Scripture Reading: Luke 1:35; John 1:1, 14; Heb. 1:3; John 14:9-10; 5:19; 7:6; 5:30; 7:18; Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:20-21a; 1 Cor. 15:45b; John 1:12; 2 Cor. 3:18; Matt. 11:29; 1 Pet. 2:21
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The four Gospels reveal that Christ, the wonderful God-man, lived a human life which was full of the divine life as its content:
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By becoming flesh, He brought the infinite God into the finite man, possessing both the divine nature and the human nature—Luke 1:35; John 1:1, 14; Col. 2:9.
B
He was the union, mingling, and incorporation of the Triune God with the tripartite man—Lev. 2:4-5; John 14:10-11.
C
He was the complete God with the true divine nature and the excellent divine attributes—Matt. 1:18-23:
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Having the divine nature with its divine attributes to be His content and reality for the expression of God.
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As the One who was conceived of the divine essence with the divine attributes to be the content and reality of His human virtues, Christ fills the empty human virtues—Matt. 1:18, 20.
D
He was also a genuine man with the true human nature and the perfect human virtues—Luke 1:26-35:
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Having the human nature with its virtues to contain and express God.
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He was born of the human essence with the human virtues in order to uplift these virtues to such a standard that they can match God's attributes.
Ⅱ
In the living of the Lord Jesus on the earth, He achieved the greatest thing in the universe—He expressed God in His humanity—Heb. 1:3; John 14:9-10:
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He expressed in His humanity the bountiful God in His rich attributes through His aromatic virtues for the manifestation of God—Luke 10:25-37; note 1 on 10:34; 1 Tim. 3:16.
B
In His living, the Lord's mind, will, and emotion were organs containing God's life and God's mind, will, and emotion.
C
He did not live by the human life to express man in the human virtues:
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Doing nothing from Himself—John 5:19, 30a; 8:28.
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Not speaking any word from Himself—14:10a.
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Having no freedom to live according to Himself—7:6, 8.
D
He lived by the divine life to express God in the divine attributes—5:30; 6:38:
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Not seeking His own will but God's will—5:30b; 6:38; Matt. 26:39, 42.
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Not seeking His own glory but the glory of the Father who sent Him—John 7:18.
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Coordinating with the indwelling Father to accomplish His economy—14:10b.
Ⅲ
The living of the Lord Jesus, the first God-man, is the prototype of the living of many God-men:
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Christ's God-man living constituted Him to be a prototype so that He may now be reproduced in us and live again in us—Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:20-21a:
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The history of the God-man living of the first God-man needs to be written into our being—2 Cor. 3:3.
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Christ is now seeking to live in the believers the kind of life He lived on earth; within us He is still living a life that is a composition of the divine attributes and the human virtues—John 14:19b; 2 Cor. 10:1; 11:10.
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The Christ who lives in us is still the One who possesses the human virtues strengthened and enriched by the divine attributes—Gal. 2:20.
B
After He lived a human life by the divine life, Christ died an all-inclusive death on the cross and was resurrected to become a life-giving Spirit—1 Cor. 15:45b:
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This Spirit comprises the element of the Lord's wonderful life of expressing God.
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The first step in the reproduction of the God-man is that we need to be reborn of the pneumatic Christ in our spirit with His divine life and nature—John 1:12; 3:6.
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Then we need to be transformed in our soul with His divine attributes to uplift, strengthen, enrich, and fill our human virtues for His expression in our humanity—2 Cor. 3:17-18.
C
We copy Him in our spirit and live according to His model, not to imitate Him outwardly to become His reproduction—Matt. 11:29b; 1 Pet. 2:21 and note 2.