THE MAN CHRIST JESUS
"And
a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from
the tempest."
-ISAIAH
32:2 [KJV]
Who
is this man? Need I ask the question? Is there not a response in
every God-fearing breast? It is the man Christ Jesus—the man who is
God's fellow. How blessed it is to have a scriptural and spiritual
view of the humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ, to see Him not merely
as God, truly essential God, one in essence, glory, and power with
the Father and the blessed Spirit, but also man, made in all things
like unto us, sin only excepted.
And
what a suitability there is in the humanity of the Lord Jesus, when
we view it in union with this glorious Deity! As man He suffered, as
man He bled, as man He died, as man He stands a Mediator for His
fellow men between God and man; as man, He has for human distress an
affectionate, compassionate, sympathising heart; as man, He obeyed
the law in every particular; as man, He bore all the sufferings of
humanity, and thus became the Brother born for adversity, flesh of
our flesh, and bone of our bone; yet perfectly pure, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners, and now exalted higher than the
heavens.
But
what beauty, grace, glory, and suitability do we see in the man
Christ Jesus, till He is revealed to the soul by the blessed Spirit?
None. It is He who takes the humanity of Christ Jesus and shews it to
the eye of faith. And this humanity He shews not as mere humanity,
but as in union with, though distinct from, His eternal Deity. O this
blessed man!—this man of sorrows; this suffering, agonizing,
crucified man. View Him on the cross, bleeding for thy sins; and then
lift up thine eyes and see Him as the same man at the right hand of
God. This was Stephen's dying sight just before he passed into His
presence: "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of
man standing on the right hand of God" [ACTS
7:56].
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C.
Philpot 1802-1869 A.D.)
May
16th,
EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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