Romans 9:5 - To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
John 1:1,18 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
Colossians 2:9-10 - For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
Matthew 28:19 - Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Luke 1:35 - And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
2 Corinthians 13:14 - The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Colossians 1:15,18-20 - He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation…And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
Titus 2:11-14 - For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Hebrews 1:8 - But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
2 Peter 1:1-2 - Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Application:
· Christ, who is God, is one of the clearest statements of the deity of Jesus Christ found in the entire New Testament.
· Jesus was God in the fullest sense.
· The declaration that the very essence of deity was present in totality in Jesus’ human body was a direct refutation of Gnostic teaching.
· Disciples were to be baptized as a sign of their union with and commitment to Christ.
· Jesus never sinned.
· God the One and Only is an explicit declaration of Christ’s deity.
· The mystery of the Holy Trinity is known to be true not through rational or philosophical explanation but through Christian experience, whereby the believer knows firsthand the grace, the love, and the fellowship that freely flow to him from the three Persons of the one Lord God.
· This figure of Christ being the image of God suggests two truths: (1) God is invisible; (2) Christ, who is the eternal Son of God and who became the God-man, reflects and reveals Him.
· Christ was the first to rise from the dead with a resurrection body.
· For Paul fullness meant the totality of God with all His powers and attributes.
· So when Christ died on the cross, He made peace possible between God and man, and He restored in principle the harmony in the physical world, though the full realization of the latter will come only when Christ returns.
· The great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, is an explicit testimony to the deity of Christ.
· The Messianic King is Deity, further demonstrating the Son’s superiority over angels.
· God and Savior Jesus Christ assumes that Jesus is both God and Savior.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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