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The title of our post is The Humanness of Christ.

Christ actually began experiencing the emotional pressure of the cross several weeks before it occurred.

Many people failed to consider the true humanness of Jesus, that he possessed real emotions

and the ability to feel pain.

In his earthly life, Christ experienced grief, sorrow, anger, disappointment.

He enjoyed friendships, new joy and laughter, felt hunger and thirst, and grew tired and sleepy.

Though fully God, Jesus was also fully human,

but without the Adamic fallen nature.

He had to be human in order to represent us as our legal substitute.

As one who was truly human, Christ didn't shift over into God mode when things

got tough in order to not feel the pain or trauma. Philippians 2, 6 and 7, tells 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 servant 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

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