Let’s talk about the biblical data on Jesus’ human and divine natures in one. Let’s talk about the Hypostatic Union. I pray that this message is as much a blessing to you today and throughout the rest of your life that it’s been to the church for the past 1,570 years. Jesus of Nazareth is both truly God and truly man.
Some of the passages cited by me:
1 John 4:1-3; 2 John 1:7-10; John 5:46-47; Hebrews 8:1-3; Matthew 28:18-20; John 1:1, 3, 14 & 18; Philippians 2:1-11; John 17:5; Colossians 1:13-20; Exodus 33:17-23; John 8:56; Titus 3:3-7.
The Chalcedonian Statement of AD 451:
Following, then, the holy Fathers, we all unanimously teach that our Lord Jesus Christ is to us One and the same Son, the Self-same Perfect in Godhead, the Self-same Perfect in Manhood; truly God and truly Man; the Self-same of a rational soul and body; co-essential with the Father according to the Godhead, the Self-same co-essential with us according to the Manhood; like us in all things, sin apart; before the ages begotten of the Father as to the Godhead, but in the last days, the Self-same, for us and for our salvation (born) of Mary the Virgin Theotokos as to the Manhood; One and the Same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten; acknowledged in Two Natures unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the difference of the Natures being in no way removed because of the Union, but rather the properties of each Nature being preserved, and (both) concurring into One Person and One Hypostasis; not as though He was parted or divided into Two Persons, but One and the Self-same Son and Only-begotten God, Word, Lord, Jesus Christ; even as from the beginning the prophets have taught concerning Him, and as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself hath taught us, and as the Symbol of the Fathers hath handed down to us.
Blessings!
