For
there is one God and
one Mediator between God and men, the
man
Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 2:15
1 Timothy 2:15
With
all the titles that affirm the deity of Christ, it almost seems that
the Holy Spirit felt it necessary to bring us down to earth and
remind us that Jesus was also a man.
He had dual citizenship. Existing before the creation of the world,
He was clearly divine but, having been born on planet Earth, He was
also human.
Although
He was born at a time when there wasn't the myriad of bureaucratic
regulations of today, every aspect of Christ's humanity was
documented. Jesus had a birth certificate.
Mary
and Joseph made the 80 mile trek from Nazareth to Bethlehem to
register for the national census. When they got there, Mary was in
labor and the job of having a baby took precedent over everything else.
By morning, mother and Child were resting, so Joseph was able to take
care of official business. He would have registered Jesus as his
firstborn on that very first Christmas day.
Jesus
was also given a death certificate. When Christ died on the cross,
Pontius Pilate asked the centurion to confirm that Jesus was in fact
dead. That fact being established, the governor wrote an edict to
authorize His burial.
The
life of Christ was historically documented. The Romano-Jewish
historian, Flavius Josephus, confirmed the existence of Jesus of
Nazareth in his history book written in 93 A.D.
Christ
Jesus is the perfect Mediator between a Holy God and the sinful human
race. He is the only begotten Son of God, so the fullness of God was
evident in His physical body. The Lord was like us in every way, yet
without sin, so He became a natural bridge between God and people; He
could only do that because He was 100% God and 100% Man.
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