GOD MANIFESTED IN FLESH. THE MAN CHRIST JESUS NO. 7
GOD MANIFESTED IN FLESH. THE MAN CHRIST JESUS NO. 7
The great impression made on me by your letter is that Man, the Man Christ Jesus, is not before the vision of your soul as He is in the mind of God. If you do not see with God, you are not in communion with Him. Your one point is to prove His deity, quite right in itself; thus all the old commentators said the miracles were recorded to prove Christ’s divinity. But look for a moment from God’s side. His great purpose is to be glorified in a Man, and hence “Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages” (Ephesians 3: 21). You do not seem to have approached God’s purpose in Man. He has a Man now to His pleasure; now there is glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good pleasure in men.
I believe that if you would look at our blessed Lord on the earth as He was in the eye of God, you would see that He as a Man expressed the Trinity here; hence He can authorise His disciples to baptise in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. No one else could reveal or declare the Father but the Son, and no one could have the Spirit without measure but the Son, and He is a Man.
Do you apprehend in any measure the greatness of the complement of Christ? The world could not contain the books which would be written, but the church is the complement of the Man who fully expressed God here. The church could not be the complement of His divinity.
[p. 130] I am, thank God, assured that if you are led to see the Man Christ Jesus as He is to God, you will not in any measure lose sight of the Son ever with the Father, and the only One able to fulfil His pleasure; but you will adoringly see Him as such while afflicted in all our afflictions, the Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, the lowly, dependent Man. He ever lived here from a Babe in all divine beauty. The manna was on every leaf and every thorn; never could there be anything equal to it. He magnified God in all the details of daily life. He learned nothing from man; so that God is not only well pleased with Him, but His word to us is on the holy mount, “This is my beloved Son: hear Him”.
One word more. You must keep your conscience up to your faith. And again, I would ask you to look at Christ on the earth as the Father saw Him, or rather as God saw Him, for all the Persons of the Trinity were expressed by the Man Christ Jesus.
May He lead you into His mind.