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“If we were to to uproot only
one vice each year we should
soon become perfect.”
The Imitation
of Christ, Thomas à
Kempis
The Christian faith of the
first century of Christianity
was centered on the
person and work of Jesus
Christ. The preeminence of
Christ was the focus of the
early preaching in the
church. Christianity is Christ,
and as in many other passages.
“Have this attitude in
yourselves which was also in
Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 2:5-11
Even before His incarnation,
Jesus was in the form of God
and was equal to God. Jesus
Christ eternally possesses all of
God’s attributes. He is God. he
existed in the form of God, is
not referring to a bodily appearance,
but is a strong way of
proclaiming the deity of Jesus
Christ. His deity never alters or
changes.
Jesus, in His high priestly
prayer the night before His crucifixion,
referred to His glory
which I even had with You before
the world was.
John 17:5
He was referring to the glory
He enjoys on par with His
heavenly Father.
The event that staggers the
mind almost beyond comprehension
is the fact that the Second
Person of the Trinity laid
aside the manifestation of His
divine glory and took upon
Himself the form of a common
household slave. He became
flesh. He is the God-man. He
was fully God and fully man.
He is God in the flesh. The
Word became flesh, and pitched
His tent in our very midst, testifies
the apostle.
John 1:14,18
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