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Jesus is God


Jesus asked His Disciples, "Who do you say I am?" (Mark 8:29). The answer to this question determines what people believe about Him. There are those that say Jesus is a great teacher, there are those that say he was prophet and then there are those that believe He is Messiah (Christians). But the term Messiah is only one part of who Jesus is to a believer. For Messiah denotes kingship and a direct line from David, but does not always involve deity. Thus Jesus is also the Son of God and The Bridegroom. When we dig deeper into the identity of our Lord and Savior, we discover that Jesus is God. The Scriptures say,

"Long ago God spoke in many different ways to our fathers through the prophets in visions, dreams, ad even face to face, telling them little by little about his plans. But now in these days he has spoken to us through his Son (Jesus) to whom he has given everything and through whom he made the world and everything there is. God's Son shines out with God's glory, and all that God's Son is and does marks him as God. He regulates the universe by the mighty power of his command. He is the one who died to cleanse us and clear our record of all sin, and then sat down in highest honor besides the great God of heaven (The Father). Thus he because far greater than the angels, as proved by the fact that his name "Son of God," which was passed on to Him from His Father, is far greater than the names and titles of the angels. For God never said to any angel, "You are my Son, and today I have given you the honor that goes with that name. But God said it about Jesus." (Hebrews 1:1-6, TLB).

From this large portion of the first chapter of Hebrews we can see that Jesus is not just prophet, He is not just a great teacher, nor is he as the Jehovah Witnesses believe an angel. He is the Son of God and Is God! If Hebrews cannot convince, then let us turn to Jesus' own words in the Gospels. Jesus said, "I and the Father are One (John 10:30). If you have seen me You have seen the Father," (John 14:9) and "Father let them be One as you and I are One." (John 17:21). In the Greek Lexicon this is not One like a marriage union (the two shall become one), but literally One essence!

Defending the deity of Jesus is becoming regular experience these days. So many are willing to call him Rabbi and Prophet, but Son of God and God Himself? That is where the disputes begins. I believe Jesus is God. In fact the angel Gabriel told Mary Jesus' name which is "Immanuel, which means God with us." (Matthew 1:23). St. Paul said the same, "For in Jesus all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form," (Colossians 2:9). Then there is a lengthy passage by Paul that reads:

"Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.  Therefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Philemon 2:5-8)

Jesus (Immanuel, Yeshua) is God! He is God in the flesh, incarnate, fully God and fully Man! While understanding the Trinity perfectly is impossible, we can be confident that Jesus is God, for even the words in Philemon that speak of God the Father proves Jesus is God for as I have already cited above, "Jesus and the Father are One." It is thru Jesus that we can access the other persons of the Father and Holy Spirit which are One with Jesus! I am Trinitarian and true Trinitarians believe Jesus Christ is God, just as the Father and Holy Spirit are God; they are Three but One God. I defend this Truth and Sound doctrine because it is the "Truth of God and Not the invention of any man." (Rich Mullins).

I write this post because at the present moment Christ's deity is under attack by Atheists, Agonistics, and even some Christians. It is are belief that Jesus is God that separates us from everyone else. Almost all religions will agree Jesus is Great Teacher and even a prophet, but God.. that is only for the Bible Believing Believer. As the Apostle John said, "Jesus was the Word of God made flesh," (John 1:14) and as St. Peter said, he is "The Christ, The Messiah, and the Son of God." (Matthew 16:16). Any other answer and you get all the other false religions and cults. Likewise Christ is flesh and Man, but He is both not One or the Other. He is 100% God and 100% Man. The One time God Man and Savior of all Sinners Who Trust and Believe in Him. We need to fear or worry that we do not go directly to the Father or Holy Spirit, for both draw us to Jesus and Jesus clearly says That He is "the only way to the Father," (John 14:6) and that if you have seen him, "you have seen the Father."

Jesus is God. I finish this post with this powerful verse, "If anyone acknowledges Jesus as Son of God, God lives in them and they in God." (1 John 4:15).

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