Christology Part 1
Essential Doctrine: Christology • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God who became man, remaining fully God and fully man in one Person forever.
Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God who became man, remaining fully God and fully man in one Person forever.
I) The Biblical Foundation
I) The Biblical Foundation
Implication: Jesus is not a created being. He is eternal, equal with the Father, worthy of worship.
Implication: Jesus is not a created being. He is eternal, equal with the Father, worthy of worship.
II) The Biblical Foundation
II) The Biblical Foundation
Implication: Jesus truly entered our condition, except without sin, in order to be our substitute.
Implication: Jesus truly entered our condition, except without sin, in order to be our substitute.
III) The Biblical Foundation
III) The Biblical Foundation
Christ is one Person with two natures—fully God and fully man.
Christ is one Person with two natures—fully God and fully man.
“We confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man … acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.”
“We confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man … acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.”
III) The Historical Development
III) The Historical Development
IV) Why This Matters
IV) Why This Matters
When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
