Hello everyone. Today I will begin the lecture on Jesus who was God and man.

We will first take a look in the Bible about Jesus Christ who took on divinity and nature. I will
read Philippians chapter 2 from verse 5 through 8. Philippians chapter 2 verse 5, “Let this
mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”

We read this amazing Word today. This Word is speaking of the heart we must bear. The
Bible says that the heart that we must bear is the mind of Jesus Christ. While speaking of the
mind of Christ Jesus that we must bear, the Bible says he was in the form of God. This best
describes Jesus who came to this world with the divinity of God. A clear description was
made. He was in the form of God. That means he was originally God, but he thought it not
robbery to be equal with God. He was God, but he thought it not robbery to be equal with
God. It means he had a different form. He was God, but he made himself of no reputation.
Saying,“Made himself of no reputation,” here means that he did not think it robbery to be
equal. He is equal; he’s equal with God, but it means that he didn’t assert that he was equal,
he didn’t hold on to the fact that he was equal, and he didn’t try to remain in that position
of being equal. Making himself of no reputation here doesn’t mean that he emptied himself
of divinity or emptied some nature possessed by God. Simply put, it means that he is God,
but he didn’t try to be equal. It’s because it’s speaking of the humanity of Jesus of having the
form of a servant and appearing in the shape of man like man. Then the heart that Jesus has
is humility and obedience. Now, we bear that heart as well. We have it as well. That is what
God is saying.

He had the form of a servant. This is a very interesting description. He became man. It said,
“Made in the likeness of men,” right? It said, “Made in the likeness,” right? This doesn’t
mean that he threw away divinity and became a man with only humanity. Do you fully
understand it? “Made in the likeness of men.” That is an interesting description. It means he
was manifested in the form of man. When Jesus made himself of no reputation, it doesn’t
mean he emptied his divinity. He emptied his heart of being in an equal position with God.
Jesus Christ appeared in the form of man, but he was the eternal God. He was the eternal
God, but at the same time, he was man, he lived as a servant, he had the form of a servant,
he lived as a servant, and worked as a servant. Through this, he humbled himself and he
restricted himself. Not only did he humble himself, but he restricted himself. He was also
obedient to death and he died on the cross. This is truly an amazing fact.

Now, I would finally like to wrap up the last parts concerning the God-man Christ. We can
find the most amazing description of Jesus in Philippians chapter 2 starting from verse 5. The
eternal God was, at the same time, a man and a servant. Why don’t we write this down for a
moment? The truly amazing thing is that the eternal God was man at the same time. He was
man at the same time, but also a servant. He became a servant and obeyed. That was the
will of God. He gave perfect obedience to the will of God. He obeyed the will of God and that
obedience was death on the cross. He saved all of mankind through his death. When we
think of Jesus, the eternal God put on the human body and humbled himself down to
where? He humbled himself down to a servant, and to which position? He humbled himself
to death and lived as a servant. He restricted himself. Why did the Lord have to do that? It
was to save us, all of mankind, sinners.

As we study the divinity and humanity of Jesus, he was God and he came putting on the
character of man. He gave us lessons in all our life and set an example. That is why Paul said
to us to have this mind; to have this mind. This is the mind of Jesus Christ. He was God, but
he didn’t live only as God. He put on the human body and lived as a man. He humbled
himself in the position of a servant and obeyed until death. Have this mind. This is the mind
of Jesus Christ. That’s what was said. There is a mind we must have. As I read this Word from
time to time, this is the mind we must have, but sometimes we are deceived by Satan. This is
the mind we must have, but many times we have a different mind we shouldn’t have
thinking it’s ours. That is not our mind. This is the mind that God gives us which we must
have – the mind of Christ Jesus. Thus, the many minds I have are not from Christ Jesus, but
there are many that are from Satan.

As we covered the parts concerning the God-man during this time, I am now giving the final
lecture on the God-man. As we arrange the main details concerning the God-man, I hope
the lectures on the God-man will be clearly organized and established in our hearts, and that
our spiritual life and our souls may enjoy the blessings of God.So, why don’t we start? The
God who is eternal came to this world by putting on the flesh. We call him Jesus. Christ
became a man at the same time. You fully understood this, right? Christ, who was the
eternal God, was man at the same time. Next, he lived in this world as a servant and worked
as a servant. We saw those specific words in Philippians chapter 2.

Next, the third thing is that Jesus Christ who had the divinity himself took human nature, put
it on, and chose to live as a man in this world. This is truly amazing. Christ is the Son of God
who has divinity. Jesus Christ put on human nature himself and chose to live as a man in the
world. This is truly an amazing fact. A very famous professor, Professor Warfield, used this
description regarding these parts. The description he used was, “The Lord of the world who
came to the world was Jesus the Lord. The Lord of the world became a servant in the world;
He whose right it was to rule took obedience as His life-characteristic.” He was the Lord of
the world. The Lord was the Lord of the world, but he became the servant of the world. He
who had the authority to rule the world chose the life of obedience. This is describing the
amazing mind of the Lord.The Lord restricted himself. He was God, but while he was in the
world, what did he do? He was in the form of God. To live as a man, the Lord didn’t fully use
his divinity, but restricted himself. He is God who can use everything and do everything.
However, he didn’t fully use his divinity and restricted it. He restricted himself to save man.
That is the Lord who received the Holy Spirit without measure and the Jesus we saw in the
previous lecture who prayed and had to pray. There is the Lord who lived as a man and had
humanity, but his divinity was restricted.

This is the amazing mind of the Lord and this is his divinity and humanity he has towards us.
Have you ever read this verse in the Bible? When Jesus was talking with the scribes and
Pharisees, he said, “Before Abraham was, I am. I saw Abraham.” When he said this, what did
they say to him? They said, “Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen
Abraham?”This is very illogical and this conversation is going nowhere. He saw Abraham. If
we put this into years, there are several thousand years between Abraham and Jesus, right?
There is this difference, but he said, “I saw Abraham. Before Abraham was, I am.” Jesus who
said this was speaking of his divinity and that he was one with God. Jesus was already one
with God. He had this divinity. It means our Lord who was the eternal Son of God took on
human nature himself.This is the amazing mind of our Lord in saving us.

There is another thing we should put into order. He had two natures, but an inseparable
Person. Jesus Christ decided to become a man, but he was God. He had two natures, but his
Person was inseparable. Christ decided to become a man and actually lived as a man. He had
the form of a servant, he humbled himself, and he obeyed until the death on the cross.
When we speak on the words concerning the God-man, we can arrange them like this. Jesus
who was God and man gave us this amazing mystery of salvation through the God-man. Why
don’t we take a look in the Bible? It’s Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 12, “For consider him that
endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your
minds.”God requested all these things to His Son because He loved us. The fact that the
wonderful mystery of the God-man, the wonderful mystery of being God and man was all
accomplished by the holy will of God who loved us and wanted to save us. Even though he
was the eternal Son of God, he completely did that work. He is the eternal God. There’s no
need for him to work. But to save us and because He loved us, according to the amazing will
of God in saving us, God did the work. As we organized all of this in the Bible, the Lord was
the eternal God the Son who created all things; he was God the Son. That eternal God the
Son went into the womb of Mary, was born as a baby, and lay in the manger. We can
organize everything up to this point.

But there is something amazing here. We are sinners, right? We are sinners. He endured the
contradiction of us sinners against him and he was spat upon. He was crucified by his
creations, died, and was buried. That’s what’s recorded in Hebrews chapter 12 verse 3,
right? Think of Jesus who endured the contradiction against him. They were sinners and he
was contradicted and spat on by them. He endured such contradiction, was crucified, and
died for us. What was the reason for that? As I give this lecture on the God-man, there is
only one reason for that. The only way to forgive us of our sins, I said it was the only way, is
to bear the punishment of our sins. There was no other way than for Jesus to bear our sins.
The only way to forgive us of our sins was for Jesus to receive the punishment of our sins
and bear them in our place. That is why the Lord had to come by putting on humanity. In
other words, he had to take on the carnal nature and become man. That is the first reason.

There is a second reason. The second is that we expressed divinity as divine character. If the
only way for one to partake in the divine character in the Bible and for us to receive that
divine character was to live some sort of holy life, make some effort, try hard, take the
trouble, be determined, or be resolute to receive the divine character, what would be the
difference between the many religions and doctrines in the world, and the Jesus we believe
in?Don’t many people live a moral and godly life, and try hard, take the trouble, and make
an effort to try and be free from this sinful life to partake in the divine character and receive
it? One does not partake in the divine character through such a life. If we want to partake in
the character of God and in that divine character, there is only one way. The Lord has to take
on human nature. The Lord has to take on human nature and bear all the sinful things of
man in their place. That is the only way for us to partake in the character of God.
Third, a new character can be given to us because the Lord became man and died for our
sins. The character that I have, this character of the flesh, this sinful character, cannot be
changed through my effort, labor, determination, or resolution. But the Lord became man
and personally died for our sins. That is why he can give us a new character. He gave us the
Holy Spirit. That is why he prepared us for the glory of the kingdom of heaven. These are the
most important parts why Jesus had to be God and man.

Through many lectures, we saw that Jesus is God who has the nature of God and divinity,
but he came by putting on human nature and humanity. However, when he was born as a
baby in the manger, when he went up to the temple at the age of twelve, and when he was
a young adult, he was the eternal Son of God, the Christ. He did not lose, change, or throw
away the nature of God and divinity. He had divinity and he was God, but what did he have
to put on to save man and free them from their sins? He had to take on human nature, but it
was a sinful form in the likeness of men. He clearly had to take on the form of man. To put
on carnal nature and humanity, Mary was chosen and he took on the same humanity as us
through Mary as the Holy Spirit came upon her. Are you now clear on this? Not only did he
take that, but through the work of the Holy Spirit, all the sinful characters contaminated
from Mary were removed and he was perfect and holy. That is to say, he was born into this
world as a holy being since his birth. That is why the Bible calls him, “That holy thing, that
holy thing which shall be born will be without sin.” He was not born from a man as a
descendant of Adam. He fulfilled the amazing plan of salvation by being born as the
descendant of woman prophesied in Genesis chapter 3 verse 15. The Holy Spirit removed all
the characters contaminated by sin from Mary and he was holy and sinless from his birth.
Why was this done? He put on the human body to perfectly save us from sin. He can’t take
on the price of your sin without a human body. Because of the result of sin, our carnal
nature and our humanity go through the pain of sin and we have to receive the price of sin,
but God can’t feel that pain. That is why God had to take on humanity and a body to
personally experience all the pain and suffering man goes through because of sin. Thus, the
holy Son of God, Christ the eternal God the Son put on carnal nature. He was not affected by
carnal things, carnal influence, or sinful influence at all. He put on carnal nature and
experienced all the pain and suffering the flesh goes through. Therefore, he worried, was
hungry, was in sorrow, and died on the cross. He went through all of this. That is why we can
say this.

There is something that can be done for the low, humble, base, and cowardly sinners who
betray and go against God, for man who has the sinful nature. There is a reason why God
came to this world by taking on the human body and putting on human nature for all those
sins, and for all those evil and base sinners who betray and go against God. To make these
sinners who betrayed God into His children, he had to come to this world by putting on the
flesh. This is the most amazing mystery. Within this is the death, conception, birth, death on
the cross, and resurrection. All in all, the most amazing mystery is what we just said. It’s him
coming to this world in the flesh to make sinners who betrayed God into the children of God;
Christ the Son of God put on the flesh and came to this world. It’s a wonderful mystery. Can
you understand this? It’s the most amazing mystery. Then Jesus is what in everything and in
all of world history? He is the center. The Lord is the center. So, it says in John chapter 17
verse 3, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom thou hast sent.”Why don’t we take a look at John chapter 17 verse 3 which is
the most important final part of today’s lecture? The apostle John said in John chapter 17
verse 3 that in all things, Jesus Christ is the center of everything in the world. In John chapter
17 verse 3, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom thou hast sent.”What is eternal life? What is it? It said that it is to know the
only true God and Jesus Christ whom He sent and to precisely believe in Jesus Christ. It said
to know. Knowing Jesus Christ precisely is eternal life. Through this Word, the Lord wants us
to know Jesus Christ precisely and that believing in Christ is eternal life. He did all of this to
tell and give this to us.

I give thanks to that God and I will end here today. Goodbye.