Christ Came to Restore the Glory - No Sunrise Without Sunset — Major Ian Thomas

Christ Came to Bring God Into Us

Maybe I should just correct the quote that was made of what I had to say this morning. I don't believe any of the lies that are told about me. The fact the Lord Jesus came and died upon the cross was incidental to the fact that he didn't come to get us out of hell and into heaven, but to get not heaven, but Christ, God himself, out of heaven into us.

Then there's heaven in us, but only when Christ is in us. That's the glorious truth. He didn't come to get us out of hell and into heaven, but to get God out of heaven into us. Then it'll be heaven on the way to heaven.

You remember we quoted that verse in the first of Paul's two epistles to the Thessalonians, the fifth chapter, the ninth and the tenth verse. God hasn't appointed us to judgment. He's unwilling that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Salvation as Christ's Life Within Us

He did not appoint us unto judgment, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, on the earth or in heaven, now or then, here or there, we should live together with Christ.

That's salvation. You see, the only life that you and I are going to enjoy in heaven is the life that we receive when Christ himself comes to dwell within us. This is the record that God has given to us, eternal life, and this life that he has given to us, if we have been redeemed, is in his Son.

He that has the Son has life. He that doesn't have the Son of God doesn't have life. And if you don't have life, you're dead, dead in trespasses and sins. The Lord Jesus came to abolish death and bring life and immortality to life.

He died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, in the body or out of it, on earth or in heaven, here or there, now or then, we should live together with Christ. That's heaven on the way to heaven. Because he is that life that we're going to enjoy forever in his presence, in the place that he's prepared for us, we should get so accustomed now to sharing his life on earth that when you get to heaven you won't even know you've arrived.

You'll just look around and say, don't think I've been here before. Because the life there will be the life you've got now, if you're a Christian. And if you don't have his life now, you will not enjoy his life then.

That's glory. Well, for the sake of some who may be joining us tonight, who were not here this morning, let me refer you to the passage from which we launched in the 60th chapter of the prophecy of Isaiah.

God said, I will make the place of my feet glorious, to beautify the place of my habitation, the place of my feet glorious, so that where I live may be beautified, radiant with the glory of God. Fantastic.

Christ's Mission to Restore Humanity to Glory

This is what God had in mind in sending his son. Not to change our destination, though he does that and I'm glad, but to restore man to glory. It became him. Do you remember that verse, Hebrews in chapter 2, verse 10, you needn't turn to it right now, we'll be back there shortly.

It became him. An old English word that means it was incumbent upon, it was necessary for, it was not just expedient but imperative, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

It became him. We use the word still not very often, that word became or become. When a lady goes, you know, to the sale, wears some beautiful clothes that are half price, she comes back very proud of what she has achieved in the purchase that she has made.

And of course you can't wait for somebody to invite her round to the home so they can look at her and say, my dear, how becoming, that's the word, it suits you to a tee, it's just your size, I mean it's just your size, becoming.

It became him. It was compatible with the character of God in sending his son from heaven to make the captain of their salvation perfect to bring many sons to glory. That was the whole purpose for the coming of the Lord Jesus, to restore man to his true function, who was created in God's image to reveal the glory in his perfection, so that your evangelization and mine will not take place until finally seeing him as he is, he looks at us as he is himself, that's the gospel, that's the good news.

Not a change of destination, but a change of character, restored to the image of God's dear son. Marvellous. Now, we explored this morning as to what it means for God to have a place in our hearts for his feet, and we allowed the Bible, as it always does, to explain the Bible, and we turned, and you need not do now again, to the 11th chapter of the book of Deuteronomy, where Moses was describing that place for which they had been redeemed and brought out, and to which God told him to take them in, and didn't, because he only preached half a message and only did half a job, and left them with himself dumped in the desert, there to die, for God buried them where they chose to live, as he'll bury every Christian where they chose to live, redeemed, yes, but we weren't redeemed just to get out of hell and get into heaven, we were redeemed so that God might find in our hearts a place for his feet and make the place of his feet glorious and beautify the place of his habitation, his sanctuary.

And you see, to gain in the land that God, as we heard this morning, pledged to Abraham, confirmed in Isaac and Jacob, a mercy to Abraham, truth to Jacob, God need never have said to Abraham what he did say, you'll find this in the last chapter of the book of Micah, the mercy to Abraham and the truth to Jacob, when God spoke in mercy to Abraham, saying in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed, promising the birth of that little baby boy at Bethlehem, the moment God said that, which he need never ever have said, but the moment he did it in mercy, it became the truth to Jacob and to a thousand generations forever, the land.

But they didn't enter into the good of that which God had pledged until they were prepared to put their feet where their faith was, not until they placed their feet in the land and began to walk did they enter into the good of God's provision, occupied territory, entering into their inheritance, and only when the Lord Jesus has gained in your heart and mine a place for God's feet can he once more enter into his inheritance, and you and I in our redeemed humanity become occupied territory, re-inhabited as the creature by the creator, whose presence as God in the man is indispensable to his humanity, that which alone makes man functional from God's point of view, for, said the Lord Jesus, of himself as of you and me now in his sinless humanity, without my Father I can do nothing, because that's how I as God made man, and without me now as God in you, you can do nothing.

Until you're prepared to enjoy that relationship as between yourself and me that I enjoy as between myself and my Father, it is morally impossible for you to accomplish the purpose which you've been redeemed.

Only God in a man makes man functional, because it takes God to be a man, and that's why it takes Christ to be a Christian, for Christ in the Christian puts God back into the man, it's all so simple. And bear in mind that's the gospel, not getting people out of hell and into heaven, but getting Christ, God himself, out of heaven into man.

The Christian as Occupied Territory

So the Father sent his Son into this world nearly two thousand years ago to gain a place in your heart and mind for God's feet, so that he might enter into his, that which is his rightful inheritance, and your humanity and mine, cleansed in the blood of our once crucified now risen Lord, might be re-invaded by deity and become occupied territory.

So that as his hands once were theirs for the Father to work with, your hands now may become his to work with. As the Father on earth walked with his feet, so now the Lord Jesus walks the streets of our cities with our feet.

He sees with our eyes, he hears with our ears, he thinks with our minds, and loves with our hearts. Members of the new body, corporate, which the Father gave to the Son on the day of Pentecost, when on the grounds of redemption the first 120 members of the body, corporate, were raised from the dead and restored to life by the presence of a risen Saviour, who by his presence in life abolished death.

So the Father sent his Son to find a place in your heart and mine for God's feet, so that he, God, with a place in our hearts for his feet, might make the place of his feet glorious, and beautify the place of his habitation.

He came to restore the glory. But before ever the Lord Jesus could restore the glory, he had to reveal the glory. For man long since since Adam fell, had forfeited the glory. God could only write across the whole of a fallen race of fallen men, Ichabod.

The glory is departed. And before ever man can gain the fresh, some understanding of God's glory, and that which he has the reasonable right to claim of a man who was made in his image, the Lord Jesus had to come and demonstrate what God had in mind when he made you and me in his perfect likeness.

But before ever the Lord Jesus could restore the glory, he had to relinquish the glory that he revealed. And this is what we're going to talk about a bit this evening. And before ever he could reveal the glory to which he was to restore it, he had to yield to his Father as God a place in his heart for God's feet.

Jesus' Humanity and the Fullness of the Spirit

Jesus. Luke chapter 4 verse 1. Being full of the Holy Ghost. That doesn't mean he had some sort of psychedelic experience. You could re-write that with the same validity. Not just Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, but Jesus being man.

That's normality. The fullness of the Holy Ghost isn't a luxury. It isn't a special experience. It's normality. You and I were created by God to be at all times indwelt, monopolized, and full of the Holy Ghost.

Through whom, as the Lord Jesus made himself thereby available to the Father, you and I thereby may make ourselves today available to Jesus. How did the Lord Jesus as man make himself available to his Father as God?

How did the Lord Jesus give to the Father in his heart a place for the Father's feet? So that he the Father in the Son could make the place of his feet glorious. And those on earth looking at the Son, seek God.

For said Jesus, he that has seen me has seen my Father. Why do you say then Philip, John 14, show us the Father. Have I been so long time with you and hast thou not known me for him? Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.

And without him I can do nothing. The Father who lives in me, he does the work. What I do, he does. What I say, he says. What I am, he is. Look at me and see God behaving. Not Philip because I am God, though God I am.

But because Philip, being God as I am, I was willing to empty myself, humble myself, make myself of no reputation and be born a human being. And for 33 years demonstrate in the sinlessness of my humanity the innocence of a pre-fallen Adam.

Man as I, my Father and the Holy Ghost in the triune deity intended man to be when first we made Adam. But before ever the Lord Jesus could reveal the glory, he had to give the Father that place in his heart that he now as God demands in your heart and mine.

Full of the Holy Ghost. 24 hours a day, unceasingly. Because that is normality. Anything less than being filled with the Holy Ghost is to be subhuman, under power, abnormal. And the Lord Jesus as man was not an abnormality.

He was man as he as God intended man to be. Full of the Holy Spirit. What was the consequence? Well, let's just turn to the book and discover what it says. In John's Gospel, in chapter 1, verses that you, I'm sure, would know by heart.

The Word Made Flesh Reveals God's Glory

In the beginning was the Word. That means the Logos. Capital W, it should have. In the beginning was the Word. The Logos, who spoke and the things that are were made of the things that were not. For in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and was God.

In total identity, in co-equality with the Father and the Holy Spirit. By him, the creative Word were all things made, and without him was not anything made that was made. And in him was life. And that life, God's life, that was in him, was the light of men.

In other words, it's only that life, his life, in a man that switches him on and gives him the moral competence to discharge the office for which man was created to reveal to all creation what God is like.

The Word. And in the 14th verse of that first chapter of John, that Word, the timeless, eternal Logos was made flesh and dwelt among us. He was born a human being. Man, of course, can and never will become God.

God is able and did become man. Emmanuel, God with us. The Word was made flesh. I love the way that's put, because it demonstrates the office of the one who was willing for your sake and mine, so to empty himself and make himself nothing and of no reputation, that he could play that role as man for which he is God, God created you and created me.

In the Amplified New Testament, I hope you've got one, puts it this way. No man has ever seen God. No man has ever seen God, at any time, for a very simple reason. It's spelled out in the first of Paul's two epistles to Timothy, the sixth chapter, and the sixteenth verse.

God alone has immortality. In other words, he alone is not subject to any form of death. And no man has seen God at any time, nor can see God. Two attributes of deity. Incapable of dying, and totally invisible to man.

Does that arouse your curiosity? Do you believe that the Lord Jesus is co-equal in deity with the Father, the Holy Spirit, and the triune Godhead? I do. Do you believe that he was creator in the beginning with God, was God, and by him all things were made?

I do. And yet the Bible says nobody has seen God at any time. That he's not subject to any form of death. Jesus died. And the apostle says, the word in verse fourteen became flesh, fixed his tent of flesh, he lived a while among us, and we actually saw his glory.

Such glory as an only begotten Son receives from his Father, full of grace and full of truth. So the Lord Jesus, though co-equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit and deity, a God who cannot be seen nor die, was seen and died.

But you see, before ever the Lord Jesus could do that for us, for which the Father sent him, he had to become a man. That as man he might do what as God he never could have done. That as man he could be seen, which of course, being God, could never have been the case.

That's why he emptied himself, humbled himself, and made himself of no reputation, and was born a human being. To fulfill in his humanity precisely that purpose which he first as God created man, in Adam.

Look at verse eighteen. Having in the fourteenth verse told us that the Lord Jesus became flesh, the word who was in the beginning with God and was God, he then goes on to say, no man has ever seen God at any time.

The only begotten God, the God who was born at Bethlehem, who is in the bosom, in the intimate presence of the Father, he has declared him. He has revealed him. He, our Lord Jesus, brought God out where he, God, could be seen.

He has interpreted him, and he made him known. And in so doing, of course, the Lord Jesus, in the sinlessness of his humanity that demonstrated the innocence of a pre-fallen Adam, fulfilled that function for which man was made.

Of whom God said, let us make man in our image and in our likeness, and the image and likeness of God made he him. And the Lord Jesus, the God incarnate, walked this earth so that he could bring an invisible God out into the open where God could be seen.

He assumed that physical, visible, and audible body that he created for you and for me, so that he himself, as man on earth, could give a physical, visible, and audible expression of an invisible and inaudible God.

So that he could say, he that has seen me as man has seen my Father. God in a man behaving. And of course, that's what it means to be Christian. God in a man behaving. Nothing more complicated than that.

Mutual Availability Between God and the Believer

You and I now, as men, making ourselves available to the Lord Jesus as God, as he once as man made himself available to the Father as God, so that he now as God can be to us all the Father then as God was to him.

Isn't that simple? Mutual inter-availability. How did the Lord Jesus make himself as man available to his Father as God, so that in him as man and others could know what God was like? You'll find it in Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 14.

And you should look that up because it's important. You should underline it in your Bible. Hebrews 9 .14. It speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God.

Hebrews 9 .14. Who through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot, without blemish, to God. How did the Lord Jesus as man make himself available to the Father as God? By the same means that he always intended man should make himself available to God, through the eternal Spirit.

For by mutual agreement between all three, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, a person, not a vague influence, not a power, not somebody who can sort of wave down. That's all rubbish and nonsense, childish.

God, the Holy Spirit, God the Father, God the Son. In co-equality, in deity. But by mutual agreement between all three, the Holy Spirit was to be the one by whom a man could make himself available, body, soul, spirit, mind, emotion, and will, in the totality of his being, available to God, his Creator, and by him, God, the Holy Spirit, God the Creator, would make himself available to man.

Incredible. Mutual inter-availability. For he that comes to God must first, one, believe that God is, and secondly, he as God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. In other words, all there is of God is available to the man who is available to all there is of God.

How available was the Lord Jesus as man to his Father as God? Totally. How available was the Father as God to his Son as man? Totally. Mutual inter-availability. That's what it means to be being filled with the Holy Ghost.

A body wholly filled and flooded with God himself. Third chapter, the epistle to the Ephesians. That's a man in normality. A body wholly filled and flooded with God himself. Incredible. But this is the gospel, this is the good news.

This is that relationship the Lord Jesus came to restore. To find in your heart and mine a place for God's feet so that he could make the place of his feet glorious and beautify the place of his habitation, his sanctuary.

So that as surely then others looking at Jesus saw the Father behaving, others now should be able to look at you and look at me and see Christ behaving. Then you're a Christian. I mean, not just become one, you've been one.

And there's a world of difference between becoming a Christian and being the Christian you become. By and large, the church today has settled for becoming and being what you become is at a discount. It's become a matter of irrelevance, but not to God.

Christ Reveals the Glory Before Restoring It

He came to restore the glory, but he had first to reveal the glory to which you and I are to be restored because Ishabod, the glory, had departed. Look at Hebrews in chapter 1. I'd love to read this passage in the Amplified New Testament.

It puts it very succinctly and beautifully. Hebrews chapter 1 and verse 1. In many separate revelations, each of which set forth a portion of the truth, and in different ways, God spoke of all to our forefathers in and by the prophets.

In divers manners, God spoke in all times by the prophets. In your King James. But in verse 2, in the last of these days, that is at the end of that age, in God's timeless agenda and economy. In the last of these days, God has spoken to us in the person of a son, whom the Lord Jesus, he appointed heir and lawful owner of all things, also by and through whom he created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time.

That is, he made, produced, built, operated and arranged them in order. And he, verse 3, is the sole expression of the glory of God. He is the light being. He is the out-raying of the divine. He is the perfect imprint and the very image of God's nature.

And still God, upholding, maintaining, guiding, propelling the universe by his mighty word of power, but when he had, by offering himself as man, accomplished our cleansing from sin and riddance of guilt, he, our risen Lord Jesus, sat down at the right hand of the divine majesty on high.

The sole expression of the glory of God. The light being and the out-raying of the divine. The perfect imprint and very image of God's nature. He revealed the glory. Now here's a riddle. Colossians in chapter 1 and verse 15.

We know of whom the apostle speaks here in the 15th verse because he tells us in the preceding 14th verse. In whom, the Lord Jesus, we have our redemption through his blood, his reconciling act, his death upon the cross.

For that means the forgiveness of our sins. Now he, this Lord Jesus, through whom we have redemption through the shedding of his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, he is the exact likeness of the unseen God.

He is the visible representation of the invisible. The Lord Jesus, co-equal in deity with the Father and the Holy Spirit in the triune Godhead, becomes on earth as man the visible representation of the invisible.

How can a God who is invisible become the visible representation of an invisible God? Only because the invisible God was in Christ and was born at Bethlehem to play that role as man for which he as God created you and me.

The visible representation of the invisible. So that all creation could look at the sun and know what God was like. As God first intended when he created Adam, that all creation should look at him and know what God was like.

So in the second of Paul's two epistles to the Corinthians in chapter 4, a passage again with which I'm sure you're very familiar, the third verse. Even if our gospel be hid, obscured and covered up with a veil.

A veil that hinders the knowledge of God. It is hid only to those who are perishing. If a man doesn't know God, that's simply the evidence that he is lost. It is hid only to those who are perishing. Obscured only to those who are actually dying.

Veiled only to those who are lost. For the God of this world, this is his business. The devil himself. He's the God of this world. The God of this world has blinded the unbelievers' minds. That they should not discern the truth, preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ the Messiah who is the image and likeness of God.

We preach, not ourselves. We're not here to lord it over you, says the apostle. We preach Jesus, the Christ, as Lord. Ourselves merely as your servants and slaves for Jesus' sake. For God, who said in verse 6, let light shine out of darkness as shone in our hearts, so as to beam forth the light of the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and the glory of God as it is manifest in the person and as it is revealed in the face of Jesus Christ.

He came, you see, to restore the glory, but before he could restore the glory, he had to reveal the glory to which we were to be restored. So that we might, on the grounds of redemption and a spiritual new birth, reinvaded by deity, governed and controlled, filled where the Holy Ghost might fulfill that function for which he as God made us, and he alone fulfilled, the only man on earth since Adam fell, and of whom alone the Father God in heaven could say, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Good. Very good. So, to the 44th chapter of the prophecy of Isaiah. The 40th chapter. Did I say 44? 40th chapter. Verse 3, the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Every valley shall be exalted, every mountain and hill shall be made low, the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. All flesh shall see it together.

For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it, God said it, he did it. When a little baby boy was born at Bethlehem, and for 33 years on earth displayed the majesty, the glory of God. He revealed the glory.

John the Baptist and the True Witness

Of course you know where this is cited, if you turn to the gospel of John in the first chapter, and the sixth verse. There was a man sent from God. His name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light.

John the Baptist. Not John the author of John's gospel, John the Baptist. Who himself was conceived by divine intervention, for his mother Elizabeth had been barren, incapable of bearing all her days, until she was well beyond the age of bearing.

And he was born six months before the Lord Jesus. And yet of the Lord Jesus said he, he came after me but was before me. The latchet of whose shoes I'm not worthy to unloose. I baptize with water as an evidence of your desire in repentance to be at peace with God, but he's going to baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

He's going to restore life to the lifeless. He's going to give you back the life man lost in the day that Adam fell. He's going to reinvade your humanity, and by his divine presence abolish death, and restore you to life.

He was a man sent from God. He was not that light of whom he bore witness. In verse 8, he was sent to bear witness of that light, and did. For in the 19th verse, we read in that first chapter of John, this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, who are you?

He confessed and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ. So they asked him, what then? Are you Elijah? He said, I'm not. Are you that prophet? Or this prophet? He said, no. Very aggravated. It really frustrated them.

They wanted to know who he was, and all that he would tell them was who he wasn't. It really made them quite angry. So finally they said to him, who are you? That we may give an answer to them that sent us.

What sayest thou of thyself? We've been here to, we've been sent here to get copy. And all you'll tell us is who you're not. Tell us who you are. And John the Baptist said, well if you really must know, I'll tell you.

I'm the voice. Citing from the 40th chapter, the prophecy of Isaiah. I'm simply a voice crying in the wilderness. Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah. Just a voice, in the wilderness.

Bearing testimony to the light. And the next day, verse 29, John sees Jesus coming unto him. He said, behold, the Lamb. The Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, after me cometh a man who was preferred before me.

For he was before me. In the eternal age of the past, co-equal in deity with the Father and the Holy Ghost and the triune God. Again the next day, verse 35, after John stood and said, and two of his disciples.

Why were they his disciples? Are we not sent to make disciples of Jesus? But here were two who were disciples of John. But that didn't flatter him. Men today, in their egocentricity, building their own petty little empires, love to have disciples.

To exhibit their charisma. John wasn't excited about having disciples, except that he knew that if there was anything attractive about him, it was only that, that they could see in him. Of the one of whom he was to bear witness, the light was reflected.

So looking upon Jesus as he walked, he wasn't counting his congregation. He was looking upon Jesus as he walked. He said, behold, the Lamb. The Lamb of God. This is one of the most magnificent passages that indicates the nature of true evangelism.

Here was a true witness. A man sent from God. Preoccupied not with himself, but preoccupied with the Lamb. The two disciples heard John speak and follow Jesus. That's a true witness. They heard John speak and follow Jesus.

They saw the light. And when John looked round, he'd lost his congregation and nothing delighted him more. He'd preached himself out of business. That should be your ambition and mine. Do you remember what Paul said in the second chapter of his epistle to the Philippians?

Working Out Salvation Through God's Indwelling Work

More in my absence than in my presence, work out your own salvation with fear and with trembling. Don't lean on me. I'm not your crutch. I'm not indispensable to your spiritual well-being. I've introduced you to the one who alone can not only be the foundation, but sustain that which is built upon it.

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it's God, not Paul the Apostle. It's not your pastor. It's not your mom, nor your dad. It's not your church. It's God who works in you, both to will and do of his good pleasure.

So said Paul, my supreme ambition is that you might discover just how wealthy you became in the day that Christ invaded your humanity, as wealthy as I became in the day that he invaded my humanity. As the arch enemy of the early church, Saul of Tarsus, when I was flung in that moment of revelation, blinded by the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, and fell sightless to the earth.

I want you to discover that you became as wealthy in that day that you received Christ as I did when I received Christ. So live it up in the power and resources that have become yours, that are as much yours as mine.

You don't need me. Work out your own salvation. Not for it. You can't only receive it and enjoy it. Live it up in all the good of what God has made available to you in Christ. But it's God who works in you.

You're his workshop, both to will and do of his good pleasure. If God's going to do that which he wills of his good pleasure, what's illogical about anything that God wills for your life if he as God is going to do what he wills?

But will not, cannot, and does not, except in terms of your availability, and that's what it means to be full of the Holy Ghost, available for God to be God and behave in a man. You reveal the glory, the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

So back there to Hebrews in chapter 2, just for a moment, Hebrews in chapter 2 and verse 9. We see an invisible God, Jesus, who made an invisible God visible, because he assumed your humanity and mine.

We see Jesus made a little earth for the angels, for the suffering of death, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man, without exception. Because the Lord Jesus tasted death for every man, without exception, for God is unwilling that any should perish, God commands all men everywhere to repent and be converted, that their sins might be blotted out.

Acts chapter 3 verse 19. God commands all men everywhere to repent and be converted, because all men everywhere may repent and may get converted, because Jesus tasted death for every man. What else does it say of the Lord Jesus in that verse?

The 9th of the 2nd chapter of Hebrews. He was crowned with glory and he was crowned with honor. Is that describing the Lord Jesus as God in quality with his Father, the Holy Spirit? No. That's describing the Lord Jesus in the perfection of his humanity.

If you want to know where that comes, that comes in Psalm 8. It's almost cited complete there in that chapter, but let's turn to the original there. In the 8th Psalm, first verse, O Lord our God, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, who hast set thy glory above the heavens.