Welcome to Gospel in Life.

Who is Jesus?

The Bible says he's fully God, the creator of the universe, and at the same time, fully human.

Lose one of those and you lose Christianity.

Join us for today's podcast where Tim Keller explores the person and promises of Jesus Christ.

Every January and June, the pastors get together and we do a short series together on some theme or subject.

And what we're doing here in the month of January,

and actually if you want to see how the subject's divided

and how all the assignments have been divvied out,

you can find that on the very back page of the bullet and tells you what we're

doing in January. We're speaking about, we're talking about how to understand Jesus. Now, that

means that somebody might say, but aren't you always talking about how to understand Jesus?

And the answer is, every so often it's a good idea to give people a helicopter ride in a

comprehensive way a look at the biblical doctrine of Christ. The biblical doctrine of Christ means a look

at all the various facets of what the Bible teaches about Jesus. The Bible teaches us about Jesus person. He is human

and he's divine. And in the Scott last week, in the morning and evening service, dealt with that.

And it's very, very important, you see, at certain points to take a look at the two sides of what the Bible teaches about Christ's personage.

Because if you only see him as human and not divine or only see him as divine and not human, you get into some tremendous trouble.

And you have a distortion of what it's not Christianity. Whatever you come up with,

it's not Christianity unless you keep that together. And the Bible, besides teaching those two

great things about his person, the Bible teaches three great things about his work. All of the

things the Bible tells us that he has done fit into three basic categories. He's a prophet, he's a priest, and he's a

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