The Faith of Jesus - Alonzo T. Jones

Chapter 10
He Took the Same Flesh and
Blood That Men Have
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus; who, being in the form of God,
thought it not robbery [“a thing to be seized upon
and held fast”] to be equal with God; but emptied
himself, and took upon Him the form of a servant,
and was made in the likeness of men” (Phil. 2:5-7).
In our studies of Christ as He is revealed in the
first and second chapters of Hebrews, we have
found that, as He was in heaven, His nature was the
same as the nature of God; and that when He came
to the earth, His nature was the same as the nature
of man, that, whereas, on the side of God, Jesus
and God are “of one”-- of one flesh, of one nature,
of one substance, --so, on the side of man, Jesus
and man are “of one,“--of one flesh, of one nature,
of one substance. “For which cause He is not
ashamed to call them brethren.”
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