Reformation Seminary - The Humanity of Jesus Christ -

 

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The Son of God existed from eternity and manifested Himself in many ways in the Old Testament. In Exodus 3 His voice came from the Burning Bush, using the Name - I AM.

As predicted in Isaiah 7:14, He was the great Incarnation, God in man, Immanuel, God with us. His suffering as a man is clearly described in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22, with Psalm 23 predicting the Good Shepherd.

The Incarnation - God in the flesh - took place according to the calendar established by God. Mary was with child, and the angels rejoiced, proclaiming this miracle to the shepherds. There are many false gods, but only Jesus Christ can be called God and man, the Two Natures united in one person and forever One. 

The rationalist era, which grew from Calvinism and Pietism, created The Life of Jesus books, which catered to believers but emphasized their lack of faith in Him. Reaction to this has led to emphasizing His divine nature without much about His human nature.

Below are some examples of His humanity (remembering that His divine nature is never subordinate to His human nature).

1. Jesus was conceived and born, having all the qualities of a baby boy, nursed by His mother Mary, and growing up in a household that included Joseph as his father.

2. He was baptized by John in the Jordan River, even though John did not feel equal to this person.

3. He went to the desert wilderness where Satan confronted Him. He had water but no bread to eat. He listened to the twisted logic of Satan but did not fall prey to the Evil One.

4. He gathered disciples and trained them. We often see this in light of His divinity, but they did not know the full extent of His divinity until after the Resurrection.

5. He grew weary and prayed.

KJV Matthew 26:36f. Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

KJV Mark 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. 36 And Simon and they that were with him followed after him. 37 And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.

 Luke has many more examples on this link.

KJV John 4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. 

A man said, "I don't go to church."

An older lady said, "So you are better than Jesus?
He said, "No, why do you say that."

She answered, "Jesus was always praying in the synagogue, so you are better than Jesus."

Threatened with Tornadoes, Northwest Arkansas Had a Loud Storm, More To Come

 

Enchanted Peace grew six feet tall last year and will probably grow even more.

The tornado threat disappeared last night, but Charlie Sue and I heard the fireworks of a powerful thunderstorm directly above us.

Most of the roses survived the occasional cold spells from last winter. I used a sunny day to trim the dead wood from roses eager to grow and bloom. That action doubles the growth. The roots reach out below for more water and the gentle fellowship of earthworms. Branches grow and buds race to bloom. Thorns cost me a few cuts.

David Austin developed 200 distinct roses.

The two pruning efforts went like this:

1. Rain
2. Prune
3. Rain

Enchanted Peace Rose survived the winter and began blooming immediately.

Some Knockout Roses did the same.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles® - David Austin English Rose

 

I decided to plant locally, so I went to the gardening center and obtained some potted David Austin roses, often called English roses for their perfect blooms. My neighbor said, "They are so perfect I thought they might be plastic."

I gave Creation Gardening to one of the staff.

Easy Does It continues to impress everyone.

Easy Does It has the colors of sunset.

On Sunday, Mother's Day, roses will be placed at the doorways of our cul-de-sac, plus some for Bible John's wife; they live around the corner.

Sick of ELCA Programs? - Why Are the LCMS and WELS So Eager To Work And Worship with Them?

 

This is the Protestia link, the source of many similar outrages.

Their links to ELCA:

Woke Church Newsletter Invites Congregants To Help Pay for Abortions and Abortion Pills
ELCA Recites Blasphemous ‘Sparkle Creed’ + ‘I believe in the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural’
ELCA Head Goes Off On Jesus in Sermon, Calling Him ‘Mean’, Troubling, and Even a Little Racist
Pastrix Says Jesus Called Syrophoenician Woman a ‘B*****’ + “Jesus Screwed Up, She Redeems Him”
Lutheran Pastor Promotes Hookups, Polyamory, and Premarital Sex
Queer ELCA Pastrix Ordained With Drag Queen Nuns While Jennifer Knapp Serenades

Someone created this cauldron to emphasize the fraternal love of the Big Five melting together. The Big Five - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic). Why was the Little Sect on the Prairie omitted? "A little pot is soon hot." Shakespeare/Oxford.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Ascension - "You must believe it and confidently rely upon it that the thing is as the Gospel says, that not your works but the Lord Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection takes away your sin and death. This you can not attain to except by faith."

 

Complete Sermon->Day of Christ’s Ascension Into Heaven. Mark 16:14-20. Christ Commissions his Disciples to Preach the Gospel

7. And this is the trend of all those passages in the prophets where God boasts that he will establish a preaching that will show forth his praise; as when he says in Isaiah 43:21: “The people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.” As if to say: You hypocrites do no more than praise yourselves in your hearts and thus my praise must perish; for you make me a stern judge and an unfriendly God, so that secretly the people hate me and think within themselves: Ah, if we but had another God, one that would not require so much of us; such a one we would love. Therefore, I will form for myself another people, which shall know me and love me. When they see that I will not regard their works but will give them every good thing freely, their hearts will teem with joy and will never weary of my praise.

8. Therefore, beware of glossing the text and seeking to improve upon the words of Christ. Our doctors and colleges have tried to better them and have said these words must be understood thus: “He that believeth” (understand: and doeth good works), “shall be saved.” Who authorized them to make that insertion? Do you think the Holy Spirit was too stupid to make it? Thus they have utterly obscured, yea, perverted, this precious statement with their insertion. Therefore, take heed and let no one make an insertion for you, but abide by the text as it reads and understand it thus: “He that believeth shall be saved” without his merit, without any works.

Why? For this reason: because God has caused to be preached and proclaimed unto us that he had his Son Jesus Christ come and take away sin and all evil. For he saw that we were not able to do it, that it was an impossibility for us to blot out sin with our works and powers. Otherwise he could have saved himself the trouble and expense of delivering up his own Son to suffer and die; and he has this preached to us in the Gospel.

9. Now what does such preaching call for? It calls for this, that I believe in it, for in no other way can! apprehend it. If you write it in a book, it will be of no use to any man, though you indulge in much thinking about it. Again, you may preach and speak about it, or hear it; it will be to no purpose. You must believe it and confidently rely upon it that the thing is as the Gospel says, that not your works but the Lord Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection takes away your sin and death. This you can not attain to except by faith.

10. Again, Christ says: “He that disbelieveth,” even though he be baptized, “shall be damned.” These words, too, you must allow to remain just as they are. For he does not say thus: He that disbelieves and does evil works besides; but, without any varnish he says: If thou hadst the chastity of all virgins, the sufferings of all martyrs, and, to be concise, if thou hadst all the works that ever were done by all the saints — if thou hadst all these in a heap, yet, if faith were lacking, all would be lost.