We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), the second Person of the Trinity, is God the Son from all eternity and He is without beginning or end. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He became fully man without ceasing to be fully God. Jesus lived a sinless life. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience and sinlessness. In His substitutionary death on the cross, bearing our judgment, He made provision for the redemption of man from sin. He made the unique, once and for all substitutionary sacrifice for the personal sins of all mankind. Three days after His death and burial, He rose from the dead with a glorified body, demonstrating His power over sin and death and signifying the acceptable completion of His salvific work by God the Father. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of the Father. There He is the one Mediator between God and man as the believer’s High Priest, fully God and fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and Man. He will return some day for His Church to gather them as promised (the rapture of the Church), and later He will reign on the earth as King of King and Lord of Lords. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever-present Lord.
Genesis 18:1ff.; Psalms 2:7ff.; 110:1ff.; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 1:18-23; 3:17; 8:29; 11:27; 14:33; 16:16,27; 17:5; 27; 28:1-6,19; Mark 1:1; 3:11; Luke 1:35; 4:41; 2:26-38, 22:70; 24:46; John 1:1-18,29; 3:16, 36, 10:30,38; 11:25-27; 12:44-50; 14:7-11; 16:15-16,28; 17:1-5, 21-22; 20:1-20,28; Acts 1:9; 2:22-24; 7:55-56; 9:4-5,20; Romans 1:3-4; 3:23-26; 5:6-21; 8:1-3,34; 10:4; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2:2; 8:6; 15:1-8,24-28; 2 Corinthians 5:19-21; 8:9; Galatians 4:4-5; Ephesians 1:20; 3:11; 4:7-10; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:13-22; 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; 3:16; Titus 2:13-14; Hebrews 1:1-3; 4:14-15; 7:14-28; 9:12-15,24-28; 12:2; 13:8; 1 Peter 1:18-19, 2:21-25; 3:22; 1 John 1:7-9; 2:2, 3:2; 4:14-15; 5:9; 2 John 7-9; Revelation 1:13-16; 5:9-14; 12:10-11; 13:8; 19:16