subjection under His feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the Church. The Lord Jesus. before His 1ncarnat1on. existed 1n the form of God. and of His own choice laid aside His d1v1ne glory and took upon H imself the form of a servant and was made 1n the likeness of men. In His pre-existent state He was with God and was God. He 1s a d1v1ne person pos sessed of all the attributes of Deity. and should be worshipped as God by angels and man. "In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." All the words that He spoke during His earthly life were the words of God. There 1s absolutely no er· ror of any kind 1n them. and by the words of Jesus Christ the words of all other t achers must be tested. The Lord Jesus became in every respect a real man. possessed of all the essential characteristics of human nature. By His death on the cross. the Lord Je sus made a perfect atonement for sin. by which the wrath of God against sinners is appeased and a ground furnished upon which God can deal in mercy with sinners. He red med us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse rn our place. He who Himself was absolutely w ithout sin was made to be si n on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. The Lord Jesus 1s coming again to this ear·th. personal ly. bodily, and visibly The return of our Lord is the blessed hope of the believer, and 1n 1t God's purposes of gr·ace toward mankind will find their con summation. The Holy Spirit is a person, and rs pos sessed of all the distinctively divine attributes. He 1s God. Man was created in the image of God, after His likeness, but the whole human race fell in the fall of the first Adam. All men, until they accept the Lord Jesus as their personal Savior, are lost, darkened 1n t heir understanding, al ienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is 1n them, hardened 1n heart, morally and spiri tually dead through their trespasses and sins. Th y cannot see, nor enter the ki ng dom of God until they are born again of the Holy Spirit
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