The Man Christ Jesus
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For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Introduction.
We know that our Lord Jesus Christ is God. He must be divine, and we’ve proved that from the scripture. We have also been taught that truth by a prophet.
Sometimes the attributes of God displayed themselves, and sometimes the attributes of the Son of God.
And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
208 His disciples couldn’t understand His miracles. That night when He come into the boat, and he said, “What manner of man is this that even the winds and the waves obey Him?” They misunderstood that He wasn’t a man, He was God.
209 That’s what’s the matter today with people, they want to make Him a little mascot boy, or something another that carries the bat. They want to make Him just a little fellow around the camp.
210 He wasn’t a little fellow around the camp, He was Jehovah, God! They misunderstood it. They expected Him to be just one of them. He wasn’t one of them, He was God among them! He was more than a man.
As I’ve often said, He was a man when He was hungry, but He was God when He fed five thousand with a biscuit, two biscuits and some pieces of fishes. He was a man when He was tired on the back of a boat, but He was God when He ceased the winds and waves and made them obey Him. “What manner of man is this?”
He wasn’t a manner of a man, He was God manifested in a man. They misunderstood Him. They thought Him to be a man, Mary’s son, a carpenter, but He was God manifested in the flesh. Amen! 61-0723E - God Being Misunderstood
He never ceased being God, but He also manifested the human side. I want to focus on His humanity this morning, because His humanity was absolutely essential to our salvation.
1. The Man Christ Jesus was a Misunderstood Man.
Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
They never understood why He did what He did.
His birth was misunderstood.
And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
Nazareth veiled Bethlehem.
And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?
Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
His life was misunderstood.
They misunderstood why an ill famed woman would wash His feet.
Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
His death was misunderstood.
222 The disciples at Calvary, they misunderstood, when they all denied Him and went away. How could they see a Man, a Man that they had knowed to perform miracles and raise the dead, yet submit Hisself to death, and walk up through there, beaten, and crying, the spit running off His face,
and blood mixed with it where they had pulled their handfuls of beard out, plucked it from His face; and warped His back till His bones was shining through, and kicking Him, and beating Him around; then cussing, drunken soldiers, beating Him right up the street. And stand and let them do that? They misunderstood, so they stood far off.
223 The devil misunderstood Him. The devil said, “Surely that cannot be a Son of God that would stand there and be mistreated like that, and them cussing, and my disciples down there just treating Him any way, and Him taking it. He’s not the Son of God.”
224 Also the Pharisees, the priests, misunderstood Him, said, “If Thou be the Son of God, bring Yourself down off of there.”
225 The thief on His left misunderstood Him, said, “If Thou be the Son of God, take us off the cross, save Yourself and us too.”
226 But the thief on the right understood Him, he said, “We have, we’ve done evil and we deserve what we’re getting, but this Man’s done nothing.” “Lord, remember me when You come into Your Kingdom!”
227 Watch that Voice come back, “Today shall thou be with Me in Paradise.” He understood that that was God dying for our sins. The only way He could die, would be put to death in the flesh. He can’t be put to death in Spirit, because He’s the Eternal Spirit. And He had to be in flesh to be put to death, so they just misunderstood. He understood it. 61-0723E - God Being Misunderstood
2. The Man Christ Jesus was not an Attractive Man.
The characteristics that attract us to Christ, His humility, His suffering, His love, those things were not valued in the world He was born in.
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, And as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
We didn’t desire Him, because He wasn’t pretty. He was probably a little fellow, stoop-shouldered, ruddy-looking, and He wasn’t desirable to be a leader. He didn’t look like a leader. Talked with common street-talk, and so forth, like the people does, the common people, so therefore He didn’t look like He was any great scholar, educated, fine, all robed up, and everything.
He was just an ordinary Man. “There was no beauty of Him, that we should desire Him.” He walked in and out of man, right along, they didn’t even know Who He was. He didn’t look like a god walking along, what we would think was a god. But, the same, He was! 65-0221M - Marriage And Divorce
David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
76 We find out that the Bible wrote in such common language, He must have used the grammar that was used out on the street, just a common people.
Because, the Bible said, “The common people heard Him gladly,” see, so maybe the intellectuals could not associate themselves in such a common Person that spoke with drawls, and so forth, that perhaps He did. So, it was a little too much for them. It is yet, today. 63-1112 - Sir, We Would See Jesus
And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.
In other words, you talk like a hillbilly.
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
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3. The Man Christ Jesus was a Rejected Man.
He is despised and rejected of men; A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: And we hid as it were our faces from him; He was despised, and we esteemed him not.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
197 A type, way back, when David was leaving the temple, rejected king. Went down through the street, and a little, old crippled-up fellow crawling along, never did like him, he called him “old hypocrite” or something, spit right in his face. And that guard pulled the sword, said, “I’ll let that dog’s head stay on him; and spit on my king?”
198 David said, “Let him alone, God told him that.” David probably didn’t know what he said. Went up on the mountain, looking back, crying.
199 Eight hundred years from there, the Son of David was climbing the same mountain, looking out, weeping over Jerusalem, a rejected King. And they spit in His face.
200 Don’t you see? It’s the same thing. See that Word coming on down, following on down today? Always rejected by the majority, see, and believed in the minority. 64-0614M - The Unveiling Of God
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
4. The Man Christ Jesus was a Man of Sorrows.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, And carried our sorrows: Yet we did esteem him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
Jesus wept.
Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
She said, “When He went down to the grave of Lazarus,” Said, “He went down to the grave; he cried.” Said, “That showed he wasn’t nothing but a man, because he had sorrow in his heart. He cried. He was a mortal.”
I said, “Yes, ma’am. I’ll agree with you that He cried like a man when He was going to the grave of Lazarus. But when He stood there in that little frail frame straightened up, said, ‘Lazarus, come forth.’ That was more than a mortal there. That was God speaking through His Son.” Hallelujah. And a man that had been dead four days stood on his feet and lived again. 51-0729A - The Resurrection Of Lazarus
5. The Man Christ Jesus was a Wounded Man.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: The chastisement of our peace was upon him; And with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned every one to his own way; And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was wounded by the pain of our sin.
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
91 In the garden of Gethsemane, the anointing left Him, you know, He had to die as a sinner. He died a sinner, you know that; not His sins, but mine and yours. That’s where that love come in, how He took mine! Oh, Hallelujah! How He took mine! 60-0518 - Adoption #2
44 But in that great crucial hour, until He suffered, knowing all things, until the water and Blood separated in His body, and great drops of sweat-like Blood dropped from His brow. He died more death in Gethsemane than He did on the cross. 57-0418 - The Communion
He was wounded with my sin, for me.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
6. The Man Christ Jesus was a Silent Man.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, Yet he opened not his mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth.
And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.
And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.
And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it.
And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.
And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.
But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.
Oh that we could be silent when we are accused! The people of God are never accusers.
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
7. The Man Christ Jesus Died and was Buried.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: And who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living: For the transgression of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked, And with the rich in his death; Because he had done no violence, Neither was any deceit in his mouth.
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
62 And when we look at Christ, you see the penalty. The only One, God Himself, made flesh. God coming to the earth, and took on Him the sin of all of us, and the judgment and wrath of Almighty God was poured out upon His body, and there it was riven at the cross. That’s the real judgment.
He tread the winepress of the wrath of God, alone. Alone, He walked the road. Alone, He died with not no help from an Angel, from a man, from His Church, from His mother, from His brethren, from His Father; forsaken by God, man and nature. He died, alone, to show us that even nature itself can’t help us in the hour of death. There’s no friend, no priest, no pope, no pastor. It’s death. But there was One Who took it for us.
63 No life in the serpent. It was absolutely crystallized. That was the penalty. He died until the earth got ashamed of itself. He died till the stars got ashamed. He suffered until the sun wouldn’t shine. He suffered till the moon turned off its lights. He suffered till even the elements of the earth was so black and dark until it was midnight, so dark you could feel it. Wasn’t nothing.
No one’s ever suffered like that or could suffer like that, there’s no mortal could go through it. But He suffered it. God laid upon Him the iniquity of us all, and passed His judgments upon Him, and He tread the winepress of the wrath of God, alone, with no help. There was nothing to help Him. God placed the penalty. Everything was under that penalty, and nothing could help Him, ’cause we’re all guilty.
There’s no high priest could have come helped Him. There was nothing could help Him, no pope, no Angel. Everything stood back and watched it. That was the greatest moments was ever in the history of the world. He died until there’s not one drop of life left in Him, become like the brass serpent, just a crystallized ornament hanging on the cross. 61-1231M - You Must Be Born Again
This was not the end.
7. The Man Christ Jesus was a Prosperous Man.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; For he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, And he shall divide the spoil with the strong; Because he hath poured out his soul unto death: And he was numbered with the transgressors; And he bare the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
He rose.
The Mighty Conqueror.
Conclusion.
Is the Man Christ Jesus your Mediator? Have you been buried with him by baptism and raised in newness of life?