Discussion Jumpstarter
Study leader reference - not a definitive answer
Question 1
The teacher highlighted Chrysostom’s amazement that “our flesh should sit on high and be adored by the angels”; how does that image reshape your view of what God thinks of human nature, and what specific ways does it challenge a low view of the body or of ordinary human life?
Another way to ask: Chrysostom was amazed that human flesh is honored in heaven and even angels worship. How does that change how you think God values the human body and everyday human life?
Discussion Jumpstarter
Direct Answer
Based on the speaker’s teaching, Chrysostom’s image pushes us to see human nature—and even human flesh—as something God highly honors, since Christ took our nature and now that glorified flesh is exalted at the Father’s right hand. It challenges any “low view” of the body by showing that God did not discard humanity but permanently united divinity to real human flesh.
- The speaker quotes Chrysostom: “after having assumed our nature and uniting our nature to Himself, He became higher than all.”
- Chrysostom marvels that “our flesh should sit on high and be adored by the angels and the archangels.”
- The teacher emphasizes Christ ascended “with a glorified body of flesh,” and that union “now sits on the right hand of the Father.”
- He repeatedly calls it “an amazing thing to ponder,” stressing God’s “extreme interest on behalf of our human nature.”
- The point is not merely Jesus’ power, but that human nature in Christ is publicly honored in heaven.