Chafer, Bible Doctrines: God the Son part 2

God The Son

Thursday 19 May 2011

Areas covered in this section:
Study chapters 8-13 in Major Bible Themes.
God the Son: His Deity & Incarnation
God the Son: His Incarnation
God the Son: His Substitutionary Death
God the Son: His Resurrection
God the Son: His Ascension and Priestly Ministry
God the Son: His Coming for His
God the Son: His Coming with His Saints
Although we have studied some aspects of Jesus
in considering Evans’ book Chafer will take a
more traditional approach to the subject


God The Son
His
Resurrection

A. Resurrection in the OT
Resurrection of men and
Christ are taught in the OT -
Job 19:25-27
Specific OT prophecies of
resurrection of the human
body - Job 14:13-15, Isa
26:19, Dan 12:2
The resurrection of Christ -
Ps 16:9-10 - not seeing
corruption is not being in the
ground long enough for a
body to decay (Acts 2:24-31)
Ps 22: 22, 118:22-24

B. Christ’s prediction of his own
resurrection

These are frequent
and explicit in the
Gospels, making it
hard to question:
Matt 16:21, 17:23,
20:17-19, 28-29,
31-32, Mk 9:30-32


C. Proofs of the resurrection of Christ
There is a lot of NT evidence
for the resurrection - at least
17 post resurrection
appearances:
1. To Mary Magdalene - Jn
20:11-17
2. To women - Matt 28:9-10
3. To Peter - Lk 24:34
4. Emmaus Road - Lk
24:13-35
5. When Thomas was
absent - Lk 26:34-43


6. To the 11 a week after the
resurrection - Jn 20:26-29
7. To 7 disciples by Galilee -
Jn 21:1-23
8. To 500 - 1 Cor 15:6
9. To James, the Lord’s
brother - 1 Cor 15:7
10. To the 11 on the
mountain in Galilee - Matt
28:16-20
11. When ascending from
the Mt. of Olives - Lk 24:44ff
12. To Stephen before he was
martyred - Acts 7:55-56


13. To Paul on the
Damascus road - Acts 9:
3-6 14. To Paul in Arabia -
Acts 20:24
15. To Paul in the temple
- Acts 22: 17-21
16. To Paul in prison in
Caesarea - Acts 23: 11
17. To John - Rev 1:
12-20


D. Reasons for the resurrection
Christ arose...
1. Because of who he is -
Acts 2:24
2. To fulfill the Davidic
covenant - 2 Sam 7:12-16,
Isa 9:6-7, Lk 1:33-35
3. To give resurrection life
- Jn 10:10-11, 11:25-26,
Eph 2:6
4. To be the source of
resurrection power - Matt
28:18, Eph 1:19-21


5. To be head over the
church - Eph 1:20-23
6. Because our justification
has been accomplished -
Rom 4:25
7. To be the firstfruits of
resurrection - 1 Cor 15:
20-23


E. The significance of the resurrection
The resurrection is the most
important proof for the deity
of Christ - power over death
and sin is therefore the divine
standard.
Chafer suggests the first day
of the week in this
dispensation is about
commemorating the
resurrection not observing
the sabbath.
1 Cor 15:17 -And if Christ
has not been raised, your
faith is futile and you are still
in your sins.

God The Son
His Ascension
and Priestly
Ministry
This is a really terrible
picture of Jesus


A. The fact of the ascension of Christ
Mk 16:19, Lk 24:50-51, Act
1:9-11 - predicted in Jn 20:17
Acts 1:9-11 says this was a literal
fact -”...he was lifted up, and a
cloud took him out of their
sight. And while they were gazing
into heaven as he went...This
Jesus, who was taken up from
you into heaven, will come in the
same way as you saw him go into
heaven."
There is significance in this being
a literal event as Jesus will
return in the same way.

B. The arrival of Christ in heaven

On a number of
occasions scripture
testifies to Christ having
arrived in heaven:
Acts 2:33-36, 3:21,
7:55-56, 9:3-6, Eph
1:20-22, Php 2:6-11,
Heb 1:3, 13, 2:7, Rev
1:7, 13-18, 5:5-12,
6:9-17, 14:1-5,
19:11-16


C. The meaning of the Ascension

The return of Christ to heaven
marked the end of his earthly
ministry. Also his glory, which
had been hidden whilst he was
on earth, returned. His
entrance into heaven was in
triumph and into a new work at
the right hand of the Father.
Ps 110:1, Matt 22:24, Mk
12:36, 16:19, Lk 20:42-43


In heaven he is
universal Lord awaiting
his triumphal second
coming to earth. Christ
is on the Fathers throne
in heaven, not the
Davidic earthly throne.
Earth will one day be his
footstool and he will
have a throne on earth -
Matt 25:31


D. The present work of Christ in heaven
There are 7 truths relating to
Christ and his church and his
present work within it:
1. He is the last Adam, head of
the new creation
2. Head of the Body of Christ
3. The Great Shepherd
4. The True Vine
5. The chief cornerstone
6. The High Priest
7. The Bridegroom
His present chief ministry is as
High Priest representing the
church before God

1. As high priest Christ ministers
in heaven on behalf of those who
belong to him in the world. Heb
8:1-2
Being received by the Father shows
his earthly ministry has been
accepted. Sitting on the Fathers
throne shows that he is expecting a
time when his kingdom will come on
earth and his will be done “on earth
as in heaven” The time will come
when
Rev 11:15 -"The kingdom of the
world has become the kingdom of our
Lord and of his Christ, and he shall
reign forever and ever." (also Ps 2:8)

2. As high priest he gives
spiritual gifts - spiritual abilities
given by the HSp.
Rom 12:3-8, 1 Cor 12:4-11 -
Chafer says these are examples,
but that the life has to be wholly
yielded to God for the gift to be
fully experienced - Rom 12:1-2,
6-8
Also Eph 4:7-11 shows gifts of
men given locally to the church
1 Cor 12:11 -All these are
empowered by one and the same
Spirit, who apportions to each
one individually as he wills.


3. The ascended Christ
intercedes for his people -
begun by him before he left
the earth - Jn 17:1-26 - he
does this knowing the
weakness and limitations of
his people - his care f Peter is
used to illustrate this - Lk
22:31-32
Christ’s intercession is
unending
Heb 7:25 -he is able to save
to the uttermost those who
draw near to God through
him, since he always lives to
make intercession for them.

4. Christ stands before God on
behalf of his own - sin
separates the sinner from God
and is removed only by what
Jesus did. 1 Jn 1:9
What effect does our sin have
upon a holy God?
Because of Christ’s advocacy we
have absolute security even when
we are sinning! An advocate
pleads the case of another
Heb 9:24 -For Christ has
entered... into heaven itself, now
to appear in the presence of God
on our behalf.


Rev 12:10 - ...for the
accuser of our brothers has
been thrown down, who
accuses them day and night
before our God.
Satan accuses us before God
day and night - we need the
intercession of Jesus. God
does not treat any sin lightly
and it needs the blood of
Jesus to be pleaded before
God to preserve and free us
from Gods righteous
judgement of sin.


This knowledge is given
to help us stop sinning,
not to make excuses for
us to sin - 1 Jn 2:1 -My
little children, I am
writing these things to
you so that you may not
sin. But if anyone does
sin, we have an advocate
with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous.


E. The present work of Christ on earth
Christ is said to indwell and be
with his church even whilst he
is in heaven - Matt 28:18-20
He abides in his church by
giving eternal life to them - Jn
1:4, 10;10, 11:25
Jn 14:23 -"If anyone loves
me, he will keep my word, and
my Father will love him, and
we will come to him and make
our home with him.”
Christ calls people to his body,
empowers and sanctifies them
to be his witnesses on earth.

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