CRYSTALLIZATION-STUDY
OF THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST

MESSAGE FOUR

IN THE FULFILLMENT
OF THE ETERNAL ECONOMY OF GOD

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OUTLINE

1. The flesh:
1. Christ as the very God became flesh—John 1:1, 14:
1. To be a man partaking of human blood and flesh with the human nature—Heb. 2:14.
2. In the likeness of the flesh of sin—Rom. 8:3.
3. Tabernacling among men.
4. Full of the glory of the only begotten Son of God.
5. Full of grace (God gained by us) and reality (God realized by us).
6. As the Word who is God becoming the last Adam—the last man—1 Cor. 15:45.
7. In this flesh, Christ becoming the seed of David (the seed of Abraham and the seed of woman—Matt. 1:1b; Gal. 4:4)—Rom. 1:3; Matt. 1:1a.
8. Suffering—1 Pet. 4:1.
9. Offering up both petitions and supplications with strong crying and tears to God to save (resurrect) Him out of death and being heard because of His piety—Heb. 5:7.
10. The Spirit of God confesses that Christ came in the flesh in the teaching of the apostles, but at the end of the first century, when the apostle John was still in his ministry, Docetism intermixed with Gnosticism denied that Christ came in the flesh—1 John 4:2-3; 2 John 7.
11. After His resurrection Christ showed His disciples that He still had the resurrected flesh and bones (Luke 24:39; Acts 2:31) of God's new creation (whereas in His incarnation He became flesh of God's old creation), which will be His body of glory when He comes back (Phil. 3:21).
2. Christ's ministry in the flesh:
1. As the Word becoming the flesh, He brought God into man, making God one with man—John 1:1, 14.
2. Manifesting God—1 Tim. 3:16.
3. Condemning sin—Rom. 8:3b.
4. Being put to death for our sins, the Righteous on behalf of the unrighteous—1 Pet. 3:18.
5. Abolishing the law of the commandments in ordinances to create in Himself as the element the Jewish believers and the Gentile believers into one new man—Eph. 2:15.
6. Reconciling all things, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens, to God—Col. 1:20-22.
7. In John 6:51-56 blood and flesh refer to Christ's humanity (Heb. 2:14); Christ's blood being separated from His flesh indicates death; and eating and drinking denote receiving. Christ's death through the shedding of His blood ministers to His believers eternal life and makes Him one with them (John 3:14-15).
8. Initiating for us a new and living way to enter into the Holy of Holies through the splitting of His crucifixion—Heb. 10:19-20; Matt. 27:51a.