JESUS HAD A HUMAN MOTHER
1. God’s
Act in Christ Jesus to put the world right with Himself.
The
overriding theme of the Old Testament portion of the Bible is the living God,
the strict Judge, punishing the sinner, loving the penitent and guiltless and
evoking fear and awe, utterly ethical and moral, the Righteous One leaping out of
those pages and demanding our obedient response. If God is truly righteous, and if we are
truly to let God be God and let His righteousness be revealed in a world of
tragedy and suffering and moral failure, there is only one way in which this
can happen. There is only one way in
which a fully personal and truly just God can achieve His purpose in such a
world as this. That is, by Himself
bearing the suffering of the world and the consequences of our
transgression. How can He be the just
God of the Bible unless He suffers more than any man in total innocence?
“For He
made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the
righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Cor 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24
2. HE
came as the Son of a human mother.
“Now a
great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon
under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she cried out in labor
and in pain to give birth.” Rev 12:1-2
“She bore
a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was
caught up to God and His throne.” Rev
12:5
For unto
us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His
shoulder. And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6
Luke
wrote to tell us of God’s Great Plan centered in Jesus. Luke 1:1-4,26-35; 2:4-7.
3. Jesus
the Messiah who was promised.
“He first
found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah"
(which is translated, the Christ).” John
1:41
Messiah =
Christ = Anointed One. "The Spirit
of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the
poor;” Luke 4:18; Isaiah 49:8-9; 61:1-2
God’s
Plan was for God the Son to come into our world in human form (The Human
One).
“And
because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became
like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of
death, that is to say, the Evil One; And let those who all their lives were in
chains because of their fear of death, go free.” Heb 2:14-15 (BBE)
Furthermore
HE remained God all through, and the human generation in Time did not in any
way detract from the divine generation in Eternity. “For in Him dwells all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily;” Col
God’s
Plan for Mankind was in place before Creation.
Eph. 1:3-4. This Plan centered
around Jesus and a human mother. As Eve
was the first mother, Mary became the ‘God-bearer” (theotókos) as the mother
through whom God the Son took flesh & blood. "Behold, the virgin shall be with child,
and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is
translated, "God with us." Matt 1:23
“And
the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as
of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14
“And I
will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” Genesis 3:15.
This is a
promise of God’s Messiah, the Seed of the Woman, who would and did bruise the
head of the Serpent.
“Now to
Abraham and his Seed were the promises made.
He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’ as of many, but as of one, ‘And to your
Seed,’ who is Christ.” Gal. 3:16
Christ
Jesus is the one-and-only Seed - Seed of the Woman and also Seed of
Abraham. “Christ is God and God is
Christ.”
“But
Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the
confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.” Hebrews 3:6.
In
claiming Christ Jesus we also claim God.
Note 1 John 2:22-23. “He who has the Son has the Father also.”
