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Be-gotten of God, although the Son of Man (Adam)
"The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee (Mary); the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing that shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35).
And so we are told...
God "sent forth His Son made of a woman made under the law" (Gal. 4:4). Being made of a woman, Jesus was of our nature, that is right our condemned and beggarly weak vial mortal nature: HOWEVER Jesus being created of God and not of man, Jesus in character is spotless "holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners". Christian today struggle to realise that Sin had a hold of Jesus “in” his nature, whereby he inherited from Adam the sentence of death. However he “became” through suffering the express image of God’s person so that sin had no hold on Jesus, in character he was faultless.
How we all ask?
John 8:29 “he always did those things that were pleasing to his Father”. When he died, "he (Jesus) died unto sin once" Rom 6:10. But God (His Father) raised Jesus as a result of his obedience, "being raised from the dead, he dieth no more: death hath no more dominion over him" (Rom. 6:9,10).
"Wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them" (Heb. 7:25).
So we rejoice when we read with Paul in Rom. 8:33:
"Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth; who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is ever at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us".
If you are reading this study, know this my fellow believer – You are under the condemnation of death! It is a sentence passed from the beginning and its is for this very reason God sent us Jesus, that he should partake of our nature.
Sadly many Christians “fail” to see this vital lessons but rather holding on other teachings do not allow themselves to read the Scriptures with care. The Bible expressly states he had our exact same nature.
How serious is it if we deny the true nature of Christ?
John says that anyone who denies the true nature of Christ, as many did in his day and many have done since, denies what is true and is titled the anti-christ.
John is extremely strong in upholding this truth that Jesus came in the flesh, that is, the same flesh of the children, that flesh which is styled “flesh of David”, flesh mortal because of sin.
Why does the apostle John take such strong ground on this matter of his nature?
If we deny his nature we cut at the very root of God's own arrangements which is His wisdom and righteousness in Jesus Christ. If you doubt this work you actually destroys the divine principles that made it “impossible” that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sin.
The facts are confronting fellow believer:
God's righteousness is the source of our salvation! This is true!
How could Jesus righteously die if death had no dominion over him?
Answer – it would not be right but rather a mask, a masquerade like a great illusion one of deception and trickery!
No! Jesus was under deaths dominion which came through Adam, and through Abraham, David, and his mother (Mary), while he had no sin of his own: it was the sin of others that was on him. his whole purpose was to remove those sins BUT how could he do this if it were not on him?
"The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity (sin) of us all", a figure of speech? God from the beginning choose to forgive us all for Christ's sake. Our sins were laid on him! This could only occur if Jesus had the same death inherited nature from A&E in Eden....that is the sole reason why God required Jesus to be born of a woman! Else God would have formed him another way.
Jesus is the Lamb of God, without spot, undefiled. Actually Gods personal involvement with His creation first occurred with His son Jesus who went out of His way provide a Son. A man produced through Mary, by the Spirit of God, and by doing so fulfilled the requirements for a perfect sacrifice; being in our very nature condemned by death caused in Eden, and, as such no error on his part he was lifted up upon a cross. "It pleased the Lord to bruise him." Would it please the Lord to do sin? No!. Therefore, it was right in God’s eyes. But how could it be “right” except Jesus be representing a condemned race such as ours?
the Father has done great things for His son. () Brackets added by Alethos
