The unbelieving Jews failed to accept the healing insult to their natural humanity that the sacrifice and priesthood of Christ administered. They distorted the sanctuary imagery to convey the idea that fallen man could contibute to his own atonement. Laodicea also struggles to accept the full revelation of their own wretchedness. It is also done by refusing the fuller light of what Christ's high priesthood unfolds. The message of justification by faith is not truly accepted until all human glory is laid in the dust and Christ and His work in the believer alone shines forth in resplendeth and unique glory. A reading of Hebrews 2 and Romans 8:3 reveals that Christ had to take our sinful flesh upon Himself and unite it with divine nature so that its sinful lack might be counteracted.The reason that Christ had to take sinful flesh is to make a perfected way for us, who were otherwise entombed in that flesh. He took it so that we might be set free into righteouness. This is what Paul's description of our High Priest expounds. To fault it or to fail to believe any part of it is to diminish true justification by faith. It is indeed to be dull of hearing and to be blind, naked, and wretched. Yet I am told by my brethern today that the subject of Christ's assuming sinful flesh is of little importance and is too "hard" for people to hear??? Where have we run upon that expression before.....too hard to hear.....dull of hearing? Christ took our nature fallen but was not corrupted. The weakess of the humanity He took on was linked to His divine nature in the same way that we may now be linked to His divine nature. The justified shall live righteously by faith. Detract either from Christ divinity or from His real likeness to us in this flesh and you destroy your own relationship with that saving faith. Let us not be dull of hearing the declaration of the most precious message of Christ's perfect qualifications for us!
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