Jesus, 100% Human and God
To people, Jesus is usually God or just a man but scripture is clear that He was 100% both. The real Jesus was and is a real human. He has a physical body and has a plan for your physical body. That plan is also eternal.
Jesus Actually Knows
Jesus of Nazareth was fully human and fully God. No one ever doubted that he was a human but had to be convinced that He was 100% God. Today, people need to understand that while you may believe in Him as your God, He was also 100% human. Those who walked with Him physically touched him and shared life with him (1 John 1:1). He was born of a woman who lived for 33 years on earth and died. Jesus was resurrected three days after His death and when He came back, His physical body still bore the scars of His crucifixion. For 40 days, He walked around in a physically glorified body.
“For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the anti-christ” – 2 John 7:7
Everyone that confesses Jesus came in the flesh is of God. Notice the scripture says we must acknowledge Jesus came as a human, as well as God in the first century many deceivers tried to deny Jesus came in the flesh. There are some Christians who still reduce God to only being a spirit but not only did Jesus have a fully human body, He had a fully human mind, heart, and will.
Only when you understand Jesus' full humanity will you understand the freedom you have been granted in Christ. Everything we are going through in the flesh Jesus endured perfectly. To have a Savior in Christ is to have a model of a leader who was fully perplexed with the same things we face daily.
Pastor Mike Signorelli’s “The Real Jesus” sermon series explored all of Jesus. Let us take a look at some of the scriptures that highlight Jesus’ humanity.
Jesus As a Human
He was born to a human mom.
“ When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus” – Matthew 1:25
He experienced human hunger.
“In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry.” – Matthew 21:18
He grew physically tired.
“Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour” John 4:6
He got thirsty.
“After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” – John 19:28
Jesus became physically weak and angels needed to come and minister strength to Him.
“Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him” – Matthew 4:11
He experienced physical temptation.
“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” – Matthew 4:1
He felt pain and suffering and experienced physical death.
“From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.” – Matthew 16:21
Jesus had a real human body and he said so himself!
“See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” –Luke 24:39
Jesus Had a Human Mind and Heart
Jesus had a human mind, one divinely from God. According to Luke 2:52, we see that Jesus increased in wisdom, stature and favor with God and man. The only way for this to be possible is for both a human mind and a mind from God to co-exist simultaneously. Mark 13:32 scripture confirms that God knows everything as God but not as a man. Jesus lived in paradox – knowing all things as God but had to lean on the Father as a human.
Jesus knew all things as God but did not know all things as a man. This unique description is not a contradiction, it speaks to the glory of this God/Man - Jesus Christ. For the Christian, we know that when accepting Christ we receive the Holy Spirit who teaches us all things and gives us access to all knowledge but we live in the paradox of a limiting brain that can not know and understand all things.
We must trust God because His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. We lean not on our own understanding but in all things acknowledge Him. Total reliance on God as Jesus did when we walked the earth. There's something about our human mind that needs to learn how to submit to spiritual heavenly thoughts. We must learn how to renew our minds because it tends toward sin.
Jesus also had a human heart. The fibers of the heart are partly made of neurons. There are neuron cells in the human gut, heart and brain. Jesus’ heart was on display through His emotions.
Jesus marveled at the faith of the centurion in Matthew 8:10 which was his human condition.
His soul was sorrowful to the point of death as recorded in Matthew 26:38. We have a Savior that understands the deep pain that causes us to feel like we can just die. Jesus was deeply moved and troubled in John 11:33-35. Jesus knows what it feels like to lose loved ones. He wept when His friend died.
As we often see in churches that are free to express themselves openly, as V1 church does, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears (Hebrews 5:7).
The Messiah felt emotions and experienced emotions but He also never allowed the emotions to control Him.
The human heart of Jesus shows us that it is ok to cry or be troubled but we ought not create a cycle of grief, and not give ourselves over to anxiety and make it a part of our identity.
When Jesus ascended into Heaven, He ascended as a human (Acts 1). As He intercedes for us at the right hand of the Father, He is not disconnected from the human experience, because He came and left as a human He can still sympathize with our pains.
In a world that can keep us prisoners to our humanity, Christians must do as Jesus did. When things became too hard, Christ declared who He is.
Jesus Is…
Bread of life (John 6:35)
The light of the world (John 8:12)
He is from above (John 8:23)
I am He (John 8:24)
Before Abraham was I am (John 8:58)
I am the door of the sheep (John 10:70)
I am the good shepherd (John 10:14)
I am the resurrection and the life (John 11:25)
The way the truth and the life, There is no life apart from Jesus (John 14:6)
I am in the Father and the Father is in Me (John 14:11)
I am the vine apart from me you can do nothing (John 15:5)
We serve the I AM and He always was and He always will be. In Acts 1 Jesus in a glorified body tells His followers that if we accept the Holy Spirit, we too will walk in power and authority!
About the Author
Jeannie Ortega Law is a chart-topping singer, evangelist, media personality and author from New York City. She can be reached on social media: @JeannieOrtega or emailed at Info@JeannieO.com
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