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Jesus is God
Text: Titus 2:11-14
I. The religious world holds diverse views in regards to Jesus
A. Is he a man or God? Or is it possible for him to be both?
B. Oneness Pentecostals argue that there is only one God, and his name is Jesus.
C. Jehovah’s Witnesses also claim there is one God, but state that his name is Jehovah. Jesus is just the first of Jehovah’s creation.
D. It is hard to answer all the arguments, since there are so many. But today I would like to focus whether Jesus is God.
II. Jesus is distinct from the Father
A. Jesus speaks of His Father as a separate being
1. The Father and Jesus are working - John 5:17, 19
2. Jesus speaks of the Father loving him - John 5:20
3. There has been a delegation of authority - John 5:22, 26-27
4. Jesus doesn’t do his own will - John 5:30
5. Jesus mentions that self-witness is useless (John 5:31) and that there are separate witnesses to him (John 5:32), in that list of separate witnesses he mentions the Father (John 5:37-38)
B. The Father speaks of Jesus as a separate being
1. Matthew 3:16-17 - This is my beloved Son, also Matthew 17:5
2. I John 5:9 - God has borne witness of His Son
C. He is listed separately
1. Ephesians 4:4-6 - One Spirit, One Lord, One God and Father
D. Jesus was with God - John 1:1
III. Jesus was also God
A. God alone is to be worshiped - Matthew 4:10
1. Acts 10:25-26 - Man is not to be worshiped
2. Revelation 22:8-9 - Angels refused worship
3. Yet Jesus received worship on several occasions
a. Matthew 8:2 - Healing of the leper
b. Matthew 9:18 - The ruler of the synagogue
c. Matthew 14:33 - The disciples
d. Matthew 15:25 - The Canaanite woman
e. Matthew 28:9 - The disciples after his resurrection, also Matthew 28:16-17
4. The angels were commanded to worship him - Hebrews 1:6
B. God will not give His glory to another - Isaiah 42:8
1. Jesus had the glory of the Father - John 1:14
2. All should honor Jesus, just as the Father - John 5:22-23
3. Jesus had that glory from the beginning - John 17:5
4. That would have been at the time God said he would not share it with another
C. The spirit returns to God - Ecclesiastes 12:7
1. Yet Stephen prays to Jesus to receive his spirit - Acts 7:59
D. Only God knows the hearts of men - I Kings 8:39
1. Yet Jesus knew the hearts of men - Luke 5:22; John 5:24-25
E. God is the only Savior - Isaiah 43:11; 45:21
1. God is our Savior - Titus 2:10
2. But notice just a few verses later - Titus 2:13
3. Jesus is called both God and Savior! As does Peter - II Peter 1:1
F. God is the only Rock - Isaiah 26:4; 44:8
1. I Corinthians 10:4 - Jesus is the Rock
G. God rules the seas and stills the waves - Psalm 89:8-9
1. Jesus stills the sea - Matthew 8:23-27
H. God alone made the world - Isaiah 44:24
1. The world was made by the Word (Jesus) - John 1:3
2. All things were made for and by Jesus - Colossians 1:16
3. God made the world through Jesus - Hebrews 1:2
I. God is, was, and will be - Revelation 1:4
1. The Lord Jesus is, was and will be - Revelation 1:8
J. God declares that He is the first and the last - Revelation 21:5-6
1. Jesus is the first and the last - Revelation 22:12-13
IV. Jesus is a member of God
A. We cannot declare that the Father and the Son are same being because many of Jesus’ statements about the relationship between he and the Father become nonsensical - Matthew 24:36
B. We cannot declare that Jesus lacked deity or lacked deity while here on earth - Colossians 2:9
C. John declares Jesus to be both God and with God - John 1:1
D. The only reasonable conclusion is that there is one God who is composed of three persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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