1. Part 4 – Who is the Christ? A Theological Perspective
New Covenant Presbyterian Church
Inquirer’s Class

2. Review: The covenant of works has been replaced
by the covenant of grace.
The Old Testament looks forward to Christ
just as the New Testament looks back
to Christ.

3. The Plan of Redemption Covenant of Covenant of Grace Works
Gen. 1:1 Gen. 3: Rev. 22:21
Covenant of Covenant of Grace
Works
The Plan of Redemption

4. The Christ came to offer his life to redeem his people.
The coming Messiah:
The Christ came to offer his life
to redeem his people.
“The Christ came … “ –
2nd person of the Trinity

5. Essential Points of The Tri-une God
There is only one divine essence/substance.
In this one essence, there are three persons.
Each divine person has his property.
The divine persons have complete intercommunication and fellowship.

6. Philippians 2:5-7, ESV
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

7. The Christ came to offer his life to redeem his people.
The coming Messiah:
The Christ came to offer his life
to redeem his people.
“The Christ came … “ –
2nd person of the Trinity
2 natures – fully God and fully man

8. Jesus Christ: Two Natures/One Person Forever
As to His Divine Nature:
No Created Beginning No End
As to His Human Nature:
  Began at Birth Also with
No End
from Mortal to Immortal
Jesus Christ: Two Natures/One Person Forever

9. The Christ came to offer his life to redeem his people.
The coming Messiah:
The Christ came to offer his life
to redeem his people.
“The Christ came … “ –
2nd person of the Trinity
2 natures – fully God and fully man
The virgin birth – “her offspring” (rf. Gen. 3:15)

10. For as in Adam, Cor 15:22 
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all die …

11. The Christ came to offer his life to redeem his people.
The coming Messiah:
The Christ came to offer his life
to redeem his people.
“… to offer his life … “
born without sin
Lived his human life in perfect obedience
in thought, word, and deed
& yet died the death of a condemned sinner

12. Only Christ can be both the just and the justifier.
The coming Messiah:
The Christ came to offer his life
to redeem his people.
“to redeem his people.”
Redemption – to claim in exchange
Propitiation – to appease wrath through sacrifice
Reconciliation – to remove all enmity
Only Christ can be both the just and the justifier.

13. Read: Confessing Christ, ch. 3 And Westminster Confession of Faith, ch
Read: Confessing Christ, ch. 3 And Westminster Confession of Faith, ch.s 14-15
Homework:

14. New Covenant Presbyterian Church
Preaching God’s Sovereign Grace
to a World of Need
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