Nancy De Maswagmuth begins today with a serious story.

In 1959, a journalist named John Howard Griffin changed himself from a white man into a black man. He used drugs and sun lamp treatment

and dye to darken his skin and then spent six weeks traveling throughout the racially segregated

south posing as an itinerant black man.

One description of this experiment said he left behind his privileged life as a southern white man to step into the body of a stranger.

As he traveled, he journaled the treatment and the reactions that he received from people.

Some of it was really awful. He was denied housing, transportation, work, even sometimes the use of restrooms.

He experienced rudeness, racial slurs, violent threats,

just because his skin was dark.

Griffin wrote about his treatment in a book called Black Like Me.

And as I read about this, I thought, you know,

the story of Jesus Coming to earth could be titled

Human like me.

This is the Reviver Hearts Podcast with Nancy DeMasse Walgamuth, author of

choosing forgiveness. For February 28th, 2024, I'm Dana Gresch. Today we'll focus on the humanity of Christ. Here's Nancy.

And that's what we read about in Philippians chapter 2, for example, that says Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God we talked about his deity yesterday

he was in the form of God he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant,

being born in the likeness of men, and being found in human form he humbled himself.

And the description that was given of John Howard Griffin, I think, we could modify to say of Christ that he left his privileged life as the son of God in heaven to step into our bodies.

We've talked about the fact that Jesus is God, his deity.

Today we want to focus on his humanity,

his deity and his humanity, he is God and he is man.

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