Section 3
became the basic factor of the Man-Savior's dynamic salvation. The procedure that qualified the Man-Savior required a long period of time.
The first step of God's salvation was to become a man, live on earth, die on the cross, and be resurrected. In the second step, the Man-Savior comes into the saved ones, lives in us, and grows in us, repeating His life in us.
THE LIVING OF A GOD-MAN
As the Man-Savior lived such a life on earth, the angels and demons could testify that He was man living a human life for the expression of God. This is the Man-Savior's God-man living. The four Gospels tell us of the One who lived the life of a God-man.
In Luke 2:40-52 we see the Man-Savior grow ing and advancing. When He became twelve years old, He went with His parents to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover according to custom (vv. 41-42). Luke also tells us that the Lord Jesus began His ministry when He was about thirty years old (3:23). Only in the Gospel of Luke are we told what happened to the Lord Jesus at the ages of twelve and thirty. The reason is that Luke presents the Lord Jesus as a genuine and typical man. In the Gospel of Luke we see that the