Ten Important Insights Basic to a Proper Understanding of the Life of Christ (Insight #1)

The child of God is much advantaged to come to grips with the life lived by his Savior.  I would suggest that the insights to be listed here are essential to a proper understanding of that most wonderful of all lives, and thus that the believer is well advised to consciously and deliberately include these realities in his conception of that life.   

#1 – In His incarnation, Jesus did not in any sense, to any degree, at any time, or for any season surrender any whit of deity (Col 2:9); indeed, the very notion of  “surrendering” deity is incongruous to the point of nonsense.  Jesus did, however, take upon Himself genuine human nature (Phil 2:6-8). There is ineffable mystery in the proposition that “the Word became flesh” as it is presented and developed in the Gospel narratives. But the stewardship of the believer is to bow the knee to all that the Scriptures make clear, even if there are dynamics or ramifications of revealed truth which ultimately transcend his ability to fully comprehend.   And the Scriptures make clear that Jesus’ humanity – albeit unfallen humanity – was genuine and entire.  Thus, as we read the Gospel narratives of Jesus’ life it is important to remember that except at those occasional and relatively infrequent times when the Holy Spirit directed Jesus to access and employ the superhuman capacities which are a function of His divine attributes, He lived out His life under the actual and real limitations intrinsic to unfallen humanity.

(Insight #2 will be posted soon!)