GOD MANIFESTED IN FLESH. THE MAN CHRIST JESUS NO. 3

GOD MANIFESTED IN FLESH. THE MAN CHRIST JESUS NO. 3

I believe that in everything, from the beginning to the end, that in Christ, God was manifested in flesh; and everything in Him was in divine beauty, whether in the weariness of flesh and blood, which was new to Him, or in His mighty works, which were natural to Him. It is all wrong to speak of Him as ‘entering into the circumstances of men’. He was a real man; it was not merely ‘entering’, He “took part of the same”.

The effort to reduce eternal life to the details of a man’s life in natural things is to escape the fact that eternal life is outside the senses, an out-of-the-world condition of things. People are not enjoying this; and there is therefore an effort to reduce eternal life to the details of human life.

Our blessed Lord never learned or borrowed anything from man. He was unique in everything that He did, and that He was, whether as a Babe, or sitting wearied by the well, or on the mount of Transfiguration; all was consistent with the life of God. He had no other source;

^[p. 127] but He was a real man in flesh and blood, and He gave up the life to which, in us, sin attached. It is the controversy of 1866 over again, when it was denied that our blessed Lord gave up the life to which sin attached. Where is the atonement? How are we redeemed if Christ had not man’s life to give up?

It is very sad that souls should be distracted by questions of the kind instead of being built up in their most holy faith, until we all come to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. In fact they are not “growing” — they are only seeking help and comfort through the wilderness.