best of both

September 26, 2007 by craig.

Jesus was all man and all God. Completely human and, at the same time, divine through and through. His unique nature is a mystery of God that cannot be absorbed fully by our finite minds. Yet, the fact remains - Jesus was and is 100% man and 100% God.

His nature is not designed to confuse us, however (1 Cor. 14:33). He, being fully God (spirit), clothed Himself with our humanity (flesh) for a purpose! Who else, in all creation, shares that makeup of spirit and flesh? For two, the person reading this blog entry, and the person who has written it. You and I are both flesh and spirit. In fact, every human being ever born has existed on the physical and spiritual planes. Clearly, Jesus took on that makeup so we could identify with Him and He with us.

“Concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh and was established as the powerful Son of God by the resurrection from the dead according to the Spirit of holiness (Romans 1:3-4).” Paul begins his letter to the Romans focusing on the Person of Jesus. According to this passage, one of the reasons Jesus exists in flesh is to fulfill prophecy about His family lineage. Jesus never did anything contrary to the will of God in His flesh - beginning with his very birth. How about you?

Jesus’s divinity has been established in the spiritual realm. His resurrection from the dead, brought about by the working of the Holy Spirit, is the ultimate evidence of that divine nature. He makes possible our own spiritual resurrection from the grip of death that sin held over us. This is also an example for our lives in the spiritual realm, that we might always stay in step with the working of the Holy Spirit.

Flesh AND spirit. We, like Christ, exist on both planes and can find only in Him the model for that kind of existence.

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