The Incarnate God 6

God was manifest in the flesh; His name was Jesus of Nazareth.  JESUS was God and man in one person.  He is the Son of the Highest. He came to this Earth and was born a Jewish baby at Bethlehem.  He was nursed and cared for by a woman, and grew up as other children do.  When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law. This wondrous stoop of Deity to lowly humanity by Immanuel, God with us, has brought free Salvation to Adam's fallen race.

Jesus became a man in fullness of stature and wisdom, living here for 33 years, always going about doing good.  He was subject to temptations, infirmities, pain, weariness, hunger, thirst, torture, bleeding, and dying, just like all of us. God in human flesh at the last, died the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.  He came to live and die for His enemies.  Religious and worldly men found God here on Earth in human form, and their thoughts and ways towards Him were full of enmity, malice, envy, and murder. They hated Jesus without a cause.

Christ Jesus the Lord died in the place of guilty and sinful man, that He might bear man's sin and sin's punishment, that God might be just, and yet the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus' Precious Blood. JEHOVAH in human flesh was punished for my sins.  Without the gate, the Substitute bled, to atone for all my sins. On Earth, God in human form, bore the burden and endured the wrath that my sins deserved.  Jesus laid down His life for rebels. Jesus the Incarnate King of Heaven had God's soul-saving Blood flowing through His veins.  Jesus died for sinners on Calvary's Cross and was buried in a borrowed tomb for three days.

But the grave could not contain Jesus, early in the morning on the third day, He arose from the dead, no more to die.  The best news this world ever heard came from a graveyard.  Christ is risen indeed!  Behold He is alive forevermore.  And then after 40 days, Christ ascended from Mount Olivet into heaven in the presence of His disciples, a cloud receiving Him out of their sight.  Right now at this moment, Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God in human flesh.  The same man who died upon the Cross is now enthroned in the highest heaven, as Lord of all, and every angel delights to praise Him and do Him homage.

O sinner, hear the glad tidings, Jesus bore your sins in His own body on the tree, and suffered your sins' penalty, so that you could be ransomed and rescued by simply trusting to His Atoning Blood.  By coming down from Heaven to this Earth and taking upon Himself human flesh, Jesus bridged the awful gulf between the holy Creator and sinful man. By suffering in that human flesh and through His infinite, divine nature, He imparted an eternal payment for human sin, so He could remove the curse which would have destroyed and damned us, and brought us everlasting life and Salvation freely.

The most reasonable thing for you to do is to trust yourself upon Jesus' bloody atoning Sacrifice for sins. Trust only the wounded Savior - truly He was God manifest in the flesh, He was not just a part of God, but Jesus Christ was God in perfection.  God Himself was manifest in the flesh, because He loved us so.  God the Invisible was incarnated, God the Creator dwelt in flesh, God the infinite and boundless Being became a Jewish man.  This miracle of Incarnation and Atonement is the greatest wonder in all of history.

If you desire to see God, you must first see Him in Jesus Christ.  From the manger to the Cross, from the Cross to the tomb, from the tomb to the eternal throne of God.  Behold the Lamb of God, for God is manifest in Him.  Human sin can only be removed from the soul by the Atonement of God's Blood shed by Immanuel. You cannot be right anywhere unless you are right about the person of Jesus Christ, the Incarnate God.  Believe this simple truth that God became a man and suffered and died in the sinner's place, and now God promises that whosoever believeth in His Son shall not perish, but have Everlasting Life.

Tell everyone you can about Jesus, tell them of the Incarnate God who died for sinners.  Tell them about His Substitution for sinners, speak out the Gospel plainly and freely.  As God and as man, Jesus had two natures, He ever liveth, yet He was made to die.  God came into this world in human form that He could be capable of death.  The pure, eternal spirit of God could never die; it is not possible that the Great *I AM* could be subject to death, but as a man and in human form, JESUS could bleed and die, and He did die especially for you. He died, the Atonement is finished, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins, but the bloody death of the sinless Son of God brings the sinner free and plenteous redemption.

There is sufficient merit and power in Jesus' blood to take away all our guilt and cleanse our transgressions. Unto Jesus that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.  Simply look to Calvary's Lamb and fear not.  The Incarnate God, Jesus of Nazareth, offered up Himself as an atoning bloody Sacrifice for human sin, so you could be freely ransomed from divine justice.