Our passage this week reveals much about Jesus’ identity, and since it coincides with this evening’s theology lesson about the person of Christ, I thought it might be helpful to provide the church’s most widely-embraced confession of what the Bible says about Jesus’ identity. The following excerpt comes from the Nicene Creed, crafted in 325 in response to rampant false teaching about the person of Jesus, and we need it just as much today as the church needed it 1,700 years ago! Listen to this helpful summary of the biblical teaching about Jesus:
I believe in … one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God
begotten of the Father before all worlds;
God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God;
begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father;
by whom all things were made.
Who, for us men and for our salvation,
came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary,
and was made man;
and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered and was buried;
and the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures;
and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father;
and he shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead;
whose kingdom shall have no end.
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Mike