Focal Point U - Dr. Mike Fabarez

In Christology Part 10: The Significance of the Resurrection, Pastor Mike Fabarez explains why the bodily resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of Christianity. Walking through key texts like Revelation 1, 1 Corinthians 15, Isaiah 53, Romans 1, and Hebrews 2, he shows what’s at stake: if Christ didn’t rise, the message is empty and our sins remain—but if he did, Jesus is the promised Messiah, death is defeated, and believers have a living hope and a future resurrection patterned after his.

A twelve-part study on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Christology – Part 9 explores Jesus’ three messianic offices—Prophet, Priest, and King—showing how Old Testament anointing patterns and promises culminate in Christ. Pastor Mike Fabarez traces “Messiah/Christ” as “the Anointed One,” then connects Scripture’s prophetic word (Deut. 18; Matt. 17; Heb. 1), priestly mediation (Ps. 110; Gen. 14; Heb. 6–7), and kingly rule (Isa. 9; Luke 1; Rev. 11) to Christ’s unique fulfillment. The study calls believers to learn from Him as the ultimate Prophet, trust Him as the perfect High Priest, and submit and worship Him as the reigning King.

A twelve-part study on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

The Names of Christ is a rich, devotional study that explores the biblical titles and names of Jesus as windows into His character, authority, and saving work. Moving canonically through Scripture, Pastor Mike Fabarez highlights how the many names of Christ—from Lamb of God and Good Shepherd to Cornerstone, Advocate, and Alpha and Omega—reveal who He truly is and why He is worthy of worship. This message is designed not as a technical theology lecture, but as a heart-level call to deeper devotion, richer prayer, and greater worship through a fuller vision of the glory, power, wisdom, and grace of Jesus Christ.

A twelve-part study on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

A practical teaching on Philippians 2:5–11 and the debated doctrine of kenosis (“He made himself nothing”), this Christology lesson explains what Christ’s “emptying” does not mean (no loss of deity, no partial divinity, no inability to exercise divine power) and argues it means Christ’s humble, voluntary restraint—not that He could not, but that He would not independently exercise His divine privileges. Drawing on parallel texts (John 14; Colossians 2:9; Hebrews 1; 2 Corinthians 8:9; Isaiah 53; John 17; Mark 10:45), it highlights Christ’s self-imposed humiliation—adding true humanity for our salvation—while maintaining the hypostatic union (100% God, 100% man), clarifies that sonship is eternal and not kenosis, and recommends Gordon Fee’s Pauline Christology for further study.

A twelve-part study on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

In this in-depth teaching, Pastor Mike Fabarez walks through the critical biblical doctrine of Christ’s humanity and explains how the early church defended the truth that Jesus is both fully God and fully man. Drawing from key passages like 2 John, Luke 2, John 4, Hebrews 4, and others, this session unpacks the reality of Christ’s physical body, human mind, emotions, and sinless perfection.

Pastor Mike also surveys the major Christological heresies of the first five centuries—Docetism, Ebionism, Arianism, Apollinarianism, Nestorianism, and Eutychianism—and shows how the church councils at Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon clarified and preserved orthodox doctrine.

This message is both a theological deep dive and a passionate call to remain grounded in the unchanging truth of Scripture. If you want a clear, historically informed understanding of the hypostatic union and why accurate Christology matters for your faith, this session is essential listening.