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C. His Position
As we seek to understand Christ, we should examine His position before the Law. He humbled Himself before it; as a result, God exalted Him over it. This is an interesting irony.
The Son laid aside His divine majesty and assumed human nature. He submitted Himself to all the sufferings of His earthly life, including death itself. He did this to accomplish God's plan to redeem mankind from sin.
When the divine Logos became flesh He did not cease to be what He was before. By the same token, the incarnation as such—that is, the Word's bodily existence—continues as He sits at the right hand of God.
Christ was surrounded by sin. The devil repeatedly attacked Him. His own people hated Him and refused to believe He was the Savior. His enemies persecuted Him. Finally, at the end of His earthly life, He endured all the wrath of God against sin. No other person has suffered as intensely as Jesus did.
God the Father exalted Christ by raising Him from the dead, taking Him away to heaven, and seating Him at His own right hand. Christ will return from that place of honor to judge the living and the dead.
Nelson's illustrated manners and customs of the Bible.
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