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Jesus own claims about himself
1. authority with which he spoke
2. His relationship with God the Father
3. The use of the title, "The Son of Man"
4. The emphasis that he put on his own identity.
5. The Jewish peoples response to Christ
6.Christ received worship
The person of Christ
1. Jesus is fully and completely divine
2. Jesus is fully and completely human
Jesus Christ divine and human natures are distinct from each other (not separate).
4. Jesus Christ two natures are fully and completely united in one person.

Ebionitism (Adoptionism)
the most radical denial of the deity of Christ
Arianism
Christ was not fully divine. He was a created being;the first and highest created being.
(Nicea 325AD)

1. there was a time when he was not
2. the logos was created by God
3. the logos, is of another, a different nature or essence than God
Practical implications for the Deity of Christ
1. we can have real knowledge of God
2. Redemption is possible and available to us
3. Our redeemer and sympathetic high priest has omnipotent power and infinite wisdom combined with his deep covenant love to be able to truly help us at every point of need.
4. worship and obedience to Christ is appropriate and necessary
The humanity of Christ
A. Jesus Had a human birth
B. Jesus has a human Body
1. he grew
2. experienced physical limitations
3. his body was sensed and experienced by others
4.Jesus had and still has a physical body after the resurrection.
C. Jesus has a human mind
D. Jesus was tempted
The sinlessness of Jesus
E. Jesus had a human religious life.
F. Jesus was perceived by other people to be a man.
G. Scripture Calls Jesus a Man
Matt 4:4
Jesus will be a human forever
The practical importance of the Humanity of Christ
A. Jesus reveals the true nature of true humanity to us
B.Human nature by all definitions is defined good.
C. The incarnation is necessary for Jesus representative obedience for us.
D. the death of Jesus can truly avail for us as a substitute sacrifice.
E. Jesus incarnation was necessary to become the mediator between men and God.
F. Jesus incarnation was necessary for him to become our model, example, and pattern in life.
G. Jesus incarnation was necessary for him to become our sympathetic high priest.
the early heresies denying the humanity of Christ
1.Docetism
2.apollinarianism
Docetism
denies the humanity of Christ. The divine logs was not truly human. He only appeared to be human
Docetism continued

Fundamental to all forms of gnosticism is
a radical seperation betweeen flesh and spirit, matter is inherently evil. spirit is inherently good. salvation is achieved by knowledge (gnosis); mental enlightenment.
Gnostism duplicity had 3 results
(A)Our moral lives, lived in body, became a matter of indifference, extreme ascetism, licentiousness.
(B) Religions became seperated from history and became purely philosophical
(C) the incarnation was view to be impossible
Apollinarianism
denied the fullness of humanity of Christ by denying that he had a radical spirit(Constantinople 381AD)
Unity of Christ
1.In JC His divine and human nature remain distinct.
2. His two natures are fully and completely united in one person
early misunderstandings of the unity of the two nature
1.Nestorianism
2.Eutychianism or Monophysitism
Nestorianism
Christ was two persons in one body rather then two natures in one person. stresses the reality of the two nature so much that the reality of one person is lost and Christ becomes the union of two persons. (Ephesus 431 AD)
Eutychianism or Monophysitism
stressed the unity of the person so much that in the end there is only one nature. (Chalcedon 541AD)
the essential importance of Jesus two natures
A. it is important for Jesus to be both man and God so that he may become our mediator between ourselves and God.
B. It is essential for Jesus to be both God and man for him to make atonement for our sins
- anselem of canterbury (died 1109) Curs deus homo (why God becam man).
1.only a man should die for the sins of mankind.
2.only God could die to effectively atone for the sins of mankind.
C. it is essential for Jesus to be both God and Man for him to be our sympathetic high priest.
The council of Chalcedonian christology (451)
and its implications
A. one nature of Christ can and sometimes does things his other nature does not.
Human nature ascended to heaven
divine nature he has always been and will always be present everywhere.
according to his human nature he had a begining and grew
divine nature he has always existed and is unchanging.
B. anything either nature does , the person of christ does
C. the incarantion is more of a matter of gaining attributes then actually loosing them.

-remaining what he was he became what he was not...
D. we must look first to Jesus Christ to see the incarnation actualized.
E. the initiative and power for the incarnation came from God not from man
1.Jehovah's witness
2.unitarian universalist
3.the way international
4.chrstian scince
5.mormonism
1.arinaism
2.adoptionism
3.arain/adooptionsim
4.gnosticisim
5.polythesism/heretical stew
The work of Christ
-Jesus Christ is a true and perfect prophet
-Jesus christ is a true and perfect preist
-Jesus Christ is a true and perfect King
Prophetic work of Jesus Christ
The words of Jesus are the very words of God. Thus they are divinely authoritative, eternal and unchangeable.
-Jesus not only spoke the truth of God, he was the truth of god.
Since Jesus Christ is the true and perfe4ct prophet:
1.We should go nowhere else to seek the truth about God,ourselves, our lives, our future.
2.when we do go to Jesus, we must hear his words and obey.

the chrish is intentded to represent jesus in having a prophetic voice into the world.
2.
the priestly ministry of Jesus Christ
a priest is someone who stands in the presence of God, representing the people

Priestly work

Atonement(past/complete)-------

---------------------------------intercession(on-going)
atonement of Christ
atonement is at the heart of Jesus ministry Mark 10:45
how does his atoning works start?
A.Christ atoning works starts with his active obedience and perfectly righteous life which takes the place of disobedient and unrighteous sinners.
B.Christ's sacrificial death paid the penalty of the sin that sinners deserved and only he could pay.

1) Christ sacrifice was made by one who is himself perfect and who therefore had no need that atonement be made for him.
2. Christ sacrifice was perfect and as the result could actually pay the price for the sins and remove them as OT sacrifices could not.
3. Vhris sacrifice was eternal, complete, and once and for all.
The necessity of the atonement
Why did Jesus die?
Because of Human sin...
Why did Jesus die?
1.Jesua was very clear that hislife was not taken from him, but that he gave it up voluntarily
2.. the initiative of God the father
---tie together in the death of Christ both human and divine purpose
The consequent, absolute necessity of the atonement
God was not under the compulsion to make us live
we were suppose to be eternally condemed
abve all else the atoning death of Jesus is a substitutionary atonement
he will be worshipped for all of eternity for his sacrifice
the intercession of Christ
Jesus prays for his people based on his atoning work on the cross.
the nature of Christ intercession
1) it is a continual, everlasting, and eternal
2) it is effective

as the church represents Christ we are to fulfill a priestly role
The kingly ministry of Christ
what does he rule as king?
1. nature---Christ upholds the created universe
2. to his people (disciples)
3. all people
what does Christ do as king?
he rules, defends, and shepherds his people.

-ultimately Jesus Christ will judge all people, the living and the dead.

as Christ representatives the church is intended to fulfill a kingly role in the world.