Galaxy Three: Why What Is Happening a Billion Light Years Away Right Now Matters to You

“Galaxy Three: The Story of the Sperm”—1

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• The humanity of Jesus

• Matthew 1:20—“. . . because what is   in her is from the Holy Spirit.’”
• Romans 1:3—“. . . concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed [Greek: ] of David according to the flesh.”
• John 1:14—“The Word became [i.e., the divine One became ].”

• 4 stunning truths about the humanity of Jesus and us:
  • #1—We do know that we share the same with Him.
    • Hebrews 2:11
  • #2—We do know that we share the same with Him.
    • Hebrews 2:14-17
    • Peter O’Brien: “In the earlier reference [2:14] the focus was upon Jesus’ adoption of human nature; here [2:17] the stress is on his sharing in all the experiences of life. . . . on the identification of the incarnate Son with his brothers and sisters.” (The Letter to the Hebrews 119)
  • #3—We do know that we share the same with Him.
    • Hebrews 4:15
    • The Greek word, sumpatheo is a compound word: patheo (to suffer) + sum (with)—i.e., to suffer with, to .
    • Charles Spurgeon: “There is no pang that rends the heart or disturbs the body but that Jesus has been with us in it all. . . . There is no glen of adversity so dark, so deep, apparently so pathless, but that in stooping down you may discover the footprints of the Crucified One.” (Day by Day 269)
  • #4—We do know that we share the same  with Him.
    • Hebrews 4:15
    • Oswald Chambers: “Temptation is a suggested   to the realization of the highest at which I aim—not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.” (My Utmost for His Highest 261)
    • We share the same temptations with Jesus, with this major difference: “.” (Hebrews 4:15)
    • B. F. Wescott:“Sympathy with the sinner in his trial [temptation] does not depend on the experience of sin but on the experience of the strength of the temptation to sin which only the sinless can know in its full intensity. He who falls yields before the last strain.” (Quoted in F. F. Bruce, The Epistle to the Hebrews 116)
    • Hebrews 4:16
  • #5—We do know that we share the same with Him forever and ever. Amen.
    • Desire of Ages: “It was Satan’s purpose to bring about an eternal separation between God and man; but in Christ we become more closely united to God than if we had never fallen. In taking our nature, the Saviour has Himself to humanity by a tie that is never to be broken. . . . In Christ the family of earth and the family of heaven are bound together. Christ glorified is our brother. Heaven is enshrined in humanity, and humanity is enfolded in the bosom of Infinite Love.” (25, 26).

“Then let us fix our eyes on Jesus”