Something has crept into our assumptions about Jesus that makes it almost impossible to relate to him, not to mention love him.

They say corrupt because it's not been a conscious decision.

Few of the things that shape our convictions really are.

I think much of the creep has happened ironically

as a result of our attempts to love and to revere Christ, but crept in this notion

has, and it has done great damage to our perceptions of him and to our experience of him. It's the notion that Jesus

was really kind of pretending when he presented himself as a man.

Welcome back to the special Easter podcast here at Ransom Tart.

I'm John Eldridge, and I'm so glad you're with us today here on Thursday. I'm reading from beautiful

outlaw here to get us started into what is going to be the four most remarkable days that have ever been lived by a human

being on this planet. Let me continue for a moment. We who worship Jesus Christ hold fast to the belief that he was God.

Very God of very God, as the Nicene Creed states. The heroic actions and miraculous powers of Jesus' life attest to it.

So, when we read what we would call the more human moments,

we feel that Jesus was sort of cheating.

With a nod and a wink, we know what's really happening

is that Einstein has dropped in to take the first grade math quiz.

Mozart is playing a measure in the kindergarten song flute choir.

I mean, after all, we're talking about Jesus here.

The guy walked on water, raised Lazarus from the dead.

He never broke a sweat, right?

But then what do you make of that terrible sweat in Gethsemais?

I think the actions terrible sweat in Gethsemae.

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