Stephen J. Wellum

“What a glorious Savior he is! Once again consider Christ in his entire identity, life, and work. In his birth, he is the divine Son and Lord who chooses to become our Mediator in obedience to his Father’s will. In his life, as the incarnate Son, he is still the sovereign King who willingly and gladly chooses to die for us. In his death, he does not die as a victim or martyr but as one who is fully in control, choosing to die for us. By his death, he pays for our sin, destroys death, and defeats Satan by putting him under his feet in triumph. In his resurrection, which is inseparable from his life and death, the Father by the Spirit exalts the Son and inaugurates the glorious new covenant age of the new creation. From that posture of authority, the glorified and exalted Son pours out the Spirit, once again proof that he is Lord and Messiah/King. From that same posture of authority, the exalted and ascended Lord rules over his people, governs history, and will return in power to consummate all that he has begun in his first coming.”
― Stephen J. Wellum, Christ Alone---The Uniqueness of Jesus as Savior: What the Reformers Taught...and Why It Still Matters

“In Scripture, the human problem of sin before God is a serious one. Our only hope is that God himself acts to redeem by satisfying his own righteous demands against us. Scripture is clear: we don’t need a man indwelt by or joined in some kind of union with God the Son to redeem us; what we need is the divine Son to assume our human nature in his own person so that he can represent us and act on our behalf as our new covenant head and substitute.”
― Stephen J. Wellum, The Person of Christ: An Introduction