Sunday School | 1689 Lesson 4

A group of American Christians in the nineteenth century planned to visit London for a week. Their friends, excited for the opportunity, encouraged them to go hear two of London’s famous preachers and bring back a report.

On Sunday morning after their arrival, the Americans attended Joseph Parker’s church. They discovered that his reputation for eloquent oratory was well deserved. One exclaimed after the service, “I do declare, it must be said, for there is no doubt, that Joseph Parker is the greatest preacher that ever there was!”

The group wanted to return in the evening to hear Parker again, but they remembered that their friends would ask them about another preacher named Charles Spurgeon.

So on Sunday evening they attended the Metropolitan Tabernacle, where Spurgeon was preaching. The group was not prepared for what they heard, and as they departed, one of them again spoke up, “I do declare, it must be said, for there is no doubt, that Jesus Christ is the greatest Savior that ever there was!”

The Divine Nature of the Son

Anointed with the Spirit

Acts 10:38 CSB

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were under the tyranny of the devil, because God was with him.

Why did God anoint Jesus? [To confirm that Jesus was sent and for the Trinitarian interworkings of salvation]

All the fullness of God indwelling

Holy, Harmless, Undefiled, Full of Grace and Truth

Hebrews 7:26 CSB

For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Why is this important? [Mosaic priests were not, to take actually deal with sin, purity is necessary]

Jesus is the Mediator

The Human Nature of the Son

Fulfilled the Law

The Covenant of Grace is the Covenant of Works kept on our behalf

Crucified on behalf of sinners

2 Corinthians 5:21 CSB

He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

How was Jesus “made sin”?

In Adam and in Christ

Romans 5:19 CSB

For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so also through the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

Think of the concept “for us”. Those who go to Hell do not become sin and curse. Rather, they bear the weight of their sin and are cursed. Jesus took our curse and bore sin in our place. He was treated as a cursed sinner when in fact He was righteous.

Raised and Ascended

1 Corinthians 15:16–19 CSB

For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Those, then, who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished. If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.

Why is the hypostatic union necessary? [Unless Jesus was God, He could not finally bear the weight of sin. Unless Jesus was man, He could not keep the Covenant in our place]

What is Jesus doing in Heaven right now?

How and why did God give Jesus something He already had?

Making a place for us, Interceding (Think , )