Benjamin Dean, Author at Great Truths

Author: Benjamin Dean

12. The Confession’s Verdict

Everything Christ Bought, He Delivers

Before turning to the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Leiden professors have two final theses worth catching. Both concern how Christ’s rule differs now from how it will be.

11. One Office, Three Functions

Four Dutch Professors Set It Out

The four Leiden professors offer a summary of the Bible’s teaching on the office of Christ, with corrections to misunderstandings still with us today. The Synopsis frames Christ’s mediatorial work not as three separate offices but as one office with three integrated features.

10. Where It All Ends

The Father

The pattern of spiritual conquest is nothing new. It’s what the church has exhibited from its very beginnings, and Jonathan Edwards traces its outworking through the early centuries with characteristic verve:

9. He Left With His Hands Raised in Blessing

Christ’s universal government, vast as it is, has its most intimate expression in the life of the individual believer.

8. The King Who Rules as a Slaughtered Lamb

Christ’s kingly enthronement does not leave his priestly sacrifice behind. The two remain fused in a single image.

7. He Is Praying for You Right Now

Christ’s intercession has two components, and they belong together.

6. Appointed, Not Self-Appointed

Jesus is both the only-begotten eternal Son of God and the only perfect human being.

5. Both the Priest and the Sacrifice

The words for ‘priest’ in Scripture (Hebrew kōhēn; Greek hiereus, archiereus) occur almost 900 times — 740 in the Old Testament, 151 in the New.

4. Has Prophecy Stopped?

Alongside the ongoing preaching ministry, the New Testament names a number of individuals who function as prophets. Caiaphas (John 11:49-52). Agabus (Acts 11:27-30; 21:10-11). Barnabas, Simeon, Lucius, Manaen and Saul — who are also called ‘teachers.’ And the four unmarried daughters of Philip the evangelist (Acts 21:9).

3. The Voice That Doesn’t Stop

Christ is the decisive and ultimate Mediator of Divine speech. He does not merely speak truth; he is ‘the truth’ in Person (John 14:6).

2. Both the Prophet and the Prophecy

Before turning to the prophetic office, one further question deserves a hearing: should there be a fourth? It can be suggested that a four-fold office would be a more balanced way of approaching the work of Christ, complementing Prophet, Priest and King with ‘Servant.’

1. Not Three Jobs

One Person Seen Three Ways

Before turning to Prophet, Priest, and King individually, it’s important to grasp how they hold together. Calvin’s concern was not to catalogue three discrete jobs Christ performs, but to describe the Mediator’s single identity seen from three angles.

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