Jehovah Came in Human Flesh Tune "I Sing the Mighty Power of God" CM/Double Words by Jim Byrd
1. In bondage, guilt and helplessness, Poor wretched sinners lay; Without a ray of hope within, Like sheep we went astray. But God in loving kindness cared, This fills us with relief; He sent His dear be-lov-ed Son, To bear our sin and grief.
2. Jehovah came in human flesh, He dwelt among the lost; Then to the cross the Savior went, And paid our ransom cost. O praise the Lord for with that death, Our God was satisfied; Christ honored justice and His law Was fully magnified.
3. What matchless wisdom was displayed In Jesus crucified; And all for whom He bled and died, Were saved and justified! Since brought to see His glories we In Him alone find rest; And all who know Him savingly Are in His beauty dressed. *****
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." (John 1:1, 14) If ever there were two verses to be marked with special emphasis, it would be these. They speak of the deity of Christ and His humanity. The Son of God did not cease to be all that He was, and yet He became what He was not before, flesh. As God He could render perfect obedience to all the divine requirements. As Man He could suffer divine wrath and die in the stead of His people. Consider this amazing fact, the union of God and Man in one Person is indissoluble and forever. "He (the God-Man) ever liveth to make intercession for us" (Hebrews 7:25). –Pastor Jim Byrd *****
BEYOND EXPLANATION I cannot begin to explain to you the truth of the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Explanation is not my business, proclamation is! The deity and humanity of the Lord Jesus are indisputable Bible truths, though inconceivable to us and unexplainable by us. Mr. Spurgeon once said, "Deity is not to be explained, but adored!" Here is a glorious fact to be received by faith and embraced with loving gratitude. The Lord of glory, the eternal Son, joined Himself to humanity, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. He did this out of love for us and in order to save us from our sins by the sacrifice of Himself. –Pastor Jim Byrd *****
"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." (1 Timothy 3:16)
***** "What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies." Song of Solomon 6:13 Are you not often a mystery to yourself? Warm one moment, cold the next; abasing yourself one half-hour, exalting yourself the following; loving the world, full of it, steeped up to your lips in it to-day; crying, groaning, and sighing for a sweet manifestation of the love of God tomorrow; brought down to nothingness, covered with shame and confusion, on your knees before you leave your room; filled with pride and self-importance before you have got down stairs; despising the world, and willing to give it all up for one taste of the love of Jesus when in solitude; trying to grasp it with both hands when in business. What a mystery are you! Touched by love, and stung with enmity; possessing a little wisdom, and a great deal of folly; earthly-minded, and yet having the affections in heaven; pressing forward, and lagging behind; full of sloth, and yet taking the kingdom with violence! And thus the Spirit, by a process which we may feel but cannot adequately describe, leads us into the mystery of the two natures, that "company of two armies," perpetually struggling and striving against each other in the same bosom. So that one man cannot more differ from another than the same man differs from himself. But do not nature, sense, and reason contradict this? Do not the wise and prudent deny this? "There must be a progressive advance," they say, "in holiness; there must be a gradual amendment of our nature until at length all sin is rooted out, and we become as perfect as Christ." But the mystery of the kingdom of heaven is this, that our carnal mind undergoes no alteration, but maintains a perpetual war with grace: and thus, the deeper we sink in self-abasement under a sense of our vileness, the higher we rise in a knowledge of Christ; and the blacker we are in our own view, the more comely does Jesus appear.-- J.C. Philpot
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