JESUS CHRIST: GOD-MAN - Vital Christianity

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The Roman Centurion—This centurion, "seeing what had happened," praised God and
"Surely this was a righteous man" (Lk 23:47).
The followers of Jesus testified to His sinlessness:
Apostle Peter—As a disciple Peter had lived with Jesus for practically all His three-andone-half
years of ministry on this earth. Yet thirty years after Jesus' ascension Peter testified:
"He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth . . . a lamb without
blemish or defect" (1 Pe 2:22; 1:19).
Apostle John—John is considered to have been the person who was closest to Jesus. Not
only did he belong to the inner circle of the twelve disciples (Peter and James being the other two
members), but he was the disciple "whom Jesus loved," the one most intimate with Jesus. If
anyone knew Jesus, John did. Yet he wrote that Jesus claimed:
"I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He
has no hold on Me" (Jn 14:30).
John himself testified:
"But you know that He appeared so that He might take away our sins. And in Him
is no sin” (1 Jn 3:5).
Apostle Paul—As a Jewish leader who began his ministry by trying to stamp out
Christianity, Paul became a fearless leader for the Christian movement after his conversion on
the Damascus Road. He became convinced of the fact that Jesus was who He claimed to be—the
promised Messiah, the Son of God. Thus Paul testified:
"He had no sin" (2 Co 5:21).
Author of the Book of Hebrews—In writing of the high priestly ministry of Jesus, the
writer to the Hebrew Christians testified:
"Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens,
Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not
have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have
one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet was without sin."
(Heb 4:15)
God the Father—On two different occasions: once when Christ was baptized—and
once when he was transfigured—God spoke from heaven in an audible voice proclaiming: