The Deity Of Jesus Christ

Text: John 10:30; John 1:1, 14

30 I and my Father are one.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

1. His Titles Proclaim His Deity

• Jesus in the New Testament has inscribed to Himself multiple titles, or names, that proclaim His deity. The titles attest to the fact that Jesus is more than a mere man.

1) The

of God (Mt 16:16-17)

2) The Alpha and Omega (Rev. 1:8, 17-28)

• Note the glorious titles of “the Alpha and the Omega,” “the Beginning and the End,” “the First and the Last,” “the Almighty,” “the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come.” Read all these titles of Deity, and note that each one in context can be applied specifically to Jesus. This book is the revelation of Jesus the Divine Son!

3) The

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One

(Acts 3:14)

4) The Lord of All (Acts 10:36)

5) The Lord (Acts 9:17)

6) The Lord of

(1 Cor 2:8)

7) The Word of God (John 1:1, 14)

• Jesus is called “the Word”, the Logos of God. As the Logos, He is the manifestation or expression of God to us, “the image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:15). “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being” (Hebrews 1:3). He “came from the Father.” As the Logos, Jesus “the Word was with God, and the Word [Jesus] was God.”

8) The Son of

(Mt 26:63-65; Rev 1:12-13; Dan 7:13-14)

2. His Divine Works Proclaim Of His Deity

1) Jesus

the universe (John 1:1-3, 14; cf. Col 1:15-17)

2) Jesus preserves and upholds all things (Heb 1:1-3; Col 1:17)

3) Jesus

sins (Mk 2:5-12)

• The Jewish leaders in this passage are incensed when Jesus claims to forgive sins because only God can forgive sin. Jesus then proves His divine authority to forgive sin by demonstrating His divine authority over all sickness.

4) Jesus will judge the quick and the dead (2 Tim 4:1)

5) Jesus

eternal life (John 17:2)

3. His Equality With God Proclaims His Deity (Mt 28:19; 2 Cor 13:14)

1) Equality in nature (Phil 2:5-8)

2) Equality in authority (name) (Mt 28:19)

• The name of Jesus Christ is coupled with that of God the Father in numerous passages in a way in which it would be impossible to couple the name of any finite being with that of Deity by which equality with the Father is plainly implied.

3) Equality in association (2 Cor 13:14)

4. His

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Life

Proclaims His Deity

• Jesus lived a perfect life. He was sinless. (cf. Mt 26:59; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:22)
• This verse points out that even his enemies knew that they couldn’t charge him with doing anything morally wrong. They couldn’t charge him with one legitimate sin. The Bible says, He “was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). He “committed no sin, nor was guile found in His mouth” (1 Peter 2:22).

5. His Miracles Proclaim His Deity (John 5:36; 10:38; 21:25)

• Jesus referred to his miracles as
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  signs
  that pointed to His divinity.

6. His

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Prophecies

Proclaim His Deity

7. His Assertions Proclaim His Deity

• Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I
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  am
  .” (John 8:58 KJV)
• Either that was true … or it was false. Was He a liar, a lunatic, or something more?

C. S. Lewis: Christian Scholar:

I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.”
That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about Him being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pp. 55-56).

8. The Application Of The Truth Of His Deity

1) Receive Jesus as my

(Titus 2:13; Titus 1:4; cf. Mk 2:5, 7; Eph 1:7; John 14:6)

2) Submit to Jesus as

(Mal 1:6-8; Eph 6:7; Col 2:23; 1 Cor 10:31)

3) Follow Jesus as my

(Phil 2:5-8; 1 Pet 2:21)

4) Find in Jesus my

(1 Tim 1:1; Titus 2:13)