sacrifice for all sins. If he had not been without a spot or blemish, a perfect man, and without sin, He would not have fulfilled the established requirements. Then we would not be able to attain forgiveness for our sins through Him. It is crucial to the purity of the Gospel message to believe and confess that Jesus was truly human, tempted in all ways as we are, but without sin.

The Gospels not only emphasize that Jesus was a human, but that He was a perfect human - a man without sin. It is understood that in order for him to do the work he was brought here to do he must have remained without sin. Recently people have come up with the notion that Jesus sinned in his lifetime. Jesus came because He wanted to have a personal relationship with each one of us.

Through the power of the Holy Spirit he healed our diseases. He loved and fed us. Instead in return we killed Him by hanging His humanity on a cross, beforehand His back was whipped to the bone, His beard was pulled out of his face by hand so that Isaiah tells us he was not even recognizable afterwards on the street. He was then nailed to a cross while conscious with railroad size spikes and allowed to hang alive while bleeding to death until He died.

Jesus suffered the worst kind of humiliation and painful death a man could ever endure. Jesus knows what it is to suffer and be rejected for He experienced it Himself. In recognizing that Jesus' humanity is just as important and relevant as his deity we must acknowledge it daily in our walk and in our comprehension of what we are being lead to do. Knowing that Jesus knows all of our sufferings and felt all of our pain, we are to remain strong in our faith just as he did.

There is nothing we are unable to do. Our humanity is something that even God knows about, because he went through it all as well.

Bibliography

Buchanan, George W. Jesus: The King and His Kingdom, 1984.
Erickson, Millard. The Word Became Flesh. Baker, 1991.