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Knowing Christ :
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The Lord Jesus is Christ - John 1:45, 20:31, Acts 2:36, Matt. 16:16, Col. 2:6.
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The person of Christ (His Person) : He is the Son of God, and He is God (the complete God); He is the Son of Man (the perfect man); He is the Spirit; the Creator; and also the Firstborn of all creation – Matt. 16:16, Rom. 9:5, 1 Tim. 2:5, Heb. 2:14, 17, 1 Cor. 15:45b, 2 Cor. 3;17a, Heb. 1:10, Col. 1:15.
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The work of Christ (His commission): creating; incarnation; crucifixion; resurrection; ascension; fulfilling His heavenly ministry; coming again; establishing the millennial kingdom and consummation in the New Jerusalem – Heb. 1:10, John 1:14, Phil. 2:6-11, John 10:17-18, Heb. 8:1-2; 1 Thes. 4:16-17, Rev. 20:6, 21:2.
Bible Verses for Pray-Reading
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father, full of grace and reality.
1 Pet. 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Knowing Christ
Christ is the subject and center of the Bible and is the main content of the Bible from beginning to end. Even more He is the reality of our faith. We who have believed into Him and received grace must know Him in a thorough way. The Person of Christ
Romans 9:5 clearly declares that Christ is God, who is over all, the complete God blessed forever. John 1:1 and 14 review that, In the beginning was the Word…and the Word was God…And the Word became flesh. 1 Timothy 3:16 also tells us, “And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness, who was manifested in the flesh. 2:5 tells even more clearly, “The Man, Christ Jesus”. All of these verses above clearly tell us that Jesus Christ, became flesh to be a perfect man with a human body and human nature. Therefore, He is God manifested in the flesh. He is God and He is man, a God-man, possessing both the divine and the human natures. As to His divine nature, He is completely God; as to His human nature, He is perfectly man. This is a great mystery. The Work of Christ
Creating
The first great thing Christ did was to create the heavens and the earth, all things, and man. Hebrews 1:10, “You in the beginning, Lord, have founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of Your hands”. And Col 1:16 reveals, “…in Him were all things created…; all things have been created through Him and unto Him”. Hence, He is the Creator of all things. Becoming flesh
The second great thing accomplished by Christ…, was that He as God became flesh; that is, He came to be a man in the flesh to be the tabernacle of God among men, bringing God to men to be realized as reality and to be received as grace. Reality is God known and contacted by man, and grace is God received and enjoyed by man. In the fleshly tabernacle which He became, Christ lived with man for thirty-three and a half years, thus fully bringing God to man to be his reality and grace. Being crucified on the cross
After thirty-three and a half years, He went to the cross to be crucified to accomplish the redemption in God's eternal plan. This is the third great thing He did, solving, once and for all, the problem of everything that God had condemned in the universe, such as Satan, sin, the world, the flesh, the old man, and the old creation. He did this for God and for those who are chosen by God, who will eternally inherit His salvation. Being resurrected from among the dead
Christ gave up His own life, and He Himself took it back by rising from among the dead (John 10:17-18). This is the fourth great thing He did, which accomplished the following three matters pertaining to us: … The resurrection of Christ released God's life from within Him for us to receive, making us alive together with Christ and raising us up together (Eph. 2:5-6). Since Christ resurrected to release His life into us, He regenerated us that we may be a born-again, new man (1 Peter 1:3). (Life Lessons, Vol. 1)