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Who Is Christ?

Module 5

Jesus was fully God. Jesus was also fully man. He was fully both at the same time. The eternal Son of God
took to himself a truly human nature. His divine and human natures are forever distinct and retain their
own properties even though they are eternally inseparably united together in one person.

Our aim is that they will be encourage in some ways that Christ came in as fully man and fully God. Take
a moment to pray and Talk directly to Jesus, thanking him for coming to earth and becoming fully man for
their sake.

I. LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the module, the learners should be able to:

1. Understand and Discuss Jesus Christ as fully Man and fully God and that Jesus Christ is eternally
inseparably united together in one person by studying the Bible verses.
2. Take a moment to pray and Talk directly to Jesus, thanking him for coming to earth and
becoming fully man for their sake.

II. LEARNING CONTENT

A. Jesus – Fully Man


B. Jesus – Fully God
C. Jesus--- Fully God and Fully Man in One Person

III. OVERVIEW
In the person of Jesus God physically entered into the world. An infinite God came to live in a finite world.
The one who knew exactly how things were supposed to be came to a place where things obviously
weren’t. In Jesus God and man became one person, a person unlike anyone else in this world has ever
seen or will ever see. Jesus Christ was, and forever will be, fully God and fully man in one person. And that
one person changed the course of history forever.

IV. DISCUSSION

Jesus --- Fully Man


Jesus was fully and completely human. He was conceived in the womb of his mother by a miraculous work
of the Holy Spirit. This is made clear in Matthew 1:18: “Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this
way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to
be with child from the Holy Spirit.” While many things could be said about this, one thing is clear: Jesus
was born of a human mother. His ordinary human birth affirms his humanity.

Just as we have a human body, so did Jesus. As a child, he “grew and became
And the child grew
strong” (Luke 2:40), and as he grew older, he “increased in wisdom and in and became strong;
stature and in favor with God and man” (Luke 2:52). He became “wearied” from he was filled with
a journey (John 4:6); after a fast, “he was hungry” (Matt. 4:2); and while on the wisdom, and the
cross, he said, “I thirst” (John 19:28). His body was, in every respect, just like grace of God was on
ours. him. (Luke 2:40)

Jesus rose from the dead in physical, human body that was no longer subject
to weakness, disease, or death. As he told his disciples, who were astonished at the risen Christ, “See my
hands and 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 continue to reside in this perfect but human body in heaven.

Jesus’ mind was like ours as well. He went through a learning process as other children do. Luke, for
example, tells us he “increased in wisdom” (Luke 2:52). Like a normal child, he learned how to do things
such as talk, read, write, and eat. In his human nature he did not know the day he would return to earth,
“But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only
the Father” (Mark 13:32).

In addition, Jesus felt the full range of emotions: he “marveled” at the faith of the centurion (Matt. 8:10);
he “wept” at the death of his friend Lazarus (John 11:35); and he prayed to God “with loud cries and tears”
(Heb. 5:7). Before his crucifixion, he said, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death” (Matt. 26:38) and
“Now is my soul troubled” (John 12:27).

Jesus was like us in every respect but one: he was without sin. That is why at the
Jesus was like us in
every respect but end of his life he could say, “I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide
one: he was in his love” (John 15:10). That is why Paul refers to Jesus as “him… who knew no
without sin sin” (2 Cor. 5:21). Peter tells us that Jesus “committed no sin, neither was deceit
found in his mouth” (1 Peter 2:22). John tells us that “in him there is no sin” (1
John 3:5). Clearly, Jesus is “one who in every respect has been tempted as we are,
yet without sin” (Heb.4:15).
Jesus had to be fully human to serve as our perfectly obedient representative.
His representative obedience as a man is in contrast to Adam’s representative Jesus had to be fully
of disobedience. Paul says that “as by the one man’s disobedience the many human to serve as
our perfectly
were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made
obedient
righteous” (Rom 5:19). If Jesus wasn’t fully human, his obedience in our place representative.
would be meaningless.

Jesus had to be human to die in our place. This was necessary because of our
humanity. As Hebrews 2:17 tells us, “He had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might
become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the
people”. If Jesus weren’t fully human, his death in our place would be meaningless.

Jesus’ humanity (as well as his deity) allows him to serve as the “one mediator between God and man” (1
Tim. 2:5). It also means that as a man, he was “in every respect… tempted as we are” and so is able
sympathize with our weaknesses” (Heb. 4:15). “Because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able
to help those who are being tempted” (Heb. 2:18).

Jesus --- Fully God


As we stated earlier, Jesus was conceived in the womb of his mother by a miraculous work of the Holy
Spirit. Again, this is made clear in Matthew 1:18. Jesus’ virgin birth was a supernatural work of God.
Through the work of the Holy Spirit inside Jesus’ mother, Mary, the human and the divine were united in
a way they never will be in a person.

The Bible clearly says that Jesus is fully God. Paul writes of Jesus in Colossians 2:9, “In him the whole
fullness of deity dwells bodily.” When Jesus’ contemporaries called him “Lord”, they were employing a
term that was used over six thousand times in the Greek translation of the Old Testament to refer to God
or “the Lord.” Therefore when the angels announced Jesus’ birth by saying, “For unto you is born this day
in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:11), they were saying that the Lord God himself
was born.

When asked if he had seen Abraham, Jesus responded by saying, “Before


“Very truly I tell Abraham was, I am” (John 8:57-58). Those who heard him say this “picked up
you,” Jesus stones to throw at him” (John 8:59), which is what any self-respecting religious
answered, “before
leader would have done if someone claimed to be God. They understood that
Abraham was born, I
am!” (John 8:58) Jesus was claiming the same title God claimed for himself in Exodus 3:14--- “I
AM WHO I AM.”

IN Revelation 22:13, Jesus says, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and
the last, the beginning and the end.” This is very similar to what God the Father said at the beginning of
the same book: “I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God,’ who is and who was and who is to
come, the Almighty’” (Rev. 1:8).
The prophet Isaiah affirms Jesus as the King who reigns forever--- a role only God could fill: “Of the
increase of his government and of peace there will be no end” (Isa. 9:7). That is why Paul said that Jesus
in worthy of worship: “God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every
name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father” (Phil. 2:9-11). Jesus’
divinity is the reason God the Father says, “Let all God’s angels worship him” (Heb. 1:6).

Jesus was fully God. “In him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell” (Col. 1:19). If Jesus wasn’t fully
God, he could not have borne the full penalty for sin for the whole world. And if he didn’t bear the full
penalty of sin for the world as a sinless man, there would be no valid payment for anyone’s sins, and
nobody could be saved.

Jesus --- Fully God and Fully Man in One Person


Jesus was fully God. Jesus was also fully man. He was fully both at the same
His divine and human
natures are forever time. The eternal Son of God took to himself a truly human nature. His divine
distinct and retain their and human natures are forever distinct and retain their own properties even
own properties even though they are eternally inseparably united together in one person.
though they are eternally
inseparably united This is probably the most amazing miracle of the entire Bible--- the eternal
together in one person.
Son of God, himself fully God, became fully man and in doing so joined
himself to a human nature forever. Jesus, a man unlike anyone else the
world will ever see again, by eternally bringing together both the infinite and the finite, changed the
course of history forever.

V. EVALUATION
Questions for Review and Application

1. Who is Jesus Christ?


2. How does the Bible describe Jesus Christ as fully Human?
3. Jesus as fully human, what is one that he was without?
4. How does the Bible describe Jesus Christ as fully God?
5. (Write briefly) How does Jesus Christ fully man and fully God encouraged your life?

VI. REFERENCES
THE HOLY BIBLE (Any Versions & Translation)
CHRISTIAN BELIEFS by: Wayne A. Grudem; Edited by: Elliot Grudem (Zondervan Books)

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