We are not going to look at all those phrases today, but we are going to look at this clause which really has four parts to it: “Jesus, Christ, His only Son, our Lord”–four parts.
1. Jesus--the humanity of Christ.
2. Christ--the Messiahship of Christ.
3. His only Son--the unique, divine, Sonship of Christ.
4. Our Lord--the Lordship of Christ.
Those are the four things I want you to see today. The humanity of Christ, the Messiahship of Christ, the unique, divine Sonship of Christ, and the Lordship of Christ. Now, these things are so basic to many of us that it be very easy to skip over them, so let's remember as we study these things that we're studying our Lord, what more appropriate thing would there be to do in the worship of God than to learn about God. What more practical thing could there be in the worship of God than to learn about God, and if we already know these truths about God, to grow deeper in our embrace of these truths about God.