Deity of Jesus

We commence the third Lord’s Day Sunday in the first month of the year two thousand and twenty-six, in the same mind, heart and desire as we concluded last week. We earnestly and truthfully desire to be our Lord’s serving disciples, His sheep, His children, His Church, so that others will see Him in us. We believe that God, who is invisible, truly delights in being seen in His children and more than that, He maintains an active role in this. He is the One who makes this happen, as He instructs, determines and directs how He shows and reveals Himself in His creation.

Scripture reveals to us, in understandable terms, that in various times and in various ways, God, who is the Invisible God, when He wanted His people to hear Him and know Him, spoke to them through the prophets. However, Scripture also informs us that God has chosen to do the same, through His Son Jesus. We must understand clearly that God has changed, neither His mind nor His desired pleasure of having His children know Him. What He has changed is the manner of achieving such a privileged and precious gift.

Listen to what is told us in Hebrews 1: 1 - 3. God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom He has made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. God has revealed Himself in Jesus, the Living Word made flesh.

Most sadly, and utterly grievous at that, is the fact that even today, many still do not receive Jesus as God’s Son. Additionally, some who do believe that Jesus is God’s Son, categorically refuse to believe that God and Jesus are One. They ask questions such as these. How can the Son be the Father and the Father be the Son? How can there be claim to One God?  

Whatever doubts, disbelief, misgivings or other problems of faith people have with God and Jesus being One, the fact remains that they are One. This has been testified to by the Holy Trinity Himself. Which creature is more intelligent and more knowledgeable than his or her Creator God? Who dares doubt the infallible, indelible Word of Father, Son and Holy Spirit? Whether we believe, disbelieve, or vacillate between two sides, the following Bible passages are useful and beneficial to us all.

Can we dispute the testimony of John about his beloved Lord, Jesus, God the Son? No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son who, is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. John 1: 18

Can we flaw the witness of God the Father? Is Father God’s witness about His Son being sent by Him, He Himself incarnate, to be disbelieved and cast away as false, mere human lies? I am One who bears testimony of Myself, and the Father who sent Me bears witness of Me. John 8: 18. 

Can we denounce the testimony of God the Holy Spirit, He who is the Spirit of Truth? Did Jesus not promise His disciples that when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide them into all truth? But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. John 15: 26. Be convincingly assured that God the Holy Spirit will testify, in teaching all truth, to the fact that Jesus and God are One.  

Let us thank the Trinity for unlimited, visible, credible testimonies of the relationship between Jesus and God. Let us pray daily that we do not think ourselves, our knowledge, or our experiences as more credible than Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Believe you me, it is easy to deny the Deity and Lordship of Jesus, Son of God, as we shall be noting, in the coming days.