Is Jesus My Brother? by Sandra Tanner

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"Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [God is with us]." (Is. 7.14).

This fulfills the word given to Joseph, Mary's wife, that their son was to be named Jesus the Savior of our sins.

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ON THE CROSS JESUS SAID "FATHER WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME"...
Why would Jesus say that if he already was God? You guys dont see that?

Since the 3 Persons of the Trinity have their own will there is a relationship which is being expressed among the 3 Persons of the Godhead where Jesus, the 2nd Person, fully human and fully God, emptied Himself in Phil. 2 which says His deity is not something to be grasped: "Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped" (v.6). Paul is reporting Jesus is God because they are co-equal. Jesus "emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men" (v.7). Humans are born as men and women, whereas Jesus, the only begotten Son, was born rather in the "likeness of" men and women. Philippians 2.5-7 forms one section and verses 8-11, another. In these two sections our Lord is seen as having humbled Himself twice: first He emptied Himself in His divinity, and then He humbled Himself in His humanity. By the time He came to this world, the Lord had so emptied Himself of the glory, power, status, and form of His divinity that no one then living, other than by revelation, knew Him nor acknowledged Him as God. They treated Him as a man, as an ordinary person of this world. As the Son He willingly submits to the Father’s authority and declares that "the Father is greater than I" (John 14.28). Thus there is perfect harmony in the Godhead. Gladly the Father takes the place of the Head, and the Son responds with obedience. God becomes the emblem of authority, while Christ assumes the symbol of obedience. For we men to be obedient it should be simple, because all we need is but a little humility. For Christ to be obedient, however, is not so simple a matter. It is much harder for Him to be obedient than for Him to create the heavens and the earth. Why? Because He has to empty Himself of all the glory and power of His divinity and take the form of a slave before He is even qualified to obey. Hence obedience is initiated by the Son of God.