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Welcome tonight.
I am glad you are here!
I’d like to begin with a question.
Ready?
What is hypostatic union?
“Hypostatic union” sounds fancy in English, but it’s actually a simple term.
Hypostatic means personal.
The hypostatic union is the personal union of Jesus’s two natures.
Jesus has two complete natures: one fully human and one fully divine.
What the doctrine of the hypostatic union teaches is that these two natures are united in one person in the God-man.
Jesus is not two persons.
He is one person.
The hypostatic union is the joining (mysterious though it be) of the divine and the human in the one person of Jesus.
One of the most memorable uses of this greek term is found in
With this in mind, we are going to study three weeks of Catechisms tonight.
Leading up to this study, we answered questions like:
Question 18
Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to go unpunished?
No, God is righteously angry with our sins and will punish them both in this life, and in the life to come.
Question 19
Is there any way to escape punishment and be brought back into God’s favor?
Yes, God reconciles us to himself by a Redeemer.
Question 20
Who is the Redeemer?
The only Redeemer is the Lord Jesus Christ.
The only redeemer is Jesus!
But, would any redeemer have worked?
Could Mother Teresa, or Allah, or Budha do?
Question 21
What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God?
One who is truly human and also truly God.
Which breaks down in the NCC into two subsequent questions:
Question 22
Why must the Redeemer be truly human?
That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin.
The necessity of His humanity:
The empathy from His humanity
Isaiah gives a description of the attributes of a future King in Is 9:6
The only feasible interpretation of this passage is messianic.
This child will be given names that signify his character.
He will be a sage characterized by extraordinary wisdom (Wonderful Counselor).
He will have life that is never ending (Eternal Father).
He will bring peace (Prince of Peace).
But the most extraordinary thing of all that confirms he is simply not to be identified as a mere human is his title, Mighty God
In the NT, Jesus is identified as the Davidic descendant who fulfilled this great promise (Mt 1:1, 22–23).
He is not just the Son of David, but also the Son of God.
Question 23
Why must the Redeemer be truly God?
That because of his divine nature his obedience and suffering would be perfect and effective.
spirit Refers to the spiritual source of a teaching or doctrine.
According to John, every teaching about Christ originates from a spiritual source.
A teaching is either true and from the Spirit of God, or false and from the spirit of deceit
Spirit of God Refers to the source of true teaching about Christ.
confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh A true spirit from God will confess Jesus’ true humanity.
The later heretical teaching known as Docetism held that Jesus appeared to be human, but that His humanity was nothing more than an illusion
The Bible never records Jesus saying the precise words, “I am God.”
That does not mean, however, that He did not proclaim that He is God.
Take for example Jesus’ words in John 10:30, “I and the Father are one.”
We need only to look at the Jews’ reaction to His statement to know He was claiming to be God.
They tried to stone Him for this very reason: “You, a mere man, claim to be God” (John 10:33).
The Jews understood exactly what Jesus was claiming—deity.
When Jesus declared, “I and the Father are one,” He was saying that He and the Father are of one nature and essence.
John 8:58 is another example.
Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth … before Abraham was born, I am!” Jews who heard this statement responded by taking up stones to kill Him for blasphemy, as the Mosaic Law commanded (Leviticus 24:16).
John reiterates the concept of Jesus’ deity:
These verses clearly indicate that Jesus is God in the flesh.
This same verse declares that God purchased His church with His own blood.
Therefore, Jesus is God!
Thomas the disciple declared concerning Jesus, “My Lord and my God” (John 20:28).
Jesus does not correct him.
Titus 2:13 encourages us to wait for the coming of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ (see also
In Hebrews 1:8, the Father declares
The Father refers to Jesus as “O God,” indicating that Jesus is indeed God.
The most important reason that Jesus has to be God is that, if He is not God, His death would not have been sufficient to pay the penalty for the sins of the world
A created being, which Jesus would be if He were not God, could not pay the infinite penalty required for sin against an infinite God.
Only God could pay such an infinite penalty.
Only God could take on the sins of the world
Only God could die, and be resurrected, proving His victory over sin and death.
so:
Question 21
What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God?
One who is truly human and also truly God.
Which breaks down in the NCC into two subsequent questions:
Question 22
Why must the Redeemer be truly human?
That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin.
Question 23
Why must the Redeemer be truly God?
That because of his divine nature his obedience and suffering would be perfect and effective.
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