When Christ was in the flesh during His
When Christ was in the flesh during His thirty-three and a half years on the earth, He was exactly like the carnation seed. Although the Son of God was in Him, no one could recog nize this easily. By being sown into death and growing up in resurrection, He blossomed. By this process He was designated the Son of God, and by this process He uplifted the flesh, the human nature. He did not put off the flesh; He did not put off humanity. He sanctified it, up lifted it, and transformed it and had Himself des ignated with this transformed humanity as the Son of God with the divine power. When He was the Son of God before His incarnation, He had no human nature. After His resurrection He is the Son of God with humanity uplifted, sancti fied, and transformed out of resurrection. He is now both of humanity and divinity. He is both the seed of David and the Son of God. He is a won derful person!
Christ became flesh to accomplish the work of redemption. Redemption requires blood. It is certain that divinity has no blood; only hu manity has blood. Nevertheless, redemption de mands blood, for without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins (Heb. 9:22). Thus, Christ became flesh for the work of redemption.