Mark Heine - March 31, 2019
A God With a Mother
To say that God and man are one in Jesus is not to say that Jesus has always been a fully grown man. We know that, of course, as we celebrate His birth at Christmas. But His human life didn’t begin at His birth. It began a full nine months earlier, when the eternal Second Person of the Trinity, whom time and space cannot contain, united Himself to a single human zygote cell. At that moment, Mary became a mother and God became man. And now, as He hangs dying on the cross, the prophecy Simeon gave to Mary, that a sword would pierce her own soul as well, is being fulfilled. And in this hour of His suffering and her grief, He commends His mother into the care of His beloved disciple. He cares for her who has cared for Him.
From Series: "Behold the Man"
Pilate’s command to the crowd at Jesus’ crucifixion speaks an incredible truth—Jesus was indeed man. More specifically, He was God and man, an eternal being inhabiting a human body. Jesus had a body. He had a nose. Knees. Toes. Bones. Fingerprints. He hungered, prayed, and bled. He had a mother, He drank wine, He was baptized. This Lenten season, behold the man—the man who suffered, died, and rose again. The man who lived a perfect life and defeated death. The man whose death led to your life.