Jesus (God The Son)
Topic 2 – God The Son (Jesus Christ)
- Who do
you say Jesus is? … Who is Jesus to you? … Who should Jesus be to everyone?
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- Who did
Peter say Jesus was in Matthew 16:16? … What does this mean?
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- Did Jesus
exist before His human birth? (John 1:1,
14)
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- Can we prove
that Jesus existed prior to His human birth? (John 17:5, 24 … Luke 10:18, 22)
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- Was Jesus
also God before and after His Incarnation? (Matthew 1:23, John 1:1-2, 14;
10:30)
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- Does 1st
Corinthians 10:1-4 show that Jesus was God in the Old Testament?
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- Did Jesus
create the heavens and the earth? (Genesis 1:1 … Colossians 1:16-17 … John 1)
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- How does
Jesus relate to the Sabbath? (Genesis 2:2-3 … Exodus 20:8-11 … Mark 2:27-28)
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- Does the
name “I AM” prove Jesus is God? (Exodus 3:13-14 … John 8:58-59)
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- Who has
seen God, according to John 1:18, 1st John 4:12, and 1st
Timothy 6:16?
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- If nobody
has ever seen God (The Father – God Almighty), then who appears in the Old
Testament when we read about God? Is it
God the Father? Is it God the Son? Does it depend on the situation?
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“theophany” is a manifestation of God in the Bible that is tangible to the
human senses. In its most restrictive sense,
it is a visible appearance of God, often, but not always, in human form. It could also be a partial manifestation or
an appearance in a cloud or just a voice.
A “Christophany” is an appearance or manifestation of Christ.
- Genesis
3:8-24 (verses 11 and 24 are Elohim (plural) … the rest are Yahweh Elohim
(singular)
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- Genesis
6:8-22 (Elohim in each occurrence)
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- Genesis
11:1-9 (Yahweh in each occurrence)
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- Genesis
12:1-8 (Yahweh in each occurrence)
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- What can
we learn about Jesus by studying Melchizedek in Genesis 14:18-20?
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- What can
we learn about Jesus by studying Melchizedek in Psalm 110:4?
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- What can
we learn about Jesus by studying Melchizedek in Hebrews 5:9-10, and 6:20?
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- What can
we learn about Jesus by studying Melchizedek in Hebrews 7?
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- Genesis
16:7-16 (El Roi – God of Seeing in verse 13 … Yahweh elsewhere)
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- Genesis
18 (Yahweh in every occurrence)
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- Genesis
21:1 (Yahweh)
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- Genesis
22:1-2 (Elohim) … Genesis 22:11-12 (Angel of the Lord … Messenger of Yahweh)
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- Genesis
26:2 (Yahweh)
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- Genesis
28:13 (Yahweh was standing above it, saying, “I am Yahweh, the Elohim of your
grandfather Abraham and the Elohim of Isaac …)
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- Genesis
31:11-13 (Messenger of Elohim in verse 11 and El in verse 13)
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- Genesis
32:24-32 (Elohim in each occurrence)
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- Genesis
35:9-15 (El Shadday – God Almighty in verse 11 … Elohim elsewhere)
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- Angel of
the Lord with Moses and the Burning Bush (Exodus 3)
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- This
Angel followed Israel as a cloud (day) and pillar of fire (night) (Exodus
13:21; 14:19, 24)
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- Exodus
24:9-11 (Elohim) … How did the leaders of the Israelites survive this meeting?
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- Exodus
24:16-18 (Yahweh) … How did Moses survive?
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- Exodus
33:17-23 (Yahweh) … Did Moses see the entirety of God’s Glory or just it in
partiality? … How did Moses survive this encounter?
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- Numbers 11:15
and 12:5 (Yahweh – The Lord came down)
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- Job 38-42
… who is speaking to Job?
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- In Daniel
3:25, who was the 4th person in the furnace with Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego? (appears/resembles/looks like, “a son of the gods” or “Son of
God” or “a god”)
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- How was
Jesus conceived as a human child? (Matthew 1:18-23 … Luke 1:26-35)
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- What were
the circumstances of Jesus’ birth? … How? … When? … Where? … Why?
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- What was
Jesus’ childhood like? (Luke 2:39-40, 41-52 … Matthew 13:55-56 … Hebrews 4:15)
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- When,
where, and how did Jesus begin His ministry? (Matthew 4:12-16)
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- What was
the message that Jesus preached? (Matthew 4:17 … Mark 1:14-15)
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- What else
is remarkable about Jesus’ ministry? (Mat. 4:23, 9:6 … Acts 2:22 … John
13:34-35)
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- Is Jesus
the foundation and Head of the Church? (Ephesians 2:19-20 … Colossians 1:18)
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- Did Jesus
die and rise from the dead exactly as He foretold? (Matthew 12:40)
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- Why did
Jesus come to earth, live, and die? (John 3:16, 20:30-31 … Hebrews 4:14-15)
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- What does
God the Son “became incarnate” mean? – (Matthew 1:18 … Luke 1:26-35)
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- How can
Jesus be both 100% God and 100% man?
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- Why do we
say Jesus is our Savior and why could only He be our Savior? (Hebrews 4:14-15)
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- Where is
Jesus now and what is He doing? (Hebrews 7:25)
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- Wesleyan – Jesus is the only begotten Son of God. He was conceived
by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, truly God and truly man. He
died on the cross and was buried, to be a sacrifice both for original sin and
for all human transgressions, and to reconcile us to God. Christ rose bodily
from the dead, and ascended into heaven, and there intercedes for us at the
Father’s right hand until He returns to judge all humanity at the last day.
- United
Methodist – The
Son, who is the Word of the Father, the very and eternal God, of one substance
with the Father, took man’s nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin; so that
two whole and perfect natures, that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood, were
joined together in one person, never to be divided; whereof is one Christ, very
God and very Man, who truly suffered, was crucified, dead, and buried, to
reconcile his Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt,
but also for actual sins of men.
- Nazarene – We believe in Jesus Christ, the Second
Person of the Triune Godhead; that He was eternally one with the Father; that
He became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin Mary, so that
two whole and perfect natures, that is to say the Godhead and manhood, are thus
united in one Person very God and very man, the God-man. We believe that Jesus Christ died for our
sins, and that He truly arose from the dead and took again His body, together
with all things appertaining to the perfection of man’s nature, wherewith He
ascended into heaven and is there engaged in intercession for us.
- Southern
Baptist – Christ is the eternal Son of
God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary. He honored
the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on
the cross, He made provision for the redemption of men from sin.
- Free Will
Baptist – God’s unique Son; the only one of a
kind. The Scripture teaches that He is God revealed in flesh. In His Divine nature,
He is truly God and in His human nature truly man. He is the One once crucified
for man’s sin, the now risen and glorified Savior and Lord who mediates between
God and man and who gives us access to the Father through His intercession.
None can come to the Father unless they come through Him.
- Lutheran (1530 Ausberg Confession) – The Son of God, (The Word), assumed the human nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, so that there are two natures, the divine and human, inseparably enjoined in one Person, one Christ, true God and true man, who was born of the Virgin Mary, truly suffered, was crucified, dead, and buried, that He might reconcile the Father unto us, and be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for actual sins of men. He also descended into hell, and truly rose again the third day; afterward He ascended into heaven that He might sit on the right hand of the Father, and forever reign and have dominion over all creatures, and sanctify them that believe in Him, by sending the Holy Ghost into their hearts, to rule, comfort, and quicken them, and to defend them against the devil and the power of sin. The same Christ shall openly come again to judge the quick and the dead, etc., according to the Apostles’ Creed.