Doctrine of the Week - The Humanity of Christ & The Hypostatic Union

The Doctrine of the Week last time was the deity of Christ.

So this Sunday we are going to focus on the humanity of Christ. The Bible says in 1

Timothy chapter 5 verse 2, for there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man

Christ Jesus. And in Mark chapter 6 verse 3, when

Jesus came back to his hometown of Nazareth, after news of him had spread, the people said about Jesus, is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?

So there we see the humanity of Jesus Christ. So going back to what we discussed last week regarding the

Godhead, that God, remember, is a trinity, that there is one

God and three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Well, the second person of the

Godhead, Jesus Christ, Jesus is one person with two natures, the human nature and the divine nature.

So we believe that Christ was truly God and yet truly man.

He is not half God and half man. He does not switch back and forth, truly

God and truly man, and both natures are perfectly joined together in what theologians at least called the hypostatic union.

And Jesus, while he walked this earth, you consider he was like us.

Jesus got hungry. Jesus got thirsty. He got tired.

He slept. He wept. Jesus experienced grief, anger, and even temptation.

But as Hebrews 4 .15 tells us, that Jesus can sympathize with our weaknesses since he was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin.