Section 4
Lord was a real man, a normal man; He was not a magical person. The Lord grew in a normal, human way. Eventually, at the age of thirty, He had come to maturity for the divine ministry. According to the Old Testament, a Levite had to be thirty years of age before he could enter fully into the priesthood. Likewise, the Man-Savior was fully grown when He entered into His min istry.
A MAN EXPRESSING GOD
The Man-Savior did not live a life expressing man. He lived a man's life, yet this life expressed God. Hence, the Lord's living was a God-man liv ing. He lived a life in which God was expressed through man.
The illustration of a hand and a glove shows how God was expressed through the Man- Savior's humanity. A glove contains the hand and expresses the hand. When the hand in the glove moves, the glove also moves. But as the glove moves, it does not express the glove; it expresses the hand. In a similar way, the Lord Jesus lived on earth as a man, but He did not express man; He expressed God. He lived a life expressing God. When people saw Him, they saw a genuine man. Nevertheless, what they saw in Him was the