so is he the son of Mary or is he the Son of God here’s one that you will love he’s both if you accept one you must accept the other he cannot be one without the other because if he is one without the other he destroys what he claims to be if he is not the Son of God then it doesn’t really matter whether he’s human or not if he is not human then we have been lied to and who cares he’s the son of God and the son of man and as the Son of God and the son of man we call him Jesus and he has this unique role in our lives some of you may wonder about this

whole business of Jesus being fully human and why he did certain things and didn’t do other things I will just explain that to you in the best way that I can in this simple way when Jesus came to be one of us he did not lay aside his deity he did not put it on hold here’s what he did he voluntarily determined to not use his attributes for his own purpose when he came to this earth he put aside the independent use of his attributes you say how do you know that well let me ask you this question one of his attributes is he’s

omnipresent was Jesus on the present when he was here no he was absolutely totally consigned to living in a body was he still on present yes but he put it aside he voluntarily determined not to use those attributes while he was here so that he could fully identify with us cuz guess what we’re not omnipresent and we’re not omniscient and we’re not omnipotent seems like I’ve always known about Jesus my dad was a pastor went to Sunday school since I was a child I learned Jesus Loves Me way back then heard all the wonderful stories about

Jesus when I was 13 years old my father led me to Jesus Christ I remember where I was and remember that we prayed and it was that day I knew what it meant to become a Christian later on As I Grew in Christ I decided that I wanted to devote my life to him in a way that I had never thought of before God called me to be a pastor and every time I come to church I have this tremendous burden on my my heart that it’s not about me and it’s not about us it’s about him and when we lift him up the Bible says he draws all people to