Jesus the Man

Jesus the Man – taught me this:

Hand and dust

He was a true creature of earth and thereby possessed in his nature all of the attributes which belonged to man’s nature at the outset of creation.  He became a human limited by all that humans are limited; such as time.  Jesus looked like the average man.  He experienced temptations, sadness, exhaustion and fatigue, distress in heart and spirit, thirst, hunger, loneliness, pain and suffering, rejection.  He wept, showed a need for friendship and fellowship with others around him, and confessed a limited knowledge.

He as a human was not lacking in heart, in spirit, and in senses.  He was endowed with unique capacities:

·         A emotional creature who could love and be loved

·         A Rational creature who could master his life

·         A moral creature who could respond to a Master

·         A creature with a mind and a memory and a will

Halo behind head:

I believe that he kept his soul and spirit from the devine side.

Bowed Head

He displayed a perfect receptivity to God and a perfect willingness to subordinate his own will to the will of his heavenly Father.  He was a model for what we are expected to do.

Crown

He was the living, breathing demonstration of man as God first designed him to be.  Speaks for itself.

Flower-decked staff

As the perfect obedient, Jesus appropriated the full powers, promises, and potentialities which belong to him as a man.  It was acted out in his lifestyle.  Jesus did this by turning control of his life to his Father.

Shaft of light

In the role of man “as he was designed to be,”  Jesus manifested “fulfilled humanity.”  He modeled a determination to do the will of God that we all should be striving for.

Jesus the Man – taught me this:

Hand and dust

He was a true creature of earth and thereby possessed in his nature all of the attributes which belonged to man’s nature at the outset of creation.  He became a human limited by all that humans are limited; such as time.  Jesus looked like the average man.  He experienced temptations, sadness, exhaustion and fatigue, distress in heart and spirit, thirst, hunger, loneliness, pain and suffering, rejection.  He wept, showed a need for friendship and fellowship with others around him, and confessed a limited knowledge.

He as a human was not lacking in heart, in spirit, and in senses.  He was endowed with unique capacities:

·         A emotional creature who could love and be loved

·         A Rational creature who could master his life

·         A moral creature who could respond to a Master

·         A creature with a mind and a memory and a will

Halo behind head:

I believe that he kept his soul and spirit from the devine side.

Bowed Head

He displayed a perfect receptivity to God and a perfect willingness to subordinate his own will to the will of his heavenly Father.  He was a model for what we are expected to do.

Crown

He was the living, breathing demonstration of man as God first designed him to be.  Speaks for itself.

Flower-decked staff

As the perfect obedient, Jesus appropriated the full powers, promises, and potentialities which belong to him as a man.  It was acted out in his lifestyle.  Jesus did this by turning control of his life to his Father.

Shaft of light

In the role of man “as he was designed to be,”  Jesus manifested “fulfilled humanity.”  He modeled a determination to do the will of God that we all should be striving for.