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The striking thing in the Scriptural representations of the priestly work of Christ, is that Christ appears in them as both priest and sacrifice.
Louis Berkhof
Systematic Theology (365) Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hangs upon the cross! This is the greatest sight you will ever see. All of Grace (48)
When Jesus speaks of God as Father, he is implying that he is divine, an implication that is not lost on those around him. The God Who Is Triune: Revisioning the Christian Doctrine of God (Kindle Locations 261-262). Kindle Edition.
As Prophet he represents God with man; as Priest He represents man in the presence of God, and as King He exercises dominion and restores the original dominion of man. Rationalism recognizes only His prophetic office; Mysticism, only His priestly office; and Chiliasm places a one-sided emphasis on His future kingly office.Systematic Theology, 357
The sweetest life is the one which nestles the most quietly and unquestioningly in the bosom of Jesus.
How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
The universe is no democracy. It is a monarchy. God himself has appointed his beloved Son as the preeminent King. Jesus does not rule by referendum, but by divine right. In the future every knee will bow before him, either willingly or unwillingly. Those who refuse to do so will have their knees broken with a rod of iron.
Jesus might well have been up there in front standing with John and calling on sinners to repent. Instead he was down there with the sinners, affirming his solidarity with them, making himself one with them in the process of the salvation that he would in due course accomplish. If there is a reference to Isaiah 53, it is relevant to note that in that chapter we read: he "was numbered with the transgressors" (Isa. 53:12). There may also be something of the Israel typology here. Jesus himself had no need of repentance, but Israel certainly did; in submitting to John's baptism Jesus is pointing to the people's need. Matthew pictures Jesus as dedicating himself to the task of making sinners righteous, an appropriate beginning of his public ministryMatthew Commentary
Is Jesus Christ ordained of God to be the Judge of the living and the dead? Great then is the security believers have, that they shall not be condemned on that day.
He died to save them, and he will never cross and over throw the designs and ends of his own death.
So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself-that He created the tree upon which He was to die; and nurtured from infancy, the wicked men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood!
Jesus Christ went more willingly to the cross—than we do to the throne of grace.
It is in virtue of his priestly office and in pursuance of his priest function that he makes atonement for sin. He indeed was the lamb slain, but he was also the priest that offered himself as the lamb of God to take away the sin of the world.
Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.
We have all things in Christ. Christ is all things to a Christian. If we are sick, Jesus is a physician. If we thirst, Jesus is a fountain. If our sins trouble us, Jesus is our righteousness. If we stand in need of help, Jesus is mighty to save. If we fear death, Jesus is life. If we are in darkness, Jesus is light. If we are weak, Jesus is strength. If we are in poverty, Jesus is plenty. If we desire heaven, Jesus is the way. The soul cannot say, 'this I would have, and that I would have.' But having Jesus, he has all he needs—eminently, perfectly, eternally.
Christ not man is King
The frequently heard accusation that no Greek or Roman historian before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century mentioned Jesus and his movement demonstrates only the critic's ignorance of the situation of the ancient sources.
Between 30 and 120 CE there are no historians preserved for us who could have written about Jesus and his movement Christ and the Christians, except for Josephus, Tacitus, and Suetonius - and they do so!Hengel / Schwemer (2019: 207 - 8)
At the threshold of his public ministry, he silenced the Baptist's objections to baptizing him with the words "thus it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness"-or, as the NEB puts it, "we do well to conform in this way with all that God requires" (Matt. 3:15). Unlike those others who were baptized by John in the Jordan, confessing their sins, it was with no consciousness of sin that he accepted baptism, but with the resolution to place himself unreservedly at God's disposal posal for the accomplishment of his saving purpose-and if, in doing so, he associated himself publicly with sinners, that was something which he was going to do throughout his ministry, until he was "numbered with the transgressors" on the cross.
The Epistle to the Hebrews
the startling claim that a man who had recently lived and been crucified by the Romans was the one in whom all things are held together. What holds the universe together is not an idea or a virtue, but a person: the resurrected Christ. Without him, electrons would not continue to circle nuclei, gravity would cease to work, the planets would not stay in their orbitsThe letters to the Colossians and to Philemon (pp. 125-126). Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
You can tell that the theory of [The Son's] creation out of nothing is most ungodly because the Father is always present with the Son. Indeed, this is why he is called "Father." The Father is perfect in the eternal presence of the Son with him. He needs nothing to supplement his goodness, and begot the only begotten Son not in time, nor after an interval, nor out of nothing.Epistula ad Alexandrum Constantinopoleos 7
We do not speak of two gods, we do not think of the unity of the Son with the Father in terms of the similarity of their teaching, but in terms of being (ousia) and reality. So we speak...of one God who exists as one form of divinity, like the relationship of light to its ray.De synodis, 52.1
Of all the prophets and teachers of Israel, he [Jesus] was the only one who came to speak about himself. When talking with the Pharisees, he reproached them for claiming to have a knowledge of the Scriptures but failing to see that they spoke about him.God Has Spoken (65)
All things are indeed possible for God, but we should remember that he has ordained that his power be displayed in weakness. Our conception of who God and Christ are must always take into account that God does not work in the way we might expect him to.Knowing Christ (40)
If God's essence could change, a being more powerful than God would have to change it. It is true that we sometimes read of God 'repenting'; however, this is anthropomorphic language, which depicts the infinite, eternal, and unchangeable God, who is spirit, in human terms.Knowing Christ (38)
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