That’s gonna be a startling title for a lot of people. Needs to be said, just as bluntly: Jesus is Y
Yeah he’s the son of God.
Philippians 2.6-8 KWL - 6 Existing in God’s form,
- he figured being the same as God wasn’t something to clutch,
- 7 but poured himself into a slave’s form:
- He took on a human likeness.
- 8 He was born; he was found human in every way.
- Being obedient, he humbled himself to death: Death by crucifixion.
John continues:
John 1.14-18 KWL - 14 The word was made flesh. He encamped with us.
- We got a good look at his significance—
- the significance of a father’s only son—filled with grace and truth.
- 15 John testifies about him, saying as he called out, “This is the one I spoke of!
- ‘The one coming after me has got in front of me’—because he’s first.”
- 16 All of us received things out of his fullness. Grace after grace:
- 17 The Law which Moses gave; the grace and truth which Christ Jesus became.
- 18 Nobody’s ever seen God.
- The only Son, God who’s in the Father’s womb, he explains God.
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Hence Jesus, who is God, knows precisely what God’s like. He was sent from God to explain God to us, as God’s revelation of himself. What we know about God must be filtered through Jesus. Like John said, only Jesus explains God. ’Cause he’s God.