Jesus' Humanity.

 Do we fully comprehend the lineage of Jesus Christ? We tend to gloss over His human side as if it really isn't all that important other than the fact it is God in that human flesh.  

Human flesh.  

Why couldn't God with God, simply appear as human without actually taking on human flesh, and save mankind?  Because man failed and deserved total annihilation and in order to keep mankind from that annihilation, God had to prove beyond any doubt whatsoever that there was something in mankind worth redemption. To prove this, God divested Himself of his Spirit form and entered into life as the male seed merging with the woman's egg. That woman's egg held ALL the heredity of many generations of human beings. That egg which was supplied with the DNA from the Holy Spirit to form Jesus as a tiny fetus, all the way to a newborn and beyond, was humanity- sinful humanity. That egg contained all the tendency towards sin that every human being in the world possesses.  If God did not want to take on this sinful human flesh, He did NOT have to be born of a woman at all, there would be no purpose to do so. The purpose was for Him to meet mankind where they are, to overcome where they failed to overcome, to be touched with the feeling of our infirmities- in all points. God knows the human creature He created - inside and out. Yet, God needed to take on our human flesh the very flesh He created in order to save humanity. He didn't take on flesh created in innocence, in newness, in purity, He took on the sin-stained flesh.

It's so important that we comprehend this truth, because there are many who would have us believe that Jesus' mother, who was blessed by God, was somehow free of all sin herself- an impossibility- just look at her lineage which was preserved by God just so we could know the history of our Savior's flesh. 

Read the following excerpt (part one of it) which goes into more detail…

May God bless us with full truth, His truth, and all the understanding, all the wisdom we need to be wholly His! All through our Savior, Jesus Christ, now and forever! Amen.

(Excerpt)

January 22, 1901

“The Faith of Jesus. The Nature of Christ” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald 78, 4, p. 56.

“AND the Word was made flesh.” 

“When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman.” Galatians 4:4. 

“And the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:6. 

We have seen that, in His being made of a woman, Christ reached sin at the very fountain head of its entrance into this world; and that He must be made of a woman to do this. 

And thus all the sin of this world, from its origin in the world to the end of it in the world, was laid upon Him; both sin as it is in itself and sin as it is when committed by us; sin in its tendency, and sin in the act; sin as it is hereditary in us, uncommitted by us, and sin as it is committed by us. 

Only thus could it be that there should be laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. Only by His subjecting himself to the law of heredity could He reach beyond the generation living in the world while He was here. Without this there could be laid upon Him our sins which have been actually committed, with the guilt and condemnation that belong to them. But, beyond this, there is in each person, in many ways, the liability, to sin, inherited from generations back, which has not yet culminated in the act of sinning, but which is ever ready, when occasion offers, but which is ever ready, when occasion offers, to blaze forth in the actual committing of sin. David’s great sin is an illustration of this. Psalm 51:3; 2 Samuel 11:2. 

In delivering us from sin, it is not enough that we shall be saved from the sins that we have actually committed; we must be saved from committing other sins. And that this may be so, there must be met and subdued this hereditary liability to sin: we must become possessed of power to keep us from sinning—a power to conquer this liability, this hereditary tendency that is in us, to sin. 

All our sins which we have actually committed were laid upon Him, were imputed to Him, so that His righteousness may be laid upon us, may be imputed to us. And also our liability to sin was laid upon Him, in His being made flesh, in His being born of a woman, of the same flesh and blood as we are. 

Thus He met sin in the flesh which He took, and triumphed over it, as it is written: “God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin IN THE FLESH.” And again: “He is our peace.... having abolished in His flesh the enmity.” 

And thus it is that for the sins which we have actually committed, for the sins that are past, His righteousness, is imputed to us, as our sins are imputed to Him. And to keep us from sinning, His righteousness is imparted to us in our flesh, as our flesh, with its liability to sin, was imparted to Him. 

Thus He is the complete Saviour: He saves from all the sins that we have actually committed, and saves equally from all the sins that we might commit, dwelling apart from Him. 

If He took not the same flesh and blood that the children of men have, with its liability to sin, then where could there be any philosophy or reason of any kind whatever in His genealogy as given in the Scriptures? He was descended from David; He was descended from Abraham; He was descended from Adam; and, by being made of a woman, He reached even back of Adam, to the beginning of sin in the world. 

In that genealogy there are Jehoiakim, who for his wickedness was “buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth, beyond the gates of Jerusalem” (Jeremiah 22:19); Manasseh, who caused Judah to do “worse than the heathen;” Ahaz, who “made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the Lord;” Rehoboam, who was born of Solomon, who was born of David and Bathsheba; there are also Ruth the Moabitess, and Rahab; as well as Abraham, Isaac, Jesse, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah; the worst equally with the best. And the evil deeds of even the best are recorded equally with the good. And there is hardly one whose life is written upon at all of whom there is not some wrong act recorded. 

Now it was at the end of such a genealogy as that that “the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” It was at the end of such a genealogy as that that he was “made of a woman.” It was in such a line of descent as that that God sent “His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.” And such a descent, such a genealogy, meant something to Him, as it does to every other man, under the great law that the iniquities of the fathers are visited upon the children, to the third and fourth generations. It meant everything to Him in the terrible temptations in the wilderness of temptation, as well as all the way through His life in the flesh. 

Thus, both by heredity and by imputation, He was “laden with the sins of the world.” And, thus laden, at this immense disadvantage, He passed over the ground where, at no shadow of any disadvantage whatever, the first pair failed.