The amazing Person of Christ

Lorraine Boettner on the Person of Christ. He lists contrasting descriptions of Christ all bound up in the one amazing Person of Christ.

Hence in view of the fact that Christ has two natures, and depending on which nature we have in mind, it is proper to say that He is infinite or that He is finite, that He existed from eternity or that He was born in Bethlehem, that He was omniscient or that He was limited in knowledge. In His composite personality He was, on the one side, “of the seed of David according to the flesh,” and on the other He was “declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead,” Rom 1:3-4.

Consequently the Scriptures present Him as the son of David, yet David’s Lord. He is born an infant, yet is the Ancient of Days. He is the son of Mary, yet at the same time God over all, blessed forever. He is weary in His journey, yet He upholds all things by the word of His power. He can do nothing without the Father, yet without Him was not anything made that hath been made. He is bone of our of our bone and flesh of our flesh, yet might readily have clung exclusive to His equality with God. He takes the form of a servant, yet His proper and natural form was the form of God. He increases in stature, yet is the same yesterday, today and for ever. He increases in wisdom, yet know s the Father perfectly. He is born under the law and keeps the law, yet in His own name He gives a new and more perfect law and proclaims Himself the Lord of the Sabbath and greater than the temple. His soul is troubled, yet He is the Prince of Peace. He goes to His death at the command of the Roman governor, yet He is the King of kings and Lord of lords. He is received up into heaven out of the sight of His disciples, yet continues to be with them even to the end of the world. Hence the Gospel writers sometimes present Him as the Divine, sometimes as human, — not that we are able to take one and leave the other, but that we are to accept Him as a Divine-human person, incarnate Deity, whose whole earthly life was but an episode in the existence of a heavenly Being.

Studies in Theology, pg 197-198

Meditate this season on the amazing Person of Jesus Christ!