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2LCF Chapter 8 - Of Christ the Mediator, Part 4
The person of the Lord Jesus Christ — his true humanity, sinlessness, and mediatorial office — is examined through paragraphs 2, 3, and 7 of the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith chapter 8. The session works through the Virgin birth by the power of the Holy Spirit, the essential properties and common infirmities of Christ's assumed human nature, his sinlessness according to that nature, and the role of the Holy Spirit in equipping him for his mediatorial task. Paragraph 7's doctrine of the communicatio idiomatum is then treated, establishing what may and may not properly be said of Christ given the hypostatic union of two natures in one person.
The Incarnation and True Humanity of Christ
Philippians 2:5–11 anchors a study of the incarnation and true humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ. Drawing on the Nicene, Constantinopolitan, Chalcedonian, and Athanasian creeds together with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, the study traces three aspects of the incarnation — assumption of human nature, the virgin birth, and the union of two natures in one person — before marshalling seven biblical proofs of Christ's full humanity. The central argument throughout is soteriological: the Son of God must be truly and perfectly man, body and soul, yet without sin, because only such a mediator can make propitiation for guilty sinners and be their faithful high priest.
The Three Whos of Christ
How does Christ serve as the supreme example for Christians called to suffer in an ungodly world? Expounding 1 Peter 2:21–24, this sermon identifies three Christological realities Peter sets before suffering believers: Christ's sinless messianic humanity, His non-retaliatory resolve under verbal abuse and physical torment, and His substitutionary curse-bearing on the cross. The sermon argues that substitutionary atonement is not a negotiable theological option but the irreducible heart of the gospel, and calls believers to wonder at the Savior who bore their sins in His own body while refusing to revile those who reviled Him.