The lecture explains the phrase of the Lord Jesus “Go to my brothers… I ascend to my Father and your Father and my God and your God” and clarifies that it was said regarding his human nature embodied in the body, not regarding his divine nature which does not ascend or descend. The speaker distinguishes between God’s fatherhood toward the Son by essence and nature, and His fatherhood toward humans by adoption, love, and faith.

Key Theological Points

• The word “my brothers” indicates participation in flesh and blood; Christ addressed those who shared with him in human nature.

• The ascension mentioned pertains to the bodily nature because divinity does not move or ascend; therefore the appearing and ascending were in the human form united with the divine.

• The phrases “my Father and your Father” and “my God and your God” are understood according to aspects: Father specifically to the Son without sharing in the essence, and Father as adoption and fellowship for believers.

• Citations from Psalm 22 and the epistles (John, Hebrews, Colossians) confirm Christ’s sharing in bodily suffering and redemption and that he is “firstborn of all creation” meaning primacy in resurrection and the new nature, not in being created.

• Explanations by the Church Fathers (Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Hilary, and others) clarify that “firstborn” means precedence in resurrection and spiritual birth, not creation of the divine essence.

Spiritual and Educational Application

• Christ as mediator restored to humanity the attribute of divine fatherhood through incarnation and redemption, and gave believers the new birth in baptism to become a new creation in his image.

• Correct understanding avoids Arian interpretations: “firstborn” is not to be taken as created but as representative of the new human nature raised and united with Christ.

• Meditation on the prayer and dialogue between the Son and the Father (e.g., John 17) strengthens our comprehension of the integration of divinity and humanity in the economy of salvation.

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