Expert: Dr Don Howe - 6/24/2011

Question
ear sire
i knew that jesus spoke  his words in the earth given by his father god.
but sometimes i hear that jesus spoke as a man and sometimes as a god and i refuse this idea because (i though that jesus was a messenger and reciever all his words from his father).
jesus said (The words that you hear is not mine, but the Father who sent me).
so this confirm my idea that jesus declare to all people that he was a MESSENGER  he was sent from his father and spoke as a messenger not as a man or god.
so my ask how jesus spoke his words from his god and some say once he spoke as a man and some say he spoke as a god with that all words from god ?
so no two description(god or man)but god alone.
so all jesus words from his god and he didnt speak as aman or god but recive wodrs of his father on the earth as a messenger.
thank you

Answer
 Jon, thank you for your question. You have to remember Jesus was the God Man. He was God and man. He was part of the Trinity, but God sent his Son Jesus to earth as a man so that he would die for the sins of the World. Jesus said in John 10:30 "I and [my] Father are one." So Jesus was one with the Father, but he was also a man. He ate, he drank, he got tired, and slept like anyother man. But he did not sin as a man, and he was God. Look at all the miracles that Jesus did. Why because he was God?

 Jesus, also had the power of God. When the crowd came to met Jesus and Judas kissed him on the cheek. The men grabbed Jesus and Peter took out his sword and he cut off the ear of one of the servants of the High Priest. Jesus told Peter to put up his sword as he did not need it. He then healed the ear of the servant. I want you to look at what Jesus said in Mat. 26:52 "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?" Jesus is saying I can ask my Father (God Almighty) and just by his asking ZZ(Jesus) God can send 12 legions of angels from Heaven. But Jesus didn’t need his (Peter's)  help with the sword. If He wanted it, Jesus had more than twelve legions of angels (something in the area of 36,000 angels) waiting to help Him. If you remember in 2 Kings 19:35 one angel killed up to 185,000 soldiers in one night. Can you imagine what how many people 36,000 angels killed 185,00 people per angel? What this means that Jesus asked for from his own mouth and God would have sent 36,000 angels which could have wiped every living thing on earth. Just by his (Jesus') word alone. So Jesus was God in the flesh, but he also had the power of Almighty God behind him. He was no whimp by any means.
  Jon, the reason that Jesus did not call his angels to wipe every living thing on earth is told in Mat. 56:54 states "But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?" What must be fulfilled? The prophecy that God would send the Messiah to die for the sins of all men. But if you read further in Mathew Chapter 56 you will see that Jesus was tortured and he bleed like anyother man.  

 Jesus also spoke his own words. Mathew 13:31 states "Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away." Jesus did not say "God's words" but "my words" which  is in first person talking about no one but his words.
 Also words that Jesus spoke exhibited power and eternal consequences. A good example, is in John 12:48 states "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." Jesus is saying if  a man rejects him and does not receive or belief my words then the same person (meaning Jesus0 will judge that person in the last day. That is power.

There are many more examples in the bible. I hope this helps a little.

Blessings,

Dr Don Howe, RN, PhD, ThD