THE PROOF OF CHRIST’S SONSHIP! by Dr. R. L. Hymers, Jr. A sermon preached at the Baptist Tabernacle of Los Angeles Saturday Evening, April 15, 2017 “Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; Declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead” (Romans 1:3-4). I greatly admired Dr. Wilbur M. Smith for his immense knowledge of Christian literature, and for his integrity in leaving Fuller Seminary in 1963, as it turned away from the inerrancy of the Bible and began to embrace liberalism (see Harold Lindsell, Ph.D., The Battle for the Bible, 1978 edition, pp. 110-112). Dr. Smith asked a penetrating question about Romans 1:4, “I wonder why our greatest preachers never preach on, or at least never publish a sermon on, this faith-assuring text?” (Wilbur M. Smith, D.D., Therefore, Stand, Keats Publishing, 1981 edition, p. 583). I think tha...