Lesson 2 – The Son (Outline)

Lesson 2 – The Son

John 1:1-2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.

Hebrews 1:8 But of the Son, ”Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation,

  1. Christ is the eternal and only begotten Son of God, the Second of the Divine Trinity 1, 2, 3
  2. He is self-existing, ever-existing, and coinhering with the Father and the Spirit in eternity.
  3. He is, with the Father and the Spirit, the only God 4, 5
  4. He is the Creator 6, and all things were created through Him 7, 8, cohere in Him 9, and will be an inheritance unto Him as the Heir 10, 11
  5. In time He became a man through His incarnation, a God-man having both divinity and humanity as His nature 12, 13
  6. He is the effulgence of God’s glory and the impress of God’s substance 14
  7. He is the embodiment of God 15
  8. He is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation 16

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Bible References:

  1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. (John 1:1-2)
  2. No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. (John 1:18)
  3. Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (Matthew 28:19)
  4. Whose are the fathers, and out of whom, as regards what is according to flesh, is the Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen. (Romans 9:5)
  5. But of the Son, ”Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom. (Hebrews 1:8)
  6. And, ”You in the beginning, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of Your hands; (Hebrews 1:10)
  7. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not one thing came into being which has come into being. (John 1:3)
  8. Because in Him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or lordships or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and unto Him. (Colossians 1:16)
  9. And He is before all things, and all things cohere in Him; (Colossians 1:17)
  10. Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through whom also He made the universe; (Hebrews 1:2)
  11. Because out from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen. (Romans 11:36)
  12. And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality. (John 1:14)
  13. Since therefore the children have shared in blood and flesh, He also Himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death He might destroy him who has the might of death, that is, the devil, (Hebrews 2:14)
  14. Who, being the effulgence of His glory and the impress of His substance and upholding and bearing all things by the word of His power, having made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (Hebrews 1:3)
  15. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, (Colossians 2:9)
  16. Who is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation, (Colossians 1:15)