Much of contemporary Evangelical preaching over-emphasizes Jesus' humanity to the point of depreciating or even denying His deity.
What kind of thinking results from that kind of preaching?
According to reliable surveys, 45% of Evangelicals don't believe Christ was sinless. Behind this is the false teaching that Jesus was capable of committing sin. A friend of this ministry told me that her doctor – a self-identified born-again Christian who goes to an Evangelical church – told her that his perception of Jesus is that He's the kind of guy you could sit down and have a drink with at the local bar.
Thus much of today's Evangelical church encourages the embrace of "another Jesus" (2 Corinthians 11:4) – a caricature, a counterfeit, invented in sinful hearts.
Dear friend, God forbid that you should ever think that way about the Lord of Glory, the Creator of the Universe, the Christ of the Cross.
Jesus was, and is, both fully God and fully man. He is “holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners” (Hebrews 7:26). He is the only One who can say, without fear of contradiction, “Which of you convicts Me of sin?” (John 8:46).
Colossians 1:19 says, literally, “in Him all the fullness was pleased to dwell.” And more explicitly, “In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead in bodily form” (2:9).
Let us truly comprehend and properly worship the authentic Jesus as we sing Charles Wesley's great hymn —
Christ by highest heav'n adored
Christ the everlasting Lord!
Late in time behold Him come
Offspring of a Virgin's womb
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see,
Hail the incarnate Deity!
Made as man with men to dwell,
Jesus our Emmanuel. |
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