Last week on Things Unseen, we were thinking about one of the most wonderful and yet one

of the most intellectually challenging topics we could ever discuss, the person of the Lord

Jesus Christ.

You remember how Paul puts it, great is the mystery of Godliness.

He was manifested in the flesh.

Being about the person of Christ brings us again and again to the point where we say,

Lord, you are too great and high for me, and you stooped so low in taking my humanity.

I want to confess the mystery of your person.

I want to know you and trust you and love you better.

So I thought this week it would be good for us to go on thinking about Jesus, but this

week to talk about his work rather than his person.

But I think exactly here we need to avoid a misstep.

We often talk about the person and the work of Jesus Christ, and our theology textbooks

tend to do the same thing, let's have a very natural division, his divine person,

in two natures as a huge topic to study.

And then what he came to accomplish his work, that's another huge topic to reflect on.

But we mustn't over separate Christ's work from Christ's person.

His work took place in space and time in our history, but it didn't take place outside

of Christ.

We speak about his person and his work, but we can't abstract his work from him, as

though it was something separate from Christ, something outside of him.

Not all his work for us, he himself did in himself.

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