In Heb. 1:6, we read of our Lord Jesus, +"And when He+ (i.e., God
the Father) +again bringeth in the first-begotten into the world he
saith, and let all the angels of God worship him."+ Here is a most
unmistakable and inescapable declaration that Jesus Christ is a Divine
Person, to be worshipped as God by angels as well as men, and two
verses further down we read this further declaration of His absolute
Deity, +"But of the son he saith, Thy throne O God, is for ever and
ever."+ Here again the Son is declared in so many words to be God,
He is called God. But in the very next chapter, Heb. 2:18, we read,
+"For in that He himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to
succor them that are tempted."+ Here we have the clearest possible
declaration of the reality of His human nature.
In Heb. 4:14 we read, +"Having then a great high priest, who hath
passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our
profession."+ Here we have a plain declaration of His Deity; but in
the very next verse, we read, +"For we have not an high priest that
cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that
hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin."+
One of the plainest declarations of the fullness and completeness of
His humanity to be found in the Bible.
The doctrine of the Deity of Jesus Christ and the doctrine that Jesus
Christ was a real man, go hand in hand in the Bible. What kind of a
Saviour, what kind of a Lord Jesus, do you believe in? Do you believe
in a Saviour that is a man and man only? Then you do not believe in
the Saviour that is presented in the Bible. On the other hand, do you
believe in a Saviour that is God and God only? Then you do not believe
in the Saviour of the Bible. The Lord Jesus, our Lord and Saviour,
presented to us in the Bible, is very God of very God and at the same
time He is our brother, our fellowman, and is not ashamed to call us
brethren. Oh, I thank God that I have a Saviour that is God, possessed
of all the attributes and powers of Deity, all the perfections of
Deity, a Saviour for whom nothing is too hard. I thank God that my
Saviour is One who made the heavens and the earth, and who holds all
the powers of nature and of history in His control; but I equally
thank God that my Saviour is my brother man, One who was tempted in
all points like as I am, One who is in a position to bear my sins, on
the one hand because He is God, on the other hand because He is man.
A merely divine Saviour could not be a Saviour for me. A merely human
Saviour could not be a Saviour for me. But a Saviour in whom Deity
and humanity meet; a Saviour who is at once God and man, is just the
Saviour I need, and the Saviour that you need, a Saviour that is able
to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through Him.
VI
THE PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
"The Communion of the Holy Ghost."—2 Cor. 13:14.
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