Jesus Our Human Brother

Let us hear this again. Only by faith will we fully accept that Jesus was totally Divine and totally human. Faith and faith alone allows us to know our Saviour as God and Man – Son of God and Son of Man. Understand this! To deny this fact is to be a deceiver and to be deceived. We must never ever turn our backs on what John tells us, or think that this is not happening among us. Many an ardent, loyal believer can be deceived, as deceit comes in some most attractive words and voices. What does John tell us! Listen. Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 2 John 1: 7. If we stubbornly refuse to see Jesus as coming in human flesh, is to be totally anti-Christ.   

The majority of us, believers, if not all of us, know these Bible verses by heart. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. John 1: 1. Further on in the same chapter, we are told this. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1: 14. God became Man as He took on flesh.

Let’s look at two other references to Jesus taking on flesh in truth and in fact. Scripture assures us that, we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4: 15. In other words, Jesus knows our every weakness, in His human body. What are some of your human weaknesses, your human temptations? Be honest about them. Speak them out, or write them down, so that you can see them and hear them. Then bow down before your Saviour, Master and Lord and speak them all to Him, show them all to Him. Confess, for every, single, individual one of them, that you believe that your Jesus was tempted in like points. Connect with Jesus, your Brother, in the matter of temptation, because He was tempted and more severely than you can ever be tempted. My brothers and sisters in the Lord, Jesus could only be tempted because He had a sinful nature, a human nature, a flesh nature.

James explains this for us. When tempted, no one should say, God is tempting me. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. James 1: 13 – 15. James has loudly, boldly and emphatically spoken three fundamental truths and differences, between God and man, between sinful nature and Divine nature and between flesh and Spirit.

First Fact. God cannot be tempted by evil. Satan is evil and as resourceful as he may be, he cannot tempt God. Why? Because God is Spirit. Jesus is flesh. The Son of Man is flesh and the Son of God is Spirit. When God, who is Spirit, came in the likeness of human flesh, He did not deceive us. The very temptations of Jesus in the wilderness, shows that He was human just as you and I. Never be deceived into thinking that Jesus only wore flesh as, David wore Saul’s armour but could not do God’s work of fighting in what was just make-belief, what was not real and true to him or for him. We need to hear this with spirit-filled hearing.

Israel, God’s people are in very terrible condition, in that the enemy has been boasting against them and there is no one on Israel’s side to face the huge giant called Goliath. At the time, Saul, Israel’s first ever king, was on the throne. He himself was terrified and the evil enemy held God’s people hostage, as it were. David, a young boy, comes on the scene and when he realizes what is happening to God’s people and how the enemy has them as weak as water, and mortally afraid, David steps forward. He comes with boldness of faith in his God that is monumental. When he tells the king that he will fight the giant and assures the king that his God will give him victory, the king gives permission. He sends David on with a blessing, Go, and God go with you. Now here is the interesting part. Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. I cannot go in these, he said to Saul, because I am not used to them. So he took them off. 1 Samuel 17: 38 – 39. 

Here is the point. David simply could not do God’s work of saving God’s people from the Philistine giant, by putting on and wearing kingly apparel, which was only to look like the king. He did not share anything else of the king, none of his nature even, just his clothes, which were easily put on and easily taken off. Do you not see that to live and believe that Jesus simply put on human flesh, human clothing as it were, without taking on human nature is anti-Christ? To think of Jesus in that way is to deny His death on the Cross, as true and genuine and that His suffering was all form, and not reality. God Forbid!  

This is so huge that we need to stop and seek the Holy Spirit to work this all out in us. Unless we know Jesus as completely human and completely Divine, then the cross will only be and mean for us form, not fact.