Jesus, the man!

When Jesus came to earth, He did not come as God, but as a man. 

Philippians 2:5-8 (ESV)

5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,  

7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 

8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Therefore, Jesus surrendered His deity as God to come to earth as a man.   He didn't bring His power, His knowledge (Matthew 24:36), and was limited into being in one place at a time.   




Jesus defeated Satan as a man who was fully surrendered to the Holy Spirit (Matthew 4:1-11).

Peter said that Jesus did His miracles through the power of the Holy Spirit.  

Acts 10:38  (ESV)

38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. 

He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. 

Jesus said that He cast out demons by the Holy Spirit. 

Matthew 12:28 (ESV)

28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

Jesus taught that He could do nothing by Himself. 

John 5:19 (ESV)

19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

John 17:5 (ESV)

5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

When Jesus returned to heaven, His glory as God the Son returned.  

Philippians 2:9-11 (ESV)

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 

10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 

11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

M. H. Dennis