God the Son, Mentor's Guide, MG10

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G O D T H E S O N

Jesus, the Messiah and Lord of All He Lived

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Welcome in the strong name of Jesus Christ! After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to: • Articulate the general purpose for Jesus’ coming to earth: to reveal to us the Father’s glory and redeem us from sin and Satan’s power. • Outline the creedal language regarding Jesus’ humanity, his conception by the Holy Spirit and birth to the Virgin Mary. • Summarize two of the prominent historical errors that have arisen from contesting Jesus’ becoming a human being: Nestorianism— that Christ was two distinct persons , and Eutychianism— that Christ has one blended nature . The Councils of Nicea (325) and Chalcedon (381) settled these questions, affirming that Jesus was fully God and fully human . • Evaluate and refute errors associated with misreading Jesus’ humanity: Docetism which asserted that Jesus was not human and Apollinarianism which asserted that Jesus was not fully human . • Restate the practical implications of the unity of Jesus’ divine and human nature, and the significance of Jesus’ humanity for us: Jesus, our high priest, can empathize with our needs and represent us before God. As our Second Adam, we will be conformed to his image in our future glorification with him. • Identify and biblically defend the concept of Jesus as the Baptized One who identified with the plight and peril of the sinners he came to save, as well as the concept of Jesus as the Proclaimer of the Kingdom of God–Jesus reasserting God’s right to rule over creation, showing through his person, miracles, healings, and exorcisms the signs of the Kingdom present in his own person on earth. • To analyze and unpack the idea of Jesus as the Suffering Servant of Yahweh, sketching his Messianic mission from the public announcement of his ministry, and the way in which Jesus revealed himself as the expected Servant of Yahweh through his proclamation of good news to the poor, his demonstration of justice among God’s people, and his vicarious sacrifice on behalf of God’s people as a “ransom for many.”

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