By Gary Ray Branscome
The communion of the
natures of Christ flows from the fact that there is only one Christ, not two. Because
there is only one Christ what happens to His human nature happens to His divine
nature. The words, “Crucified the Lord of glory,” tell us that when
Christ suffered, God suffered, when Christ was crucified, “the Lord of glory”
was crucified (1Corinthians 2:8). And, that is true because Christ does not
have two personalities or two consciousnesses but one. That is why He could
say, “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9). That is also
why the Bible says, “God was revealed in the flesh” (1Timothy
The words, “That you might… know the
mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge,” speak of Christ, not just one of His
natures, having all the knowledge of God (Colossians 2:2-3). When Jesus was
speaking to His disciples He said, “All power is given to me” Matthew
28:18). As God that power was always His, but because there is only one Christ
that power belonged to Him as a unified person, not just one of His natures. When
He said, “I will be with you always, even to the end of the world,” it
was His body that was speaking (Matthew 28:20). And, His body could say “I
will be with you” because His unified person is present with us, not just
one of His natures. The same holds true for the words, “Where two or three
are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matthew