My Summary of Christian Doctrine : The Person of Christ:

The States ( or Conditions) of Christ in relation to the Law.

Notes from Louis Berkhof : Summary of Christian Doctrine

In the State of His Humiliation He was God’s Servant under the Law. In His Exaltation He is Lord of all and therefore He is above the Law.

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Christ's Humiliation by Men

Memorize:

Gal 3:13  Christ has purchased our freedom from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us--because "CURSED IS EVERY ONE WHO IS HANGED UPON A TREE."

Gal 4:4  But, when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to Law,

Gal 4:5  in order to purchase the freedom of all who were subject to Law, so that we might receive recognition as sons.

Php 2:6  Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.

Php 2:7  Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men.

Php 2:8  And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross.

Php 2:9  It is in consequence of this that God has also so highly exalted Him, and has conferred on Him the Name which is supreme above every other,

Php 2:10  in order that in the Name of JESUS every knee should bow, of beings in Heaven, of those on the earth, and of those in the underworld,

Php 2:11  and that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.

The Lutheran Hour

1. The State of His Humiliation.

This consists in that Christ laid aside His Divine Majesty, which was His as the sovereign Ruler of the Universe and assumed human nature in the form of a servant; that he, the Supreme Lawgiver,became subject to the demands and curse of the Law. (see Scriptures above.) Note these stages in His Humiliation

The Angel announced to Mary the conception by the Holy Spirit

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1. The Incarnation and the Birth of Christ.

In the Incarnation the Son of god really took on Human Flesh and became part of the Human Race. He did not bring his humanity from Heaven as the Anabaptists claim for he was born of Mary.

Joh 1:14  And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth.

1Jn 4:2  By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God;

The Bible Teaches the Virgin Birth in:

Isa 7:14  So, the Lord Himself shall give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Immanuel. MKJV

Mat 1:20  And as he thought upon these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take to you Mary as your wife. For that in her is fathered of the Holy Spirit. MKJV

The Conception by the Holy Spirit kept Christ free from sin from the very beginning.

Luk 1:35  And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come on you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you. Therefore also that Holy One which will be born of you shall be called Son of God.

To Be continued…...

The Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Humanity (cont). The Virgin Birth

The Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Humanity (cont). The Virgin Birth

How the Son of God Became the Son of Man.

Memorize:

Joh 1:14  And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth.

Joh 1:17  For the Law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Joh 1:18  No one has seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

Luk 1:30 And the angel said to her, Do not fear, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Luk 1:31 And behold! You shall conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call His name JESUS. Luk 1:32 He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest. And the Lord God shall give Him the throne of His father David.

Introduction.

We have looked at the Hebrew usage of “son of” which denotes relationship and participation. He came to share our Humanity in all its weakness and helplessness. He had all the human infirmities of being hungry, thirsty, weary even suffering pain and death. His Humanity enabled Him to suffer and die in our Place as our Sacrifice for sin.

Jesus was Virgin Born

(b) How did the Son of God become the Son of Man?

What miracle could bring into the World “the Second Man” who is the Lord from heaven?

1Co 15:47  The first man was out of earth, earthy; the second Man was the Lord from Heaven.

The Son of God entered the World as the Son of man by being conceived in the Womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit, apart from a Human father.

The quality of the entire life of Jesus is in keeping with the manner of His birth. He who came by Virgin Birth lived a virgin (perfectly sinless) life. Both are Great Miracles. Myer Pearlman p.152

The Incarnation.

Joh 1:14  And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and of truth.

Because of the Virgin Birth we have the Doctrine of the Incarnation.

(INCARNA'TION, n. The act of clothing with flesh.

1. The act of assuming flesh, or of taking a human body and the nature of man; as the incarnation of the Son of God……..Websters Dictionary

The Scholar Martin J. Scott says concerning the Incarnation: “As all Christians know, the Incarnation means that God (i.e. The Son of God became man. This does not mean that God turned into a man , nor that God ceased to be God and began to be man; but that, remaining God, He assumed or took a new nature, namely human, uniting this to the Divine Nature in one being or person - Jesus Christ, who was True God and True man.”

Example: To understand just how the Son of God became a man, yet it does not perfectly illustrate the matter is that of a King who should of his own will become a beggar. If a Mighty king should leave his throne and the luxury of his court, and assume the rags of a beggar, live with the beggars, share their hardships, yet was still truly a king. We could say the king became a beggar to improve their conditions. What the beggar went through was what the king experienced.

Since Our Lord Jesus Christ is God and man, we can call Him the God-Man. He was not always man, since man is not eternal as god is. But, at a certain definite time, God became man by assuming Human Nature.

What do we mean “by assuming Human nature”?

We mean: that the Son of God, while still remaining God, took another nature, namely, that of man, and so united it with His own that it constituted One Person, Our Lord Jesus Christ. This is a Great Mystery. We cannot understand it any more than we can understand the Trinity.

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There are other mysteries all around us.

We do not understand how green grass and water which cows live on are converted into red blood and white milk. A chemical analysis of milk finds no ingredient of blood in it, yet the milk which a babe receives from its mother’s breast is changed into flesh and blood of a child.

What about thoughts and how they are connected to speech. We should not be surprised if we cannot understand the Incarnation.

Questions for research.

1. How can the Unity of the Divine and Human Natures in Christ be proved from Scripture?
2. What are some of the Most important errors concerning the Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ??