Theres a famous saying that goes something like actions speak louder than words.  The way we’re able to know God and participate in the divine nature is through God manifesting Himself in the created order.  The Lord from heaven; the Word thats always been with the Father, who is divine along with the Father; the Eternal Son, was made flesh so God can perform a ministry in us and in the earth.  Its through the remembrance of the ministry the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit performed in our humanity we are able to know them, and partake with them in their divine nature.  This knowing and being known by God, and partaking with them in their divine nature is not only about eternity.  It’s about receiving the nutrients we need daily from their uncreated grace.  

So we’re talking about the sacrifice and offering of Jesus.  Hebrews 10:10 says Jesus offered his broken body to the Father on the cross.  The apostle John says the Father did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world.  John tells us point blank the Father didnt send the Son into the world because He needed someone to condemn for the sin of the world.  John says the Father sent the Son to save the world from the darkness and death and condemnation the world was already standing in.  John says The Father so loved the world he sent His Son.  The love there isnt a worldly kind of love, its agape.  Agape is the self sacrificial, self giving, shared life of the Trinity.  When John says the Father so loved the world, what he’s saying is the Father saw the world perishing.  He saw the sin in the world condemning humanity to death, and He wanted to share Himself; He wanted to give Himself; He wanted to pour Himself and His divine nature into our humanity to heal us from our diseases.  So the Father erupted the son out of His heart, and prepared a body for the Son in the Virgin Mary.  

This is where Hebrews 10:5 comes in.  Hebrews 10:5 says when the Son is come into the world, he says to the Father i see you never desired the sacrifices and offerings prescribed by the law but a body you have prepared for me …… The Father wants to minister His brightness to us.  He wants to pour the Divine nature into our humanity.  He wants to minister the glory Jesus says he shared with the Him from before the world was to our humanity.  He wants our humanity to be immersed in His presence; in the light of life.  But Paul says to Timothy no man can approach the Light.  So the Father needs a mediator between Him and man.  He needs someone who is mutually indwelling the light with Him; someone who shares with Him in the same divine essence, and for that person to also be a man.  So the Father prepares a body for the Son, and the Son who is divine along with the Father was manifest in the flesh to immerse our humanity in the divine nature, through the offering of his body to the Father on the cross.  

The Word was made flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world.  Received up into the glory from where he came, having been made one with our humanity through his incarnation.  Reconciling the world back to God and the divine nature.  And now we preach the Son to the world, imploring all people to be reconciled to God.  

I mentioned this briefly last week but the author of Hebrews is referencing psalm 40 when he quotes Jesus saying to the Father “a body you prepared for me”.  Psalm 40 is a prophetic psalm talking about the Son coming into the world to declare the goodness of the Father in the world.  It talks about the Father’s goodness towards humanity and the created order being revealed in the resurrection.  But psalm 40 doesnt just talk about the resurrection.  It talks about the Son needing a body so he can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities on the cross, and through him being found in the likeness of our dying flesh, having authority over all flesh, when he offers his dying humanity to the Father, we will be able to see the Father’s goodness towards us in his resurrection.  Jesus says the same thing from psalm 40 in John 17 when he says he has authority over all flesh and then says to the Father glorify me with thine own self, with the glory I had with you before the world was, and I will glorify you to the world.  Meaning I will declare your goodness to the world.  

We partook of flesh and blood; we were afflicted by mortality; we were touched with the infirmities that come along with dying flesh, but we couldn’t immerse ourselves in the light.  We were all our days in bondage through the fear of death.  So a body was prepared for the Son who’s known the Fathers love from before the creation of the world.  The Fathers love for the Son is he gives Himself to the Son.  He shares all that He is with the Son.  So the Son; the Word; who the Father eternally pours Himself into.  The one who shared with the Father in the same glory before the world was, became flesh.  He partook with us in flesh and blood.  He came in the likeness of sinful flesh.  He was touched by the feeling of our infirmities.  He was intimate with us in our sorrows.  He had communion with us in our brokenness, that in him being found in the likeness of sinful flesh, but knowing the Fathers agape, he could offer our death riddled humanity to the Father when he offered himself to the Father on the cross.  And now through the Son returning to the Father from where he came, having immersed our humanity in the glory he shared with the Father from before the world was, we can see the intent of the Father’s heart is to deify our humanity.  

One of the themes in the book of Hebrews is God purging our conscience from sin, which is to deliver us from the fear of being put to death in the presence of God.  

A body had to first be prepared for the Son so he can partake with us in flesh and blood.  Now Jesus has something to offer.  He can offer our broken humanity to the Father so there can be a resurrection.  That cleanses our conscience from sin; it perfects our hearts with Agape; it delivers us from the fear of death; drawing us into communion with the Father, through the flesh of the Son; revealing to all those who dwell in flesh and blood the reward the Father has in his hand to give sinners isn’t punishment; it’s the deification of their humanity. 

Heb 3:1  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Heb 3:2  Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
Heb 3:3  For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
Heb 3:4  For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
Heb 3:5  And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
Heb 3:6  But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

The Father wanted to perform a ministry in our humanity.  He wanted to build us a tabernacle; he wanted to build us a humanity that was created in true righteousness and holiness.  Here’s the thing.  If he wants to perform a ministry in our humanity.  If the Father wants to build us a house then He has to bring forth the same Son He brought forth when He wanted to create the worlds.  And since He wants to perform a ministry inside of our broken humanity, then the Son will have to tabernacle in human flesh.  He’ll have to partake with us in flesh and blood.  A body will have to be prepared for him so he can come in the likeness of sinful flesh, and then perform a ministry within our sinful flesh. 

The eternal son took flesh and blood to Himself so he can perfect the nature of human through his own humanity.  A body was prepared for the Word so he can perform the true temple service and build a new house; a new man; a new creation.  The word was made flesh and tabernacled in us … Jesus built us a house through his own flesh so that through his flesh our humanity can be perfected by the divine nature he shares with the Father and the Holy Spirit.  … Jesus says tear this temple down, speaking of his body, and says he will rebuild it in 3 days.  The Son built his own house, through his own flesh.  He built a habitation through his own humanity, whose house are we.  We are members of the body Christ rebuilt in the resurrection.  We are flesh of his deified flesh and bone of his deified bone.  The Father didnt want to build a humanity separate from us.  So he prepared a body for the Son, so the Son can tabernacle in our flesh, and take our humanity that was diseased with sin and death, and perform a ministry within the flesh and blood he shares with us, perfecting us from our diseases, through the deification of his own body. 

In 2nd Samuel 7 David wants to build God a house but God tells Samuel to tell David that he will build David a house.  

The psalmist in psalm 107 says He, the Father that is, sent His Word to heal us from our diseases.   Isaiah 55:11 quotes the Father speaking of the same Word saying My Word shall not return unto me void but will accomplish that which I sent it to do.   The Father brought forth the Son, saying to the Son go get our children; gather them to your bosom, and bring them home.  The Father sent His Word; He sent His eternal Son to heal our humanity.  The Word became flesh; adopting our humanity in His person; returning to the Father from where he came with our humanity; immersing us in the glory he shared with the Father from before the world was.  And this is how the son builds us a house.  

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