
LESSON FOUR - THE GODHEAD
“Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord” Deuteronomy 6:4
In our search to understand the Bible it is important for us to seek an understanding of the Godhead. As we have learned, our redemption required the perfect blood of the Lamb to pay for our sins on Calvary. The Bible shows how God came in the form of Jesus Christ, died for our sins, was buried and rose again on the third day.
THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD
John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:14 “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.”
o The Word was God Himself: the “Word” comes from the Greek word, LOGOS which means the thought or the plan of God.
o So in the beginning, God had a plan, a logos, to restore mankind.
o The lamb was slain before the foundation of the world, which reveals that in the mind of God this thought existed.
1 Peter 1:19-20 “But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,”
o God knew that mankind would need to be redeemed. This was God’s Plan of Redemption. God became a Kinsmen Redeemer, who had to be of the same make and model, the same blood line. But how could God redeem man if He is a Spirit, without a body?
o Jesus said in John 4:24 “God is a Spirit.”
LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE SPEECH
Anthropomorphisms are examples of figurative speech about God. (God’s hands, feet, eyes)
Isaiah 53:1 “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?”
2 Chronicles 16:9 “For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth,”
o The Right Hand of God actually refers to a place, or Position of Power and Authority. It is not a literal reference. God could not be the Savior He proclaimed to be without a human body. He had to have the same blood of His creation.
o The Monotheistic View espouses what the Jewish people call the Shema:
Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:”
THE OLD TESTAMENT proclaimed a monotheistic doctrine.
o God spoke about Himself as the one and only God. The 10 commandments also revealed this: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Isaiah 43:10-11 “before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me, I even I am the Lord and beside me there is no savior.”
Isaiah 44:6 ‘I am the first and I am the Last and beside me there is no God.”
Isaiah 44:8 “is there a god beside me?… I know not any.”
Isaiah 44:24 “I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself.”
Isaiah 45:21-22 “There is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; There is none beside me. Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: for I am God and there is none else.”
Isaiah 37:16 “O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God even thou alone of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou hast made heaven and earth.”
Malachi 2:10 - There is only one God; who is the creator.
Zechariah 14:9 - In the time of the Millennial Reign, there shall be only one Lord with one name.
Psalm 71:22 states that the Lord is the Holy One.
THE NEW TESTAMENT declares a monotheistic doctrine.
Romans 3:30 “Seeing it is one God which shall justify.”
I Corinthians 8:4 “There is no other God but one.”
I Corinthians 8:6 “But to us there is but one God.”
I Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God.”
James 2:19 “Thou believest that there is one God: thou doest well; the devils also believe and tremble.”
I John 2:20 calls God the Holy One.
Revelation 4:2 states there is One throne in Heaven and One sits upon it.
THE DUAL NATURE OF GOD
2 Corinthians 5:17,18 “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;”
2 Corinthians 5:19 “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”
John 14:8,9 “Philip saith unto him, Lord show us the Father and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?”
Jesus revealed to Philip the revelation of Who He was. This language infuriated the Pharisees as Jesus continually identified Himself as God, e.g., “before Abraham was, I Am…” John 8:58
REVEALING TRUTH
A powerful truth about God was spoken by Paul concerned the One God, Jesus as God. Paul revealed the mystery to Timothy how God (Yahweh – that Eternal Spirit) became a man (Jesus Christ).
I Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
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