Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy approaches Bible teaching with a passion for getting the basic doctrines explained so that the individual can understand them and then apply them to circumstances in their life. These basic and important lessons are nestled in a framework of history and progression of revelation from the Bible so the whole of Scripture can be applied to your physical and spiritual life.
Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - Impervious to Sin
Jesus is impervious to sin and yet sympathizes, He understands, with us in our temptation. How can He relate to us without having experienced just like us?
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament Framework. Today a smaller, bite-sized piece from the larger lesson. We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2:Now there are some implications for this. Let's just talk about some of these. These are very interesting and they're very important for the hypostatic union, that doctrine of God and man in one person. So, first of all, jesus is a true human, born of Mary. She actually contributed DNA to Jesus, but not just DNA. It was Davidic DNA, because she's also of the house of David, interestingly. So what this means, then, is that Mary was not an incubator. What do I mean by that? This is a doctrine that's been I've seen it in publications by ICR. I've seen it in Roman Catholic publications. It's the idea that the Holy Spirit provided everything and Mary provided nothing.
Speaker 2:Now, if that is the case, then Jesus is separated from the human race that you and I are a part of. He is not a part of the same human race. He's a separate human race. That's not going to work, for simply one fact he has to be of the Davidic lineage. That's this human race. So she did have to contribute DNA to Jesus. She's not just an incubator in the sense that the Holy Spirit just created Jesus, this baby, and put this baby in her. No, he somehow utilized her genetic material so that the baby is a true human, of the seed of David that stems all the way back to the seed of the woman in Genesis. It has to be this way for him to have a link to this actual human race. If not, he's a separate human race and that would mean that his death is for another human race and not this human race. Okay, logically that's what it means. So this is necessary so he can die for the human race, our human race. If Mary is an incubator, jesus is not connected to this human race, only to Mary herself, perhaps, and he could not have died for the human race, possibly just Mary. This is just, logically, trying to think about the implication. But it's Mary's connection to the human race, our human race, that was passed on to Jesus in his DNA, that connects him to us and makes the situation for salvation is set up for us. Another implication Jesus is impeccable.
Speaker 2:I remember when my third grade teacher wrote this on a spelling test that I took. I'm sure she was trying to teach me a new word in third grade. When I had to go look up, impeccable. I was like what does that mean? Well, this is a theological term and let's discuss a little bit about it.
Speaker 2:Jesus has two natures One, divine, he's God. Other, he's man, emmanuel. It's all captured in Emmanuel, right, it's all there. He's God and he's man, but he's only one person, he's not two people. That's hard to understand. But did you have two people die for you on the cross? That's an easy way to understand it. No, you didn't have two people die for you on the cross, you just had one person die for your cross. Okay, so you can see that as a truth.
Speaker 2:His divine nature was not able to sin. Now look at point three and let's contrast these two points. In verse number two his divine nature, not able to sin. Number three his human nature was able not to sin. What's the difference? What's the difference between not able to sin? There's a word order, right. In the first one, I've got not able. In the second one, I've got able, not, okay.
Speaker 2:So, um, theologians have used this terminology to make a different emphasis in the first one, line two divine nature, not able. Emphasize, it's impossible. I mean, he's god as god. Is god going to sin? No, it's not able. It's not possible for god to sin, not able to sin. Now, human nature. We would say his human nature was something like adams when adam was first created right and he was able not to sin right. But placing able before not emphasizes the ability and the possibility.
Speaker 2:So these are both true in this one person, in his divine nature, though not able to sin, and that's what we mean by impeccable. That word impeccable means not able, that's what we mean by impeccable. That word impeccable means not able, okay, but human nature, able, not. That word is described by the theological term peccable, impeccable, impeccable. So in his divine nature he's impeccable. In his human nature he's peccable, but remember, he's only one person. So by the end of this point five, you see, as a person, as one person, a total person, he's impeccable.
Speaker 2:This is actually kind of a fantastic thing in the temptations, because of course he's tempted to sin right. We know that. We can read it right out of Hebrews 4.15. We just read it. But in another sense it's interesting because as you watch him get tempted, you also watch that it was the Holy Spirit who took him out there.
Speaker 2:What was the Holy Spirit doing? Taking him out there, where he knew this was all going to transpire? It was to show his imperviousness to sin. It was to show that as a person, because his human nature is, let's just say connected to his divine nature. He's not going to sin.
Speaker 2:It'd be like in the military you have a ship that's impervious to all the enemy's weapons. You take your ship out and then you ride into the midst of all your enemies and they start firing on your ship. But your ship, why did you take the ship out there? To show your enemies that it was impervious. It could be shelled, but it could never be sunk. And that's what's going on in the temptations is the Holy Spirit literally takes him out into the devil's playground and says take your best shot, go for it. After 40 days of no food, take your best shot, go for it. The Holy Spirit was taking the fight to Satan. It's not the other way. It's not Satan taking the fight to Jesus. It's the Holy Spirit taking the fight to him and saying go for it, because he's impervious to sin as a person.
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