Jesus is Fully God - Fully Man

I like to prepare my heart for Sunday worship. Today I am meditating on the wonders of Jesus - our Savior who is fully God and who is also fully man. Because of this, He has made a way for us all to have fellowship with the Father.

Jesus is truly God and truly man. Both are complete in every way. He is consubstantial with the Father in his deity and consubstantial with man in his humanity, except for sin  (Thiessen, p. 208). As God, He was with the Father before time, and as man, He was born of the Virgin Mary. Both of these natures are distinct, but united in the person of Jesus. He is one person—not divided. It is important to realize that He is not half God and half man, but fully divine and fully man—the Word who was with God and was made flesh (Jn. 1:1, 14). Jesus' two natures are not "mixed together," nor are they combined into a new God-man nature. They are separate yet act as a unit in the one person of Jesus.

Jesus was as much God—as if He had never been man.

Jesus was as much man—as if He had never been God.

Jesus is God/Divine:

• Jesus is omnipotent—All powerful. He has power over disease—Lu. 4:39; 7:14–15; 8:54–55; Jn. 5:25—He has power over death—Matt. 8:26–27—He has power over nature—Matt. 8:16; Lu. 4:35–36, 41—He has power over demons—Eph. 1:20–23—He has power over everything—Heb. 1:3

• Jesus is omniscient—All knowing. He knows people’s lives and secrets—Mk. 2:8; Lu. 5:22; Jn. 1:48; 2:24–25; 4:16–19; 6:64—He knows things from far away—Lu. 5:4–6; 22:10–12; Jn. 13:1—He knows the future—Jn. 16:30; 21:17; Col. 2:3

• Jesus is omnipresent—All present – or present everywhere at the same time. Matt. 18:20; 28:20; Eph. 1:23

• Jesus is eternal—Jn. 1:1; 8:58; 17:5; Col. 1:17; 1 Jn. 1:1; Heb. 13:8

• Jesus is immutable (unchanging)—Heb. 1:1; 13:8

• Jesus is, and was, equal with God—Phil. 2:6–8

Jesus was human:

• Jesus had human parents—Lu. 2:7; Rom. 1:3; Gal. 4:4

• Jesus had a human body—Mt. 26:12; Jn. 1:14; Heb. 2:14 (the denial of this truth is the mark of the spirit of anti-Christ 1 Jn. 4:2–3)—He grew, Lk. 2:40—He looked like a man, Jn. 8:57; Jn. 20:15—Jesus even had a human body after his resurrection, Lu. 24:39; Jn. 20:27—Jesus has a human body in heaven, Acts 7:55–56; Rev. 5:6

• Jesus had a human soul—Mt. 26:38; Jn. 12:27

• Jesus had a human spirit—Mk. 2:8; Lk. 23:46

• Jesus had human limitations—He slept, Matt. 8:24—He got tired, Jn. 4:6—He got hungry, Mt. 4:2; 21:18—He got thirsty, Jn. 19:28—He experienced sorrow, Mt. 26:38—He sweat drops of blood, Lk. 22:44—He suffered physical agony, Lu. 22:44—He bled, Jn. 19:34—he died, 1 Cor. 15:3

• Jesus was limited in knowledge— Phil. 2:5–8 His limitations were self-imposed—He voluntarily abstained from using (yet always retained) certain divine attributes while here on earth, that he might totally depend upon the power and wisdom of the Holy Spirit. (Willmington, p. 616).

• Jesus had intellect—Lu. 2:52

• Jesus had compassion—Mt. 9:36

• Jesus loved—Mk. 10:21

• Jesus was subject to the moral limitations of the human nature—He was tempted, Heb. 2:18; 4:15

• Jesus was without sin—Even though He was human, Jesus was the only one who did not sin, 2 Cor. 5:21

Jesus partook of human nature

so that we might become partakers of the divine nature

How wonderful! How delightful! Draw near to Him this Sunday and worship Him with all your heart.