“The Person of Jesus Christ”

God the
Father
Matt. 28:19-20
Mark 12:29
Deut. 6:4

“Trinity”
God the God the
Son Holy Spirit
 The Deity of Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ
The God-Man

The Incarnation of The Divine Emptying

Jesus Christ (kenosis)
Jesus is the central figure of the world’s
history. The world cannot forget Him
while it remembers, for history is his
story. In short, Christ himself is the very
center of human history.
 Why Christians must study the person of
Christ?

The study of the person of Christ is most important

because of the vital relationship which He sustains to
Christianity: a relation such as is not sustained by the
founder of any other religion. (Matt. 16:18, 28:20)
 The Deity of Jesus Christ

While Jesus Christ was really man, He was also

truly God.

Isaiah wrote about the coming Son of God Who

would die for the sins of the world (Isaiah 53) in
Isaiah 9:6 he writes “For to us a child is born, to us
a son is given and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God.”
The disciple Thomas acknowledged Him as “My
Lord and my God” (John 20:28).

 In Titus 2:13, Jesus is called “our great God and

Savior” so it is clear that Jesus is God and “in him
all the fullness of God was pleased to
dwell” (Col 1:19) and “in him the whole fullness
of deity dwells bodily” (Col 2:9).
 The Incarnation of Christ

 The word incarnation means “the act of being made

flesh.”(Heb. 2:14) It comes from the Latin version of John
1:14, which in English reads, “The Word became flesh
and made His dwelling among us.”
 God Manifested in the flesh. I-Tim. 3:15-16
 In a nutshell, The incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ is His
act of taking upon Him the nature of man to execute
and fulfil God’s redemptive plan. Gal. 4:4,5
 The Self-Emptying of Christ
(kenosis)


The term kenosis comes from the Greek
word kenoo, translated "emptied“
 Philippians 2:5-8 King James Version
 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus:
 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God:
 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon
him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men:
 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, and became obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross.
The self-Emptying (kenosis) of Christ,
which was a voluntary act, consisted
in a surrender of the independent
exercise of the divine attributes.
It was the union of the human and the
divine that limited the Logos. He laid
aside the form of God. By so doing, He did
not divest Himself of His divine nature. The
change is the change of state: the form of
a servant for the form of God. (Luke 22:42)