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Jesus the Man
Jesus The Man
By Joe La Bianca
Hebrews 2:14-18
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil - and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
“The children” are people. God views us as children who are loved. If God didn’t love us children, He would not have taken such drastic measures in becoming flesh and blood. If the children were something else and not flesh and blood, then God would have become something else to save us. The fact that we are flesh and blood is the reason God became a man.
In order to destroy the devil, who held the power of death, Jesus had to die. In order for God to die, He had to become “die-able”, so He became a perishable man. When Jesus died for us, He was the only person who did not deserve death, for He never sinned. Since the payment for sin is death, and since Jesus never sinned but died anyway, Jesus redeemed death and now holds the title to it. Now Christ can give eternal life to whomever will just believe in Him. When Satan owned death, he used his ownership against us and lowered us to hell, but Jesus uses His ownership differently. Satan used to have the power of death, for he was the author of death. But now Jesus owns the power of death because He defeated death. Thank God that He is love and that He doesn’t use His great advantage over us in a satanic way. Instead, He shares His resurrection with the faith-filled person.
We are released from the bondage of the fear of death. Before the cross, we were forced to taste our own death; but since Jesus tasted death for us, we are freed from the fear of death. When an unbeliever thinks of death, his exceeding terror of it fills his heart. The unbeliever is a slave of fear, because he knows that he has to die. The Christian is free and the fear of death has been removed. We are not terrified at the prospect of dying, though a Christian may be apprehensive. Wariness about death is not a sin, but if a Christian has a phobia or irrational persistent fear of it, then he should check his faith.
The King James Version translates verse 16 this way, “Verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.” This verse is proclaiming that Jesus is the seed of promise, not an angel (Gen. 22:18). The word “seed” means a man. Jesus is the last Adam. I believe that Jesus had no genetic connection to either Joseph or the virgin Mary, for He started the human race anew. Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus. But this miracle was small in comparison to the fact that God created the already fertilized egg inside her. A virgin can possibly have a baby today, by means of artificial insemination. However there is no way that mankind, with all his knowledge, can create life out of nothing. And if someday man makes some kind of life, it would only prove that life must come from intelligence. But man will never be able to create life out of nothing as God did. Man must use preexisting material. So the fiat (out of nothing) creation of God will never be duplicated. I looked at the words used for pregnant in the original languages when the virgin birth was addressed. The words in both Greek and Hebrew do not necessitate that Mary was the genetic mother. The words mean, to be pregnant as viewed from without, or pregnant, to cling onto. Mary appeared pregnant to others, and something clung onto Mary’s womb. But it never defines exactly what clung to Mary’s womb. I suggest that the entirety of the human nature of Jesus is from above and of the Holy Spirit. Jesus has two natures, human and divine. The divine part of Jesus has always been. The human part was begotten on a particular day. Remember that God said, ”You are my Son, this day I have begotten you.” This is the real miracle of the virgin birth. If Jesus had Mary’s genes, He would not be called the last Adam by Paul. But the thing created by God in the womb of Mary was not half from God, half from Mary. It was all of God and Mary was merely the honored vessel by which Emmanuel would come in to the world. Otherwise you have the problem of original sin that was passed on to Jesus. The Roman church tries to avoid this problem by saying that Mary was without sin. This is calling Mary God. Remember that Jesus asked, ”Why do you call me good? There is only one that is good, God.” Jesus didn’t mean that He wasn’t good. He called Himself the Good Shepherd. If Jesus wasn’t good, His sacrifice is worthless. Jesus was rebuking the man who call Him good because he was using that word too lightly. The Roman church calls Mary sinless because they say that for Jesus to be sinless, His mother had to be. But what about Mary’s parents? Wouldn’t they have had to be sinless too. The Roman church never goes there. And what about David, who was in Jesus’ genealogy? We know he sinned with Bathsheba. You must even go back to Adam with this false reasoning. If Adam didn’t sin, we do not need Jesus as Savoir. Do you see the trouble one gets in to when false doctrine is believed upon? But enough about Mary.
The reason why the whole world would be blessed through Abraham is because by his offspring would come the one Man in all the world’s history that could and would make atonement for sin by His death. Since Jesus has the only life that is sinless, he used His perfect life to conquer death by dying for all others. Only a spotless lamb could die. This is why Jesus is the only Savior. All others have sinned. Jesus alone is holy and good. Jesus is the One who blesses all nations, and time itself has absolutely testified to this truth. Look around the world and see the blessings of Messiah Jesus. He is the One in whom the Gentiles trust, just as the scripture foretold.
Here in verse 16 is yet another statement in the book of Hebrews that says Jesus is no angel. If someone, namely a Jehovah witness, says that Jesus is an angel, you can rest assured that the Bible declares that He is not. He is truly God and truly man. Jesus was fully man, in every way, though never ceasing to be fully God. He had to be made like us in order to understand our needs, live our life, and to become our sacrifice. God needed that one perfect life, and Jesus lived that life. Now all those who believe in the work of Jesus are given the goodness of Christ as a gift. Jesus knows, first hand, what it is like to be tempted, so this enables Him to be merciful. Jesus suffered when He was tempted, and so do we. It is true that Jesus never yielded to temptation and thus never sinned, but He still felt pain and suffering because of the temptation.
Jesus relates with us. His attitude toward us is sweetened when we suffer and so He helps us. His atonement also gains for us the good will of God. Jesus appeased the Father’s justice on the cross and has taken away our sins.
In a body that was just like ours (except for sin, of course)Jesus turned aside the wrath of God by taking upon Himself the punishment that was due to us. The body of Jesus really took the punishment for sin and so God’s justice was meted out on Christ. Death is the penalty for sin and God’s justice demanded the administration of the sentence. The sentence is fulfilled in Christ. Hallelujah!
Do you ever feel shame over your temptations? Did you ever think that God must be angry with you because of your temptations? “If I really were a Christian,” you say, “I would not be going through temptation.” How wrong this is. Even Jesus was tempted. Instead of being angry with us, it says in Hebrews 2:18 that because He was tempted and suffered from it, He can now help those being tempted. Christ wants to show us mercy and help us in our weakness. What a God! What a lover of our souls!
Instead of worrying and doubting God when we are tempted, we should realize that the aid of Jesus, and His willingness to help is there for us. Jesus experienced the sensation of temptation and therefore knows what we go through. He is always there to relieve us and
bring us to victory.
Jesus never sinned, for He never gave in to temptation. This is what qualified Him to die for us as the perfect Lamb of God. Jesus atoned for our sins and made peace between us and God. During this time, when Christ lived on earth and fulfilled the law for us, He became familiar with what all humans go through in temptation, howbeit never yielding to it Himself. So Jesus also acquired empathy for us and a compassion that only experience would give. Never forget that Christ is our helper in life, not our condemner. Amen!
By Joe La Bianca
Hebrews 2:14-18
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil - and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
“The children” are people. God views us as children who are loved. If God didn’t love us children, He would not have taken such drastic measures in becoming flesh and blood. If the children were something else and not flesh and blood, then God would have become something else to save us. The fact that we are flesh and blood is the reason God became a man.
In order to destroy the devil, who held the power of death, Jesus had to die. In order for God to die, He had to become “die-able”, so He became a perishable man. When Jesus died for us, He was the only person who did not deserve death, for He never sinned. Since the payment for sin is death, and since Jesus never sinned but died anyway, Jesus redeemed death and now holds the title to it. Now Christ can give eternal life to whomever will just believe in Him. When Satan owned death, he used his ownership against us and lowered us to hell, but Jesus uses His ownership differently. Satan used to have the power of death, for he was the author of death. But now Jesus owns the power of death because He defeated death. Thank God that He is love and that He doesn’t use His great advantage over us in a satanic way. Instead, He shares His resurrection with the faith-filled person.
We are released from the bondage of the fear of death. Before the cross, we were forced to taste our own death; but since Jesus tasted death for us, we are freed from the fear of death. When an unbeliever thinks of death, his exceeding terror of it fills his heart. The unbeliever is a slave of fear, because he knows that he has to die. The Christian is free and the fear of death has been removed. We are not terrified at the prospect of dying, though a Christian may be apprehensive. Wariness about death is not a sin, but if a Christian has a phobia or irrational persistent fear of it, then he should check his faith.
The King James Version translates verse 16 this way, “Verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.” This verse is proclaiming that Jesus is the seed of promise, not an angel (Gen. 22:18). The word “seed” means a man. Jesus is the last Adam. I believe that Jesus had no genetic connection to either Joseph or the virgin Mary, for He started the human race anew. Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus. But this miracle was small in comparison to the fact that God created the already fertilized egg inside her. A virgin can possibly have a baby today, by means of artificial insemination. However there is no way that mankind, with all his knowledge, can create life out of nothing. And if someday man makes some kind of life, it would only prove that life must come from intelligence. But man will never be able to create life out of nothing as God did. Man must use preexisting material. So the fiat (out of nothing) creation of God will never be duplicated. I looked at the words used for pregnant in the original languages when the virgin birth was addressed. The words in both Greek and Hebrew do not necessitate that Mary was the genetic mother. The words mean, to be pregnant as viewed from without, or pregnant, to cling onto. Mary appeared pregnant to others, and something clung onto Mary’s womb. But it never defines exactly what clung to Mary’s womb. I suggest that the entirety of the human nature of Jesus is from above and of the Holy Spirit. Jesus has two natures, human and divine. The divine part of Jesus has always been. The human part was begotten on a particular day. Remember that God said, ”You are my Son, this day I have begotten you.” This is the real miracle of the virgin birth. If Jesus had Mary’s genes, He would not be called the last Adam by Paul. But the thing created by God in the womb of Mary was not half from God, half from Mary. It was all of God and Mary was merely the honored vessel by which Emmanuel would come in to the world. Otherwise you have the problem of original sin that was passed on to Jesus. The Roman church tries to avoid this problem by saying that Mary was without sin. This is calling Mary God. Remember that Jesus asked, ”Why do you call me good? There is only one that is good, God.” Jesus didn’t mean that He wasn’t good. He called Himself the Good Shepherd. If Jesus wasn’t good, His sacrifice is worthless. Jesus was rebuking the man who call Him good because he was using that word too lightly. The Roman church calls Mary sinless because they say that for Jesus to be sinless, His mother had to be. But what about Mary’s parents? Wouldn’t they have had to be sinless too. The Roman church never goes there. And what about David, who was in Jesus’ genealogy? We know he sinned with Bathsheba. You must even go back to Adam with this false reasoning. If Adam didn’t sin, we do not need Jesus as Savoir. Do you see the trouble one gets in to when false doctrine is believed upon? But enough about Mary.
The reason why the whole world would be blessed through Abraham is because by his offspring would come the one Man in all the world’s history that could and would make atonement for sin by His death. Since Jesus has the only life that is sinless, he used His perfect life to conquer death by dying for all others. Only a spotless lamb could die. This is why Jesus is the only Savior. All others have sinned. Jesus alone is holy and good. Jesus is the One who blesses all nations, and time itself has absolutely testified to this truth. Look around the world and see the blessings of Messiah Jesus. He is the One in whom the Gentiles trust, just as the scripture foretold.
Here in verse 16 is yet another statement in the book of Hebrews that says Jesus is no angel. If someone, namely a Jehovah witness, says that Jesus is an angel, you can rest assured that the Bible declares that He is not. He is truly God and truly man. Jesus was fully man, in every way, though never ceasing to be fully God. He had to be made like us in order to understand our needs, live our life, and to become our sacrifice. God needed that one perfect life, and Jesus lived that life. Now all those who believe in the work of Jesus are given the goodness of Christ as a gift. Jesus knows, first hand, what it is like to be tempted, so this enables Him to be merciful. Jesus suffered when He was tempted, and so do we. It is true that Jesus never yielded to temptation and thus never sinned, but He still felt pain and suffering because of the temptation.
Jesus relates with us. His attitude toward us is sweetened when we suffer and so He helps us. His atonement also gains for us the good will of God. Jesus appeased the Father’s justice on the cross and has taken away our sins.
In a body that was just like ours (except for sin, of course)Jesus turned aside the wrath of God by taking upon Himself the punishment that was due to us. The body of Jesus really took the punishment for sin and so God’s justice was meted out on Christ. Death is the penalty for sin and God’s justice demanded the administration of the sentence. The sentence is fulfilled in Christ. Hallelujah!
Do you ever feel shame over your temptations? Did you ever think that God must be angry with you because of your temptations? “If I really were a Christian,” you say, “I would not be going through temptation.” How wrong this is. Even Jesus was tempted. Instead of being angry with us, it says in Hebrews 2:18 that because He was tempted and suffered from it, He can now help those being tempted. Christ wants to show us mercy and help us in our weakness. What a God! What a lover of our souls!
Instead of worrying and doubting God when we are tempted, we should realize that the aid of Jesus, and His willingness to help is there for us. Jesus experienced the sensation of temptation and therefore knows what we go through. He is always there to relieve us and
bring us to victory.
Jesus never sinned, for He never gave in to temptation. This is what qualified Him to die for us as the perfect Lamb of God. Jesus atoned for our sins and made peace between us and God. During this time, when Christ lived on earth and fulfilled the law for us, He became familiar with what all humans go through in temptation, howbeit never yielding to it Himself. So Jesus also acquired empathy for us and a compassion that only experience would give. Never forget that Christ is our helper in life, not our condemner. Amen!
