Bingo, and sometimes you don't realize it until later and are awestruck!
And this is why I sometimes wince at the polarized discourse that goes on so often in FR.
I read that this earthly thing is pure good, or that earthly thing is pure evil, and so on in what, at best, is a tiresome hyperbole and a misunderstanding of God’s ways of working in a fallen world.
I’ve sometimes jumped on these things by pointing out that there could be better goods or worse evils, but that keeps it on the academic plane, where people tend to live in their self perpetuating pride games. Getting it out of that plane is important — which is why good preachers use illustrations so often. Illustrational truth is one of the great modes of the bible, and is the reason why we see few direct scriptural propositions about many of the divine prerogatives of Jesus the Lord. God the Son proved who He was by living it out before our eyes. This again gets our thought out of the academic plane, where it can trace the works of the Lord.
I have written a poetic (and musical, thanks to God’s work through my buddy Ronnie) point that Jesus was born a humble redneck. Now does the bible ever come out and state it propositionally? Nope. But if you look at the testimony about His life (we even know that He was a carpenter only by the word of others) I aver that the picture pops out bright and clear. He was no highfalutin chap, and one born on the wrong side of the proverbial tracks at that, and we still can understand the idiom today.
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-levy-6/a-humble-redneck-i-was-born
Anyhow... I believe it is a fair restatement of Jesus’ manifest purpose when I put it like this:
“A carpenter was my trade,
With a hammer I was good;
With quality in all I made
Out of every kind of wood;
And now I’ve come to rebuild your soul
If you give the job to Me;
There’s nobody else can make you whole
And to set your spirit free.”
I’ve only had moderate success with audiences for these songs, but I believe it is a time of slow refocusing upon Jesus. We’ve been formulaic so much in our worship that we have missed some of the testimonial color of Jesus’ life.
Or to use another redneck idiom, Jesus could have been characterized to say (with His life, if not also with His words) “Hold My wine and watch this.” I don’t have a recording of that yet, but I shared my poem about it with, of all people, a Hindu man. He got the point.