One thing I have observed is many think the demonstration of the work of unseen Spirit was not a demonstration of the lamb of God who had already slain from before the foundation of the world but the actual working out of it . God is not a man as never was never could be.
Christ of His own flesh informs us it did not profit for it is rather the unseen Spirit that does work to quicken our souls as we walk by faith the unseen . It was necessary that he did come incorruptible flesh that aged in a process of dying typified as sinful to put away sin in the flesh..... again as a demonstration of the work already finished from before the foundation of the world
Romans 8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
In order to establish a perfect type of the character and nature of the priesthood of the Lord, there was no man who could be a perfect type and so God Himself appeared in the
form of a man as that seen . He did not take on a human nature. Melchizedek did not become man as He did when Jesus Christ became man, but He did appear in the form of a man, in the person of Melchizedek, again in order to set up a type, a perfect type of the eternal character of the priesthood of the Jesus .
Seeing God cannot die his corruptible body was kept from corruption for three day .The same body of flesh was raised .He was therefore raised according to the unseen spirit of holiness. There is no such thing as flesh of holiness.(a Catholic idea)
Romans 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
Having finished the demonstration be fore he return to the unseen glot ry he had with the father Jesus left clear instructions, that even though some did know him after the flesh that did not profit from then on we know long look for another fleshly demonstration of the power of the Spirit. We walk by faith the eternal not seen
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh,
yet now henceforth know we
him no more.2 Corinthians 5:16
The preaching that the Christ didn't come as a human is fascinating to me. Here is a God who was prophesied to come as a man, who was "born" and who "died" as all men do, and yet religious men can not accept that He was flesh and blood.
What spirit would be behind such a teaching?
What Spirit would want me to believe that Jesus wasn't a man at all, but God. That Jesus didn't have victory over satan as a man, but as God. How can God have a victory over it's creation? Why would God fake it? Why would He claim victory over sin if He was a God? Why would He make such a big deal out of His Death and resurrection if He was a God with nothing to lose in the first place. Was His death a fraud in your religion? Was it all just show business?
How is He the Firstfruit of many other Humans who Trust in God's Way over the ways of religious man, if He wasn't a Human? When He was tempted, was that just a fake slight of hand to deceive, a fraud? Can satan tempt God? Was His sweat of blood just a deception, just a fake show, and for what?? Why pretend to be a man if He wasn't? This whole teaching really diminishes His Glory and victory. This teaching doesn't come from the father, there is no way.
I know you don't mean anything bad, you are just following a teaching. But consider some things here if you will. Was His Whole life and sacrifice a fraud, a scam? To pretend He was a man when He really wasn't?
Did Cain Kill Abel, or did Cain kill the Christ that was in Abel? And every Faithful servant of God through out the entire Bible, could this same thing be said? So of a truth, the Christ was slain from the foundation of the World was He not?
And why is this? Can I trust Jesus for the answer?
Gen. 1:
3 And God said,
Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that
it was good: and God
divided the light from the darkness.
John 3:
19 And this is the condemnation,
that light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Did Cain also "hate the Light"?
No sir, I Believe He came in the Flesh. A Man, like unto Moses, a "Man of Sorrows" born of a woman, mortal human being who was killed and died as all men do, and was raised by God the Father, 3 days and 3 nights later and given a "changed" Immortal Body as HE will all those Faithful whom God has given Him.
He risked and gave His Life for me, His immortality for me. And He was Faithful to the End. Truly He is the Author and finisher of my Faith.
He was truly the First fruit, the first Human of all humans who died in Faith. And by His human obedience "many" Shall be saved.
