Welcome To The Arena Of Indubitable Truth! Topic: Elucidating The Testaments (L)

Welcome To The Arena Of Indubitable Truth!

Topic:  Elucidating The Testaments (L) 

Continued from the last episode…

Text Of Interest: 

“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”

Jn 16:12-13

“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” 

1Cor 2:13

Case Study Text:

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” 

2Tim 3:16-17 (KJV)

Therefore, the Old Testament and the New Testament is technically just one book talking and having one objective which is man’s salvation though dispense at a time unique to their purpose of establishment. This shows that from Genesis to Revelation, the discussion is all about how the Man Christ will come suffer, died and enter His into glory. Therefore, through the suffering, death and glorification of the Christ comes the salvation of man. This shows that the Christ will come and identify with man, the Christ will be a Man, in being a Man, He should undergo through the things man undergoes through in flesh.

This is logical in the sense that for Him to save man He should not come as God, because the wrong choice was made by man and it requires that to right the wrong a Man should come and do that. It will be a total partiality and against the legal standing of this case of salvation if God should come as God to deliver man from the power of sin and death. So it is required of God to put off all His glorious splendors and powers and come down to set man free in the nature of man (Job 9:33, Ps 2 :7, 110:1, Isa 7:14, 9:6 - 7, 11:1 – 5, Luk 1:30 -33, Jn 1:1 – 2, 14).

God coming in the nature of man does not imply that He should be a kind of superman as in manifestation and demonstration of His prowess in all ramifications. That is to say He should be a man down to earth; in that case, a total identification with man and his nature is required. That is why he was conceived in the womb of a sinner, born as a baby, suck the breast of a sinner, learn how to talk and walk, grew up in stature, acquired wisdom and learns obedience (Luk 2:11 – 49).

He must be separated from God, as man has been separated from God, He must be made sin as man and live under the natural course and laws to feel the intensity of what it takes to abode below the sun and this physical realm. That was why it was possible for Him to fell asleep, felt the impact of hunger, got tired, wept etc. As God there is no way He should be asleep or hungry and cannot be weary for anything, these are impossible with God (Ps 121:4). To qualify as the Christ He must be tempted, and of course God cannot be tempted or be involved in tempting anyone (Luk 4: 2 – 13, Heb 2:18, 4:15, Jas 1:13). The Christ must die (spirit, soul and body as a man dies), and of course God cannot die, this indicates that the Christ must be a man to die.

For the Christ to enter His glory, He must die as a Man and not as God (Matt 27:46), buried and go through hell as Man, and resurrected as a Man, not as God. This process required no help or interference from God, or else Satan will still have a case against man because it was man that lost it to Satan, therefore Man should be the one to collect the right and power from Satan (Gen 1:26, Luk 4:6, Matt 28:18). As a result the Man Christ has to pray and study the Scriptures to learn the prophecies that were pronounced concerning Him and infused them into Him for proper interpretation of those prophecies (Mk 1:35, Luk 4: 16 – 20), for sure God don’t need to read or pray but as Man, He should.

Being cognizant of what the Scriptures have said concerning Him, he went through them and interpreted them even unto death, He knew that the Scripture stipulates that He will not see corruption even if He dies (Ps 16:10, 49:7 – 9, Acts 2:27, 31, 13:34). Therefore, the affirmation of these words of prophecy from Scripture raised Him from the dead and at the end He is glorified. Here is the identification with man, as He was resurrected from the dead so every believer is resurrected from the dead (world of sin) and became alive by the word of God. There is no way anybody can access salvation if not by the word of God (Rom 1:15 – 18).

To be continued….

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Chukwuemeka C. Asiegbu