<h2 class="heading-lg"><strong>What does the Bible say about Jesus Christ's humanity?</strong></h2><ul><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Matthew%208%3A24">Matthew 8:24</a>, Jesus slept through a windstorm at sea</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Matthew%2021%3A18">Matthew 21:18</a>, Jesus was hungry</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Matthew%2026%3A39">Matthew 26:39</a>, Jesus prayed, asking God to take away the task to die</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Mark%208%3A22-25">Mark 8:22-25</a>, Jesus healed the blind man</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Mark%2013%3A32">Mark 13:32</a>, no one knows about the day or hour</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Luke%202%3A52">Luke 2:52</a>, Jesus grew in wisdom</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/John%201%3A14">John 1:14</a>, the Word became flesh</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/John%204%3A6">John 4:6</a>, Jesus was tired from his trip</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/John%2011%3A35">John 11:35</a>, Jesus wept</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Romans%201%3A3">Romans 1:3</a>, Jesus is a descendent of David</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Romans%205%3A18-19">Romans 5:18-19</a>, Jesus' obedience allowed life for all</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Galatians%204%3A4">Galatians 4:4</a>, Jesus was born of a woman</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Philippians%202%3A7">Philippians 2:7</a>, Jesus was made in human form</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Hebrews%202%3A14">Hebrews 2:14</a>, Jesus shares our flesh and blood</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Hebrews%202%3A17">Hebrews 2:17</a>, Jesus became like his brothers and sisters</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/Hebrews%204%3A15">Hebrews 4:15</a>, Jesus was tested like we are</span></li><li><span class="body-copy"><a href="https://zeteosearch.org/search/1%20John%204%3A2">1 John 4:2</a>, Jesus Christ came from the flesh</span></li></ul><h2 class="heading-lg"><strong>Sermon ideas about Jesus Christ's humanity</strong></h2><h3 class="heading-sm"><strong>Human needs</strong></h3><p><span style="font-size: 13.008px;"><span class="body-copy">The incarnate second person <span class="body-copy">of the Holy Trinity gets hungry, thirsty, weary, and sad. He prays. He weeps. He learns things as he grows. He is ignorant of the time of the Parousia. He is obedient. As Philip Yancey has remarked, Jesus prayed all night before calling the disciples, and then got Judas as one of his Father's answers to prayer, and kept him. Jesus is like the rest of us in every respect, except that he did not sin.</span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Of course, questions asrise. Would<span class="body-copy">n't the second person of the Holy Trinity be omniscient? And so wouldn't Jesus, the incarnate second person of the Holy Trinity, have to be omniscient? But he wasn't. So are we saying of one person th</span>at he both was and wasn't omniscient?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">If we were to say that, we would have not a mystery but a mess.</span></p><h3 class="heading-sm">Theologically</h3><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">So, theologically speaking, we have to <span class="body-copy">make a judgment about our method of proceeding. Good theological method does not draw up a list of things a person must be to be divine, a similar list of things a person has to be in order to be human, compare the lists, judge them to be inconsistent (e.g., a divine person is omniscient, a human person is non-omniscient), and then rule out the incarnation on the basis of its logical inconsisten</span>cy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Instead, in classic theological method we note the <span class="body-copy">Scriptural testimony that Jesus is both divine and human, and, on that basis, make adjustments in our understanding of what it is to be divine and human. So, in the present instance, we note that Jesus is divine and also non-omniscient and conclude that it is possible to be divine while also non-omniscient for a period of time. Then the relevant divine trait is "most-of-the-time omniscience" or "omniscient-except-when-incarnate." Perhaps, as Philippians 2:7 suggests, the self-emptying of the Son of God included some of his divine perquisites, such as omniscience.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">In any case, the incarna<span class="body-copy">tion of the Son of God is a glorious honoring of our humanity. It's also the one thing under the sun that is really new. Imagine that exactly one person, Jesus Christ, is simultaneously the sec</span>ond person of the Holy Trinity and also a particular man who learned to cut boards in his step-father's carpenter shop and may have cut some of them too short.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">In Mark 8, Jesus heals a blind man, bu<span class="body-copy">t has to do it in two stages because he didn't get the job completely done in the first stage. Where blindness is concerned, God can do anything. Where blindness is concerned, a human being can't do anything. Where blindness is concerned the incarnate Son of God can pull it off, maybe, but it's very tricky, so he asks a half-eager, half-doubtful question: "Can you see anything?"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The incarnation of the eternal Son of God gives us a union of divinity and humanity so amazing that it demands our soul, our life, our all.</span></p><h2 class="heading-lg"><strong>Jesus Christ's humanity on Zeteo's search</strong></h2><ul><li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="2" data-aria-posinset="4" data-font="Courier New" data-leveltext="o" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":1440,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="2" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{50d66629-824c-4eda-97ab-c9acb544e0d0}{224}" paraid="227564961"><span class="body-copy">"Jesus, when you ascended, you took all your (and our) humanity into the fullness of the divine being. All is holy now. We belong to you." <a href="https://liturgy.sluhostedsites.org/AscensionA052123/prayerpathmain.html">Prayer by Anne M. Osdieck from The Sunday Website</a></span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="2" data-aria-posinset="4" data-font="Courier New" data-leveltext="o" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":1440,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="2" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{50d66629-824c-4eda-97ab-c9acb544e0d0}{224}" paraid="227564961"><span class="body-copy">"How human is Jesus? He is so human that those closest to him could not believe he was also the eternal Son of God." Sermon Preparation or Illustration by <a href="https://www.reformedworship.org/article/december-2008/who-jesus-who-christ">Scott E. Hoezee and Carrie Steenwyk from Reformed Worship</a></span></p></li><li aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-level="2" data-aria-posinset="4" data-font="Courier New" data-leveltext="o" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559684":-2,"335559685":1440,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Courier New","469769242":[9675],"469777803":"left","469777804":"o","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-listid="2" role="listitem"><p paraeid="{50d66629-824c-4eda-97ab-c9acb544e0d0}{224}" paraid="227564961"><span class="body-copy">"When we recognise the extent to which God is concerned for the details of our lives, when we really embrace the incarnate nature of Christ, we can no longer devalue the daily realities we must face." Sermon Preparation or Illustration by <a href="https://sacredise.com/christmas-1c/">John van de Laar from Sacredise</a></span></p></li></ul>