March 4
There are literally hundreds of verses that verify the deity of Jesus Christ. The Mormon teaching that he is "a" god, that he is the brother of Satan, that we will one day be like him in the sense of possessing any kind of personal deity is preposterous, so I won’t make any attempt here to refute it. I gladly engage any of them if they come to my home to try teaching me their false doctrine, but for today I want to focus on a few key verses and ideas that guarantee for us He is divine, He is the second person of the trinity, and that he is God’s only provision for man’s sin.
He is divine. That means he is all God. He possesses all the attributes of God: immutability (unchangeable as to His character), omniscience (possesses all knowledge Jn. 2:24), omnipotence (all powerful), and omnipresence (is everywhere at one time). To understand how all of these things are true about Jesus, we must grasp a concept called hypostatic union. It is a concept that means the following. Jesus always existed with God the Father. At the appointed time, He came to earth and took up the body of a child, which grew into a man, and lived a sinless life. During that earthly life in a human body, He always depended entirely on the indwelling Holy Spirit for the ability to do the things He did that demonstrated His deity (Luke 3:21, 22). Hypostatic union is the union between God and man. He was entirely human as a physical being and entirely God in nature as a spiritual being at the same time. He is the unique Son of God. There was nor will there ever be another like Him. He is currently seated at the right hand of God interceding for the saints (Heb. 7:25).
He is the second person of the trinity. God is one being who manifests himself in three distinct persons. If we fail to believe this we haven’t a snowballs chance in hell of being saved (Rom. 10:9). Matthew, Luke, and John testify countless times that He is the Son of God. His followers testified that He was the Son of God. His enemies believed He claimed to be the Son of God. And the countless miraculous healings, calming of the storm, walking on water, and resurrection from the dead verify He was and is the Son of God. It’s interesting to note that He appeared many times in the Old Testament. Those appearances are called Christophanies. He appeared to Abraham (Gen. 17), to Hagar (Gen. 16), to Jacob (Gen. 32:24-30), Gideon (Judges 6), and Samson’s parents (Judges 13). Usually when He did so the reaction of those to whom He spoke verify who he was when they responded, “We have seen God face to face!” He was called “The” Angel of the Lord.
He is God’s only provision of man’s sin. In John 14:6 Jesus claims no man can come to the Father but through Him. In Acts 4:12 Peter declared, having just preached a sermon on the death and resurrection of Jesus to the religious leaders of his time, “. . . there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” It is not great men of great faith who get saved. It is those who humbly come to the foot of the cross and confess their complete inability to do anything for themselves, admit they are lost sinners on their way to hell for all eternity, believe He has come in the flesh, that He resurrected from the dead (Rom. 10:9), confess Him as Lord, and crucify the flesh daily (take up their personal cross and follow in His footsteps). Jesus is God, the Son; He is God's only provisiion for man's sin, If you are a born-again, regenerated, God loving, bible thumping, disciple of Christ, go and tell someone what great things He has done for you today. If not, you're broken; I urge you to get on your knees before Him and ask Him to fix you.
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