Hello, thank you for joining me today, forgive him 15.

As we approach the time we celebrate the death and resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ,

I remind you that it occurred in the month of Nassan.

The timing of the revelation regarding Nassan and the in-depth, meaningful studies we've done in recent given 15s have led us up to

this pivotal week, no doubt orchestrated by the Holy Spirit.

For the remainder of this week, we will gratefully remember the sacrifice Christ made for us

and his victory, by the way.

The title of today's post is human as well as divine.

Excuse me.

As Jesus approached the day of his crucifixion,

the human part of him experienced a deep emotional struggle.

We sometimes forget Jesus was truly human as well as divine. With very real human

emotions, he experienced the pain of grief, sorrow, rejection. He knew the pleasure of joy,

peace, hope, and love. As our representative and substitute, Christ functioned as a true

human, minus the sin nature. He did not rely on his deity to face life's situations. Jesus, therefore, did not simply switch into his God nature in order to endure

the ordeal of the cross, the events leading up to it. He began making his final journey to Jerusalem

and the cross in Luke 9, 51. When the days were approaching for his

ascension, he was determined to go to Jerusalem. The emotional strain of knowing what was coming

became very challenging to Christ. In Luke 1250, he said,

I have a baptism to undergo how distressed I am till it is accomplished. This was still several weeks before the cross, yet the emotional

pressure was already wearing on him. The word distressed here is also the Greek word for

a prisoner. Someone held fast by something they can't escape from.

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