Christ is Truly Man

Driving home: The deity of Christ is in every page of the Bible in solution, just as the salt is in every bucket of the water in the sea in solution.

At the Jersey Shore, you can find isolated proofs that the ocean is salty — patches of dried salt on the rocks. But in truth every bucket of seawater is its own proof. Just so, Christ's deity is in every page of Scripture in solution.

Some of us have been down at the Jersey Shore at a time when the tide has receded. And where the sea once was as far as its level, there are many indications that the sea is salty. Salt crystals can be found upon the driftwood, on the sand, and on the seaweed. And if we come and see the salt crystals, we may say, these are the living proofs of the saltiness of the sea.

3:45 - 4:12 Read in full sermon

To state it as bluntly as possible: when our Lord came too close to the knife while cutting bread for the family meal, he cut his finger and it bled. A real body, real veins, real blood.

It had veins. It had blood. to state it as bluntly as I know how, when our Lord came too close to the knife when He was cutting bread for the family meal, He cut His finger and it bled.

18:06 - 18:19 Read in full sermon

The point: Bring full concentration of all your faculties to the preaching of the Word; the hearer's labor matches the preacher's.

Pastor Martin compares preaching to a transmission: the preacher must labor to organize the truth, but the hearer is under equal obligation to attend with full concentration. A breakdown on either end is a sad state of affairs.

But let there be breakdown on either end, and it's a sad state of affairs. All right, so much for that little aside. Now then, the biblical evidence for his true humanity. How should we organize it?

21:20 - 21:31 Read in full sermon

The point: Stop running from God with homemade coverings for guilt — He is graciously seeking the running sinner today.

Picturing Adam fleeing God in Eden, Pastor Martin notes that some hearers are running today with their own version of fig leaves — homemade coverings for guilt — when God is graciously seeking them.

You remember the general setting of the passage. Man has sinned. man runs from the God against whom he has sinned in the sense of his guilt. As some of you are running today, with a conscience bowed down with the sense of having offended your God, even though you sit here this morning in your physical presence, the feet of your soul run from God, because you can't feel comfortable in the presence of a holy God with sin that is not pardoned.

24:23 - 24:54 Read in full sermon

The point: Worship Christ as the One who fulfilled every Old Testament intimation of a truly human Deliverer.

From the seed of the woman, to Abraham, to Judah, to David, to a virgin's womb — God progressively narrows His promise of a true human deliverer until only Jesus of Nazareth fits.

You see what God is doing as He preparing His people for the coming of Messiah What is He telling them From Genesis 3 right down to the last prophetic utterance in Malachi He is telling them that redemption is to come by a man. Messiah will be a man. Messiah will have flesh and blood. Messiah will be born.

39:51 - 40:18 Read in full sermon

The point: Read your Old Testament looking for Christ — and let your heart burn within you as it should.

The two on the road to Emmaus had no application or exhortation, only Christ shown to them in the Old Testament — and their hearts burned within them. So should ours when we see Christ mirrored in the period of preparation.

Well, if you're a believer, you ought to experience something of what the two on the road to Emmaus experienced without any application, without any exhortation. For we read of those two in Luke 24, 13 and following, who going to Jerusalem with heavy hearts find themselves suddenly in the company of a third. This person, according to verse 27, begins from Moses and the prophets and interprets to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Whoever this companion was, There's no indication that he brought any exhortation based upon the Old Testament.

41:34 - 42:19 Read in full sermon

The point: Break the bread of the Lord's Supper with joy because it symbolizes the living demonstration of Christ's true humanity.

Christ's reasonable soul becomes the receptacle for the penalty of the broken law — drinking the very dregs of God's wrath until he can say, 'It is finished.'

The wages of sin is death, and the Father must exact the last demand of His law. And the humanity of Christ, a true body, a reasonable soul that can feel and drink in The very dregs of divine anger and displeasure. He must have that as the receptacle of divine wrath. And he offers himself up unto God.

48:17 - 48:44 Read in full sermon