I. HIS DEITY

Four Evidences

a. His Eternality

John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Revelation 22:13 - “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

Hebrews 13:8 - "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

b. His Part in Creation

Colossians 1:6 - “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.”

Hebrews 1:3 - “He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.”

Jeremiah 31:35 - “Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of hosts is his name.”

c. His Titles

1. Lord / God - John 20:28

2. YHWH - John 8:58

3. Emmanuel - Matthew 1 / Isaiah 7

4. Son of Man - Daniel 7

d. His Attributes

1. Omnipotent

2. Omniscient - John 2:24; Luke 5:22; John 21

II. HIS HUMANITY/INCARNATION

The Docetics--Christ's body was just an apparition.

Theanthropic==Theos==God. Anthropos==Man God/Man

As a Theanthropic Man Jesus Does Six Things

1. He Reveals God

Colossians 1:15 "He's the image of the invisible God."

Hebrews 1:3 "He's the exact representation of His nature"

2. He Reveals Man

Hebrews 4:15 "He was tempted in all things as we are yet without sin."

3. He Fulfills the Davidic Covenant

II Samuel 7

4. He's The Mediator Between God and Man

I Timothy 2:4 "There is one mediator between man and God, Jesus Christ."

5. He Defeats Satan

Colossians 2:14 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

I Peter 3:22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

6. He Serves as the Last Adam

I Cor. 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

I Cor. 15:45 “The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

III. HIS BIRTH

Romans 5:17 - Because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man."

Matthew 1:20-23 - “‘Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.’ 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: 23 ‘Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel (which means, God with us).’”

IV. HIS OFFICES

Three Offices Jesus Fulfills

a. The Greatest Prophet

Deuteronomy 34:10-11

Deuteronomy 18:16 - "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen.”

Acts 3:26 - “God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

Hebrews 1:1 - "Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son.”

b. The High Priest

Hebrews 10:11-12 says, “And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.”

τετέλεσται. “It is finished”

c. The Everlasting King

Revelation 1:5 - "The faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth."

Matthew 1:1 - "The son of David"

Heberws 1:8

V. CHRIST'S DEATH ON THE CROSS

What did Christs Death Accomplish?

1. It Accomplished Substitution

Romans 5:8 while we were yet sinners Christ Died FOR us.”

Romans 3:23 "The Wages of Sin is Death...

II Cor. 5:21 “He made Him who knew no sin to become sin on our Behalf (For us) that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

2. It Accomplished Expiation

Expiate==To Extingiuish

What Was Extinguished?==Our Guilt before God

Isaiah 53:6 “He Lord caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him!”

Hebrews 9:26 says “He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.”

3. It Accomplished Propitiation

To Appease, to Satisfy

What was Expiated?==God's Wrath on our sin

Romans 3:24-25 "and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins."

Romans 5:9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

I Thessalonians 1:10 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

Hebrews 2:17

says that Christ made “propitiation for the sins of the people” and

1 John 4:10 says “in this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

Revelation 6:17 “For the great day of…wrath has come, who can stand?”

Revelation 16:1. Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”

4. It Accomplished Redemption

To "Buy Out"

Three Things we Are Redeemed From

1) The Curse of the Law

Galatians 3:13-14. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us”

2. The Guilt of our sin

Romans 3:24. We are “justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus”

3. The Power of Sin

I Peter 1:18-19 “knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ

5. It Accomplished Reconciliation

Romans 5:10-11: “For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.”

VII. HIS RESURRECTION

1 Corinthians 15:17 - “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.”

1 Corinthians 15:19 - “If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.”

VIII. HIS ASCENSION

Acts 1:9 - “And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.”

Romans 8:34 - “Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.”

John 14:1-3 says, “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house there are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.”

IX. HIS RETURN

Acts 1:10-11 - “And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.’”

Matthew 24:30 - “Then will appear in heaven the sign of the