The Supernatural Man – Part I
The Eternal
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: (Acts 2:23)
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. (John 17:5)
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. (John 17:24)
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? (Isaiah 40:13)
The Determinate Counsels of God
  The existence of God is without refute for the creation cries out the existence of it’s Creator and Master. It is only the creation of mankind who screams that there is no God.
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. (Isaiah 45:18)
Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. (Isaiah 45:21)
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, (Isaiah 46:9)
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: (Isaiah 45:5)
 Mankind in the fall of Adam has descended into a chasm he can not climb out of. He has fallen a distance from God that he cannot bridge: this distance is called sin. It is beyond man’s ability to rectify sin, and because of sin mankind has surrendered all he had including the being that he once was. Before man brought sin into the world, and death by sin, Adam had a knowledge of his Creator and his God. His knowledge was given to him by his divine Creator. This knowledge revealed Adam as dependent upon his Creator. Everything around him was created and given of God. Everything Adam was given came from the hand of God. All Adam’s thoughts were influenced by God’s word and voice. Adam’s eyes could see the wonder of the Creator in the creation around him. When he looked at his own being, he saw the image of the One who created him. This highest point of the highest creation on planet Earth (because of sin) descended into the pit of death; consequently, man as we know him today, is away from God; a man of hopelessness, always moving towards death, and away from His Creator. He has been driven out from the presence of God, and the power of God keeps him at bay. God’s holy angels and a flaming sword blocked the way of Adam to his God. And in the world that man received by sin he found complete ruin because man (in his sin) brought death to every creature on earth. The fruit of the ground became thorns and thistles, and man himself brought on his own hardships and sufferings; thus, man would work and labor endlessly by the sweat of his face. The highest being in God’s order on earth, Adam, the man with dominion over the earth plummeted to the lowest state of all the creatures upon the earth, for Adam was without hope, and without God in this world.
The Man From Heaven
 We ask, How can man be changed or saved from who he is? Man is a condemned prisoner of sin and death. Sin is the shackles that enslaves him and binds him. Death is the gallows that finishes his course. Only a supernatural act can change this calamity. Only God, the Creator of all things, can intervene by a new creation, and this new creation is all part of the determinate counsels of God. We hear the voice of a supernatural man, Here am I, send me.
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. (Isaiah 6:8)
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. (Hebrews 10:7)
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. (Hebrews 10:9)
The Two Unchangeable Factors in the Determinate Counsels of God
  In Hebrews 10:7, we have the volume of the book, the entire counsels of God reveals the Man in the binding, and volume of a book. This book is entirely dedicated to the One who would be revealed in the fullness of time, the Man from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ. This book reveals to us, this great volume, that before the world was, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost, in their counsel determined the entire creation, both seen and unseen, both past, present, and future, God exerted His divine power, and this power was determined by His own determinate counsels. The plan of redemption is contained in the volume of the book. And this determinate counsel cannot be changed.
  There are two fixed and unchangeable factors in the determinate counsels of God: one factor is God’s righteousness (for His righteousness cannot be changed); the other factor is God’s holiness (for Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty). This presents to us a counsel that cannot be changed, in fact, His counsel is written in the volume of the book to prove to man that God is unlike man, for the very presence of this volume proves that God cannot lie. But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.(Acts 3:18)  In Acts 3:18, the last word is ‘fulfilled,’ that which was written in the determinate counsels of God has been fulfilled by those determinate counsels, and by God’s foreknowledge. The Holy Spirit gives us assurance in the volume of the book by the fulfillment of God’s determinate counsel which God shared with His prophets concerning His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. God has revealed to us that He knew, and knows, the entire time line of creation and man. The volume of the book, the canon of Scripture, the Bible that we hold in our hands, reveals to us the revelation of God’s divine counsel before the foundation of the world. These revelations have been given to man because of man’s transgression, for in the current state of man, man could not know God except by revelation from God. Without revelation, the greatest mind of man could not reason out the knowledge of his own divine Creator. Man has been flawed by sin, his knowledge and his wisdom has been tainted by sin, so that he (left to himself) cannot and has not been able to reason out his creation, or the creation around him. It took the God of creation only one chapter in this volume of this book to give the revelation of Himself as the Creator, and to set before us the divine portrait of His work in the creation. Man, on the other hand, has written thousands of volumes, and still (by man’s wisdom) cannot reason out his Creator or the creation. It is sin that has muddled the thoughts of man, and barred him from understanding his divine Creator. Before the fall of man, Adam not only looked upon his divine Creator, but he walked and spoke with Him. There was such a closeness that Adam was created in the image of His revealed Creator. But now, what does man say about walking and talking with God? Sin dictates his thoughts, and he declares, There is no God. Man’s very being, and all his functions, have been tainted by sin so that mankind (without revelation from God) cannot know God. We, meaning mankind, are controlled and manipulated by our own thoughts. These thoughts are based and contained within a sinful being, and sin has become a wall between the thoughts of mankind and God’s thoughts. God has to explain to us, by His divine thoughts, every step in the history of mankind. God reveals our steps by revelation; this revelation is contained in His word, and by His word He reveals to us that our thoughts are not His thoughts, and that His thoughts are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways, and our ways are not His ways.
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? (Job 11:7)
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (Romans 11:33)
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? (Isaiah 40:13)
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.(Isaiah 55:8)
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:9)
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: (Isaiah 55:10)
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Isaiah 55:11)
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 2:11)
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. (1 Corinthians 2:12)
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (1 Corinthians 2:13)
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corinthians 2:14)　
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. (1 Corinthians 2:15)
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:16)
  It is the descendants of Adam who are flawed by sin. Adam became a prisoner of sin in this world, and the only way that Adam could escape is by the sentence that was placed upon him, and that was death; however, this did not free Adam from his sin, but sent him to await his second death, and the judgment of God. In the realm of man, when man is born, he has the DNA, or nature of sin, or the sin nature within him. He does not become a sinner, he is born sin, and therefore, in his life he commits the travesty of sin. He awaits the earthly penalty for that sin, for that sin leads him to his death. When Adam transgressed against God in the garden, his spiritual being died immediately. He became a different being than he once was, he became the man of sin and death. Isn’t it interesting that the end of man in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ reveals the true name of Adam: the man of sin. Man has traveled a long way through history, although he has tried to avoid physical death, death continues to track him down, and to remove him from the world in which he lives. Adam died in the garden, and then he died in the world; so to all mankind have died in the world, and all mankind (without Christ) wait for that last judgment and their second death. All has been written in the determinate counsels of God.
  Man has scarred himself beyond recognition by his sin. I believe that after the fall that Adam was so changed in his image that he could not recognize himself. He only knew what was visible to his eyes: that he stood naked before the searching eyes of God. Although he tried to cover himself, and hide himself, God pulled him from his hiding place, and sent him out of the garden in an historical journey of man enslaved to sin. Adam’s flesh would become so scarred by the marks of Cain, by the marks of the transgression throughout history, he would bear the outward marks of his sin. He would bear inward marks upon his heart, and in his soul; marked by the guilt of sin, and marked by being submerged in sin. Sin is the impregnable wall between man and God. Sin is an open door to hell and to the eternal lake of fire.
Who is the Real SuperMan?
  Even though mankind does not cry out for God, God has provided what man needs: and that is the SuperMan. This Man is God’s own Son. He is the Man from heaven above and not of this earth. He is the Lord Jesus Christ who the volume of the book reveals to us. Why is He Super? 
We shall see by the Spirit of God, and the revelation of God in His word, that there has been no other man that has ever lived that has contained in his being the Supernatural God, and sent forth in this world to be the manifestation of the GodMan on earth to redeem a company, a peculiar people to Himself by His supernatural birth, His supernatural life, His supernatural death on the cross, and His supernatural resurrection of life in Jesus Christ. It is this supernatural One: He, and He alone, who has created all things.
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: (Colossians 1:16) 　　
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Colossians 1:17)
SuperMan:The Creator — The GodMan
  We have before us in the volume of the book that was written concerning God’s dear Son Jesus Christ that He (the Lord Jesus) is the Creator of all things. By the way, that means things seen, and things that are not seen. But that’s not all. Wrap your mind around verse 17: He is before all things, before the creation, before man, before heaven, not only has He created all things, but He was the existence before all things were created. Then we go deeper into thought, but not our thoughts, but God’s thoughts by the Holy Spirit of God; God reveals to us all things consist by the Lord Jesus, everything you see is under the very word of His power. Every molecule, and atom linked together is under the creatorial power of the word of God’s dear Son. Everything around you has come into existence, and consists of and by the Son of God. But that’s not all: God continues to reveal fact after fact concerning this SuperMan.
SuperMan:Within Him Dwells The Godhead Bodily
— The Totality of God —
  We have the Godhead, can man explain the Godhead? no, I think not. It has to be revealed to him. Are we there yet? Have our minds shattered yet? All things consist of this One who man crucified on the cross. It was this Man who removed sin and death. It was this SuperMan who destroyed the works of the devil. It was this SuperMan who went into the darkness of the dominion of death to overthrow it so that He could call those who believe on Him ‘brethren.’ But we can go much further in our thoughts if we allow the Spirit of God (using the word of God) to reveal the work of our Savior Jesus Christ in our heart. The Spirit of God whispers to us, What about Colossians 2:9? For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. This Man from heaven who walked upon earth, that sympathized with Adam’s fallen race is the same One who is the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Have you had enough of this SuperMan? Let me tell you more. He is not only the fullness of the Godhead bodily, but He is also the image of the invisible God.
SuperMan: The Express Image of the Invisible God
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: (Colossians 1:12)
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: (Colossians 1:13)
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: (Colossians 1:14)
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:(Colossians 1:15)
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: Â (Colossians 1:16)
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Colossians 1:17)　
  He is the fullness of the Godhead bodily. This gives us an understanding of His eternality. He is the image of the Eternal and invisible God which was manifested in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ; thus, making the Lord Jesus, the visible image of the Godhead revealing God to man.
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: (Ephesians 1:17)
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (Ephesians 1:18)
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, (Ephesians 1:19)
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, (Ephesians 1:20)
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: (Ephesians 1:21)
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, (Ephesians 1:22)
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. (Ephesians 1:23)
  In Ephesians, Chapter 1, we begin in verse 17 with the God the Father of Jesus Christ. He is the Father of glory. It is He who gives us the Spirit of wisdom, and revelation in the knowledge of Himself. The eyes of our understanding are opened by the Spirit of God revealing the Lord Jesus in our hearts, and unfolding to us the divine counsel of the hope that is in God, and His calling in the Lord Jesus Christ, and the wonderful inheritance we have in Him as being called the saints of God. (Psalm 50:5) (Psalm 89:7) (1 Corinthians 1:2) (Ephesians 1:18) What is the exceeding, and the greatness of His power to us? It is in that Man who is in heaven today, and through the mighty power that He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead. We see in this wonderful image, in the image of God, the Man Christ Jesus. Which is the brightness of God’s glory, and the express image of His Person. Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (Hebrews 1:3). All this is revealed by the Spirit of God through divine revelation, and according to the determinate counsels of God, and the foreknowledge of God taking us back before the foundations of the world. In the epistle to the Philippians, the Holy Spirit of God in Chapter 2, verse 5, takes us within God’s thoughts according to the Holy Spirit of God. First, however, let us review the 2nd Chapter of the Book of Philippians, verses 5-11.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (Philippians 2:5)　
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: (Philippians 2:6)
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: (Philippians 2:7)
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Philippians 2:8)
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: (Philippians 2:9)
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; (Philippians 2:10)
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:11)
SuperMan: The Eternal Mind of God
  The Holy Spirit of God is giving us a heavenly description of our SuperMan both in heaven, and on earth. He begins with the mind of Christ Jesus. It is the mind of God that (before the foundation of the earth) determined in His counsel the complete process of creation, the redemption of man, and onto the eternal state (or new creation) wherein God will dwell with man in total righteousness of state, without sin, and without blemish; and the people who He has called out for Himself in the purity of God. All this in the mind of Christ, but God the Holy Spirit says, Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus. The mind of God that came down to earth, and dwelt in the GodMan, and then the Holy Spirit makes this mind available to those who are redeemed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
  This mind establishes a oneness with the Savior, for the mind that is in heaven above at the right hand of God is the mind that the Holy Spirit of God wants all the redeemed to have. It encompasses that where He is, we may be there also. The mind in heaven (in Christ Jesus) is the mind that pleases God. This mind is the mind of God’s delight, for He is well pleased with His beloved Son. We have such a oneness between God the Father, and God the Son; the Lord Jesus wants us to have that oneness with them both by the divine gift of the Spirit of Christ. He desires us to be fruitful for Him, not only in deed, but in very thought. He wants the thoughts of His Son to be our thoughts, He wants the ways of His Son to be our ways, this is His wonderful revelation. This is the opening of our minds to the ways and Person of God. This is the unshackled mind, that the eyes of the understanding has been enlightened by the Spirit of God, that we might know and understand that God has revealed to us His SuperMan who is now at His right hand in heaven above. This man in heaven has been placed above all principalities and power, He has been placed above all men, for He (before the foundation of the world) was always the Supernatural Son of God.
SuperMan: Equal to God and Equal With God
  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:. The Lord Jesus was before the foundations of the world. This is God the Son, He had equality with God the Father, and God the Holy Spirit. There was no division within the Godhead, for it was the will of God to first set and establish His determinate counsels. The Father’s will was the delight of the Son, and the Son’s will was the delight of the Spirit, as it was the delight of the Son to glorify God the Father, it is also the delight of the Spirit to glorify the Son of God, Jesus Christ. We have in all three, the glory and the equality of this Deity that is the Godhead, and this to the thoughts of man is higher than the heavens. For Christ thought it not robbery to be equal in the wonder of the Godhead; thus, He revealed Himself on earth as the very image of God in the man, Jesus Christ. In this position, He descended to the earth: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:.
  He deliberately made Himself of no reputation. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. (Isaiah 53:2) This eternal mind of God came to the earth to disrupt the thoughts of man, and to reveal the mind of God. Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus. He maked Himself of no reputation even when His brethren told Him to go up to Jerusalem to reveal Himself; He tarried behind, and hid Himself. This One who has all the terrestrial and celestial glory within Himself veiled it in complete humility in both His Spirit and soul, and outwardly refused reputation and fame. Should we not muse here, should we not think of our own reputations, is our reputation more important than Christ?
SuperMan: The Perfect Servant
  The reputation of the church of Ephesus and Laodicea was more important than Christ. For Ephesus gave up her husband, her divine Master for her own reputation. And in the fulfillment of this Laodicea was wedded to another, they were wedded to the world. From the first Church to the last church, the reputation of man was more important than their love for Christ. He sought no reputation, but that’s not all, this man of sorrows humbled Himself before man. He became the servant of man, and the servant of heaven. He took upon Himself the infirmities of man, the sorrows of man, and lastly on the cross: the sin of man. He took on the form of a servant in all that He was, both on earth, and in heaven. He was the perfect servant revealed to man, and pleased of God. As the Lord Jesus was in perfection, as the Son of God, He displayed that perfection in His servitude to man. For all His perfection brought out the perfect servant of God, and the perfection of the Son of God who came down from the Father to complete the determinate counsels of God. As in Adam, we fail in this perfection because of Adam, and the flesh; for the flesh wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. God, the Father, declares His Son to us, He reveals His Son so that we may be transfigured out of this world, and into heaven’s glory by the power of God’s perfect servant. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:. (Colossians 1:13) By the power of the perfect servant He came down from heaven’s glory, was He not the perfect servant before He left heaven’s throne, and was manifested upon the earth before man. And even now, the One who sits at the right hand of God, the great High Priest, who is in heaven’s glory takes on our infirmities. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. (Hebrews 4:14) For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15)
  When we see this perfect servant in the upper room He laid His towel aside, and washed the feet of His disciples. Is He not continuing His servitude to God for us? This great High Priest takes on our infirmities, still fulfilling His servitude for God the Father. This is the ascended Man in heaven, it is the glorified Man at God’s right hand; and yet, He still reaches down out of heaven’s glory in servitude and bears upon Himself our infirmities as our great High Priest in heaven. He had to descend to the earth to fulfill the determinate counsels of God. He had to come into the world of Adam, and for this He was made in the likeness of man.
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. (John 16:27)
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. (John 16:28
  This was the Man come down from heaven, He took on Him the image of a man, for He must go to the cross, and put that image (that flesh) to death. The image of the man, in Adam, must be destroyed so that the image of the resurrected Man in Christ Jesus might be made higher than the heavens. Man saw no beauty in this image of Jesus.
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. (Isaiah 53:2)
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isaiah 53:3)
  Man rejected this image, he had no desire for it, and he saw no beauty in it. God the Father saw the beauty, and the beauty of His Son was His delight, but the tainted eyes of man could only see a man of sorrows, and a carpenter’s son. The GodMan was not desired of Adam, for He was rejected of man; and to this day, He is still rejected. Mankind cast Him out of the world by the death of the cross, but God the Father has not only beheld, but is beholding His delight in His Son, and the glory of the Man Christ Jesus. Although this SuperMan was clothed with humility in the form of a servant, and in the likeness of man, He was not frail as in man for He rejected and overcame all the powers of Satan and darkness. Why? Because sin had no hold upon Him. Man, in Adam, was the servant of sin, and the chains and shackles of sin would not let man go. Sin made man the servant of sin, but Christ, with His divine nature, was God’s righteous servant.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.(Isaiah 53:11)
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. (Isaiah 42:1)
SuperMan: The Divine Nature — Sinless
  The Lord Jesus with His divine nature, and being the divine servant of God had no taint of Adam within Him, for He was without sin. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. (Hebrews 4:15) 　In His divine walk on earth, the Lord Jesus did no sin. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: (1 Peter 2:22).
  Do I dare reveal this? Notice; we are in 1st Peter, the tried stone, the polished stone, the stone of our redemption is before us. And God declares to us through the Holy Spirit that His Son (while on earth) was the divine witness in the numbers 2 – 2 – 2. The thrice glory of the Godhead, and the perfect witness (2) of His Son who did no sin.
  Now, we go within this SuperMan. He knew no sin! For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2nd Corinthians 5:21) Are all your thoughts always in subjection to the Almighty God? I will not speak for you, but I will speak for myself. All my thoughts are not always in subjection to God. For I falter in thought, and therefore, show the imperfection of my flesh; but in God’s perfect servant, the Lord Jesus Christ, there was no impurity of thought. His mind was staid on God, and He knew no sin. And if we go deeper into the very soul of the Son of God, we find that in Him, in this perfect Savior, there was no sin. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. (1st John 3:5) If you would like to display your own weakness in self-righteousness tell yourself that in you there is no sin. As the fool has said in his heart, There is no God. The greater fool in Adam’s race would say, Within me is no sin. There has only been One, and He came down from heaven’s glory, and in Him was no sin! And I might add (both past, present, and future) He is the sinless One, and the sinless Man in resurrection glory at the right hand of God. Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. (John 14:30) We have heard the testimony of God the Father, we have heard the testimony of God the Holy Spirit; now, we have the verbal testimony of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He declared that the prince of darkness, the prince of this world, the diabolical personality of Satan, the deceiver of all men would not, and could not find one grain of Adam in the Lord Jesus Christ. Is He not Supernatural? and the Supernatural Man? And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Philippians 2:8) The Holy Spirit now presents to us the inner thoughts of Christ. As He found Himself in the fashion of a man, He was far above man, and He was without sin; yet, He took upon Himself, and He humbled His divine nature; He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. The spirit of humility is not an outward display, but an inward act of subjection to the Almighty. The Divine surrenders His life so that He might take it again. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. (John 10:17) No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. (John 10:18)
  A doctor might tell you that you only have a short time to live, or a man might take his own life, but this is not the same as laying down or surrendering life as the Divine Being of Creation laying down His life. Prior to His death on the cross, He declared to His disciples that He had the power over death. He would by His divine power, as the servant of His Father, obediently lay down His life in the likeness of man. He would lay down His life at the commandment of God the Father; and then, as the Divine and Holy Man, the SuperMan, He would take His life out of death.
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. (Hebrews 2:9)
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; (Hebrews 2:14)
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (Hebrews 2:15)
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. (Hebrews 2:16)
  This was all done at the commandment of the Father.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. (John 10:18)
But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence. (John 14:31)
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. (Hebrews 10:7)
SuperMan: The Perfect Man
  We have the complete union of the mind of Christ with the mind of the Father. We have the Spirit of God revealing to us the inherent beauty of the Son, and the complete unity of the Son within the eternal Godhead. We see in the supernatural Man perfect obedience, perfect equality, and perfect humility to give us the perfect Man to take all the imperfections of Adam upon Himself, and destroy them, and deliver us from the power of sin and death. And to complete this, the supernatural Man delivers us to the glory of His Father in the righteousness of the Son of God. The supernatural Man in heaven who came out from the Father into this world of evil completed the will of the Father, and then returned to the Father as the glorified Man, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Doing all this with perfection, and bringing all His own with Him, God the Father has highly exalted Him.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: (Philippians 2:9)
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; (Philippians 2:10)
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:11)
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; (Hebrews 7:26)
SuperMan: The Name Above All Names — Jesus Christ
  In light of the cross, God the Father has taken the Man Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and highly exalted Him higher than the heavens. Not only for who He is, but for what He has done. He has given the Lord Jesus a name that is higher than any other name ever given. He has exalted this One with this name, higher than the heavens for all eternity according to His might, and the power of the Son over sin and death.
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: (Ephesians 1:17)
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (Ephesians 1:18)
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, (Ephesians 1:19)
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, (Ephesians 1:20)
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: (Ephesians 1:21)
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, (Ephesians 1:22)
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. (Ephesians 1:23)
  This divine Man, Jesus Christ has been set above the highest heaven. He bears the name of His earthly sojourn, and God the Father has placed this name above every name. The One we love, and through His mighty power, has taken us with Him: we love Him because He first loved us before the foundations of the world. He would come down from heaven’s glory and call out a heavenly company from the earth. He would create a new Man in heaven, and this new Man in heaven would call His own, ‘brethren.’ For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, (Hebrews 2:11). In the midst of His body (the Church) this eternal body, we hear the supernatural Man sing praise unto God. Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. (Hebrews 2:12) His name has been exalted higher than the heavens, His voice sounds our praise unto God, and heaven rings with the voice of this supernatural Man, Behold, I, and the children which God hath given me. (Hebrews 2:13) And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
The Name of Exaltation
  He has been given a name that is above every name, and the anthems of eternity will sing of this name. The kings of the earth will bow to this name. The outcasts of the earth will kneel in judgment to this name, and the multitude of the redeemed, and the hosts of heaven will bow down to this exalted name; for at the name of the supernatural Man, the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow. All of heaven will bow, all of the earth will bow, all of the doomed will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, (Ephesians 1:19)
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, (Ephesians 1:20)
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: (Ephesians 1:21)
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, (Ephesians 1:22)
The Steps
  From the Book of Philippians, the Spirit of God reveals to us in Chapter 2, verses 5 through 11, the seven steps of humility to verse 8, and then seven steps of exaltation from verse 9 to verse 11.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (Philippians 2:5)　
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: (Philippians 2:6)
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: (Philippians 2:7)
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Philippians 2:8)
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: (Philippians 2:9)
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; (Philippians 2:10)
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:11)
  In His humiliation He was the perfect servant, to be more aware of this perfect servant allow the Holy Spirit to divinely take you through the gospel according to Mark. He will reveal to you this marvelous servant who took on our infirmities, and our sorrows as He walked step by step on earth. In these divine footsteps He took seven steps down, and then He would be exalted seven steps higher than the heavens. (Hebrews 7:26) And this One who is higher than the heavens lives with the power of an endless life. Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. (Hebrews 7:16) This endless life was before the foundation of the world. What a mystery to the mind of Adam. Adam is so consumed with himself that his mind is blinded by his own sin. Adam cannot see the wonder of He who is wonderful. Adam will not admit or acknowledge His Creator and God, Jesus Christ. In the humiliation of Christ these are the seven steps down.
- Made Himself of no reputation.
- Took on Him the form of a servant.
- Was made in the likeness of men.
- Found in the fashion of a man.
- He humbled Himself.
- Became obedient unto death.
- Even the death of the cross.
 Now the seven steps of exaltation:Â
- God has highly exalted Him
- God has given Him a name above every name
- At this name of Jesus Christ, every knew shall bow.
- In heaven
- In earth
- Under the earth
- And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  In considering what we have just begun in our study of the supernatural Man, this wonderful trip of His exaltation we must realize that this exaltation will last for all eternity. As we look upon Him, both now and throughout all eternity, we will sing with our voices, and we sing with our hearts, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty. And in the midst of the Church, this SUPERMAN will sing to the glory of the Father, the power of God, the dominion of God, and the glory of God forever and ever. Amen
© Copyright 2017, Michael Haigh
Article may be used, but not for gain. Freely ye have received, freely give.
All Scripture references are from the Authorized King James Bible. (KJV)