I would like to have a Bible study with you. Maybe you don't even need to consider this a sermon, but I'd like to have a Bible study with you. I want to make sure that there's one thing about the person of Christ that you understand, and that is who He is. Before we get devotional about Christ, before we get sentimental about Christ, we need to understand who He is.
The Christian faith is built on an accurate Christology. Christology is the essential foundation of salvation truth. It's really important to get Christ right. Who is He? Over the last two weeks I read a book by Alister McGrath. The title of the book is Heresy--fascinating book in which McGrath chronicles the history of heresy and its battle with orthodoxy. And at the heart of that battle has been the nature of Christ, going all the way back to the fourth, fifth, sixth century, all the way back to Athanasius, all the way back to Augustine, all the way back to the early church councils. The issue at stake was who is Jesus Christ?...
Taken from the Resolved conference ©2010 by John MacArthur. Used by permission of Resolved. For more information, visit www.resolved.org.