Jesus became human to truly understand humanity through lived experience, not just observation. The speaker uses the Hebrew word "yada" to explain that real knowledge comes from living through something, like the Israelites eating manna for 40 years. Humans survive not on bread alone but on God's spoken word.
Suffering has a voice that teaches lessons. Jesus came because he had to learn the empathy and understand the creation, so he himself lived in human flesh. He had to learn through experience to know the way a husband knows his wife, to know by tasting You can read about manna in a book and not yada it and not experience it. You have to eat it for 40 years to yada it, Y-A-D-A, to experience it. And the lesson is this: man does not live By bread alone. There is a bread beyond bread. There is a food that doest not come from a field or a bakery or a grocery store or a Publix or a Sam and Roscoe's. I don't know. Oh, I mentioned these folks' name. They may need to send me— Okay, I'm just joking. There is a sustenance that comes from the mouth of God himself, every word that proceeds out of his mouth, and that sustenance is what man actually lives on.
