John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God."
Christ was tempted, suffered and died for us as a man. He
lived, breathed, walked as a man.
He was God, ‘veiled in flesh’, he was the second Adam, man
born from the seed of God, sinless, righteous and Holy.
It is important that his ‘earthly’ existence is not
diminished by his Spirit’s existence and likewise that He is truly proclaimed
as ‘God With Us!’
Here Andrew Wommack explains the importance that Jesus was God.
“Jesus was not just a man sent from God, He was God.
This is the most important statement of the New Testament.
On this truth hangs all other truths.
If Jesus was only a man, then regardless of how good He was,
His life could only provide a substitute for one other man. But since He was
God, His life was worth more than every human life since creation. Indeed it
was worth more than the sum total of the universe that He created.
Any compromise on this point will negate the work of Christ
in our lives. Jesus was God manifest in the flesh! Yet this Almighty God came
to dwell in a human body. He humbled Himself and took the form of a servant.
Christ's humanity truly made Him one of us. He suffered the
same temptations and pressures that we suffer. It was His divinity, however,
that gave Him the power to save us to the max. We must never let His humanity
blind us to the fact that Almighty God Himself became our friend. And we must
never let His divinity blind us to the fact that He knows exactly how we feel
and cares for us.”
Amen!
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