For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Isaiah 53:2-3
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And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Isaiah 53:2-3
#humility #Jesus #jesuschrist #Messiah #salvation #TheSonOfMan
https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/christians-issues/humility-jesus-the-son-of-man/
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00:00He also, the Son of Man, is a title of humility.
00:03So the second person of the Trinity, that's God, the Son, Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah,
00:10who is eternal in nature, he left heaven's glory and took on human flesh,
00:16becoming the Son of Man, to be born in the way that we know he was born
00:21and to be despised and rejected by mankind.
00:24We have the prophecy of Isaiah chapter 53, which prophesies the life, death, resurrection of Jesus
00:32some 700 years before it happened in the Old Testament.
00:35Isaiah 53 verse 2, it says,
00:37For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, a root out of dry ground.
00:43He has no formal comeliness. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
00:48He is despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief,
00:51and we hid, as it were, our faces from him.
00:54He was despised and we did not esteem him.
00:58When he speaks about him growing up as a tender plant, as a root out of dry ground,
01:02that means he came in some human form.
01:06He had no formal comeliness. When we see him, there's no beauty that we should desire him.
01:10It doesn't mean that Jesus was ugly.
01:12It just means that there was nothing special about his appearance when he appeared in human form.
01:17When he walked around Nazareth, growing up as a baby, he looked,
01:21and as a child, he looked like any other child.
01:24When he was doing his ministry in Nazareth, in Galilee, in Jerusalem,
01:28he looked like any other child, any other person.
01:32He looked like a normal human being.
01:34There was nothing special about him that would make you desire him from his appearance.
01:38You'd think if God was a peer to his man, he would appear as something spectacular and glorious.
01:42Well, he did on one occasion, at the bound of transfiguration.
01:47Well, he did appear with his glory shining forth.
01:50But imagine if he'd been walking around Nazareth, walking around Jerusalem, looking like that.
01:55It would have been a bit hard for people to despise and reject him.
01:58They'd have been a bit in fear of him.
02:00So he took on human form for a specific purpose, in order that he might be the suffering servant of Isaiah,
02:07then to lay down his life as a sacrifice for our sins, and to rise again from the dead.
02:12And we see examples of his humility in the Gospels.
02:16Luke chapter 9, it says,
02:17Otherwise, he didn't have a house, didn't have a room.
02:32Anybody here not got a house or a room?
02:35We've all got somewhere to live, haven't we?
02:36You give thanks for that.
02:37Well, Jesus didn't have any property to live in.
02:40Think of that.
02:41He had an itinerant ministry.
02:42People looked after him.
02:43But he didn't have a place of his own.
02:48And yet he owned the whole world.
02:51That was temporary.
02:52It was part of his sacrifice for us.
02:55And also we read that he ate and drank with sinners.
03:00Matthew chapter 11, verse 16.
03:13It speaks to, about John the Baptist.
03:16He says,
03:16John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say he has a demon.
03:21The son of man came eating and drinking.
03:23And they say, look, a glutton, a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.
03:28But wisdom is justified by her children.
03:30Jesus ate and drank with sinners.
03:35People found fault with him.
03:37Previous verses, they said he's either too gloomy like John the Baptist, or he's too cheerful.
03:43They played the flute and you wouldn't dance.
03:45Or he's too gloomy.
03:47They mourn for you and you didn't lament.
03:48People often find fault with preachers.
03:51They're either too boring or too long or too short, or they're too excitable or they're not excitable enough.
03:57Well, you can find fault with me, but I'm trying to tell you the word of God, so please bear with me.
04:03But Jesus and John also had their critics.
04:08And they said of Jesus, he's a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.
04:11In other words, he's mixing with the wrong kind of people.
04:14And Jesus did do that.
04:19He did go to dinner with people.
04:21He met with sinners and prostitutes and tax collectors.
04:26People were outcasts.
04:29And that was the purpose which he came for.
04:33I'm going to say later on, those who have well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.
04:37In other words, I haven't come to minister to the sick.
04:39I've come to minister to the healthy.
04:41I've come to minister to the sick.
04:44He's also going to imply that everybody's sick, so we all need Jesus.
04:48But he came and he was a friend of sinners and outcasts.
04:51He came and talked with ordinary people because he wanted to get alongside them.
04:55And he wants to get alongside you and me because he loves you and me.
04:58And he sees value in every human being on the face of the earth.
05:02So, of course, he mixed with sinners.
05:04And holy people thought that was not the right thing to do.
05:08And yet, that was the purpose which he came to, in order to save the lost.
05:14And he also came knowing that this would bring him opposition and it would bring him, ultimately, death.
05:21He spoke about the Son of Man suffering, being about to suffer at their hands.
05:30Jesus knew that because of human opposition and because of demonic opposition, he would face opposition while he was in the earth.
05:40And that opposition would lead to his death, agonizing death on the cross.
05:45Someone said, if God came and lived on the earth, they'd throw stones through his windows.
05:52And I guess that's what it is because the world is against God.
05:55And when Jesus comes as God, he's going to place this opposition.
05:58So, part of his coming to the earth, his humility, his coming from the realms of glory to this earth,
06:04would cause that he would face the opposition that he did face on the earth.
06:09And because of this, Jesus knew what was in human beings.
06:16Sometimes he's disappointed with the disciples.
06:19At one point he said to the most faithless and perverse generation,
06:22how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?
06:26Think what it was like for Jesus who'd come from the realms of glory to live on this sin-cursed earth.
06:31To live with people who were sinners and failed him, opposed him.
06:36John 2, he said, Jesus did not commit himself to men because he knew what was in them.
06:43He had no need that anyone should testify of man because he knew what was in man.
06:48And as Jesus walked about the earth, he knew that he was in enemy territory, if you like.
06:52He knew that he couldn't trust the people, even sometimes his own disciples, to do what was right.
06:59And that was part of the cost for Jesus coming from the glories of heaven,
07:02where everything was praising God, where everyone was on his side,
07:07where everyone was one in worship, coming to the earth,
07:11where he would face sinful human beings, even people like you and me.
07:16And I guess we disappoint Jesus as well, don't we?
07:19And there are times when he looks at us and he says,
07:21oh, how can my people be doing those things?
07:24And he's calling us to repent and put it right.
07:28But his love and his patience means that he bears with us and he continues with us
07:32and he's willing to make that great sacrifice to come and to dwell amongst us.
07:37And Paul gives us some idea of this in Philippians chapter 2,
07:40the great passage which speaks about the humility of Jesus
07:42and what it cost him to come from the glories of heaven to the earth.
07:45Philippians 2, verse 6, where it says,
07:49let this mind be in you, which is also in Christ Jesus,
07:52who being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,
07:56but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant
08:00and coming in the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man,
08:04he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death,
08:07even the death of the cross.
08:09Therefore God has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name,
08:13that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow and of those in heaven
08:18and of those on earth and of those under the earth
08:21and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father.
08:28If you understand this passage, it clearly means that Jesus and God are equal.
08:33He came in the form of God.
08:35The Greek word which is used for in the form there is morphe,
08:39which means the essential form which never changes.
08:43So he's not going to change in that nature of being in the form of God.
08:47That's going to be there from the beginning, from the moment of conception,
08:50right through to the moment of his departure and ascension into heaven.
08:55He will be in the form of God.
08:58A central form which never changes.
09:00Because of that, he didn't consider it robbery to be equal with God.
09:03Otherwise, he wasn't committing some kind of offence when he said,
09:06I'm equal with God.
09:07He was not blaspheming or claiming something he didn't have any right to say,
09:13which was what the opposition actually said to him.
09:15You know, you can't say you're equal with God.
09:18It's blasphemy.
09:19But Jesus could say it because it was the truth.
09:22And if he didn't say it, he'd be actually saying a lie.
09:24Because he is equal with God.
09:26He is God.
09:28If you look at this passage in Philippians,
09:30he also says he comes in the form of man.
09:33That's another word in Greek, which is schema.
09:36And the word schema actually implies an outward form
09:39which does change from time to time according to circumstances.
09:45So Jesus as the form of God doesn't change.
09:47But Jesus in the form of a man can change.
09:50And his appearance does change.
09:53As I said, as he traveled around Galilee and Jerusalem,
09:56he looks like any other man.
10:00He has no beauty that we should desire.
10:02He doesn't look different from any other human being.
10:05But that appearance did change
10:06at the time of the transfiguration.
10:10He appeared with his face shining like the sun
10:13and his clothes dazzling white.
10:17And now he appears in heaven in glory.
10:19Read that in John chapter 1.
10:22So that's his eternal form.
10:25But his human form can change.
10:27And it's interesting that you read the resurrection accounts
10:30when Jesus appeared in his resurrected body.
10:33People on the road to Emmaus didn't recognize him.
10:36Mary Magdalene didn't recognize him at first
10:38until he spoke to her.
10:39So there was something slightly different
10:41in the form in which he appeared
10:43after the resurrection.
10:46So that scheme, that form,
10:47coming in the form of a man can change
10:50and did change.
10:51Coming in the form of God doesn't change.
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