He also knew what it was to suffer the agonies of death. All of these human attributes the Lord Jesus Christ freely took upon himself, knowing why he was entering the world, being fully aware of what was going to happen to him. Why should Christ take upon himself human form? Paul tells us that he came into the world ‘to save sinners’. Think about that word, ‘sinners’. Paul had been a strict Pharisee, and all Pharisees had a very clear definition of what a sinner was. Sinners were people like tax
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