The Man Christ Jesus, Dr. Bruce Ware.
If you are like me you have noticed the exhortations in
scripture to be led by the Holy Spirit. For example, “Those
who are led by the
Spirit of God are Sons of God” (Rom. 8:14). But, the big question is this: what
does it mean to be led by the Spirit of God? What does being “led by the
Spirit” look like when the shoe leather of Christian experience contacts
the pavement of life?
The Man Christ Jesus answer this question by helping
us look at the humanity of Jesus Christ. Dr. Ware argues that Jesus did not
live a sinless life and do mighty miracles because he was God, although he was.
All of this he accomplished in the power of the Spirit. As the ideal man and the
Second Adam he was the only man who has ever lived who was perfectly led by
God’s Spirit, and Christ is our model. Ware devotes chapters to Christ’s
wisdom, his temptations, his suffering, his death and his coming reign in
glory. In each case Dr. Ware shows us how Jesus needed to be led by the Holy
Spirit to fulfill God’s plan for his life.
In the same way we need to be led, empowered, and protected by
God’s Spirit. Watching Christ is instructive, and this book will help you do
that. It is short, only 150 pages, and the prose is readable. I recommend.
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