The Lord Jesus
Christ
The Second Person
Of The Holy Trinity
“For
there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy
Ghost: and these three are one.” -- 1 John 5:7
Errors concerning the Trinity and the distinct personality and
Godhead of our Lord Jesus Christ are abundant. And where there is error
regarding the Person of Christ error regarding his work will follow. We must be
clear in our understanding.
God the Son
Our Lord Jesus Christ is God the Son, the second person of the
Holy Trinity. All true believers are Trinitarians. It is written in the Book of
God, "There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word,
and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." Can language be more
specifically clear? This is the doctrine of the Holy Scripture. There is only
one true and living God. "Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one LORD"
(Deut. 6:4).
This one God subsists in three
separate and distinct Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The
Father is not the Son or the Spirit. The Son is not the Father or the Spirit.
The Spirit is not the Son or the Father. But the three divine Persons in the
Trinity are one God, in every way, at all times, and in all things perfectly
equal.
Only Begotten Son
The Lord Jesus Christ is God the eternal Son, the only begotten of
the Father. God the eternal Son, the everlasting Word, was made flesh and dwelt
among us. In him is revealed the glory of God, “the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). Christ alone
is that one of whom the Father says, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am
well pleased” (Matt. 17:5).
Eternal Son
Our Savior is God the eternal Son. He did not become the Son of
God in time. He ever was, ever is, and ever shall be the Son of God. He is the
eternally begotten Son of the Father. No man can explain that! But all who are
born of God believe it! This is the foundational confession upon which the
church of Christ and all the Christianity is built: -- "Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matt. 16:16). The whole of the
Christian faith stands or falls with this doctrine.
To deny our Savior's eternal Deity
and eternal sonship is to deny the whole gospel. “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is
antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. (23) Whosoever denieth the
Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the
Father also” (1
John 2:22-23).
Our eternal election stands or
falls with the eternal sonship of Christ, for we were chosen in him before the
foundation of the world (Eph.1:4; 2 Tim.1:9).Our redemption stands or falls
with the eternal sonship of Christ, for he is the Lamb that was "slain
before the foundation of the world" (Rev. 13:8). Our eternal
preservation stands or falls with the eternal sonship of Christ, for nothing
can survive to eternity but that which came from eternity. Our Lord said,
"Because I live, ye shall live also" (John 14:19). Only God
the eternal Son can save us and make us accepted in himself, as the sons of
God! Therefore, all who know Christ, all who trust him, all who are born of God
rejoice to declare, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God!” Amen.