HE BECAME LIKE US!
(The EXCHANGE That Made The DIFFERENCE!)
📖Luke 2:52 And Jesus INCREASED in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
How could it be that JESUS, Who was GOD (📖John 1:1; 📖1 Tim 3:16), and in Whom are hidden ALL the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, INCREASED in wisdom? (📖Col. 2:3)
This is Startling to ME, or isn't it Shocking to you? But after going through all these emotions of shock and UNBELIEVABILITY, we arrive at the undeniable fact that this which was written about JESUS is nothing but the Sincere truth.
GOD is a SPIRIT (📖John 4:24).
JESUS, as GOD, had existed as a SPIRIT forever.
When He came to the earth as JESUS, he was Lord at birth, but that was in His Spirit.
📖Luke 2:11 For unto you is BORN this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is CHRIST THE LORD.
His Spirit didn't have to grow or increase in wisdom BUT His physical body did. That body was prepared for Him before He came into the earth realm.
📖Hebrews 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but A BODY HAST THOU PREPARED ME
The LORD could have done things differently, but He didn't. The One Who is SOVEREIGN became as a SERVANT to serve His Own Eternal Agenda, which was the REDEMPTION of mankind. That's why JESUS had to come into this world in a physical body exactly as WE did, otherwise He couldn't have been able to DIE for us, which was the REQUIREMENT for the REDEMPTION of mankind. So since He had to come in a physical body, He had to GROW and LEARN.
📖Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, MADE OF A WOMAN, made under the law
📝 He became just LIKE US so that we could become just LIKE HIM. Behold, the GRACE and GENEROSITY of GOD!
How???
For Example of Exchange:
👉 In RIGHTEOUSNESS
📖2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
👉 In RICHES
📖2 Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
This is the GREAT EXCHANGE. He became like us so that He could bear all our iniquities and become a Merciful High Priest for us.
✒ A Look At 📖Hebrews 2
📜 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also HIMSELF LIKEWISE TOOK PART OF THE SAME; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
📜 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
📜 2:16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
📜 2:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN, that he might be a MERCIFUL and FAITHFUL HIGH PRIEST in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
📜 2:18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
📝 CHRISTIANITY does not produce a CHANGED LIFE but an EXCHANGED LIFE.
📖Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I LIVE; YET NOT I, BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
My spiritual father Apostle Victor James (#TheRockStar 🌟 #TheArrowHead of the JESUS Gospel Movement World Wide) said:
📝 "CHRIST does not REFORM us, but He TRANSFORMS us through His UNION with us."
In the same way that the Eternal Christ could come and inhabit the body of an infant and still retain all His deity, He now inhabits our bodies through the NEW BIRTH (being Born Again) in all His glory and power.
📖Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is CHRIST IN YOU, the hope of glory
Like JESUS, you are expected to grow IN your wisdom and understanding of who you now are in CHRIST.
📖2 Peter 3:18 But GROW IN GRACE, and IN the KNOWLEDGE of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
GOD BLESS YOU BY ALL MEANS IN JESUS NAME!
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