Christology
The Study of Christ is often called Christology in most institutes of "higher" learning.
Names and Titles:
Christ:
The word Christ is found 532 times in the New Testament. It is only used 60 times in the gospels. 17 in Matthew, 7 in Mark, 13 in Luke, and 23 in John. Over half of them were repeats of what the other gospel writer said.
The gospel of John uses the title Christ more than all three other gospel writers do which makes sense because his was written later that the other four by many years.
Christ means the annointed one.
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the LORD.
Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost by God at his baptism prior to his beginning his public ministry:
Matthew 3:13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. 14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? 15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. 16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Acts 10:37 That word, I say,ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; 38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
To be annointed ment to be set apart to do something special. Prophets, Preists and Kings all were to be annointed with before begining their public ministry service.
The difference was that all three of them were anointed with oil while Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost.
We today in the dispensation of Grace are anointed with the Holy Ghost the moment we believe and are baptized by the Holy Ghost into the body of Christ:
2 Corinthians 1:21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
The title of Christ is synonomous with the Hebrew word Messiah found only twice in the Old Testament and twice as the Greek word Messias in the New Testament:
Messiah:
Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall bewith a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Messias:
John 1:41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
John 4:25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
The Name Jesus
Jesus is an English (Anglicized) version of the Greek translation of the word Joshua in Hebrew. It means God is salvation.
Jesus is never called Jesus by any of his disciples in the gospels, he is always addressed as Lord, Master, Messias, Rabbi, Rabboni, Teacher, the Son of the living God, or as the Christ, never as just Jesus.
Only one time in the gospels is the name Jesus used by any of his disciples as they walked unknowingly along with him on the road to Emmaus:
Luke 24:17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? 18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? 19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
And even here he was not being called by his name personally. They did not know who they were talking to and they were simply using his name to identify who he was to him.
The name Jesus is used directed to Jesus by a devil:
The name Jesus is mentioned by the "multitudes" in Matthew 21:11 to identify him to those asking who it was as he entered into Jerusalem. They had identified him only as the Son of David as he was approaching the city.
The name Jesus is mentioned to Peter by a damsel in Matthew 26:69 and again by a maid two verses later as each tell Peter that they each saw him with Jesus.
Pilate uses his name when addressing the crowd at his trial in Matthew 27:22 and his name is used on a sign that was nail to his cross along with the title King of the Jews.
An angel mentions his name at the tomb in Matthew 28:5 when talking to the women who were there.
Blind Bartemaus is the only human being to say the name of Jesus to Jesus himself in all of Scripture and immediately the disciples told him to hold his peace (which literally means to shut your mouth) Mark 10:47. He replies the second time leaving off his name and identifying him by one of his titles, thou Son of David and Jesus heals him.
* Do you see a pattern developing here? You should!
Ten lepers use the name Jesus in Luke 17:13 along with the title Master and Jesus heals them of their leprosy. This is a rare exception and notice the 9 Jewish ex lepers never return to give him thanks because they were not his disciples. They believed he could heal them but they would not follow him.
The one who did return was a Samaritan.
Jesus himself utters his own name as he addresses his Father in John 17:3 in his prayer and interestingly enough he adds the title Christ when he refers to his name. We love the name of Jesus as so we should, but how much do we call him him Lord, Master etc..,?
That is the example that God lays out for us in his word and we should reverance the name as well. Jews are good at reverancing the name of Jehovah and out of respect they don't even say it. They same was true of the name Jesus.The disciples never called Jesus, Jesus to his face out of reverance.
Today Christians and non Christians use his name irrevrantly all the time. If you are going to use the name of Jesus, you are to follow the example laid out for us in scripture. It is perfectly fine to say, "Jesus said this, or Jesus did that, or Jesus is my Saviour" but to use his name when you stub your toe is to use it in vain.
Remember the disciple in all 625 times the name of Jesus is mentioned never one time called him by his name but always referred to him by his titles. How far we have gotten away from that. If you use his titles to the lost world we will be told to shut up today because they don't want to hear about who Jesus is. Try it and see and then keep doing it.
Jesus Christ 198 Times
Christ Jesus 58 Times
Lord Jesus Christ 85
He is never called the Lord Jesus Christ in the four gospels, he is called that eight times in the book of Acts three of which Paul is speaking and Paul himself in his epistles uses the title the Lord Jesus Christ 68 times for a total of 71 times.
Lord means Master
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