Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of today's post is The Passion Week, The Man, Christ Jesus.

We are entering the week leading up to Resurrection Sunday,

often referred to as the Passion Week. Christ actually began experiencing the emotional pressure of what was coming several weeks before the cross occurred.

Many people fail to consider that Jesus was truly human with real emotions and the ability to feel pain.

He experienced grief, sorrow, anger, disappointment, enjoyed friendships,

knew joy and laughter, felt hunger and thirst, grew tired and sleepy. Though fully God, Jesus was also human, but without the Adamic fallen nature.

He had to be in order to represent us as a legal substitute. As one who was truly human, Christ didn't simply flip over into God mode when things got tough

in order to not experience the pain or trauma.

Philippians 2, 6 and 7, tell us that although he existed in the form of God,

he did not regard equality with God a thing to be

grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a bond, the servant, and being made in the likeness of

men. Let Christ be human. As I stated above, weeks before the cross, Christ began feeling the

pressure. When he said, no one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back is fit

for the kingdom of God, Jesus was thinking of himself.

The passage begins by saying,

Jesus let nothing distract him from departing for Jerusalem because the time for him to be lifted up drew near and he was full of passion

to complete his mission there. Luke 9.51, the Passion Translation. Jesus knew that in Jerusalem

he would face arrest, torture, and agonizing death,

but he set off firmly and unflinchingly committed to finishing his mission.

There would be no backing out, and nothing would deter him from accomplishing his purpose.

Isaiah prophesied of this determination.

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