Christ's Human Nature Exemplifies How We Can and Ought to Live
Since Jesus is truly the Almighty God, being "declared to be the Son of God with power" (Romans 1:4), and since Christ is also truly man, being "in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin" (Hebrews 4:15), then the human nature of Jesus Christ joyfully announces to all mankind that we can and ought to live without sinning. "He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked" (1John 2:6).
Even as the "Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made [us] free from the law of sin and death" (Romans 8:2), He has set us free as "His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10). No longer are we to cower as sinners, sinning while awaiting the execution of the penalty for our deeds.
"And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage" (Hebrews 2:15). The Christmas gifts that the LORD Jesus has given us include not only His atonement for our sins, but His deliverance of us from any necessity to sin. "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His Seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God" (1John 3:9).
It was vital that the Son of God manifested Himself to us as Emmanuel (Matthew 1:23), because it demonstrated through Jesus' perfect human example that God is justified in expecting and receiving perfect obedience, i.e., walking without sinning, from His Saints. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). It is a depreciation of the true value of the humanity of the LORD Jesus Christ, to say that Christ was only able to walk perfectly in this world without sinning, because His Divine Nature somehow metaphysically extinguished the sin in His human nature.
"1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity" (Hebrews 5:1-2).
Jesus' perfect human example evidences that the only sin in the human nature comes when we actually commit sin, not by merely being human. "Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others" (Ephesians 2:3). But, after we have confessed "our sins, He is Faithful and Just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1John 1:9), then we are without sin in our human nature, and can partake again in the Divine Nature. "Whereby are given unto us Exceeding Great and Precious Promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" (2Peter 1:4).
The great tragedy for mankind and for the Professed Church, is that the humanity of Jesus Christ is either only a good example or only a preview of how life will be lived "when we all get to Heaven". But, how much more has His Divine Power "given unto us all things that pertain unto Life and Godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue" (2 Pe 1:3)?
If the Pre-Tribulational Rapture and departure of the Saints is so close at hand, why need we any further discussion of how the Professed Church could have or should have lived? Because the prospect of anyone departing this planet for Heaven is still contingent upon whether we are walking according to the "righteousness which is of faith" (Romans 10:6). If we do not learn and live what Abraham understood-- "Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness" (Romans 4:3)-- then we will not experience the blessings of Abraham.
"18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: 20 He staggered not at the Promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what He had Promised, He was able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness" (Romans 4:18-22). Likewise, our worthiness to be Pre-Tribulationally Raptured is based upon the "righteousness of faith" (Romans 4:13). "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36).