Jesus Comes to Dwell Among Us, Part 2 (TMF:2976)
Monday, October 05, 2026
by Daniel Litton Listen to the Feature
He said, “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” That’s significant. By John’s time, there were some who proclaimed that Jesus was not in a human body after all. These pre-Gnostic persons, the forerunners of the later Gnostics, wished to say that Jesus was some kind of spirit being. In truth, Jesus dwelling in human flesh is necessary in order to become our high priest, as prescribed under the Old Testament Law (see Hebrews 2:17). A sin-free experience had to be lived in order for him to be a perfect sacrifice before God on our behalf, to make us sin-free. Coming as a spirit instead, he couldn’t have been an offering for sin. If he had sinned, again, he wouldn’t have been an acceptable offering before God for sin. Both coming in human flesh, as well as being sin-free were necessary. Even though Jesus was in a human body, he proved that the righteous requirements of the Jewish Law could be fulfilled by living a perfectly righteous life.