Sermon Outline
Read: Lk 2;1-7, 1Jn 4:2-3, 2Jn 7
- Advent Overview
- This year, I would like us to reflect on the Humanity, Divinity, Sonship and Royalty of Jesus Christ.
- The humanity of Jesus has been challenged all the way back to the first century of the Church.
- Notice what the Apostle John writes (1Jn 4:2-3, 2Jn 7)
- John Understood the competing worldview of the Jew and the Greek!
- Challenges to the Humanity of Jesus
- Greeks struggled to see full humanity of Jesus,
- Jews struggled to see full divinity of Jesus
- The Struggle in the History of the Church
- Reasons Jesus needed to be human
- God’s justice/holiness must be satisfied (Rom 6:23, HC12)
- Only Humans can be punished for human offenses (Heb 10:3-4, HC14-15)
- Righteous flesh is needed (1Pt 3:18, 2Cor 5:21, Heb 7:26 HC15)
- For salvation to be possible, a human must live a life of total conformity to the law of God. (Rom 5:19, HC16)
- Jesus’ Humanity
- Was Jesus Fully Human? (Lk 2:1-7)
- Being human is not identical with being sinful.
- Adam and Eve in Creation, pre fall.
- Humanity in New Jerusalem.
- Jesus was Human and sinless (Heb 4:15, 1Cor 15:45)
- What aspects of Humanity Did Jesus take on?
- Jesus grew in Wisdom and Stature (Lk 2:40, 52)
- Feelings
- Cries at loss of Lazarus (Jn 11:35)
- Agonizes in Gethsemane (Matt. 26:38)
- exhaustion (Mk 4:38)
- Rejoiced (Lk 10:21)
- Angry, Grieved (Mk 3:5)
- human body with all its limitations and weaknesses (Heb 2:14, Gal 4:4, Mt 4:2, Jn 4:7, BC18-19)
- Tempted (Lk 4:13)
- Need to be prayerfully dependent (Mk 1:35, Jn 12:49, 5:19, Lk 3:21, 11:1, Mt 26:36)
- Submission (Mt 26:39)
- Mind
- Jesus was human in every respect of the word.
- Implication of Jesus’ Humanity – Why does it matter that Jesus was human?
- We are redeemed (BC 18)
- We are Brothers with Christ (Heb 2:11-12)
- Destroys power of death (Heb 2:14, BC 19)
- Delivers from Fear of Death (Heb 2:15)
- Acts as Merciful and Faithful High Priest (Heb 2:17-18)
- We can relate to him.
- Worthy of emulation.
- To deny the full humanity of Christ is to remove the hope of salvation from the gospel.
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