shall come with a human body, coming as "the Son of Man." He Himself
said to the High Priest when He stood before him on trial, in Matt.
26:64, +"Nevertheless I say unto you, henceforth ye shall see the son
of man standing at the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of
heaven."+ In this utterance of our Lord we have a declaration of His
Deity, but an equally clear declaration that He was a real man, and
that He will come again _as a man_ with a human, though glorified body.
Indeed, we are told in Phil. 1:20, 21 that when He does thus come, He
is going to transform these our present human bodies, the bodies of our
present humiliation, into the likeness of His own glorious body, His
glorified human body.
III. SUBJECT TO HUMAN LIMITATIONS
But the reality and completeness of our Lord's human nature comes out
not only in the fact that He had a human parentage and a human body:
we are also clearly taught that, while as God he possessed all the
attributes and exercised all the offices of Deity, as a man He was
subject to human limitations.
1. _He was subject to the physical limitations which are essential to
humanity._ In John 4:6 we read that Jesus Christ _was weary_. The words
are +"Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on
the well: and it was about the sixth hour."+ But God is never weary.
We read explicitly in Isa. 40:28 +"Hast thou not known? Hast thou not
heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the creator of the ends of the
earth, fainteth not, neither is weary."+
We are told in Matt. 8:24 that _Jesus Christ slept_. But God never
sleeps. We read in Ps. 121:4, 5, +"Behold he that keepeth Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep. Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy
shade upon thy right hand."+ By comparison of these two verses, we
see distinctly that Jehovah never sleeps. Yet Jesus did sleep, so while
He was Jehovah, He was not Jehovah only. He was man as truly as He was
God.
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