For there is one God and one Mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 2:15
With all the titles that affirm the deity of Christ, it almost seems that the Holy Spirit felt it necessary to bring us down to earth and remind us that Jesus was also a man. He had dual citizenship. Existing before the creation of the world, He was clearly divine, but having been born on planet Earth, He was also human.
Although He was born at a time when there wasn’t the myriad of bureaucratic regulations of today, every aspect of Christ’s humanity was documented. Jesus had a birth certificate.
Mary and Joseph made the 80 mile trek from Nazareth to Bethlehem to register for the national census. When they got there, Mary was in labor, and the job of having a baby took precedent over everything else. By morning, mother and Child were resting, so Joseph was able to take care of official business. He would have registered Jesus as his firstborn on that very first Christmas day.
Jesus was also given a death certificate. When Christ died on the cross, Pontius Pilate asked the centurion to confirm that Jesus was, in fact, dead. That fact being established, the governor wrote an edict to authorize His burial.
The life of Christ was historically documented. The Romano-Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, confirmed the existence of Jesus of Nazareth in his history book written in 93 A.D.
Christ Jesus is the perfect Mediator between a Holy God and the sinful human race. He is the only begotten Son of God, so the fullness of God was evident in His physical body. The Lord was like us in every way, yet without sin, so He became a natural bridge between God and people; He could only do that because He was 100% God and 100% Man.
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