Is Jesus Still A Man - Edwin Eby

Running the name of Jesus. And thank you Dan for those preliminary thoughts on

the message this morning, because we want to stay right in around this cardinal

truth of the resurrection this morning and this thing about Jonah and God. There's

another message that's burning in my heart, and I'm not going to preach it

here, preparing it to preach it to the home congregations. I had a

wedding, and in our weddings we use the term the God of Abraham,

the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And a man mocked

me for that. He wanted to know why we use such terms as that.

Well, I want to preach on that message, because see, there

are many gods, and when the Bible uses the God of Abraham, the

God of Isaac, and the God Jacob, it's this what. It's the

God of the Hebrews, the God of Junnah, it's the God of Jesus.

Among the many, it's this one. It's a dentification. And marriage

still hangs on that same God. I don't know if you do that or

not to use that term, brother Leland, when you marry somebody, because

marriage still hangs on that God, not on these other ones. Well,

that's not our subject. Let's stand together one more time and sing our theme

song together, number seventy seven, And let's just sing all these verses here

this morning, that we would stand and be amazed. We're talking about truth

this morning, and I was impressed that we can't know all the truth.

And there's a lot of things about Jesus Christ and salvation. We just cannot

know all of those, And so we stand amazed. And that he would

be a man and pray in the garden verse two, and that angels would

come and minister to him and comfort him, and that he took our sins

in our sires. The doctrine of satisfaction attonement a very wonderful doctrine. And

then in glory. I am of the belief that we will never understand everything

about God, even in glory, because if we were, we were to

become God, and He will continue to show us who he is. I

don't understand that. This morning, Let's sing this song. I stand me

in the past, Sorgesus the naso, and wander how he could love me

sin condemnly, Oh Marvean, so how wonderful? And my song shallver Oh

Marvin so wonderful, with is my save yourselve to me for me? It

was in the god he prayed, not my will, but the he had

NOI for his old f sweat drops of blood form Oh Marvin, so wonderful,

and my song shall overby, Oh loud Marveler, so wonderful. There's

my say frfve for me in pety and yells. Bed Man came from the

world of love to call for in the song see boy for my soul lad

not oh marble so and my song shallverb, Oh Lou Marveler, so wonderful.

He is my save your love for army. He took my sines,

and my song he made them is yo. He bore the harboren of car

for rea sofered, and Lord, oh Marvella, so wonderful, and my

song shall havever be, Oh marble, so wonderful is my sn yours love

for me? When with the ransoming glow his face side Lafe shall see twill

be my joy through the end to say of his love for me, Oh

how marvelous, and my sob shall iver be so he's my sad your love

formy God, bless you may be seeded mhm in nineteen eighty six, when

I was ordained, an older man of great faith and wisdom told me,

gave me a little bit of advice. He told me that I should that

I should decide now to never preach a boring message. And I've not always

been able to do that because I'm a man. But it was a good

advice anyway, because people don't always respond very well to boring doctrinal preaching.

And today I am going to preach doctrine, and I, according to my

notes, I have not preached this doctrine twenty fourteen, and I can hardly

believe it because it's such an exciting doctrine for this morning that I pray it

will not be boring to you. I want to speak, and this is

not Christmas, but it might be. I want to speak this morning on

the doctrine of the incarnation and I want to remind you, and I want

you to open your Bible. It's the first John, chapter four, because

this is true. This is true in many ways. It's true because it's

true and the Bible says it's true, and John points it out. But

it's also true if you watch around and move around in life and analyze false

doctrine. One of the marks of false doctrine is that false doctrine will always

make Jesus our God. That is that the truth that Diventa became flesh,

it will always make Jesus a scandal. It always denies that Jesus, that

a God, a divine spirit, God, could become flesh and blood.

And that's what it reads. Here. Here you can know the spirit of

God. In verse two of chapter four of First John. Here you can

know the spirit of God. Every spirit or religion or faith or doctrine that

confesses that Jesus is come in the flesh is of God. But every spirit

or every doctrine or every religion that confesses not that Jesus Christ has come in

the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of Antichrist.

It's already going around in the world. So you know, there be some

some classical ones like Islam who at that there was a Jesus but he was

only a prophet, or the Mormons who believed that Jesus was created and that

we also become the sons of God and all of these things. They would

be two classical doctrines. Classic illustrations of doctrines but I give this for you

to think about, because the Bible does that every false religion has one thread

in it definitive, and that is it will deny that Jesus, that God

Divine, became flesh and blood and dwelt among men. That's what this verse

is saying. And so that is our thought this morning. And the message

has four titles. I'm going to write them up here on the board.

And so we have these four questions. Is Jesus still a man? Is

Jesus still a man? Is Jesus still a man? Is Jesus still a

man? You want to answer that question? Well, that's our Bible study

this morning. Uh. The answer yes, And that's a really exciting doctrine.

But it's a heavy one. It's so heavy that it could cause some

controversy in your heart because Christ is always controversial to law and death. The

law of sin and death is always in conflict with the law of love and

life, and the Kingdom of Heaven established in the regions of Satan is always

going to bring controversy against the flesh. And if you're here and you're not

saved yet, then this message will indeed be contravergency with your heart, But

if you are saved, it will establish your heart and make you want to

go on. And so I'm preaching this message to convince you that Heaven and

Jesus are real. Good men, and Knight would voice it, But too

many of us do not really want to go to Heaven because we believe somehow

that in our humanity it is a mystical place of endless singing and eternal church

service. And of course it will be, but in some way that there's

no way for us now to imagine it, and I'm fine with that.

But in whatever way, I am convinced by the scriptures that it will be

real, real, because we don't really understand real, real, and there's

no way that we can yet, and that's faith. But I am convinced

in my heart that it will not be a cloud of mystical glob of something.

It will be real, real, Just like brother Leland would stand in

this pulpit some morning and preach the doctne of Hell to be real. So

I believe that haaven't will be real. And I think he would because his

brother did it. So I think that maybe the two brothers might believe that

Hell is real. Brother Steve his brother came down to church, one of

our churches in Georgia one time a couple of years ago, and the very

first night of Revival meetings, he preached a tremendous message on the literal hell,

and someone was for like wow, but he did. So I know

that I think that Leland believes probably and we probably stand right here in this

pope and preach that that hell is real. And so this morning I'm preaching

that Heaven is real. So I want to see what the Bible says about

these four questions up here on the board, and I want you to be

thinking about what does the Bible teach them this matter. Is Jesus a man

now or did Jesus go back into heaven in Acts chapter one and become the

Son of God in the same form that he was before the incarnation? Is

Jesus his spirit now or is he a man? What do you believe about

this? And I'm going to convince you with answers on this question from the

Bible, not just to prove it so, but rather so that our hope

gets more hope. You know, hopelessness in life is a serious thing.

If you've ever encountered it, yourself, or if you have met someone and

wrestled with someone who lost hope, you know what I mean by that.

Emotionally or physically. There are people who just lose hope, and I have

been told that for someone to somehow get a hold of that. Losing hope

is the feeling that you get between the time that you know that you lost

control and you're going to hit the power pole until you do, and people

who lose hope live right there. I don't know if you've ever hit a

power pole, but it's that moment between reality of catastrophe and the catastrophe,

and people who lose hope live right there, and hopelessness is is a is.

Brothers, we don't want to lose hope, and some of us have

stronger minds than I do, so it's easy for me to lose hopes.

If you hear that thread of trying to reassure, be reassured by the scriptures

through these meetings, that's something that comes out. I accept that we need

hope, and this is why that we pray in the name of Jesus,

because he is the only mediator between God and us. It's not something,

young man, that you tackle on the end and say in the name of

the Lord or something like that. Your prayers and my prayers cannot be heard

unless we pray in the name of Jesus, and you can ask it in

the very first words. You can say, in the name of Jesus,

I pray, and then when you are finished, you can just say amen,

or it means let it be this way. You don't have to pray,

and make sure that you get in the name of Jesus on the end

of it, and pray in the name of Jesus anytime. But if the

prayer is not in the name of Jesus, our advocate who sits today at

the right hand of the Father interceding for us. If you don't pray in

the name of Jesus, your prayer just goes that high and goes down,

and it's worthless. Praying in the name of Jesus is the only way that

we can get to this God of heaven, who is the God of Abraham,

the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. In the name

of Jesus, we pray because he is the mediator, the advocate, the

lawyer that stands between holiness and sinfulness. So I have two intentionness teaching to

outline two foundations, and then look at some biblical teaching on these questions.

Here they're all for the same, but they're all four very different and they

all have the same answer. Turn your bibles to Hebrews. We'll just look

at the first point here, the humanity of Jesus nature presently or what is

Jesus? Who is Jesus right now? Is I submit to you imperative to

Christian faith? In Hebrews, Chapter six, the Bible teaches and declares the

position of Jesus presently Chapter six, verse twenty. Whether the forerunner is for

us entered, even Jesus made and high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek,

that is, Jesus is in heaven our high priest after the order of

or like as or as Melchisedec. Chapter three, verse one of Hebrews.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and

high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to him that

appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house and so on

four verse fourteen. Seeing then that we have a high priest that has passed

into heavens Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Let us hold fast our

profession, for we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the

feeling of our firmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are,

yet without sin. And so therefore let us come boldly on to his

throne, so that we can find mercy and find grace to help in time

of need. Chapter five, verse six. Let's start a refreshed So also

Christ glorified, not himself to be made in high priest, but he that

said unto him, that is David, thou art my son. Today have

I begotten thee as he saith? Also in another place, thou art a

priest forever after the order of Melchisdek. So there we have again a clue

here that Jesus was a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. Chapter seven,

verse seventeen. Again he that testifieth, this is from Psalm one hundred

and four. Never forget that David was a prophet. Jesus said so he

for he testified that David testified prophet. David testified that thou that Jesus art

a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec Chapter eight, verse one. Now,

of the things which we have spoken, this is the total. We

have such a high priest who is set on the right hand of the throne

of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the

true tabernacle, which the Lord pits, not men. And so he says,

this man Jesus, who is after the order of or like Melchisedec is.

We have him now presently this morning, March April one, sitting at

the right hand. Can we just we can't imagine this, try to that

Jesus Christ is sitting on the right side of God in heaven in his throne.

Chapter nine, verse twenty four. For Christ is not entered into the

holy place made with hands, which are the figure of the Jew, but

into Heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us. So

the same thing going on here that the apostle Paul, if it was Paul

or Hebrews, is arguing that Jesus is after or like as or as Melchizedek,

and he is entered into heaven, and he sits there on the right

hand of the Father making intercession for us, and we pray to him.

We pray to God, and we get to God in the name of Jesus.

That's what a priest does. He mediates, he advocates. You're a

lawyer. So let's take us just a little bit further. For Jesus to

be a priest after the order of or as like or in the same way

as that, he must be a man. Because machi Is a deck,

was not a spirit. Mal Chisa duck was a man who met Maleses coming

our pardoner, the Abraham. He met Abraham as he come back there in

his victory over the four gentile kings there in the Vale of Sdom. And

the Bible tells us we know this. We don't have time to get all

these scriptures to prove this, but you can, you can. You can

talk about this while you're eating sandwiches. Uh, Abraham met a man coming

back there right, a priest, king of Salem, king of Jerusalem.

So my first, my first submission to us on the subject is that the

Bible teaches us that Jesus is a priest after the order of marchesa duck,

and Machisadec was not a spirit. Was a man number two, Chapter seven,

verse twenty five of Hebrews. Wherefore this twenty four. But this man,

because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Whereas Melchizedek we're getting

into some things here that's gonna yeah, that we don't always understand. But

this man, the argument is, this man, because he continues ever,

has an unchangeable priesthood. And because he has an unchangeable priesthood, therefore or

wherefore, he is able to save Jason Shruck. He is able to save

Dan Weaver. He is able to save put your name in here. He

is able to save to the uttermost, not just partly, any that come

under God by him, seeing that he is making intercession for him. For

such and high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undifouled,

separate from sinners, and made higher than the habits, who doesn't have to

offer his own. But we come to God through this priest, that is

after the order of Melchisedect. So the second point that I'm submitting here on

these questions is this priest, this Jesus lives to save any one of those

who will draw near to him and make intercession. He will make intercession for

them to God. Those that believe he is and are saved by him and

receive his provision have access to God through him. So we just add this,

a spirit could not be a priest after the Order of Melchisedec, for

Matchisidec was a man, not a spirit. And so today we're just kind

of rushing ahead here. Jesus is a man in heaven in a glorified human

body, and don't cast me out here yet, please. He is a

man in a glorified body, human body. If he were a spirit,

he could not be a high priest interceding for us in heaven. For your

sins and my sins could not be forgiven. So denying that Jesus as a

man just given these two submissions so far, would denying Jesus as a priest

interceding in our behalf for us in heaven. So with those introductory kind of

thoughts which you probably might be saying in your mind are too weak yet to

confirm this doctrine, let's go forward. The only two that we laid down

yet is that he's in order after Matchesadkut, which was a man, and

he sits as that priest in heaven on the right hand of the Father to

intercede any who will come to him. Those are the two. And you

may say this or two. We get to confirm this, doctor, Well,

let's go on. Let's back all the way up. Turn with me

to John chapter ten. The first point that I'm submitting here on this is

the Bible is clear that Jesus has always existed as the tri son of God.

And here's another doctrine see in John chapter four. False religions will never

Jesus is always a scandal whin a false religion that God could not become a

man and live as a man the Trinity. And we know that words not

in the Bible. But in John chapter ten, verse thirty. Someone read

this for me, one of your young Fello says, they read this verse

for me. This young man is sitting right. When the front man read

it loud enough, everyone can hear. What does it say in John ten

thirty I and my father are one. Well, now that was part of

a bigger argument, right in the context, I was a part of a

bigger argument. So we're just kind of pulling that out there to make this

submission or point for us to consider that the Bible is clear. This is

just one we're using that God and Father have always been. And it's easier

for me, and I think pray for you to somehow get a hold of

some truth that Jesus will always exist. But it's it's impossible for the human

mind to get a hold of the truth that he never started. That's because

we had a beginning, right, I think that's what it is. So

as slippery as that hand to whist, and I can't get a hold of

him living forever. It's even it's even hard yet to believe that he never

even started, for lack of better words, But the Bible is clear.

And this is a difference between faith and logic, because if I understand it,

then it's no more faith. It's only faith if I just believe without

being able to prove it. Okay, So Jesus was always existed as the

trying son of God, even before the foundations of the world. Peter says,

Jesus and God. I can't understand this, But Jesus and God had

this conversation and they knew that brother Caught was going to need salvation, and

Jesus said, I'll do it for him. And we see this incautions Paul

speaks in chapter one, sixteen seventeen. He speaks there about Jesus being the

creator of all things. And in Genesis chapter one we see this picture that

the Spirit moved, and we have the biblical injunction for marriage there. That

marriage must be sanctioned and witnessed by God, the Son, God, God

himself, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, or it's not

a marriage. And I think we will all agree on that, so we

won't use a lot more time on that point. But this marriage thing,

that God the Son, God to Father, God the Son, and God

the Holy works. We're all there in that marriage union between Adam and Eve.

It's a deep seated, necessary, essential aspect of marriage, and it's

incredible and mysterious to man, but also in eternal that finally later on there

was incarnation. We're putting a lot of things together. The point here being

that I understand and believed that it is evident that before the incarnation or God

becoming flesh, Jesus was a spirit man, not a flesh man. Before

incarnation, he was a divine spirit being eternal God, but he was not

yet divine flesh man at the creation. It is my understanding and belief that

Jesus was not human flesh, and yet he was divine and of the Trinity.

He was divine at that juncture, but not human. And we know

on the scriptures that a few times Jesus personified himself and presented himself in what

I would term or use as pre incarnate body. I believe, and I

submitted to you again. You can speak about this of your sandwiches. But

in the Creation it says that God got breaked down there on the earth and

he yumped down there, and I think it was Jesus pre incarnate, and

he put his hands together there, and all the others he just did by

his word. But there he took dust and put it together and made out

of Jesus did. And when Adam got awake or was, and then he

breathed into his no soul suppressive lays, and he saw what he saw laying

there and told me in that Adam looked up, he saw Jesus pre incarnate.

This is my belief. And I think that Jesus saw the man that

he made and he loved it. I don't know if you want this one,

but I think he saw Dan. I think he saw his own image,

and I think he was married. But I'm not trying to produce controversy,

but it is a doctrine off which I believe about facial air. But

anyway, we know that. And then we had this time where I don't

know who much of the deck was. I really don't know. He may

have been Jesus pre incarnate. But then we have those three men that came

to Adam Abraham's area, you know, and they didn't look like women,

they look like men, and we believe, I think we do altogether that

one of them was the Lord, because that's what the scriptures said. And

then we have all these times through the Bible where the King James will say

the Angel of the Lord came. And this is my understanding that where it

defines, sometimes it says angel of the Lord, and I believe it may

have been one of God's messenger angels. But other times, such as I

believe I'm correcting this one on Manah, these men would want to worship this

Angel of the Lord, and the Angel will say no, no, no.

But in the one in Manah and the one in Joshua outside the city

of Jericho, he said he was a Captain of the Host of the Lord,

of the armies of the Lord, both of those times at least,

and there are a few other ones. This is the way I designated,

and I'm submitting to you for your for your for your discussion, because I

could be wrong. The brothers told me here this morning that this man,

who he presented himself as the Angel Lord, accepted worship. See, so

I must conclude from that that when this Angel of the Lord accepted worship,

it must have been God, because an angel would not accept worship. And

there are flu times where the Bible King James is the Angel of the Lord,

but they refused worship. I'm saying all this to submit to us.

That is my belief and understanding in my hope, that Jesus was a spirit

before incarnation, but he sometimes presented himself. He had this divinity to present

himself as a man, and it seems in the scriptures that he did so.

And this is a great mystery, and I cannot tell prescily that I

have all of this truth. But the point that I'm submitting to us,

as I understand the scriptures that Jesus before Christmas, Oh, I hate that

he wasn't born in Christmas twenty five, anywhere in Christmas December twenty five.

He was born in the spring. Did you know that the twenty five day

of December, that's Zea's birthday, But so is Sunday, And I recognize

that. So that's another whole doctor. But the point I'm making is that

I believe that something very very, very very significant happened at incarnation, and

I believe it was a principal thing of God, that Divinity became flesh and

blood, and Christmas whenever you celebrated, you could do it today, except

we have Easter. It's a inexplainable, incredible something to save humanity. It

reads in Hebrews two, verse fourteen to seventeen, which is my fourth point.

Jesus took on the nature of man in incarnation. It reads like this,

forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he that

is Jesus, also himself likewise took part of the same that through death,

she divinity can't die. That through death he might destroy him that had the

power of death, that is the devil, that is the devil, and

deliver them us who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondies.

For verily, he, that is, Jesus, took not on him

the nature of angels, but took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore

were therefore in all things it behooved him to be made like his brother.

Jesus was made like a man. He was a man to make reconciliation for

the sins of the people. For in that he himself has suffered being tempted,

he is able to succor them that are tempted. He did not take

on the nature of angels, but he took on the nature of flesh and

blood of man. And this is why I also believed that the devil rebelled,

since the devil found himself created an angel to be a ministering spirit to

men like us. And he said, huh, I ain't doing that,

created as the most important of the ministering angels before the creation of man.

But then he rebelled because he was not going to serve Dan. He just

was not going to do it. That's called pride. He rebelled to this

beautiful order of God. And we can't understand this, but see, that

is why it is so humbling ourselves to just submit to Dan or to somebody

else, or your boss, or your father, your mother, Joe Biden,

whatever it is, the evil governor that you have out here. It's

just so hard to submit to such a thing, because in us is this

thing like the devil. Huh, you don't know who I am. I

ain't doing it because without Christ and the transforming power of Christ is we are

the sons of the devil. And our flesh does just not like to listen

to Laylan. It just doesn't want to do that. It wants to serve

ourselves. And if Christ is not in us and transforming us, and we

are not living a life of repentance day after day after that and being renewed

again by the Word of God and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,

then we're just going to find ourselves like the devil saying, huh, No,

I ain't doing that. The Bible just has a word for it.

It's pride we see over here on this side. This is why on First

Christy, chapter eleven, the Bible says that not just the both realms of

angels are watching you, and they can tell whether you are submitting to this

ordernance of headship. So these angels, Paul says in first Printans elevens,

are watching your life. And if they can tell that you are not submitting

to this ordernance of divine headship, they know then that they have power in

your life. So if your life and your heart is truly submitting to the

divine or order of headship, then you have power with those group of angels.

Two thirds. Always remember it was two thirds and one third. Don't

forget that when there was a war in heaven, two thirds were on God's

side and one third on the Devil's side. So never forget that. It's

two thirds one thirds. But if these angels that are watching you, if

they see that you are falling that and that is your heart, and that's

why you wear that thinging on your head First Corinthians, chapter eleven, then

they know that the good power angels, they have power in your life.

But you might have that thinking on your head, but your heart is still

unsubmitted, and the angels can see that and know that, and then the

devil's angels will have power in your heart. Well back again, Jesus has

not becoming an angel, but he became a man obedient unto the death of

the body. Philpians chapter two says he became. He went down, down,

down, even not just to a cross or death, but the most

despised death of the death, and that is a Romans got their revenge by

taking their the meason, hanging him up on the tree, naked, stripping

of them everything. Because you went to the cross. You didn't take your

truck, you didn't take your keys, you didn't take your car, you

didn't take your wife, you didn't take your money, you didn't take your

prestige, you didn't take anything. They stripped you down and shamed you and

hung you up there for everyone to see and to make fun of. And

that's exactly what happened. They went by and they shook their heads, and

he said, hey, he saved the others. He couldn't save yourself.

That is quite a statement, because if he would have come down, and

he could have come down, then he could not have saved us. How

Lolijah, he hung there. He decided to what a paradoxical truth, because

if he had served himself and came off the cross, which indeed he had

the divine power to do, then he could not have saved me and you

and Paul Is very clear on these things. And the Hebrew Runner is very

clear that he took on him the form of a man, but also retained

the divinity of God. And I cannot explain this to you, for in

him cautions rights tells us dwellth all the fullness of the godhead bodily. So

in his when he grew into manhood and became this savior, in him dwells

the God had bodily. I can I explain that one hundred percent of mine

and one hundred percent human. And we had the school teacher over here,

and he teaches math. He teaches you that you can't have to have more

than one hundred percent, right, but Jesus has two hundred percent. And

we read this in Hebrews Filippings, chapter two, Hebrews five, that he

learned obedience. I cannot explain all that, but he did become human.

And in Romans chapter eight, verse seventeen, it explains to us that he

gave up some of his inheritance so that Jason can have some of it when

he passes on. He didn't have to do that for you, Jason and

I get some And if we're facial, and it tells us this in Romans

chapter eight. So something I'm putting us all together, something incredible happened.

He was not a man, but now in the in the birth story,

he became flesh and blood. There he was lying as a baby, a

divine man with all the attributes of God, but a willingness to lay aside

those attributes of divinity aside. And this again we cannot understand. But the

Bible is true, and it says that he was in that life tempted in

all points, yet without sin. And I know this has been a doctrinal

argument that's going on. Could Jesus have sinned? Well, I'm just going

to submit to you that if he could not be tempted, then the Bible

is not true. And if he could not have sinned, I don't have

any use for him. I do not understand this. The Bible says he

was tempted in all points, yet without sin. So when this young man

Jesus saw a beautiful girl across the street, I must conclude that he there

was some kind of temptations, and we know they're in meta chapter. Whichever

it is, that the devil came to him intending to make him fall,

right, I must conclude that Jesus could have sinned or I don't maybe this

to Cardinal, but he just wouldn't be any good for me, because the

Bible says clearly he was tempted in all points, and therefore he can come

along my side. I don't understand this, but I do know the dweene

Ebe taught me one time, and I've never forgotten. I believe it'd be

true. I'll give it to you in case she didn't already come through these

parts and give it to you. But when you are tempted of a sin,

Dwayne Todd, one thing that you read about Jesus, he never he

never drew upon his divinity to win the temptation. He always did the same

thing that you. The same way that you and I will win over temptation

is the same the same way that Jesus want over temptation is the same way

that we win over temptation. That is, he called upon his Father in

heaven. He called upon the word of heaven, the word of God in

heaven, and he cried out for grace from Father in heaven. That is

how the Jesus won the temptations that we know about, and that is the

same way that you and I will win a temptation, he did not use

his divinity to win. And so when the devil offered him a farm,

he was tempted to accept it because there would be personal progress at hand.

And when the defa offered him a position that avoided the cross, he was

tempted to avoid it. In fact, he found himself finally in the garden

crime, so the temptation that began in the wilderness finally culnimated or climax there

in the garden. Father, isn't there some other way that Jason could be

saved? This thing has been in effect all these years from eternity past.

But Father, isn't just some way that I could avoid this and Jason could

be saved? And the answer is no. And so he said, I'll

do it. And here's another complete doctrinal thing that I don't understand. But

it seems like from there on the temptations were going. It just seems like

from there on he went to the cross with every bit of confident confidence.

And that's some more things that brother Leland can teach you next month, because

I don't understand them. So we had this mystery. Could God not sin.

And then how could he enter into temptation as myself. I don't know

the answer, but it was wrapped up in the man Jesus Christ. And

this mystery we will have to wait for the answer in the meanwhile, the

Bible good enough, and the Hebrews writer is clear. Number five, We'll

let be back up. So we have agreed or submitted, or I don't

know if you've agreed or not, but at least I've submitted that he became

forever a priest after the order Milchiedec to make intercession for us forever. And

he was a god man one percent who was tempted not by the flesh,

because he did not have a sinful flesh. But somehow he was tempted in

a way that brother Jason can he just can walk with him. And something

miraculous beyond what we often consider happened in the incarnation. That is, he

agreed upon sacrifice to become the priest forever after order of Melchizedec to make intercessious

forever. And here's my next point, Jesus perfect life and death. He

became the new Atom and the head of the human race. God had created

Atom to be the head or the leader of the human race. But Romans

chapter five on Christians fifteen twenty. Now Christ is risen from the dead and

became the first roots of them that slept every man in his own order.

Christ the first truths. Afterward, they are at Christ at his coming in

Romans chapter five. So the point I'm making here, God created Adam to

become the leader of the human race, but he failed, and so Jesus

Christ became the leader of the human family. The first fruits of the resurrection.

The first time that machine pulls into that field and the first bushel or

see goes through that thing, that's the first fruits. See in the Hebrew

life. You can go back into Leviticus, everything, the money, the

time, everything went around first fruits. And he died first as the head

of the human race because Adam failed and he rose again. We're just going

to say today, that's what we're having this celebration about, and became the

first fruits. He was the first one, as a divine god man to

die and come out of the grave and resurrect. And if we, young

people, if you and I are faithful, when we die, we will

be the harvest. It's wonderful because of this incarnation. That is, it's

a word that means divinity become flesh. So he took Adam's place as the

head of the human race. And in death he became the first in bodily

resurrection. He was the first one in body resirection. And he that is

in Christ no longer lives in law and death, but in love and life.

I must finish, but I'm going to finish, and then we number

six. Jesus died as a human. He did not die as a spirit.

They did not put a spirit on the cross. None of us would

disagree with that they put a man on the cross. There's no dispute except

for some non Christian people or historical atheistic groups and so forth. For if

we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also God would

bring with him who have fallen asleep in Jesus first, that's Enage four fourteen.

Number seven. Jesus had prophesied that he would rise in glorified humanity.

He told these men destroy the temple in three days, I'll build it up

again. And Jews said, you crazy fool. It took forty six years

to build this thing. And you're gonna raise it up in three days.

But the Bible says he was speaking of his body in Luke chapter twenty four.

A philip. It was a philip. Which one was it? Anyway,

he just wasn't there, and he just once that. I got to

bullieve this story. And Jesus came in there, came right in there,

and he said, see my hands and my feet and touched me. For

a spirit does not have flesh and blooms. Wherefore, therefore it was evening

on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors were

shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood

in their mists and said, peace be with you. And when he had

said this, he showed them his hands and his side, and the disciples

rejoiced when they saw the Lord. And he said, all was Thomas,

say that memory thing raises. He said to Thomas, reach here your finger

and see my hands, And reach here your hand and put it in my

side. And don't be unbelieving, rather be believing, because here I am.

And Paul confirmed us. If Christ has not been raised, then our

preaching is vain, and your faith also is vain, and Paul raised to

Timothy there is one God, one mediator between God and man, the man

Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom to be testified in due time,

where until I am ordained a preacher at a gospel. And this was the

controversy that Paul met over the place when he would talk about as are erected

to Jesus, because people said you are a fool. And yet he stood

on that because right there, everybody else's Jesus is dead, but ours is

not dead. He's alive. And he told Thomas, just touch me if

you don't believe it. Was he touching a spirit. No, he had

a physical body which you could see. And then one morning after that he

was still confirming this. Then and they were out there fishing, and he

said, come on over here. I got breakfast ready, just like Elfsie's

made breakfast for us over there in a little cottage. And they came over

there and they had fish and they ate this stuff. They had a fire

going there. Jesus was standing there and he was making this food and they

were eating this. He wasn't a spirit, he was a man with flesh

and Blood's a hold one I'm not quite finishing with flesh and bones, but

without blood. No blood. Dan, when you come up, you're going

to be body and flesh glorified, but not bones, but not blood.

No blood. The life will Jesus. And now the life is your blood.

So I'm getting ahead of myself here. But my next point is that

Jesus rose from the dead physically as a human. And this is confirmed by

the men and the women, and the Gospels as witness of this truth.

The Bible declares, has already been said. This morning. We sang it,

we declared it, we believe it. He is not here, for

he is risen. And they took his body right down off of that cross.

Nicodemus and Joseph did Pharamanthia, and they took it over there, and

they put it in that. They put it in that too there, and

the study was rolled in front of it. And Mary came that morning and

Peter braisen that he was running right in there. And the body that was

hung on the cross and was buried in that grave was gone. The same

body that was hung on the cross was gone from the grave. And then

Jesus turns around and talk to Mary, and for a little bit she did,

but she did not mistake Jesus for nan. She knew who he was,

Rabbi or not. So the body that was laid in the tomb was

gone. It was not there, and Jesus rose from the dead in the

same body which he had got, although please do not misunderstand me. It

was a glorified body. He could go through doors, and he could eat

fish, and he'd come right in that door there and met with Thomas and

said, see me. And then Paul says that later on five hundred.

I don't have many here this morning, maybe one hundred and fifty of us

bout five times his people. Many people were at some place at one time,

and Jesus came over. Five hundred were there at that one time.

Jesus said, this is not a tail or. Paul said, this is

not a tail this is this is true. So his physical body was seen,

a glorified physical bod. And Leland's gonna explain that to you. Sometimes

James also saw him, and Stephens saw him, and Paul saw him,

and he said, I see him standing on the right hand of the Father.

And then about ninety years later Jesus John saw him. The hairs that

have had were white black wool. Says, we had that story there in

the revelation. He saw him there, he's there. This situation where we're

living right now is not have to be like we never were going to hit

the pole. And then after all this, they went walking out there one

day, these disciples went out there with him, and it says these words.

It says, Jesus just went up as a man, a glorified one

in flesh and bones, without blood. And it says these words. Angel

said, the same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,

shall so calm in like manner as you have seen him go into. How

did he go? That's the same way he's coming back, because he is

the first fruits. And here do not miss this. Only saying that Jesus

rose is not enough. It must be stated and declared by the word of

God, that Jesus rose physically, lest the very words of Christ and the

Gospel are denied. And when John so there in the churches, he immediately

knew who he was. Right like that, Jesus said he would raise his

temple of his body. Jesus body is the first m from the dead,

retained the physical wounds of his crucifixion. But I'm getting my finger back,

Praise God. And I don't know how to explain that, but apparently through

eternity he's going to be humble enough, whatever that is in the reality that

would just crowd around him for the wounds that I put there and that you

put there. One time I preached the message who crucified Jesus? For the

answer is I did, and we'll get to see that redemption. And Paul

says in verse fifteen that anyone that denies the bodily and flesh resurrection of Jesus

Christ has a lying faith, and he's vain and he's not a true Christian.

And so it's not enough to believe that Jesus rose. We must also

acknowledge that he rose from the dead in his glorified body, always to be

so, and death is conquered the sting of death, or else our faith

of being, Paul declares, And Jesus' resurrected body was a glorified body,

and I declaranty you this morning that he is still a glorified man with the

right hand of the Father in our behalf. And he's coming again in the

same way that he went, and heaven is going to be real, real,

real, real, whatever that is, it's going to be a real

faith. Now, some of my friends say, well, we don't understand

and what reality is, and I am sure that I don't, but I'm

sure that I'm right that just as he went is the same way that he's

coming again. Praise th Lord, so we can know what kind of bodies

we will have in the resurrection, glorified bodies with flesh and blood, glorified

flesh and pardon me, flesh and bones, glorified flesh and bones without blood,

which was shed on the cross for our skins. It was not subject

to death again. Jesus' body is not subject to death ever. Again.

He destroyed death. It will never go tired and never get old. It

will never wear out. It will always be wonderful. And Jesus said that

you and I faithful, if we are, will receive exactly the same kind

of future. You know, young people, I know this is not too

popular of a subject to say, but you know, there's some value if

you just have a few moments sometime to just go out there in the graveyard

and just sit out there in muse what will it be like when the glorious

appearing of Jesus Christ. It's a good place to meditate out there in the

grave, can you imagine? And Jesus today lives as a man in a

glorified body to intercede in behalf of all those who face. But some will

say, how are the dead race? And what kind of body do they

come? It is sown in dishonor it is raised in glory the son,

and weakness is raised in power. Is sony natural bodies raising spiritual body.

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Parre

you. So also it is written the first man, Adam became a living

soul. The last Adam became a life giving spirit. However, the spiritual

is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual. The first man

is from the earth, earthly, and the second man is from heaven as

earthly. So also those who are earthly, and as is the heavenly,

say also those who are heaven they and just as we have been born the

image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Something happens, it is son in the grave, natural, and it is

raised spiritual and glorified, just like the body of Jesus Christ, and the

same body that is Son dies and is raised into a glorified body and change.

Now, some of the objections that I have received from my friends on

this teaching is verses like this, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of

God. And some argue that the Bible says that flesh and blood cannot go

into Heaven. And I agree with that. But I do say this,

that the Bible says that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God,

but flesh and glorified flesh and bones can and will. The flesh and blood

term in the Bible is always used like human intellectualism. Blessed r Alse Barginienaugh

for flesh and blood. Your smarts from Purdue Inneruniversity, if you have one,

does not reveal to you that I am the Messiah. Flesh and blood

did not do that. Paul says that I might preach him among the heathen.

Immediately I conferred with flesh and blood. That is, I was in

this controversy between two men of intellectual logic. And Paul writes, we wrestle

not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the

rulers of the darkness world. Against that means right now we are in a

conflict human logic and reason and non understanding, for lack of better terms is

all we have to argue with. But that does not mean that flesh and

bones, glorified flesh and bones, cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. Because

it reads that Jesus did, and I believe it. And then in Hebrews

too, as children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise

took part of the same. And I believe that Jesus did have flesh and

bones and blood. And they rammed a sword into side, and the Bible

says it poured out on planet Earth for my sins and for you, and

then he rose again, just like we are going to have. And that

is enough for me. Let's pray. Let's kneel for prayer. Thank you

Father for this glorious truth and bless and care for us, and give us

more faith and more belief, and more righteousness and more holiness and more love

for the brothers, and more ability and reason to seek after You and Jesus'

name. We pray it amen,