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Stand Strong in the Word
#303 “The God-Man Revealed” (Romans 1:2-4)
Have you ever wondered what the Old Testament really says about the coming Messiah? Did it truly point to Jesus—or is that just a Christian claim?
Today, we’ll uncover specific prophecies fulfilled in Christ, learn some of the theology behind Jesus as the God-Man, and explore how Paul defines the gospel in his letter to the Romans.
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Have you ever wondered what the Old Testament really says about the coming Messiah? Did it truly point to Jesus, or is that just a Christian claim? Today, we'll uncover specific prophecies fulfilled in Christ, learn some of the theology behind Jesus as the God-man, and explore how Paul defines the gospel in his letter to the Romans. Turn to Romans, chapter 1, and let's stand strong in the word together. Well, hey there, my friends, welcome to Stand Strong in the Word podcast. Jason Heman is with you, as always. Blessed to be with you, guys, as we continue our study here in the book of Romans, and I'm just so excited to be diving into this particular passage. We're going to be exploring verses two through four today, and the title here is the God-Man Revealed, and so, as I said in the opening, we're going to be exploring three different things. One, prophecies that pointed to Jesus coming as the Messiah, looking at God becoming flesh and really kind of breaking that apart a little bit, and then, through that, look at how Paul explains or defines the gospel. And that's going to be the ongoing theme. Right, because if you look at the totality of the book of Romans, it's about being justified in faith. So you have justification, sanctification and glorification is beautifully laid out in sections in the book of Romans, and so this is one of the reasons why so many people, even when I was studying Romans in seminary and looking at the Greek and trying to understand it, and sitting under amazing New Testament scholars and pastors who are deep and rich in their theology, laying out so much that is presented in the book of Romans. It is rich, my friends, with theology, and so I just look forward to diving into this. I pray you guys are well.
Speaker 1:As I come into studio to record this, my heart is full. There are a lot of things on my heart that I'm praying about in the ministry for my family, and so I oftentimes know that when we come into scripture, we come to God's word, we open it, that our hearts sometimes are heavy. There are times when it's difficult to even communicate what we're feeling. Or you're praying or you're not praying, and perhaps maybe you're praying about something and you don't know what's going to unfold. Does God really care? Or you haven't really been praying lately because you are afraid, you're scared, you are maybe in a particular sin, or you're just really struggling your faith.
Speaker 1:My friends, I welcome you to the podcast. Even if you're ready to go, you're ready to dive into this study and you can't wait. Wherever you're at right now, let me just tell you we are praying for you. We are so glad you found this podcast and encourage you guys continue to pray for us as we have this time together and share this with other people out there so they too can learn how to discover God's powerful word, his infallible word that cannot be broken. Heaven and earth will pass away, but his words will endure forever and there's no doubt that we need more Christians who are grounded in scripture and that they can also understand it verse by verse, teaching them how to exegetically and hermeneutically take the scriptures and learn the backdrop, looking at why it was written, who was written to what timeframe, the location, all that kind of stuff, factoring linguistically the terms that are used and, as Christians, loving God's word and growing in the doctrine of the faith. So let's now dive in, as always.
Speaker 1:If you've missed any previous podcasts, I encourage you guys to check that out, but the last podcast was just giving an overview, obviously, of the book and then looking at verse one. So let me just read verses one through four and then we'll dive right in. It says Paul, a servant of Christ, jesus, called to be an apostle set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets, in the Holy Scriptures concerning his son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness, by His resurrection from the dead. Jesus Christ, our Lord Father, I do pray right now as we look at your word. I pray for my brothers and sisters all over the world listening to this time that we have in Romans. I pray that it would be such an encouragement. In Jesus' name, we pray amen. So what we have here in verses two through four is where Paul is summarizing the gospel to his Roman readers.
Speaker 1:Now, some scholars do believe that Paul here, this portion that I read to you in verses two through four specifically, is like a church creed or it was used, probably in the early church as maybe a hymn, and it's very similar If you go back to first Corinthians, chapter 15, verses three through five, and it says, therefore, I deliver to you as a first importance what I also received that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the 12. So we know that that is a early creed that was circulating within a matter of years I mean, some have two, some have five years. Dr Gary Habermas obviously does a great job kind of breaking this apart. I even one time when I was doing some research for my book Hijacking Jesus, had emailed him a list of questions and I know he's a very busy individual and he was very gracious to kind of send back some additional resources. That kind of helped me.
Speaker 1:And this was actually one of them too was linking Romans, chapter 1, 2 through 4. So the way in which it is phrased obviously you know how we translate it into English kind of loses its luster to some degree. Not its theology, but if you see in its original language and the way in which it was framed, it more than likely does flow as an early creed. And this is significant because oftentimes when you see the early church they may not have like this depth, you know, of theology. That was making sense of like we're going to be talking about the hypostatic union in a minute, or really making sense of what the atonement is they?
Speaker 1:They believe that God existed, they believed in the Trinity, god, the father, jesus, christ. God takes on flesh member and it becomes like one of us and dies on the cross and rises from the dead and we see the Holy spirit indwelling the believer. They believe in that. They believe that that grace through faith, that powerful message that was resonating, was there within scripture. When you see faith, when Abraham himself believed and God granted or accounted it to righteousness for him, it wasn't his own righteousness or isn't something he attained on his own, but it was a faith that he had in believing who God is, that he is the great redeemer. And again, this is what you can explore throughout the teachings of the prophets, and this is something that you see over and over again, even in the dynasty and the kingdom of David, which of course, christ would come from, and he even prophesied that from Isaiah, chapter 11, verse one We'll be touching on that in a minute when we look at the phrase descended from David but also second Samuel, chapter seven. So I encourage you to explore that.
Speaker 1:But this is now where, when Paul's talking about what he just had said, you know in the opening to his Roman readers that he's an apostle, that he's set apart for the gospel of God. This was a message Remember gospel where we just get this term of the good news but it's presented to us with an unmerited favor. It's a message of saying you deserve death, but not only does God have mercy on you, but he does something about it. He gives you a gift through grace and that's just an amazing thing that he's presenting to the Romans. Everything the Romans basically had looked at in their powerful empire was conquering and bringing civility. So they prided themselves even in the Pax Romana that we are an empire of justice. Now we know that's not entirely true that they were people of justice. They were polytheistic and they were very ruthless and obviously had. Many of the emperors were very evil. I believe many of them were demonized.
Speaker 1:But I digress from that because what I want to explore now is is he enters the the, the second part here, because really verse one stands alone. He says which he promised beforehand, which he promised what? The gospel. So this is one indication, by the way, when people say, well, where's the gospel in the Old Testament? Well, paul says here he promised beforehand through his prophets. So if you study the prophets. You will see the gospel message in the Holy Scriptures, as Paul says.
Speaker 1:And so let's now look at some of these things, because what Paul does is he employs a term called promise and he uses this throughout his entire letter. So we see in chapter one, here he goes in chapter four and you see him laying it out from the verses 13 through 25, and then chapter nine, verse four, then chapter 15, verse eight. But I want to read specifically chapter three, verse 21. Paul says this, but now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it. So here we see him laying out this promise that was going to come, and we see it vaguely in the law, we see it from what the prophets have foretold. Now they didn't see it come to pass, and here Paul believes that the gospel of Jesus Christ was fulfilled by the law in the prophets. And so remember when Jesus talked like that. What they're saying is like modern day today, when, as Christians, we refer to it as the Old Testament or the Jewish scriptures, that's, bringing the entirety of it, the law and the prophets, and notice one of the things he says right off the bat descended from David.
Speaker 1:So one of the prophecies that Paul lists is that Jesus would come from the line of King David Isaiah 11, verse 1, as I mentioned earlier. From the line of King David Isaiah 11, verse 1, as I mentioned earlier there shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. My friends, we are living in the new covenant. We are bearing fruit, as you and I know from that beautiful passage. When you and I look at John, chapter 15, I encourage you guys to turn there.
Speaker 1:This is what Jesus says is I'm the true vine and my father's the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does not bear fruit he prunes that it may bear more fruit Already. You are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me and I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me and I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine. Neither can you unless you abide in me. I'm the vine, you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me, you can do nothing.
Speaker 1:So these are the promises that the scriptures laid forth and we knew, according to King David, from a lot of the prophecies, even going back to Isaiah, as I read, that the Messiah would come from his line, and later he would quote a prophecy in chapter 15, verse 12. In fact, if you even look at the prophet Ezekiel, listen to what he proclaimed in chapter 34, verse 23 in his book and I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them. He shall feed them and be their shepherd. Well, who is the chief shepherd? Well, peter tells us in 1 Peter 5, 4, it's Jesus Christ. We know in John, chapter 10, we just read John 15 about him being the true vine. But in John 10, he says I am the good shepherd. So, in fact and I would love to do this, but there's so many great resources already out there, but every chapter, when you have the I am, I am the true vine, or I am the good shepherd, all of those are Jesus teaching from what the Jewish scriptures, with the law and the prophets, have already said he would be and that he would one day come.
Speaker 1:Obviously we are looking back in the church history period that we're living in and seeing all of this making sense from having the old and the new Testament, the canonicity of scripture, having the inspired word of God. So when you actually look at Paul, when he preached that Jesus fulfilled the messianic prophecy when he was in Antioch and Poseidia, he said this. He says here, right here in Acts, chapter 13, verse 23, as he promised. So this is what's so interesting is that Paul is using this word promised, not the way that we sometimes would say to our loved ones I promise we'll do it later, I promise that I will fix it. I promise fill in the blank. That's not the kind of promise here when he says which he promised beforehand.
Speaker 1:See, god, who is eternal, knows all things simultaneously Kind of a bad term when you say simultaneously, because he's in the eternal now. So God does not cognitively process information and try to do his best in forecasting what he believes will be the outcomes. You know secondary causes. God sees all things in the eternal now past, present, future. So when God promises something, when you promise the gospel and remember, the gospel is about redemption, it's about reconciliation, it's about restoring back that which has been lost. And if you think about evil, evil is the absence or the privation of the good, so evil does not exist in and of itself. So when you and I are corrupt, there's something that exists in us that was never meant to be there. So when God clothed Adam and Eve and an animal was sacrificed and we know the cursing on the man, the woman and the serpent, that was all foreshadowing the gospel, and we know that the messiah will be descended from david.
Speaker 1:There's so many accounts that lay this out and this is the message that paul was bringing in his ministry. You know other prophecies, as I mentioned earlier in 2 Samuel 7, specifically in verses 12 through 16,. You can also look at Psalm 132 to get more insight into what they said about the coming Messiah. Because the point we have to understand, my friends, that Paul's making here is that the gospels connect Jesus's lineage to David. This is foundational, because the next phrase he's gonna be using is according to the flesh, so one thing that many of them probably did not fully grasp or understand. But when it says that he would come from the line of Jesse, which we know David did right and we see what he just talked about in Acts 13, that he would bring to Israel a Savior. Literally he would bring a Savior like he would be born in the flesh, and so this is bearing witness to his Messiahship.
Speaker 1:Because when you actually go back to the gospel accounts and I encourage you guys, let's turn to Matthew, chapter one Notice Matthew, chapter one. Verse one says the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David. There it is the son of Abraham. Now, if you look at the other account in Luke, chapter two, notice what it says here in verse 11. It says this for unto you is born this day in the city of David, a savior. So notice he's born.
Speaker 1:So when Paul uses this phrase according to the flesh, so in context, just in case you don't have it in front of you, he says in verse two, which he promised beforehand, romans 1, 2, through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning his son who is descended from David, verse 3, according to the flesh. So the Scriptures have foretold remember God is the originator. And, by the way, a great way for you guys to understand when we talk about the inspiration of Scripture God is the originator. God is the originator, god is the primary messenger and he uses the Holy Spirit to reveal and empower the third component in inspiration is man Enable for them to be able to record that account or those words of inspiration. And so here we see this power through the prophets and Holy scriptures concerning Jesus. Notice, this is concerning a son, the second person in Trinity, who's descended from King David. And then it says, according to the flesh Now, this Greek term is kata sarka.
Speaker 1:Now the word Greek here, the word you know word for sarks or sarka that we have, is denoting the human state. Now let's unpack this for a little bit, because what we have to understand was that Jesus was not partially human in any given point in time. He was fully human, he was not a phantom-like figure. If you say, jason, I would really like to explore this more. I encourage you to pick up my book Hijacking Jesus. I have an entire chapter also refuting progressive Christians who deny the God-man. We believe as Christians, biblical Christians, that Jesus is fully God and he's fully man. So Jesus took on humanity.
Speaker 1:When it says, according to a flesh, katasarka, when it's looking at his human state, does not mean that he disregarded, he pushed aside or his human state was completely meshed into one, okay, but this says that he took on human flesh, which is his second nature, and of course, as such he experienced weaknesses, he was tired, he had different emotions, there were limitations to his physical body. Jesus possess two distinct natures at this point one consisting of his infinite faculties, that is, his divine nature, and one which is his human nature, that had finite faculties. Now these natures are expressed separately. So we have to keep that in mind. They were not co-mingling, they weren't co-mixing where they're diluting one or the other, because if finite becomes partially infinite, it's no longer infinite, and if an infinite becomes partly finite, then it was never infinite to begin with. So we know that that's a contradiction. So that's not what we're saying here. These natures are expressly separate, yet they work harmoniously to accomplish the will of divinity.
Speaker 1:So when we're saying the God-man, we're saying the divine nature and the human nature consists in one person, that is Jesus Christ. So if he has two natures, then he has two wills. So when Jesus says, not my will be done, but your be done, now there's two things going on there. One, the physical nature, the human side, who is on earth, who's about to give up his life. He is surrendering because the first Adam didn't. The first Adam took the dominion, the authority that God had given him and his wife to have over the earth, and he was corrupted, he compromised in that. So Jesus as the last Adam again, romans 5.12 and 1 Corinthians 15, he is surrendering his will to the ultimate authority, to God himself. But there's also a submission going on as a second person in the Trinity who God the Father, begets his son. He goes into the world willingly and there's an order there that we see, and you can also see this reflected in Ephesians, chapter 1, beginning in verses 4 through 11, where you see each role that each member of the Trinity has in bringing salvation to us.
Speaker 1:So when we think of the God-man we are saying it consists of the person, of Jesus Christ, not of each of his unique natures. The God-man is fully divine and also fully human, but it's not made up of just his unique natures and of themselves. It's the person. Okay, and so this is through the incarnation, and the union of these two natures was inseparably consummated in the personal union of Christ, Hence the term God-man, fully God, fully man, and this is evident from the fact that Jesus's infinitely divine intelligence was never mixed or transferred into his finitely human intelligence. And we see that from when he stood on the mountain in Matthew 17, the transfiguration or he walked on water, or he knew their thoughts before they even said anything, or you know. Or Matthew 26, 42, when we look at the garden of Gethsemane, you see the God-man there, where it was foretold that he would give up his life in fulfilling the scriptures, but at the same time he willingly did it. So that's so fascinating. If you and I look at that.
Speaker 1:Now there's one thing that I do want to express as well, and I love what Douglas Moe said, because now, when you're understanding these phrases, when he says that I'm an apostle called to preach the gospel which was promised beforehand concerning his son, he's a descendant from David, according to the flesh. So again, you and I are looking at the gospel. Douglas Bowen, his epistle to the Romans, says Paul affirms from the very start that the gospel is not an innovation but the fulfillment of ancient promises. And so, my friends, that's what we're looking at, because if you do look at that word pro-pegalomai, it actually has some root meaning. Where it says promise beforehand, it speaks to the coming gospel. So even that term promise is reflective of the gospel and it's through these prophets, as we talked about Jesus Christ coming to the world.
Speaker 1:This is one thing I love about NT Wright when he points out from his book Romans for Everyone. He says Paul sees his message as deeply rooted in the Old Testament. It is not a break from Jewish tradition but it's climax. So, my friends, you and I would miss it, we'd miss the gospel if we say, oh, we just care about the New Testament and not care about the Old Testament. So when it says here now in verse four, was declared. This word is harizo. It means appointed to be the son of god in power, according to the spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead, jesus christ, our lord. So here we see, and was declared. So he comes into the world, but he's declared to be the son of God. So this is linked.
Speaker 1:So verse three serves as an introduction to Jesus taking on the flesh. We talked about the second nature and fulfilling scripture, but now what Paul does is verse four explains the divinity of Jesus Christ. So if anybody were to ask, you says well, can I see where the God man is? We can obviously give instances where we see divine nature and human nature. But if you want to see the doctrine of the God man, it's Romans, chapter one, three and four.
Speaker 1:As I said, verse three, it's an introduction of Jesus taking on flesh. Remember I told you that Greek term is kataasarka. We actually get the Greek word sarks when it's pointing out or denoting the human state to its fullest. So Jesus in no way shape or form was partially human or it was a phantom-like creature. No, he was fully human and that is so important. And then verse four is he's explaining the divinity. Because this title son of God, it refers to the promised Messiah. See, paul's not saying that Jesus became God. No, he is God. He's been God from all eternity.
Speaker 1:Psalm two, verse seven, I will tell of the decree. The Lord said to me you are my son. Today I've begotten you. Now Jamison says this in his commentary. He says quote observe how studiously the language changes here. He was made, says the apostle of the seed of David, according to the flesh, romans 1.3.
Speaker 1:But he was not made. He was only declared or proved to be the son of God. Isn't that fascinating. So he became flesh for us, but he didn't become God, because he is God for all eternity. So when you look at John 1, verse 1, and John 1, verse 14, it says in the beginning was the word. So it didn't say in the beginning he became the word. It says in the beginning he was the word and the word was made flesh. So God took on flesh.
Speaker 1:This goes back when we're talking about what the prophets had said about the Messiah, isaiah 9, verse 6,. So Jameson concludes. Then he says this the father, as some otherwise sound divines conceive of it, but his birth in the flesh, that sonship was essential and uncreated, merely effloresced into palatable manifestation. And then he gives us references Luke, chapter one, verse 35, and Acts, chapter 13, verses 32 and 33.
Speaker 1:Now there's one last phrase that I wanna share with you guys before I close out on today's podcast, and it's this phrase the spirit of holiness. So notice in context it says he was declared. That means appointed to be the son of God, not made didn't become that he is the son of God, but just declared because he defeated sin and death. It. It says in the power, according to the spirit of holiness, and this is very specific this phrase is pneuma hageosinus. So pneuma is the spirit and hageo speaks to being holy Hageos is that term and it's referencing to the Holy Spirit who conceived Jesus. So we know this says that you will give birth to a son. He'll be conceived by the Holy Spirit. And we also know in Romans 8, 11 and other passages that it's the Holy Spirit who raised him from the dead. In fact, the Rye Restudy Bible says this quote.
Speaker 1:Some understand, according to the spirit of holiness, to refer to the Holy Spirit, whereas others consider it a reference to Christ's own holy being. Thus the verse may be understood this way the resurrection of Jesus is the mighty proof of his deity and this is declared by the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit declares this. So Paul appears to differentiate between the flesh not in terms of sinfulness, as it represents the body of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Now, that is very important for us to understand, my friends, because when it's referring to Sark's, his human state, it's not that he's born into sin or that he had sin or committed acts of sin when he lived. It's referencing a term of his body, not in terms of sinfulness when it's speaking to the body of Christ, because we believe in the impeccability of his body. Not in terms of sinfulness when it's speaking to the body of Christ, because we believe in the impeccability of Jesus Christ, that he had the potential to sin but he didn't. Now Paul frequently uses this contrast in his writing. So I encourage you guys to see this in Romans, chapter seven, five and six. In Galatians five, 16 through 18, because you'll see the distinguishment between our bodies, that is, the body of death, distinguishment between our bodies, that is, the body of death versus the body of Jesus.
Speaker 1:Now I love what Dr Thomas Schreiner, who did the commentary of Romans in the Baker Exegetical Commentary. He says this quote the flesh spirit, antithesis, should be interpreted in redemptive historical terms, the flesh being the product of the old age and the spirit a gift of the new age inaugurated by Jesus Christ, not powerful. Let me say that again. He says the flesh spirit, antithesis, should be interpreted in redemptive historical terms. So again, redemptive historical. Go back to the old Testament. What they were? They were for all these things foreshadowing, right. All these things are foretelling you that will come to pass, the ultimate promise, the ultimate redeemer, right. So, redemptive historical terms the flesh being the product of the old age and the spirit a gift of the new age inaugurated by Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:In fact, I think Paul really speaks to this in Romans, chapter eight, verses three and four, where he says for God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin. He condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to flesh but according to the spirit. Here's another creed that Paul references in 1 Timothy 3, verse 16. He says this when he's affirming the divinity of Christ. He says he was manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory. Now Cranfield notes that the contrast between kata sarka, according to the flesh, and kata pneuma, according to the spirit so we have verses three and four.
Speaker 1:Remember we talked about looking at the body of Jesus and his divinity. So his human nature and his divine nature, says it, highlights Jesus's dual nature. Okay, so fully human and fully divine. And we see that through the God-man. Guess what? Go back to Romans 8.
Speaker 1:God, what did he speak about in the law? Now, we were weakened by the flesh in keeping the law. We're not perfect, we're not good, but he sends his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh. See, in the likeness, not that he is, but he had to be like us in order to what Restore what was lost in Adam. So this last thing, when we talked about the spirit of holiness, is the resurrection from the dead. Because if he doesn't rise from the dead, my friends, then he failed. But we believe in a resurrected savior. Jesus's final act as Messiah was rising from the dead. That's total verification. Case closed. The resurrection, my friends, is the citadel of Christianity.
Speaker 1:And again, this is something that Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians 15, 2 Corinthians 5, and Romans 8. And the prophets foretold that this would come to pass, that he would save his people. How could he save his people if he didn't rise from the dead? One of the commentaries says this the one who existed eternally as a son was appointed the son of God in power, as the son of David. The new dimension was not his sonship, but his heavenly installation as God's son by virtue of his resurrection. In other words, the son reigned with the father from all eternity, but as a result of his incarnation and atoning work, he was appointed at the resurrection to be the son of God, as the one who is now both God and man, one who is now both God and man.
Speaker 1:I love what Paul says in Galatians 4, verses 5 and 7, because he explains the purpose of Jesus' resurrection by saying this to redeem those who were under the law so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, god has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, crying Abba Father, so you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. So, my friends, when you and I look at what the Bible teaches, as we just read through Romans, and he says that I'm a servant of Christ, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God which was promised beforehand, you know what that gives us An inheritance, an eternal inheritance, that we're no longer a slave but we are a son. And if we are a child of God, then we're an heir through God because of what Christ has done for us. So I pray, my friends, that this has been a blessing for you, that you have learned these particular areas of prophecy about Jesus Christ coming, the God-man, what that means and what the gospel is that we're not to neglect the Old Testament, but we are to look at what the scriptures teach about him. That have foretold us and the promise to come, and we're living in that promise now. I pray that we would not take it for granted.
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