The bridge is in the hyphen: God-man

Here's an outtake I came across on YouTube this evening that I thought was really concise:

In theology it’s called the “submission among the godhead”; it’s submission of equals. It’s saying, “I have every right to be equal with this person and have my say, but I will willingly choose to submit myself.”

In John 10:30 Jesus Christ says, “I and the Father are one.” But in John 14:28, He says, “The Father’s greater than I.”

Now, how do you explain that? How can He say, “I and the Father are one,” and then say, “The Father’s greater than I”? The explanation is in the hyphen. He’s the God-man, says Richard Jordan.

He’s not talking out of His head. He’s not saying, “At one time I’m that over there and another time I’m this over here,” because He’s one person with both natures.

I can’t explain that to you; I can just tell you that it’s so. It’s a wonderful thing about Him. He’s God. He manifests Himself that He is God.

When He was on the earth, He goes over to a guy and his friends bring him and want him to be healed. He says, “That’s no big deal; the real big deal is to say, ‘They sins are forgiven.’ ” Now that’s a REAL deal.

He says, “So that you can know that I have the authority to forgive sins, I’ll say to this guy, ‘Rise up and walk,’ " and they all said He blasphemed because only God can forgive sin and He did.

He did what only God can do. Why? Because He’s God. He said to His disciples, “These people here in the grave--I’m going to raise them up.” Only God can do that.

He said, “When I raise them up, I’m going to judge them.” Judgement’s given to God. He makes it very clear that He’s God. Paul makes it clear. Romans 9:5 Paul says, “He’s God blessed forever.”

Romans 9:5: [5] Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Titus 2:13: [13] Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

In Hebrews 1:8 God the Father looks at Him and says, “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.”

God the Father thinks He’s God. Jesus Christ thought He was God. The Apostle Paul thinks He’s God. I think He’s God from the testimony of the Word of God.

He could never be anybody other than who He is. You can’t quit being who you are. But He’s also the man, and His humanity was real.

Paul says in II Timothy 2:5: [5] For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

He can take God by the hand because He’s God, and He can take man by the hand because He’s man, and be the go-between. And without Him you don’t have a Savior. He’s your Kinsman Redeemer. He’s kin to you and He’s kin to God, because He is God and He is Man and He can be the bridge between the two.

That’s why Paul would say in Romans 11: [15] For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Because He is God who died for your sins. There’s that passage in Isaiah:

[28] Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

In John 4, Jesus goes down by that well in Samaria because He was weary. Now how do you explain, “He’s never weary,” but He’s weary? The explanation is that hyphen; that connection where He becomes the God-man.