I.　Dying on the cross as the God-man:

A.　As our Redeemer He was the complete God and a perfect man:

1.　He died as the Son of Man with the human nature and as the Son of God with the divine nature.

2.　He died in His humanity and with His divinity:

a.　His humanity qualified Him to die for us.

b.　His divinity secures the eternal efficacy of His death.

B.　His death was the death of the God-man, a man who had God wrought into His intrinsic nature, a man mingled with the Triune God:

1.　The three of the Divine Trinity—the Father, the Son, and Spirit—were all involved with His death.

2.　The Son's death was with the Father and by the Spirit.

II.　The blood of Jesus being God's blood:

A.　Acts 20:28 speaks of "the church of God, which He [God] obtained through His [God's] own blood."

B.　The Lord Jesus is God, and He died on the cross not only as a man but also as God:

1.　The One who died on the cross was the One who had been conceived of God and born with God.

2.　Because He was the God-man, the element of God was in Him and was mingled with His humanity.

C.　The blood the Lord shed on the cross was the blood of Jesus, the Son of God—1 John 1:7:

1.　The name Jesus denotes the Lord's humanity, which was needed for the shedding of the redeeming blood.

2.　The title His Son denotes the Lord's divinity, which is needed for the eternal efficacy of the redeeming blood.

3.　Thus, the blood of Jesus, His Son indicates that this blood is the blood of a genuine man for redeeming fallen human beings with the divine surety for its eternal efficacy.

D.　The blood shed by the Lord Jesus is eternal:

1.　It is the blood of a man mingled with the divine element, the element of eternity.

2.　Hence, the blood of Jesus, the Son of God—God's own blood—is eternal.

III.　Offering Himself to God through the eternal Spirit:

A.　In His death the Son offered Himself to God through the eternal Spirit—Heb. 9:14.

B.　Through the Spirit He died with the Father in the nature of the Triune God:

1.　This indicates that in His death He was with the Father and by the Spirit.

2.　His death accomplished an eternal redemption (Heb. 9:12) by the blood of the Son of God and through the eternal Spirit; thus His redemption has no time element—1 Pet. 1:18-19; Rev. 13:8.

IV.　Being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the Spirit:

A.　When Christ was crucified, He was "put to death in the flesh" but was "made alive in the Spirit"—1 Pet. 3:18.

B.　The Spirit here is not the Holy Spirit but the Spirit as Christ's divine essence—Rom. 1:4; cf. John 4:24a.

C.　The crucifixion put Christ to death only in His flesh, which He had received through His incarnation (John 1:14), not in His Spirit as His divinity:

1.　His Spirit as His divinity did not die at the cross when His flesh died.

2.　Rather, His Spirit as His divinity was made alive, enlivened, with a new power of life.

V.　Releasing the divine life for His divine multiplication:

A.　In His work on the cross, Christ died as a grain of wheat falling into the ground to release the divine life for the divine multiplication—John 12:24.

B.　The Lord Jesus fell into the ground and died so that His divine element, His divine life, might be released from within the shell of His humanity to produce many believers in resurrection—1 Pet. 1:3.

C.　The death of Christ released the divine life for the divine dispensing to produce many grains that can be blended together into a loaf, the church, the Body of Christ—1 Cor. 10:17.

VI.　Releasing the concealed glory of His divinity through the baptism of His death:

A.　The glory of Christ's divinity was concealed in Him as in a grain of wheat—John 12:23-24:

1.　Christ as the second of the Divine Trinity possessed the divine glory from eternity past.

2.　His humanity through His incarnation became a shell to conceal the glory of His divinity.

B.　While the glory of His divinity was concealed by the shell of His humanity, He was pressed and constrained, longing to be baptized with the baptism of His death for the release of the glory of His divinity—Luke 12:50.

C.　When the shell of His humanity was broken through His crucifixion, which was the baptism He went through, the glory of His divinity was released.

VII.　Conceiving the new man with His divine element:

A.　Ephesians 2:15 reveals that while Christ was on the cross, He created in Himself, with Himself as the element, the Jews and the Gentiles into one new man.

B.　The creating of the new man by Christ with Himself as the element on the cross should be considered the conceiving of the new man by Christ.