But not only did Jesus Christ have a human parentage, He had a human
physical nature, a human body. This comes out in the first of our
texts, +"The Word Became Flesh,"+ and in Hebrews 2:14 we are
taught +"Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he
also+ (i.e., our Lord Jesus also) +himself in like manner partook
of the same; that through death he might bring to naught him that
had the power of death, that is, the devil."+ Words could not make
it plainer that our Lord Jesus _had a real human body_, a real human
physical nature. Indeed, the Apostle John teaches us in 1 John 4:2, 3,
that not to believe in the actuality of His human body, is a mark of
the Anti-Christ. He says, +"Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every
spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of
God: and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this
is the spirit of the anti-Christ, whereof ye have heard that it cometh;
and now it is in the world already."+ There were those in John's
day who denied the reality of Jesus' human nature, who asserted that
His body was only a seeming or apparent body, that it was an illusion,
or as the Christian Scientists now put it, "mortal thought," and John,
speaking in the wisdom and power of the Holy Ghost, asserts that this
doctrine is a mark of the Anti-Christ. It is the one supreme mark
to-day, that "Christian Science" is of the Anti-Christ.
Jesus Christ not only had a human body during His life here upon earth,
but after His resurrection He still had a human body. The Millennial
Dawnists (Pastor-Russellites) teach us that this is not so; that,
whereas before His incarnation He was wholly a spiritual being, that
at His incarnation He became wholly a human being, and that since His
death and resurrection He is wholly a divine being: all of which is
not Scriptural, and therefore is not true. He himself said after His
resurrection, +"See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle
me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye behold me
have. And when he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet"+
(Luke 24:39, 40). And to Thomas in John 20:27, after Thomas had
doubted the reality of His resurrection, He said, +"Reach hither thy
finger, and see my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and put it into
my side: and be not faithless but believing."+ Not only after His
resurrection while still here on earth did He have a real human body,
but He still has a human body in the glory. In that wonderful view into
heaven that was given to Stephen at the time he was stoned and killed
we read in Acts 7:55, 56, +"But he, being full of the Holy Spirit,
looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus
standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold I see the heavens
opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God."+ And
when He comes again to take His rightful authority on this earth, He
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