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NOTE: THE LAST STUDY ABOUT THE NEW COVENANT WILL STILL BE ON MY PAGE @hope777 Today I am starting with Christology being the first of many posts teaching us from the Bible all there is to know about Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord!

JESUS CHRIST - CHRISTOLOGY - the branch of Christian theology relating to the person, nature, and role of Christ!

Introduction - who is Jesus Christ

Almost 2000 years ago, Jesus asked His disciples two questions which are still ringing in the hearts and minds of men:

1. Who do people say the Son of Man is?

2. Who do you say I am?

Mathew 16:13-17
13 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
14 So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

Many people, religious systems and philosophers have suggested various answers to the first question. To some Jesus is a prophet, to others a great teacher and to still others simply a good, moral man whose exemplary life is worthy to be imitated.

But the answer to the second is of far more significance. For on the response of each individual person hinges not only their

• eternal destiny, John 3:36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”
• but the quality, John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
• meaningfulness - Colossians 3:3-4 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
• and fruitfulness of their life here and now. Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Thus the central, worldwide theological issue of the ages has been, and still is this: Who is Jesus Christ?
And since Jesus Christ is who the Bible says He is - God in the flesh - all people everywhere need to be concerned not so much about religion, but about coming into and living in the right relationship to God through the Lord Jesus Christ.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Therefore, there can be no more important doctrine to study than the Doctrine of Christ.
For Jesus took the form of a man, Philippians 2:5-11 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
to explain to men not only who God is and what He is like, John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son,[f] who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
but also to demonstrate who man is and what God intends man to be like. 1 Peter 2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us,[f] leaving us[g] an example, that you should follow His steps:

So a proper doctrinal study of Christ will reveal much about God and much about man and how man can properly relate to God and to other men. And as with all our our study of doctrine we will focus almost exclusively on what the Bible teaches about Jesus Christ.

Key Christological Texts

While there are many important texts about Jesus Christ, the following are of special significance and should be studied carefully.

NOTE: These scriptures are very long and I will just quote a short piece out of each, but please go read the full texts. These texts are especially important in their teaching about who Jesus is and He came to do.

• John 1:1-18
  verses 16-18 16 And[e] of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son,[f] who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

• Romans 5:12-21
  verses 18-21 18 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
  20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

• Ephesians 1:3-10
  verses 7-9 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,

• Philippians 2:5-11
  verse 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
  verses 10-11 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

• Colossians 1:15-22
  verses 15-20 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

• Colossians 2:9-15

• 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
  11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins[c] of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.*

• Hebrews 1:1-9
  verses 2-3 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself[a] purged our[b] sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

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Dr Dennis J. Mock: Bible training for church leadership, Bible Doctrine Survey, course no. 4

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