But the reality and completeness of our Lord's human nature comes out not only in the fact that He had a human parentage and a human body: we are also clearly taught that, while as God he possessed all the attributes and exercised all the offices of Deity, as a man He was subject to human limitations.
1. _He was subject to the physical limitations which are essential to humanity._ In John 4:6 we read that Jesus Christ _was weary_. The words are +"Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour."+ But God is never weary. We read explicitly in Isa. 40:28 +"Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary."+
We are told in Matt. 8:24 that _Jesus Christ slept_. But God never sleeps. We read in Ps. 121:4, 5, +"Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand."+ By comparison of these two verses, we see distinctly that Jehovah never sleeps. Yet Jesus did sleep, so while He was Jehovah, He was not Jehovah only. He was man as truly as He was God.
In Matt. 21:18 we read that _Jesus Christ hungered_; in John 19:28 we read that _Jesus Christ thirsted_; in Luke 22:44 we read that Jesus Christ _suffered physical agony_, His agony was so great that He was on the point of dying with agony; and in 1 Cor. 15:3 we read that "_Christ died_," that His death is an essential part of the Gospel. Paul says in this passage, +"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures."+ It was no merely apparent death, it was a real death. It was no "illusion." Our salvation depends on the reality of His death. "Christian Science" cuts the very heart out of the Gospel. We are oftentimes asked was it the human nature of Jesus Christ that died or was it the divine nature that died. It was neither the one nor the other, natures do not die, a person dies. It was _Jesus_ who died, the Person who was at once God and man. We are told in so many words in 1 Cor. 2:8, that they +"Crucified the Lord of glory,"+ and we saw in the last chapter that the "Lord of Glory" is unquestionably a divine title. It was the one Person Jesus who was at once human and divine, who died upon the cross of Calvary.