For the Lord Jesus, being the Christ seems to him have been primarily about being set apart by God for the purpose of being sent to judge and to testify to the truth, but not as someone like other great human beings who fail to satisfy God’s will that there be justice and provision for the poor, but rather Jesus was sent as the good shepherd, giving his life for the sheep. So those who believe in him have him as light to live by, light to learn from, light to be spiritually happy by having his faithful and truthful sayings to which they can hold, and having him as a good shepherd to save them from living sinfully, so they need not die in their sins. This is what it means that he is the Christ. In all of this, because Jesus has fully lived up to this, the Father is happy to identify Jesus as his Son, choosing him to be forever this Lord and Christ, having raised Jesus from the dead, after Jesus died on a cross as sacrifice for sins of all, for you and for me.
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