Paul’s High Christology (Part 2)

“Nothing is more valuable than knowing Christ, and God in Christ.” Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley, Reformed Systematic Theology Vol. 2: Man and Christ, 722.

I. Christ Is God and Man

A. He is the Invisible God

B. He is the Visible God

“By assuming our human nature to his person, he was then able to manifest and reveal god to us in the flesh.” Matthew Barrett, Simply Trinity, 199

“God’s bigness does not mean he is too great to care, just like his nearness does not mean he is too weak to help. Instead, the right inference to draw in all of life’s afflictions is that the God of transcendent glory and personal immanence is too good to forget and too great to fail.” Kevin DeYoung, Daily Doctrine

II. Christ is Omnipotent and Sovereign

A. He reigns in the heavenly realm

B. He reigns in the earthly realm

C. He created all things and

III. Christ is Eternal