Sunday, August 10, 2014

Hebrews 2:18. He is able to succour them that are tempted.

(Heb 2:18)  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

The love of God for us is deeply tender. Many wrestle with the idea that God. whom we say knows all things, might have to learn what it was to be tempted. Perhaps if we understand that there is something we are overlooking here,.... perhaps then the text might explain a bigger concept. Lost mankind needed a representative human head to plead their cause and to meet the just requirement of the law. Just as Christ has to learn obedience as a human, He also has to learn faith as a human. That means that as a human the Son of God had to learn what it meant to be tempted in a weak humanity that had to choose to depend on divine aid. This is all part of our legal redemption. This is all part of the perfection and restoration of humanity in Christ. The man Jesus, had to learn these things and perfect these qualities in order to qualify as our perfected high priest. In His pre-incarnate divinity Jesus lacked nothing. He could not even be tempted. But divinity was not in the grip of Satan..... humanity was..... and as such Christ took humanity to counter-work the Satanic spirit's power with His divine power. It was not so much that God had to learn...but that God was to teach humanity, in Christ, and prepare "such an High Priest" as we now have. Divinity knew how to prepare it. Humanity was needing that tender companionship of the divine nature. In Christ both things meet. This is indeed a great divine mystery which we shall study in eternity. Christ is all things to us. He is the ladder...reaching down from His power in heaven and touching the earth where man is. This is the love of God made manifest. Therefore the apostle pleads with us....(Heb 2:3)  How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; My friend.....embrace the love of God and let it woe your heart into the kingdom.

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