JESUS CHRIST IS GOD

There are many who think they do honor to the Lord Jesus Christ when they say that, "Christ is like God", or that "Christ is a God". They do him no honor at all. Their pretended honor is naked blasphemy! Their religion is a mockery of the Lord Jesus Christ, for he claimed that he is very God of very God. Did he not say, "Before Abram was, I AM" (John 8:58)? Did he not declare "I and my Father are one"(John 10:30)? While our Savior lived upon this earth, he claimed to possess the attributes of God: righteousness, infinity, eternality, omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. And he fully demonstrated the truthfulness of his claims.

The Word of God expressly declares that Jesus Christ is God. "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever" (Ps. 45:6; Heb. 1:8). "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us" (I John 3:16). "Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever" (Rom. 9:5). "Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh" (I Tim. 3:16). While he was upon the earth his disciples worshipped the Lord Jesus Christ as God, and were never reproved for doing so. "Thomas said unto him, my Lord and my God" (John 20: 28). Had he been merely a good man, or even an angel, he would have surely rebuked any who called upon him and worshipped him as God (Rev. 19:10).

If our Savior had been nothing more than a good, righteous man he could never have redeemed us and justified us before God's holy law. Only God could render perfect righteousness of infinite merit to the law. Only one who is both God and man in one glorious Person could have suffered to full satisfaction the infinite justice of God, so as to merit by one great sacrifice the eternal salvation of God's elect. The Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, is "Immanuel", God with us, God in our nature, the God-man our Mediator. Were he not God, he was the greatest imposter who ever lived; and we are all miserably lost and without hope.