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T H E O L O G Y O F T H E C H U R C H

1. Jesus is the Chosen One ( elektos ) of God, Matt. 16.16.

2. Jesus as God’s Precious Stone, the Capstone of God’s Building; he is God’s stone, chosen and precious, the stone rejected by the builders which God has made the very Capstone.

a. 1 Pet. 2.4

b. Ps. 118.22-23

3. Furthermore, Jesus is God’s only begotten and beloved Son, the one whom we should hear and in whom we should believe.

a. John 1.34

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b. Luke 9.35

c. cf. John 6.35

4. Those who scorned him while on the cross ironically ridiculed him with the name of “the Christ of God, the Chosen One of God,” Luke 23.35.

B. Jesus also is the Servant of Yahweh, chosen to represent him both in revealing his glory and redeeming the world.

1. The Servant Songs of Isaiah (cf. Isa. 41.8–9 with Isaiah 42.1)