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Christ, as head of the church, regulates in a way which stimuli or issues the body responds to, and which are “ignored.” For example, the big issues in the early church had to do with Jesus Christ and his divine and human natures, leading to our Creeds. In the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance
Christ, the Son of God in human nature, who died for our sins on the accursed tree, and was raised for our justification, who is exalted at the right hand of God the Father, and who will come again in glory, was anointed from before the foundation of the world to be the only visible representative o
Christ’s success is not measured carnally by how many accept the gospel, nor by counting how many are brought under its political and cultural influence. Christ teaches that he is victorious when each one of his elect are plucked from the kingdom of Satan while all others reject that same preaching.
Christ is king of His Church, so the Scriptures teach us. God set Him, His King, upon (His holy hill of Zion, Ps. 2:6. He reigns over the house of Jacob, and of His kingdom there shall be no end, Luke 1:33. God raised Him up from the dead and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Ep
Christ is not engaged in mortal combat with the devil-the outcome of which combat is yet to be decided, and hinges upon some future events. The battle was fought and won on the cross of Calvary. Christ rules supreme. An even then, He does not rule in spite of all this wickedness which abounds on the
Christ's loyalty to His church is encouraging. Because He is faithful, He promised that He will be with His church even unto the end. He will not forsake His people. He will not leave His sheep and lambs so that they are destroyed by the devil, by the world, or by themselves. He is our good Shepherd
Christ, not a classis or a synod, is the unifying principle of the kingdom of heaven. He draws all men (His people) to Himself. Upon Him do they focus their eye. He is our life, hope and expectation. Looking to Him we are conformed according to His own glorious image and, as a consequence, begin t
They seek, in their hatred, to destroy Christ and the church, for the church represents the cause of Christ in the world. Bitterly opposed to this kingdom, and hateful of all that is of it, they set themselves in opposition to God and to Christ as they seek to establish their own kingdom of sin and
Christ is the convocated first-born so that in Him, all Gods glory and God Himself are manifested in words and works. II. In this day we shall have hope especially because this shall be the Day of Christ. The Day of Christ can never come until all His representatives are gathered together to be glor
It is somewhat pious-sounding to say; We preach Christ; and the Christian faith is Christ-centered. There is a secondary sense in which this is true, for we know no God save the one revealed in and through Christ. Christ is the beginner and completer of our faith. All authority has been given unto H