Jesus Christ is Man John 1:1 & 14

Well, good morning. Good morning and welcome to faith Bible Church. It's a beautiful day outside and we are Blessed with some amazing weather right now. We need some more rain we can be praying for that as well and it looks like we might get a little bit this week, but God is good through it all and So we're glad you're here and those at home.

We hope the Lord is with you and you are Staying in the word and staying close to the Lord. Because you don't want to get far from fellowship because We are own all like sheep prone to stray and and so the closer to the flock you are the better that is so.

Few announcements this morning. Ladies Bible study is on the 20th. So ladies mark that down. It's also the anniversary of Barb's 39th birthday. How about that? So Early happy birthday bar Anniversary of her 39th.

She's she's holding she's holding firm on that on that that year so anyway, so Also next week is daylight savings time change spring forward so Try not to be late for church. Okay, this is the last time you you got a pass because you just got here early this time you really got to try so Let's let's mark do that as well.

That's right. We took we always turn everything off before midnight on Saturday night. So we're we're all set for the next day. So and also have a special announcement this morning the elders have had the blessing of interesting interacting with a Pastoral candidate Iljin Cho.

He's a student seminary student will be graduating at the end of this next term. This term he's active in his local church and teaching and preaching and this is in, Illinois and so we are blessed to have been part of that process after interviewing and corresponding with him and Speaking with several of his references and his mentors.

We've really tried to vet him and to talk to him and interview him. We do believe that the church would be well served if he were their pastor. So with that said We've invited he and his wife to spend Resurrection Sunday weekend with us, which they have agreed to do.

Gladly I might add We will have a morning social before the service to meet them directly so that the exact time that's not set yet somewhere around 9 o 'clock probably Iljin will he'll also be preaching that service for Resurrection Sunday.

So you get to hear him so I really this is a this is your opportunity. You know, this is kind of a two-way, you know, we're. We're trying to impress upon him. He's trying to impress on us of what he's capable of is that the Lord's will for both.

We want what the Lord's will is for the church. We want what the Lord's will is for Iljin as well. So Resting in that we'll be scheduling a business meeting on April 11th, which is the week following their visit here.

To get your feedback and to discuss, you know, do we do we call him as as a pastor so Exciting time there Lord has directed us in this direction. It's not conclusive, but It's it's fun to see it's exciting to see how God is working in in our lives.

In our small church and also in the life of Iljin and in his wife. So they will both be coming out he and his wife. Okay, so let's continue to seek the Lord's will in that. So as we prepare our hearts for our worship service this morning I'd like to read Psalm 28 6 7 Blessed be the Lord because he has heard the sound of my pleading.

The Lord is my strength and my shield my heart trusts in him and I am helped. Therefore my heart triumphs and with my song I shall thank him and we need to do that would with joy This morning. Let's do that.

So Please join with me in prayer. Our dear heavenly and gracious father. We thank you father that you have brought his here together. We thank you that you have brought Iljin before us father to consider being a part of our church Lord.

I just pray that you would give Him discernment as he as he visits us and and to seize the life of this church and we as well father will understand him more fully as the kind of man that he is and His his desires and his fit for our church father, so We do it's this is your work Lord.

This is your church and We just acknowledge that father and all things Lord bless our service this morning that we might honor you that we might lift our voices To proclaim the majesty and the glory of an amazing God Lord.

Thank you that you love us that you care for us and that you desire the best for us Lord and that we could Honor you in everything that we do father. So go before us father and Prepare our hearts now may we bill be filled with the Holy Spirit as we're guided in our service today We thank you and give you praise in Christ's name.

Amen Brother David, ah, good morning. Let's stand and sing. Oh for a thousand tongues.

Jesus Christ Is Both God and Man

Triumphs of his grace Jesus the name that charms our fears that bids our sorrows Tis music in the sinner's ears Tis life and health and peace He breaks the power of Cancelled sin he sets the prisoner free His blood can make the foulest clean.

His blood availed for me My gracious master and my God assist me to proclaim To spread through all the earth abroad the honors of thy name.

What a wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord.

As for sin Atonement made for the Wonderful Savior Is. This is his name. Glorious is the name of Jesus. Over to Pastor John. Okay.

Well, good morning. Praise the Lord. Welcome to church. Please open your Bibles with me to the gospel of John. The gospel of John. We're gonna be in John chapter 1. I Was you know, I teach at a Christian school and but I was talking to one of the teachers This week and we were talking about how.

You know Romans 8 28 promises us God causes all things to work together for our good. We understand that, you know, that's something we can trust no matter what I Mean it. We really can't trust that. No matter what we think no matter what we see no matter what we feel God is faithful and.

I.

Said, you know one of the things from this whole virus. I wash my I say I teach you to school I wash my hands four or five times a day. I Never knew that my hands could get so dirty. I Go wash my hands and dirt comes off of them and I would go the whole day without washing my hands.

Anybody else doing that. Maybe you don't work out but I work in a place where you need to wash your hands.

Then.

My wife cuts my hair now and I don't have to drive anywhere and it's wonderful. We get to sit in because we have a small house with small bathrooms. So we're very close to each other and I tell you what she does a great job.

And she only charges me $20. Well, it's the first day of a new week and It is so great to be worshiping together, isn't it? You know last week we considered the truth and some of the ramifications of the truth that Jesus Christ is God, right?

100 God. This morning if you looked at your notes Jesus Christ is man, and I challenge you last Sunday and it's one of those questions that pastors don't really like to ask but sometimes you have to because it's one of those that he gently steps on your toes with and It is this question Who is Jesus Christ to you?

I just want you to understand this morning That according to God's holy inspired true Word, this is the most important question anyone can ever answer.

Who is.

Jesus Christ to you and I just want to encourage you to be thinking about that right last at the beginning of this year. We're in March. We're just three weeks away from Resurrection Sunday looking forward to hearing Iljin Cho preach.

I believe he's he's a very gifted young man in that regard. We were able to listen to two of his sermons online and We started the beginning of the year setting in place a biblical understanding of the gospel, right.

What is what is the gospel of Jesus Christ? Is it simply praying a prayer right. Jesus? I want you to be my Lord and Savior and now all of a sudden you're a Christian well we understand that that's not true right and Then secondly, we started last week dealing with this whole issue of the cornerstone of the church.

And I tried to impress upon you the importance of our understanding of Jesus Christ and who he is his character his attributes his ministry right, and we took a basically like a figurative hammer and chisel and what I was hoping is we had in place this Cornerstone and we're slowly plumbing it getting it square as we possibly can using laser Measurements from the Word of God to square that stone.

So we know for certain who Jesus Christ is last week. Jesus Christ is 100 God today. Jesus Christ is 100 man. Okay. This is a dual truth that the Word of God Teaches now take a look at John chapter 1 in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and The Word was God.

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That is the Word Was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him and without him. Nothing was made that was made in him was life and the life was a light of men and The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it.

There was a man sent from God whose name was John. This man came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all through him might believe now. He's not talking about the Apostle John here. He's talking about John the Baptist.

Okay, the Apostle John one of the inner circle of three wrote this gospel. Now this is John the Baptist. That he's talking about That was the true light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

He was in the world and the world was made through him and the world did not know him. Talking about Jesus Christ. Key verse. He came to his own and His own did not receive him Israel. But as many as received him to them.

He gave the right to become children of God to those who believe in his name. Who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man. But of God salvation is 100 God. You can look at that verse and totally understand that it is all God verse 14 and the word became flesh and dwelt among us and We beheld his glory the glory of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth.

So last week Jesus Christ is God from verses 1 2 3 this week in verse 14. Jesus Christ is man. Last week. We looked at the deity of Jesus Christ that he is in fact God and today We're going to be seeing what the Apostle John has to say about another aspect of the person of Jesus Christ, which is that Jesus Christ is 100 man.

Can I explain that well. Fasten your seatbelt?

Okay.

Put your seat back and tray tables in their full and upright locked position. Alright, let's pray Father God, we are so thankful for this day for your word for the truth of your word God. Pray that you would open our eyes of understanding father that the Holy Spirit might indeed be our teacher not me Lord that that this word might Bear fruit in our lives first and foremost that it might be seed planted in our heart.

But secondly father that it would indeed bear fruit. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. So in the first three verses of the Gospel of John John declares unequivocally That Jesus is God in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.

He was in the beginning with God. How much of God was in him? How much of God was he is he and will he always be verse 3? All things were made through him and without him. Nothing was made that was made and you say well Wait a minute.

We read in Genesis that God made the world. Yes, he did. Jesus is God. All three persons of the Godhead are in Genesis chapter 1 Jesus Christ is there. God the Father is there and God the Holy Spirit is there because later on in chapter 1 It says let us make man in our image.

Okay. I Won't go down that rabbit trail and develop it as much as I want to this is about just so you know. This is about a two and a half hour sermon. Okay? But the elders said I cannot keep you here till 230.

And I'm gonna honor them but down in verse 14.

Equally.

The word became flesh and dwelt among us. So here's a biblical truth that needs to be locked down in our brains. Jesus is God. Jesus Christ is also Amen. The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is both God and man.

Jesus is both at the same time 100 God and when he was here on the earth 100 man. Now can I Adequately clearly and Succinctly explain these two truths these two dual truths to my satisfaction my complete Satisfaction.

No, I can't not totally. Scholars and theologians much brighter than I am much better educated have literally wrestled for centuries trying to explain.

These.

Two.

Equally important truths. About Jesus Christ. They even went so far as to come up with a word that defines it. They had to create a word. It's the word hypostatic. You might want to make a note of that if you've never heard it.

Hypostatic Union, I believe it's in your notes. And what I'm going to do is give you a heavily.

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Definition of the term hypostatic. Union Hypostasis is a Greek word. Normally first used by Eastern theologians in the early centuries of church history. We're talking about third fourth fifth centuries.

To refer to the three persons of the Trinity. So originally the word Hypostasis was used to refer to how God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit are one. Yet three separate entities. Okay, it caused confusion.

So it refers to each of the three concrete and distinct Trinitarian persons who share a single divine nature or evidence. In other words. Everything please stick with this. Please follow me. This is so important to understand.

God the Father in terms of love justice power omniscience on the presence Jesus has those same attributes and characteristics and so does God the Holy Spirit.

Okay.

The hypostatic Union in contrast Was then applied to Christ. It has a Christological designation. The doctrine. And there's books written on this. I Mean really it's amazing. It's an attempt to describe the miraculous bringing together of Humanity and divinity in the same person Jesus Christ.

Listen. Such that he is both fully God and fully man. And you go. That's what I do. Okay, and I've studied this for a while. It's just one of those things. How do you explain the parting of the Red Sea?

How do you explain God saying let there be light and there was light. Come on. We just can't right. We can say well.

Okay.

Okay, and they're gonna look at you with a blank look like you are. So in simple terms Jesus is both fully God and fully man now. Despite the difficulty in trying to understand and express the truth that Jesus is both fully God and fully man What we want to do is clear away the fog if we can and we want to zero in on the reality.

That.

Properly understood. These are the two most important truths about Christ's person. The fact that Jesus Christ is both fully God and fully man are.

Two.

Really of the most important truths about the person of Jesus Christ found in God's Word now. It's not only in John's Gospel That we encounter this truth. In other words when we always come back to if we believe the Bible says something listen to me.

This is so important if we believe the Bible says something about something say for example the Holy Spirit. We cannot take one verse and build our house on the one verse. We have to let the scripture interpret the scripture.

Do you understand that we let the scripture interpret the scripture. We don't read into the scripture. We let the scripture interpret the scripture.

Okay.

So when we see here that in the beginning was the Word and the words was with God and the Word was God we don't Take one verse in God's Word. We don't take the the the voice of one verse to say that Jesus Christ is fully God.

The Bible is full of references that indicate and prove that he's fully God and The same is true with him being fully man. I'll give you three quick examples one of which You're familiar with. It's the Old Testament prophecy of Isaiah.

It's much quoted prophet Isaiah says for unto us a Child. Oh a child you mean one that like cries and you have to change diapers. Yes. Unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and The government will be on his shoulders and he will be called wonderful Counselor mighty God everlasting father prince of peace.

So this verse teaches that the Messiah was to be one who was always God's son. But who would become a man at a particular point in human history. Hence the child as a child he is born but as a son he is given.

Now hold your place here. And just flip over To the right through the book of Acts to Romans chapter 1 you have the same teaching. Romans 1 3. I'm gonna read more than I meant to. But look at verse 1.

Romans 1 3. Paul a bondservant of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle Separated the gospel of God which he promised before through his prophets in the holy scriptures pay attention Concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord who was born of the seed of David according to what the flesh and Declared to be the Son of God with power According to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead.

So Jesus Christ was made the seed of David according to the flesh. But verse 4 he was declared always to have been what the Son of God. Galatians chapter 4. Galatians 4 remember General Electric Power Company.

Galatians 4 verse 4. Galatians 4 verse 4, but when the fullness of the time had come God sent forth his son Born of a woman Born under the law. To redeem those who were under the law that me we might receive the adoption as sons.

So as a son Jesus Christ was sent. Hence, he was always God. Nevertheless, he was made under the law. He became man. See the Bible is never hesitant to put the twin truths together of the full Deity of Jesus Christ and the true and full Humanity of Jesus Christ.

Do I need to go to any more verses? Because I can't dismiss you at 230. Go to John again. What these and other verses talk about is taught by illustration in various events in Christ's ministry for instance if you look at chapter 2 chapter 2 of the Gospel of John.

Remember in verse 1 there's a wedding in Cana of Galilee, right? So Jesus is at this wedding now get this. Remember, there's the specific references to Jesus as God in man, right? Then there's the illustrations of Jesus as both what God and man and that's how you build your doctrine.

You don't build it on one verse. You build it on all of God's Word.

So.

I think about this few things could be more human than a wedding, right?

Come on.

Yet when the wine is exhausted and the family is about to be embarrassed Jesus makes new wine out of water that had been standing around in great stone water pots that were used for Jewish ceremonial washings.

Who but God could turn water into wine and Yet who but man could be sensitive to the situation that you're a wedding feast and they're out of wine. And by the way, it's not 15 alcohol like we drink it.

So God and man. Matthew. Matthew 8. Matthew 8 the disciples are crossing the Sea of Galilee from Capernaum To the land of Gadarenes. While Jesus he's exhausted He's asleep in the back of the boat a storm arises.

So it was so intense that they're they're frightened. Matthew chapter 8 verse 23. Now when he got into a boat his disciples followed him and suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea So that the boat was covered with waves.

Okay, God was asleep.

No.

The man Jesus was asleep. He was tired. Then his disciples came to him and awoke him saying Lord save us we are perishing We're gonna drown. Verse 26. He arose and rebuked the winds in the sea and there was a great calm.

See.

What could be more human than our Lord's exhaustion and not even waking up? I Learned to sail when I was five. I was sailing to Catalina Island from Los Angeles with a 27-foot sloop Navigating steering a compass heading when I was eight years old.

You don't want to be at sea in a storm. It's scary and he sleeps through it. You don't sleep through a storm when you're on the Sea of Galilee. What could be more human than his total exhaustion? What could be more divine than is stilling the wind and the waves so that the disciples look what they said?

Who can this be?

That even the winds and the seal. BAM. So the same twofold nature of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's illustrated throughout the Gospels right town to the accounts of the death and resurrection. See nothing could be more human than what the death of Jesus Christ.

He didn't faint he died and nothing more be could be more divine Than the darkening of the sky the veil of the temple being rent in two and Jesus rising again after three days. Both truths, right. So don't make the mistake of Thinking of Jesus as being merely divine man or on the other hand being a merely human God and people believe that.

There are cults that will tell you oh, he's a great teacher. But he wasn't God. He's not God. The Christians are wrong. The Bible is wrong. Jesus is the God man. Which means that he is fully and uniquely God as well as fully and perfectly man.

He is God with us He is God for us. He is God in us and as a man He's the one who? Who has experienced all the trials all the suffering all the losses all the gains all the Temptations all the vicissitudes of life.

This morning. My wife came out. I Was meditating on on my sermon in the chair, and I fell asleep. Jesus fell asleep just like we do.

Now.

Why are these truths so important? What do they have to do with making plum our understanding of the chief cornerstone of the church or more particularly as We discussed the importance of the deity and the divinity of Jesus Christ last week.

Why is the humanity as equally important as his divinity? Okay now There are several reasons. I only have so much time. I think I got four of them for you in your notes and The first one is. The first reason why is because Jesus Christ.

The God man is able to die. See the incarnation. God becoming man made it possible for Jesus Christ to die over in Hebrews. Hebrews 10. This is clearly what? The writer of Hebrews is thinking when he writes these words.

Verse 4. Hebrews 10 verse 4. For it is not possible That the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. Man I so want I so much want to teach this morning. I Really have to tie myself down. Because you understand when you read the Old Testament.

Maybe you've made a goal to read through the Old Testament this year or the Bible great great goal. You understand that all those goats and animals and pigeons and everything that was killed, right? Was to show us the insufficiency of all of them and point us to Jesus Christ.

Do you see what it says it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. Therefore when he came into the world God said Sacrifice an offering you did not desire. But a body you have prepared for me in Burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure.

Then I said behold I have come. This is Jesus speaking. I have come. In the volume of the book it is written of me To do your will. Oh God see having a completely human body made it possible for Jesus Christ to die.

Now.

You can read all kinds of books on the incarnation incarnation simply meaning God becoming flesh. But it's it's hard to find an illustration of of this aspect of it. See the body was the vehicle of Christ's earthly ministry.

See a body a human body was the vehicle was the. The canister the container for Christ's for God the sons earthly ministry. You think about a man or a woman who is called by God? Say for example to become a medical missionary or work in a distant corner of Africa.

Their person and their willingness or. Right, but their training is quite another. So, what do they do read the story of Hudson Taylor sometime called to China? He he trained he wanted to go over there with medical training to be a doctor.

And he had medical training and and that was part of the preparation. He had to go to China, right? So they want to go to they want to go to Africa. They want to want to be a medical missionary. But they have no training.

What do they do? They submit two years of training. They gain medical knowledge. They get some Bible training so that so that to their person and original intention they add. Watch they add that was that which was necessary to do the work, right?

They're not ready. They want to go but they're not ready. This is what Jesus did in the beginning in the eternal counsels of God that are as beyond our ability to understand. Before there was a world.

Before there was a lost race of men and women before Adam and Eve. Jesus foresaw as God who is eternal all of human history and he knew that he was to redeem.

This race and.

Then in the fullness of time In the days of Herod of Rome he assumed a body so that he could then offer up that body as.

The perfect.

Sacrifice for sin and see this is. This amazing and comforting truth is what we find throughout Scripture. The very name of Jesus looks forward to an act of saving significance. The angel said of Mary she will give birth to a son.

And You were to give him the name Jesus because he will save His people from their sins. Back in the gospel of Mark Matthew Mark Luke Mark 8. Jesus spoke of the suffering that was to come mark 831. Mark 831.

And He began to teach them That the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and scribes and be killed. And After three days rise again mark 931 over just a page.

For he taught his disciples and said of them the Son of Man is being betrayed Into the hands of men and they will kill him.

And.

After he is killed. He will rise again the third day. But they did not understand this saying and they were afraid to ask him see. Jesus himself spoke of his suffering that was to come and. Then he linked that suffering to the success of his mission to the crucifixion back in John John 12.

John 12 32. And if I I'm sorry, and I if I am lifted up from the earth will draw all peoples to me. This he said. Signifying by what death he would die. So at several places, I don't have time to read them all.

In John's gospel the crucifixion is spoken of is that vital time for which Christ came and to which his ministry in flexibly Proceeded moreover. The death of Jesus is in a real sense the theme of the Old Testament also right promises.

What made Old Testament promises what kept New Testament, right? The Old Testament sacrifices as I said earlier pre-figure and point to Christ's suffering and the prophets explicitly Foretell it. Paul teaches that Abraham was saved by faith.

Just like we are Galatians. Galatians. Wait a minute. Jesus wasn't around then. That's right. But you were saved under the Old Covenant by faith. Also not by the law. Galatians 3 8. Galatians 3 8 and the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith.

Watch this. This is amazing. Preach the gospel to Abraham.

What?

Jesus hadn't even come. He was a twinkle in Mary's eye. Mary wasn't even born. She was a twinkle in her great-great-grandmother's eye. God preached the gospel to Abraham before him saying in all you nations shall be blessed.

Look at verse 16 now to Abraham and his seed where the promise is made. He does not say into seeds as To many but as of one and to your seed. Who is Christ? Jesus taught the down count down cast Emmaus Disciples that the Old Testament foretold his death and resurrection Luke 24 and beginning with Moses and all the prophets He explained to them what was said in all the scriptures concerning himself.

John chapter 1 again. So in light of these texts and others and we could just go on and on. I'd love to do it. I Mean seriously, I would just love to do it. It was it was all I could do to fit this into two and a half hours.

It's not wrong to say that the most important reason for the incarnation of Jesus is that made it possible for him to what die? Right. Friends, you understand if Jesus was not a hundred percent human He couldn't have shed his blood and died to pay the penalty for our sin.

So when somebody comes along In the next couple of weeks on some cable news special and they say well He wasn't really man and he didn't really die because he was God and tries to confuse you you just come back to your notes from this message and Say baloney.

I give you permission. My baloney has a first name. It's OSC AR. My baloney has a second name, it's me why ER and then a second reason why Jesus being a hundred percent man is Important is because being human.

Man, if this doesn't get you, I don't know. I will because he's human. He understands us. This particular aspect of Jesus is humid. Humanity is so humbling and it's so fantastic when you begin to think about it.

This is exactly again back to Hebrews. This is the amazing record and testimony of the writer of Hebrews. The fact that God the fact that Jesus Christ took upon himself all that men are and know and experience Also made it possible him for him to be touched with the feelings of our infirmities.

Look at Hebrews 4 verse 15. Hebrews 4 verse 15. We do not have a High priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses but was in all points tempted as we are. Yet without sin let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace.

That we may obtain mercy and find grace to help Help in time of need this should be such a comforting and Encouraging truth about the humanity of our Lord Jesus knew and experienced Everything that it meant to be Human, I put this long quote in your notes.

I don't know why I after I printed them. I Was like, why did I put that in there? But it's from JB Phillips.

He's.

Translated a New Testament some Old Testament books into a more contemporary translation. He's gone to be with the Lord. But I just think it's so powerful if you want to follow along as I read it the record of the behavior of Jesus on the way to the cross and.

Of the.

Crucifixion itself is almost unbearable. Chiefly because it is so intensely human. If as I believe this was indeed God focused in a human being We can see for ourselves that here is no play acting here is the real thing.

There are no supernatural advantages for this man. No celestial rescue party delivered him from the power of evil men and His agony was not mitigated by any super human anesthetic. We can only guess what frightful anguish of mind and spirit rung from him.

The terrible words my god my god. Why hast thou? forsaken me. But the cry it is finished cannot be one of despair. It does not even mean in the original Greek. It is all over. Look at this in The Greek those words it is finished that are quoted.

Every you know Good Friday. Means it has been completed. See the experiences and sufferings of Jesus. Enable us to know that Jesus experienced all that we might experience in this life. You're tired right now having trouble staying awake.

Jesus knows about that weariness. Disappointed by somebody discouraged by the behavior of somebody. Jesus knows about that hurt. He has felt that disappointment. Getting angry at a student in a school that you teach at.

Because they won't listen he knows. Upset at what's going on in the world. He knows He lived the misunderstandings and the pain of living in a fallen world. And as God and as man He is able to understand and help all those who are his own.

Tempted or tried that's why first Corinthians 1013 says no temptation. No trial has seized you has come upon you except what is common a man and God is faithful. Who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear?

But with the temptation with the trial will provide a way out a way of escape. What an amazing truth. So encouraging for our lives and what we live with day in and day out in a fallen world. Was Satan running around the world like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

See so several reasons why the humanity of Jesus humanity of Jesus Christ is so very important to Christianity in the gospel. Number one Jesus being a hundred percent human is important because Jesus the God-man had to die.