Full Deliverance

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We confess that Jesus Christ was fully God and fully man. But we deny that He was any kind of mish mash of the two. The union of the two natures was found in one man, the Lord Jesus Christ, and this point of union was not a theological abstraction, but rather our Savior, Jesus.

There were no “bits” of His humanity mixed into His Deity. Neither were there portions of His Deity mixed in with His humanity. The Lord Jesus lived a perfect, sinless life, and did many remarkable things. The apostle says that the world could not contain a record of them all. But the Scriptures record these actions that He performed as the actions of a man.

When He did remarkable things, this was not because He was God in a man-suit. He was not cheating. It was not because an apparition that looked like a man was really God doing things that of course God can do.

The Bible tells us expressly that Jesus lived and died the way He did because the Spirit of God was upon Him. He did what He did as a Spirit-empowered man. This is not to deny His full Deity—God forbid. It is simply to say that when Jesus experienced temptation, as you and I do, He did so as a man, as our high priest. And when He resisted temptation, as you and I must, He did so empowered by the Holy Spirit.

This same Spirit dwells in you. You are the temple of this same Spirit. God has equipped you, by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, to turn away from all that is unholy. Not only has He equipped you to do so, it has to be said that to the extent we are not turning away from sin, we are guilty of the additional sin of profanation.

Jesus is our Savior, and not just an example. We are offering no salvation through moralism here. But as our Savior, He is also our example. The Spirit who dwelt in Him, and raised Him from the dead, is also here to raise us up out of our old way of life. Because this Spirit is given, deliverance from sin is given.

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