Matthew 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

John 20:31 But these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you may have life in His name.

God is not only revealing the person of the Lord Jesus to us. He is also revealing His ministry to us. In His person, the Lord Jesus is the Son of God; in His ministry, He is the Christ of God. The word Christ is the same as the word Messiah, which means the anointed One. An anointed person is one who is joined to God's work. In the Old Testament, when a man was appointed by God to be a priest, a prophet, or a king, he was anointed with ointment. Hence, an anointed one is one who is commissioned and sent by God to accomplish His work and fulfill His plan. The Lord Jesus is the Christ of God. This means that God's eternal plan is accomplished through Christ....

The Son of God does not have a beginning, in the same way that God does not have a beginning. But God's Christ came into being when God's eternal plan came into being. Christ was established for the fulfillment of God's plan. The anointed One was separated for God's special work. From that point on, God's Son became God's Worker, His messenger, and His Christ. From that point on, all of God's work, all of His hopes, and all of His goals were centered on His Son. From that point on, God's Son is not only God's Son, He has also become God's Christ. God's Son became God's Christ and the anointed One for the purpose of accomplishing God's eternal plan.