Look at verse 30 where the Bible read,
And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God.
And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth the Son, and shalt call his
name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest.
And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David.
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be
no end.
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the
power of the Highest shall overshadow thee.
Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of
God.
And right here we have a couple different things mentioned, but specifically we're talking
about the Lord Jesus Christ, and why he's called the Son of God in chapter number one
is very clear.
It's because he has no earthly father.
The context of this passage is Mary saying, well, how are we going to, where's this guy
coming from?
I mean, if I'm going to be having a child, where's the father?
Who's the father?
Because I've never been with any man before, and we see that the power of the highest was
going to overshadow her.
And so the name of this child is going to be the Son of God.
Why?
Because God is his father.
Now we think about Jesus Christ.
There's a lot of different viewpoints of Jesus Christ in this world today.
The Muslims would say that Jesus Christ is, you know, perhaps he's a created being.
The Muslims would say that Jesus Christ is a good man.
He was a prophet of the Lord.
He was sent by him.
But they would deny that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, okay, which clearly already just
said he was the Son of God, all right?
But additionally, they would deny his deity.
They would deny that Jesus is actually God as well.
And we look in Christianity and we look in other, you know, cults like Jehovah's false
witness.
We look at Mormons.
Jesus Christ is attacked for who he is.
He's attacked at the premise of being the Son of God.
But the title of my sermon this evening is really just about the deity of Jesus Christ.
It's just Jesus is God.
Jesus is God.
And I love preaching on this subject or about this subject because there's just so much
Bible and it's a really important doctrine that we nail down.
And I think when you talk to different people, sometimes, you know, it seems obvious to us
to say, yeah, Jesus is God, but sometimes it's a little more difficult to prove in the
Bible.
So, I'm hoping to tax this from a lot of different angles and give you a lot of ammunition as
to why Jesus is God.
But we're going to start with the first topic of the fact that he's called the Son of God.
But being the Son of God actually proves the deity of Jesus Christ as well.
Now, I have to say this, you can be called the Son of God for a few different reasons.
Look at chapter 3 for a second and look at verse 38.
The Bible says in Luke chapter 3 verse 38, which was the Son of Enos, which was the Son
of Seth, which was the Son of Adam, which was the Son of God.
So, according to the Bible, Adam is also called the Son of God.
Additionally, in the Bible, it says, behold, now are we the sons of God, right?
And we become the sons of God.
So, there's a few different ways to look at this phrase, the Son of God.
Luke chapter 1, the only thing that it means in Luke chapter number 1 is the fact that
Jesus had no earthly father.
Just like Adam had no earthly father.
So, if you said, hey, Pastor Shelley, who are you?
Well, I'm the son of Trey.
Say, who's Trey?
Well, that's my dad, okay?
I'm the son of Mr. Shelley, right?
And there was a Shelley before him.
Well, I don't know exactly.
It's a weird lineage.
I'm the son of my father, right?
So, if I were to say, who is Jesus the son of?
He's the son of God because he had no earthly father.
He's not the son of Joseph.
It's as opposed.
The same goes with Adam.
Adam had no earthly father.
Therefore, both of them can be called the Son of God.
But Adam is not God and Adam is not Jesus Christ.
You know, we're not Mormon today.
If you're Mormon, then you believe the Son of God
always refers to the deity of Jesus.
But that's not necessarily true
because clearly we have a passage mentioning
the fact that Adam was the Son of God.
He's not Jesus Christ.
He was a created being, okay?
So, there's a difference between Adam and Jesus Christ.
But go to Hebrews chapter seven.
Let's see why Jesus is actually significant
when he's called the Son of God
in other places in scripture.
And some lying devils will sometimes take you
to Luke chapter one to prove that Jesus
became the Son of God in Mary's womb.
Well, that's not true.
Jesus Christ has always been the Son of God.
And in fact, the Son of God has always existed.
There's never been a point in time
when the Son of God has not existed.
And that's crystal clear in scripture.
It says in Hebrews chapter seven verse one,
for this Melchizedek, king of Salem,
priest of the most high God,
who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings
and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part
of all, first being by interpretation,
king of righteousness, and after that also king of Salem,
which is king of peace, without father,
without mother, without descent,
having neither beginning of days nor end of life,
but made like unto the Son of God,
abideth a priest continually.
So, the Bible tells us about an Old Testament picture
or character of Melchizedek and says this guy
is like the Son of God.
And you say, in what way?
Well, they have no descent.
They don't have any beginning of days nor end of life.
Meaning what?
The Son of God has no descent.
He has no beginning of days.
He has no end of life.
Jesus Christ was not created in Mary's womb.
The Lord descended from heaven and became a man.
The word became flesh and dwelt among us,
is what the Bible teaches.
So, even though Jesus Christ is called the Son of God
in Luke chapter one, because he had no earthly father,
that's not really the reason why we call him
the Son of God.
We call him the Son of God because he is the Son of God
from eternity past.
That's why he's the Son of God.
That's what we recognize.
So, when we say, behold, now are we the sons of God?
We don't mean that in the sense
that we're from eternity past.
We mean that in the fact that what?
God's now our father.
That's what we mean by that.
So, it could mean three different things.
It could mean you're Jesus Christ.
It could mean that you don't have any earthly father,
or it could just mean now spiritually God is your father.
So, there's a few different ways
you could look at that phrase, the Son of God.
But if the Son of God, definition number one,
which is meaning you have no beginning of days
or end of life, that actually proves your deity.
That proves that you are God.
Go if you would to Luke chapter two,
go back to Luke chapter number two.
The Bible says the first man, Adam,
was made a living soul.
The last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
So, the first Adam was physical, was carnal.
The second Adam, meaning Jesus Christ,
he's a quickening spirit.
And the Bible then tells us in Romans five,
nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses,
even over them that had not sinned
after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
who is the figure of him that was to come.
So, why is Adam created?
It's to give us a picture of who Jesus Christ is.
But Adam is not that actual person.
He's just a figure.
The Mormons actually believe that Adam is the Son of God.
Like, they believe that he is Jesus Christ.
They don't believe in that distinction.
So, that's Mormon doctrine if you believe that, okay?
But Luke chapter number two, we make it clear again
that Jesus did not have an earthly father.
Look at verse 48.
And when he saw him, they were amazed.
His mother said in him,
Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?
Behold thy father, and I have sought thee sorrowing.
And he said unto them,
How is it that you sought me?
Wist ye not that I must be about my father's business?
So he's saying, hey, I'm not doing what you want.
I'm doing what my father really wants, which is what?
God the father.
That's why it says in verse 50,
and they understood not the saying which he spake in them.
They're like, I don't, no, I am the father.
But they didn't understand
that he was talking in a spiritual way, okay?
Go if you go to John chapter eight, John chapter number eight.
So my first point, and I have a lot of points,
but the first point is that being the son of God
actually makes Jesus Christ God.
Jesus Christ is God because why?
He doesn't have any kind of descent.
Now, we know that he was born of Mary,
but that's not when he came into an existence.
That was just the vehicle in which he used
to enter into the world.
That was the vehicle by which he became a man
and became flesh.
And because he was born of Mary,
he's not just the son of God.
He's also the son of man.
That's another definition.
He's fully God, but he's also fully man.
Why is he called the son of man?
Because he was born of a virgin Mary,
because he actually became a man.
He was born of mankind.
So that's why he's the son of God.
That's why he's the son of man, okay?
But here's another thing.
The son of man also proves his deity.
We're gonna see that in scripture.
Now, there's these people that hate this.
They're Muslims, okay?
Muslims hate Jesus being God.
They hate Jesus in general.
And it's funny because people that are attacking
the Trinity, you know, you're like,
oh, this is a new thing.
Look, Muslims have attacked the Trinity
since the beginning of Muhammad.
And Mormons have attacked the Trinity.
Look, Trinity deniers have always existed, okay?
They hate Jesus Christ.
They hate the son of God.
They don't believe in him.
And so there's no new thing under the sun.
And there's this website I looked up.
It's called the Quranic Warners.
And it's basically people that believe in the Quran.
They're Islamic.
And they'll try to twist scripture
and try to say that Jesus Christ never even claimed
to be the son of man, or never claimed to be the son of God,
or never claimed to be God, or any of these things.
And they twist this phrase, the son of man,
to say something that it's not.
This is what they said.
Jesus said, if you do not believe that I am the son of man,
then you will die in your sins, okay?
They also say, then they all said,
are you then the son of God?
Jesus said, you say that I am.
And thus it is the Christians
who say Jesus is the son of God.
So they try to make this argument
where they claim that Jesus went around saying
I'm the son of man,
but the Christians called him the son of God.
And then when Jesus asked about, well, you say that I am,
like this weird, like, what do you think?
Even just being called the son of man, he's still God.
Let's prove some of this, okay?
Look at John chapter eight, verse 24.
This is the verse that they're quoting.
I said, therefore, unto you
that you shall die in your sins.
For if you believe not that I am he,
ye shall die in your sins.
Now, this is in context of it being the son of God, okay?
But go to Luke chapter 22,
go to Luke chapter 22 and go to John chapter three.
Go to John chapter number three.
I want you to actually turn to that place in your Bible.
But let's just take their folly for a second.
In Matthew chapter number nine,
Jesus Christ says in verse six,
but he may know that the son of man
hath power on earth to forgive sins.
Then sayeth he to the sick of the palsy,
Arise, take up thy bed and go unto thine house.
So Jesus Christ, when he healed people on this earth,
he said, I want you to know that the son of man
hath power to forgive sins.
Now, who has power to forgive sins but God?
None, I don't hear them answering that question.
Oh yeah, well, the son of man,
according to Jesus, can forgive sin.
Who could do that but God?
Here's another point, John chapter three, look at verse 13.
And no man hath ascended up to heaven,
but he that came down from heaven, notice this,
even the son of man, which is in heaven.
Isn't it interesting that he even used that particular phrase
to denote that he was in heaven?
Why?
Because Jesus Christ is the same.
Yesterday, today, and forever.
But think about this.
In Genesis, he said, let us make man in our image.
Jesus Christ was the son of man in Genesis chapter number one.
And what image did they make man after?
Jesus Christ's image.
Oh, he became a man.
Look, you don't understand the Bible.
And Trinity deniers,
they just don't understand the Bible, okay?
But look, they say, well,
he never said he was the son of God.
Okay, well, let's see what he did say
in Luke chapter number 22.
Look at verse 66.
And as soon as it was day,
the elders of the people and chief priests
and the scribes came together and led him
into the council saying, art thou the Christ, tell us.
And he said to them, if I tell you, you will not believe.
That's what I have for every Muslim.
Well, if I can show you a verse where Jesus did say that,
would you believe it?
No.
If I can prove it to you over and over again, no.
Says in verse 68, and if I also ask you,
you will not answer me, nor let me go.
After shall the son of man sit on the right hand
of the power of God.
Then said they all, art thou the son of God?
And he said to them, ye say that I am.
So that's where they're quoting it, okay?
They're saying, oh, he called himself the son of man.
And when they say they're the son of God,
he's just saying, you say it.
Well, here's the silliness of this, okay?
They said that the Christians are the ones saying that.
I'm pretty sure this is the Pharisees
that are saying that, first of all, okay?
So they missed that boat pretty far.
Second of all, the son of man's sitting
right next to God the Father.
Who's allowed to do that?
Now go to Matthew 27, go to Matthew 27.
So you have to just disregard so much other scripture,
though, because John chapter number three
said that the son of man is in heaven,
and he's the one that came down from heaven.
Why?
Because he's God.
In the beginning was the word,
and the word was with God, and the word was God.
Jesus Christ, the son of man,
he's always been the son of man.
He's always been the son of God.
He's always been everything that he is
because he's the same.
Yesterday, today, and forever.
I have a lot more that we'll get to in a moment,
but look at Matthew 27, verse 43.
This is them talking about Jesus.
He trusted in God, let him deliver him now,
if he will have him, for he said, I am the son of God.
So you'd have to believe that they're lying here
because they said, when they're recounting,
well, this is what Jesus was saying.
Jesus was saying, I'm the son of God.
I mean, oh, I guess that was a lie too, wasn't it?
How about John chapter 19?
I'll go to Hebrews two, go to Hebrews two.
John chapter 19, verse seven, the Jews answered him.
We have a law, and by our law, he ought to die
because he made himself the son of God.
How is it that the Jews keep saying,
we want to kill him because he was saying
he was the son of God?
We want to kill him because he made himself the son of God.
We want to kill him because he made himself equal
to the son of God.
We don't like the sign you put up there,
the king of the Jews, you know.
We don't like all these things.
Just say he said that, you know.
It's kind of like that same spirit came on the Muslims.
Wow, he wasn't calling himself the son of God.
Well, we'll get there in a minute, okay?
We'll go to Hebrews chapter number two.
My third point is that Jesus is God
because God was manifest in the flesh.
And the Bible says in Hebrews chapter two,
look at verse nine, but we see Jesus,
who is made a little lower than the angels
for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor,
that he, by the grace of God,
should taste death for every man.
And so Jesus Christ is gonna become lower than the angels,
okay, because God, think about this,
God could have come in any form that he wanted, couldn't he?
He could have come in the form of himself,
in all of his glory.
He could have come in an angel,
but he came even lower than that.
He came in the form of what?
Mankind.
Says in verse 16, for verily,
he took not on him the nature of angels,
but he took on him the seed of Abraham,
wherefore in all things it behooved him
to be laid like unto his brethren,
that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest
in things pertaining to God,
to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
So the Bible says that he took upon himself
the nature of what?
Mankind, of the seed of Abraham.
He's made like unto his brethren.
Go to Colossians chapter one.
Now that fits perfectly with 1 Timothy three,
because 1 Timothy three verse 16 says,
God was manifest in the flesh.
Now, if God was manifest in the flesh,
my question is, who was it?
Oh yeah, it was Jesus.
There's no other option.
If God was manifest, how,
you say, okay, Jesus Christ became flesh.
Well, then who was it that became flesh?
It was God that was manifest in the flesh.
And manifest means obvious, made evident.
It says, 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.
So it was Jesus Christ that became a man,
but specifically when 1 Timothy refers to him,
it just refers to him as what?
God.
God was manifest in the flesh.
Colossians chapter one, look at verse 12.
Giving thanks to the father,
which hath made us meet to be retakers
of the inheritance of the saints in light,
who hath delivered us from the power of darkness
and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear son,
in whom we have redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of sins,
who is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of every creature,
for by him were all things created.
Now, when you just take 15, isolate it,
they'll say, oh, he was the firstborn.
See, that's why he was Adam.
That's where the Mormons will come into play.
This is where all these liars will come into play.
Let's just read the next phrase.
For by him were all things created.
How is that compatible?
Did he create himself?
Because we say, well, everything else.
Well, let's read it again.
For by him were all things created,
that are in heaven and that are in earth,
visible and invisible,
whether it be thrones or dominions
or principalities or powers,
all things were created by him and for him.
Say, yeah, but you're not understanding Pastor Shelley.
He was still the first thing to be created.
Well, look at his next verse.
And he is before all things.
Well, he came into existence in Bethlehem's manger.
No, he didn't.
He was way before that.
He's of old from everlasting is what the Bible says.
It says, and by him all things consist.
And he is the head of the body of the church
who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead.
Now notice when you keep reading,
it just tells you exactly what it meant
by the firstborn, doesn't it?
Because look, nobody else has been resurrected.
There's been one person that's been resurrected
at this point is Jesus.
That's it.
Now, obviously some people came back from,
like they came back to life in a sense,
but they have not received their resurrected body.
Lazarus did come back into his corruptible body,
but nobody has put on the incorruptible body like Jesus has.
He is the firstborn from the dead.
Why?
Why would that happen?
Why do we have to have that be the case?
That in all things, he might have the preeminence.
Look, everything's about Jesus.
He gets everything.
Look, if Adam had already been resurrected,
then Jesus doesn't get the preeminence.
If Abraham had already been resurrected,
then Jesus doesn't get the preeminence.
But Jesus Christ still coming in to the middle of time,
he's still gonna get the preeminence
because he's still the firstborn from the dead.
It's all about Jesus.
There was nothing anything, it's always about him.
All things that were created for what?
Him.
They're by him and for him.
And he's before all things.
It's all about Jesus Christ because why he's God?
He was God manifest in the flesh.
Go if you would to 1 John chapter number one,
1 John chapter one.
You know, in a verse that I often use
when trying to prove the deity of Jesus Christ
pretty quickly is I use Matthew chapter number one,
which says his name's Emmanuel,
which being interpreted is God with us.
I mean, it's like case closed for me.
I mean, I don't even know where else do I need to go?
I mean, it has the name Jesus in Matthew chapter number one,
it calls him Emmanuel, and then it says God with us.
I mean, I'm just like, all right, there you go.
But if I tell you, you won't believe me, right?
Isn't that usually the case?
1 John chapter one, look at verse one.
That which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,
which we have looked upon and our hands have handled
of the word of life, for the life was manifested.
And we have seen it and bear witness and show unto you
that eternal life, which was with the father
and was manifested unto us,
that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you,
that he also may have fellowship with us.
And truly our fellowship is with the father
and with his son, Jesus Christ.
So notice this great clumping of verses
tells us so many things.
First of all, it says that whoever we're talking about
was from the beginning, right?
Notice it also says it was the word of life.
It says that it was manifested.
It says that it was with the father.
It says it is eternal life.
And notice who it says it is?
It's the son, Jesus Christ, isn't it?
So you can apply every single attribute we just read to who?
The son, Jesus Christ, because he's with the father
from the beginning.
He is eternal life.
He is the word of life and he was manifested.
Now go to John chapter number one, John chapter one.
And I think this is special because it's the same author
from a human perspective.
But he says basically the same thing
in John chapter number one.
The Bible says in verse one,
in the beginning was the word and the word was with God
and the word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
And he says, was this just like a Bible
sitting next to Jesus?
Or what are you talking about, Pastor Shelley?
Well, let's just keep reading again, okay?
It says all things were made by him.
So whatever it is, it's a him, right?
Or it says the same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him and without him
was not anything made that was made.
That sounds like Colossians chapter one,
which we just read, doesn't it?
In him was life and the life was the light of men.
So the Bible tells us, hey, there was the word,
it was the life, it was the light.
That reminds me of first John chapter number one, right?
It was saying, hey, this is the word of life.
This is the light.
This is what was with the father.
And what did it call him then?
The son, Jesus Christ, didn't it?
What does it say in verse 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.
So the Bible says that the word was made flesh.
We know that there was what?
According to first Timothy chapter number three,
that was God.
And it already told us in this chapter
that the word was with God.
Let's look at verse number 18.
No man has seen God at any time.
The only begotten son, which is in the bosom of the father,
he hath declared him.
So according to the Bible, Jesus Christ,
the son is in the bosom of the father
and he came here to declare unto us who?
The father, okay?
Now I think it's interesting because if we go back
just for a second, because we learned what?
The light, it's Jesus Christ again,
we see all the same elements.
It says in verse number six,
there was a man sent from God whose name was John.
So who are we talking about?
We're talking about a person, John the Baptist.
Notice what it says in verse seven.
The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light
that all men through him might believe
he was not that light.
Now notice it's telling us,
you can't take these words in a weird,
carnal, literal truth and say it's like literal light.
It's saying, no, John the Baptist was not that light.
It's not trying to explain to you that people are not lights
it's trying to say the light was a person
and the person that's the light is not John the Baptist.
You know what it is?
It was the sun.
The sun was the light.
The sun was the word.
Some lying devil out there is like, oh, it's just words.
It's like, just words, what are you talking about?
Like Jesus Christ is a person.
Jesus Christ is a literal person.
He's the literal son of God.
He's the literal son of man.
At the same time, he's also the literal word of God.
He's both, it's all of it.
Go to Luke chapter one.
So point one, Jesus Christ is the son of God,
proves his deity.
Point two, he's the son of man, proves his deity.
Point three, he's God manifest in the flesh.
It doesn't tell us anybody else was manifested.
The one who was manifested is clearly God.
It says that the word was God.
The word was God.
What was manifested?
The word.
What was manifested?
God.
What came down from heaven?
The sun.
It's all talking about Jesus Christ.
That proves his deity.
The fact that God was manifest in the flesh.
Number four point that I have is that Jesus is the savior,
which proves that Jesus is God.
Him being the savior proves that Jesus is God.
Look at Luke chapter one, verse 46.
And Mary said, my soul doth magnify the Lord
and my spirit have rejoiced in God my savior.
So she says, hey, I'm glad about this savior
because it's God that's my savior.
Now go to second Samuel chapter 22.
Go in the Old Testament for a moment.
Let's go through a few of these verses.
And let's see what the Old Testament tells us
about who God is and the fact
that he's gonna be the savior.
Second Samuel, look at chapter 22, verse number three.
It says the God of my rock.
Now it's interesting because Jesus Christ
is always mentioned as the rock.
He's mentioned as the rock and the God of my rock.
We're talking about, you know, Jehovah.
We're talking about the father.
It says in him will I trust he is my shield
and the horn of my salvation, my tower and my refuge.
My savior thou savest me from violence.
So God is considered the savior.
Says in Isaiah chapter 43, go if you would to Isaiah,
but go to Isaiah 49.
Isaiah 43 says, for I am the Lord thy God,
the Holy one of Israel, thy savior.
I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Isaiah 43 10 says, ye are my witnesses sayeth the Lord
and my servant whom I've chosen,
that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
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.
I have declared and have saved and have showed
when there was no strange God among you.
Therefore you're my witnesses sayeth the Lord that I am God.
So Isaiah 43 lays it out.
There is no savior but God.
And he says, there's no other God either.
There's one God, there's one savior.
Isaiah 45 I'll just read for you.
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself O God of Israel,
the savior.
Isaiah 45 21 says, tell ye and bring them near,
yea let them take counsel together
who hath declared this from ancient time,
who hath told it from that time.
Have not I the Lord and there is no God else beside me,
a just God and a savior, there is none beside me.
Isaiah just hammers the fact that there's one God,
there's one savior, one God, one savior.
Says in Isaiah 13 I'll just read for you.
Yea I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt
and thou shalt know no God but me
for there is no savior beside me.
Now look at Isaiah 49 verse 26.
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh
and they shall be drunken with their own blood
as with sweet wine.
And all flesh shall know that I the Lord and thy savior
and thy redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.
Go to chapter 60, go to chapter 60.
So again, the Bible's hammering the fact
that God is a savior, there's one God,
there's only one savior.
Isaiah chapter 60 look at verse 16.
Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles
and shalt suck the breast of kings
and thou shalt know that I the Lord and thy savior
and thy redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.
Now I don't have a long time to break that verse down
but it's funny how he's saying hey,
these Jews are gonna be, you know,
sucking the milk from the Gentiles
because the Gentiles are gonna receive Jesus Christ
and the Jews are gonna reject him
and they're gonna know hey, that's the savior.
But go if you would now to Luke chapter two.
So the Old Testament hammers that there's one God
and there's one savior.
There's one God and there's one savior.
I mean, I didn't even go to every verse.
But didn't I just, I mean, isn't it just hammering
that point?
So if then someone's saying like this guy's the savior,
wouldn't you say that guy's God?
I mean, doesn't that just immediately ring true?
I mean, if you'd just been hammered from Genesis
all the way to Malachi that there's one God,
there's one savior, there's one God, there's one savior
and you say this guy's the savior,
then you know what he is?
God.
Just like if I said this guy's God, then you know what?
He's the savior because they're interchangeable.
So when you notify, hey, this guy's the savior,
notice what they're saying.
They're saying this guy's God.
There's no other way to escape that fact, okay?
The Bible says to him, give all the prophets witness
that through his name, whosoever believeth in him
shall receive remission of sins.
Every single book of the Bible is about Jesus.
It's about salvation for who?
Jesus, because he's the one savior.
They're all about him.
They're all about believing in him.
They're all pictures of him.
It's all about him.
Luke chapter two, look at verse 11.
And the angel said unto them, fear not, for behold,
I bring you good tidings of great joy,
which shall be to all people.
For unto you this born, this day in the city of David,
a savior, which is Christ the Lord.
You might just read that and kind of skip over that,
but when you read all the verses about him being a savior
and then you read this, it's like,
it's clear who they're talking about.
Wow, it's God.
It's God, man of flesh in the flesh.
It's Jesus.
Jesus is God, Christ the Lord.
And wouldn't it just imply he's the Lord?
Okay, go to John chapter four, John chapter number four.
People are constantly looking at Jesus
and they're saying, this guy is a savior.
Behold, the lamb of God,
which taketh away the sins of the world.
He's the obvious savior of mankind.
John chapter four is the woman at the well.
And it says, he's from Samaria.
It says in verse 40,
so when the Samaritans were coming to him,
they besought him that he would tarry with them
and he abode there two days.
And many more believed because of his own word
and said unto the woman, now we believe,
not because of thy saying,
for we have heard him ourselves
and know that this is indeed the Christ,
the savior of the world.
Now you know what the word the implies?
One.
Right.
Notice he's the savior of the world.
There's not multiple worlds
and there's not multiple saviors.
There's one savior of the world.
And if you read the Old Testament,
it's clear who that is, God.
It's God.
I don't want to read every verse here
because we have just so many,
but go to Philippians chapter number three,
go to Philippians chapter number three.
Acts chapter five, the Bible says,
him hath God exalted with his right hand
to be a prince and a savior,
for to give repentance to Israel
and forgiveness of sins.
So Jesus Christ is known as the prince.
He's known as the savior.
This is what Peter and the apostles were preaching
in Acts chapter number five.
The Bible says in Acts chapter 13 about the apostle Paul.
And it says in verse 23,
of this man's seed hath God,
according to his promise, raised unto Israel a savior.
Jesus.
Now I'm going to read for you a quote
from somebody named Shabir Ali.
Now Shabir Ali is a Muslim apologist
and this guy is just so wrong, it's not even funny.
It's kind of funny actually, because he's so wrong,
but he said, did Paul believe that Jesus is God, okay?
And he says, Paul didn't believe that Jesus is God.
He never believed it.
He says, many people use Paul's writings
as proof that Jesus is God,
but this is not fair to Paul
because Paul clearly believed that Jesus is not God.
He says, it's clear.
Well, I don't see that.
I feel the exact opposite, all right?
And we've been building this context about what?
The savior.
I already read for you, he said,
hey, Jesus, he's raised unto Israel a savior
and then he just clarified Jesus, okay?
Just so you were, if you were confused there.
Just that one verse alone from the apostle Paul
would clear it up, but let's read like a bunch more, all right?
Philippians chapter number three, look at verse 20.
For our conversation is in heaven, from whence also
we look for the savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, that's interesting.
It sounds like the apostle Paul's thinking
that Jesus is God here.
Go to first Timothy chapter number one,
first Timothy chapter number one.
Now, if I just call Jesus the savior, okay?
Let's think about this verse now that we're about to read.
If I just said, Jesus, the savior,
let's think about this verse, okay?
First Timothy chapter one, verse one,
Paul, an apostle Jesus Christ,
by the commandment of God our savior
and Lord Jesus Christ was your hope.
Now, obviously we understand this as reference
to the father too, but how could you say
that he's the savior if you don't believe
that Jesus is God here?
Look at chapter two and look at verse number three.
For this is good and acceptable
in the sight of God our savior.
So again, he keeps referring to God
as being the savior, doesn't he?
Go to chapter four and look at verse number 10.
For therefore we both labor and suffer approach
because we trust the living God,
who is the savior of all men,
specially of those that believe.
It sounds like the apostle Paul definitely believes
that God's the savior and he's the savior of all men
and there's only one savior.
Now look at second Timothy chapter number one.
Second Timothy chapter one, look at verse 10.
But is now made manifest by the appearing
of our savior Jesus Christ,
who hath abolished death and has brought life
and immortality to light through the gospel.
I'm getting confused because it sounds like to me
that the apostle Paul does believe Jesus is God.
I mean, what do you want him to say here?
Go to Titus chapter number one.
Well, it gets better, all right?
Titus chapter number one,
we're going through the pastoral epistles
and yes, they were all pastors.
Look at verse three.
But hath in due times manifested his word
through preaching which is committed unto me
according to the commandment of God our savior,
to Titus my known son after the common faith,
grace, mercy and peace from God the father
and the Lord Jesus Christ our savior.
Isn't that interesting?
I keep saying God's our savior
and he says Jesus Christ is our savior.
I mean, I don't know where these people
are thinking that Paul thought that Jesus is God.
Oh wait, every single epistle, that's where.
Just open your, just let your Bible fall open, okay?
Look at Titus chapter two verse 10.
Not for loining but showing all good fidelity
that they may adorn the doctrine of God our savior,
oh, there's that phrase again, in all things
for the grace of God that bringeth salvation
at the peer to all men,
teaching us that denying ungodliness
and worldly lust we should live soberly,
righteously and godliness in this present world,
looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing
of the great God and our savior Jesus Christ.
I mean, hey, if I tell you, you're not gonna believe.
Some people just unfairly say the apostle Paul
thought that Jesus was God.
Well, I think that because it's crystal clear
that Paul thought Jesus was God.
It's not even a question.
And he also thinks he's the savior.
Let me read that statement again.
Many people use Paul's writing as proof
that Jesus is God, but this is not fair to Paul
because Paul clearly believed that Jesus is not God.
Well, that's a lie.
I mean, there's no way.
And other people believe that,
but go to Hebrews chapter one.
Let's get even more concrete evidence, okay?
Second Peter chapter three.
This isn't Paul, but this is Peter.
This is what Peter said.
But grow in grace and in the knowledge
of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.
To him be glory both now and forever, amen.
First John chapter four, this is the apostle John.
And we have seen and do testify
that the father sent the son to be the savior of the world.
Every single apostle is saying, Jesus is the savior.
The whole testament is picturing,
hey, there's one God and there's one savior.
That's because Jesus is God.
The savior proves that he's God.
There couldn't have been, there is no other savior.
Mankind can't save you.
For all this sin it comes short of the glory of God.
There's not a just man upon the earth
that doeth good and sinneth not.
We needed the Lord from heaven to come and save us.
We needed God to save us.
Hebrews chapter one, this is the apostle Paul.
Let's get his opinion on who he thinks Jesus is again.
Verse six, and again, when he bringeth
in the first begotten of the world,
he saith, and let all the angels of God worship him.
And at the angels he saith, he maketh his angels spirits
and his ministers a flame of fire.
But unto the sun he saith, thy throne,
oh God, is forever and ever a scepter of righteousness,
is a scepter of thy kingdom.
It sounds like the apostle Paul
might have thought Jesus was God.
I mean, he says, thou has loved righteousness
and hated iniquity, therefore God even thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness
above thy fellows.
Now that's your Trinity verse.
Hey, you're God and then you have a God
and then you also have the oil of gladness,
that's the Holy Ghost.
There's the three in one.
There's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
They're all God, but you know what?
The Father's not the Son.
The Father anointed the Son
and he anointed him with the Holy Ghost.
He anointed him with the oil of gladness.
Verse 10, and thou, Lord, in the beginning
hast laid the foundation there.
Sounds like he's the creator, isn't he?
And the heavens are the works of thine hands.
Now how could Jesus have been born in the Bethlehem's manger
and have created the heavens and the earth?
And notice, well, it's just words.
Oh, are the works of thine hands.
I guess words have hands now.
How does that work?
I mean, it's utter foolishness
to deny that God is a Trinity.
It's utter foolishness to deny that Jesus Christ is God.
It's utter foolishness to deny
that Jesus has not always existed.
He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
So we've grown to this conclusion that what?
Jesus is the Son of God.
He's the Son of Man.
He's God manifested in the flesh.
He's the Savior.
What else?
He's God.
Let's just get, let's just hammer
some more God verses, all right?
Go to Mark, chapter number 10.
Mark, chapter number 10.
And we're gonna get pretty close here in a minute.
We're gonna get to my favorite section of scripture
when proving that Jesus Christ is God.
But in Mark, chapter number 10,
look what it says in verse 17.
And when he was gone forth into the way,
there came one running and kneeled to him
and asked him, good master,
what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
And Jesus said on him, why callest thou me good?
There's none good but one that is God.
This makes it clear that either a few things are true.
Either Jesus is a lying lunatic devil or he's God.
There's no other option here.
And you ask a Muslim, is Jesus good?
Sure.
You ask the Jehovah's false witness, is Jesus good?
They say, sure.
Well, he can't be good and not God.
That's the only option.
And in fact, Jesus called himself good.
So he is by in fact calling himself God.
Let me prove that.
Go to John, chapter 10.
Go to John, chapter number 10.
If I say there's no one that's good but God,
and then I call myself good,
it doesn't take a theologian to understand what he's saying.
He's God.
It's just crystal clear.
But if you compare spiritual to spiritual, you get this.
Look at John, chapter 10, verse 11.
I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
What did Jesus say about himself?
I'm the good shepherd.
Hey, you know what?
You're God.
That's it.
Look at verse 14.
I'll say it again, okay?
I'm the good shepherd and know my sheep
and am known of mine.
Hey, when you're of God, you know him.
Go to Matthew, chapter one.
Let's read the verse that I kind of quoted earlier.
But Isaiah seven says,
therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign.
Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son
and shall call his name Immanuel.
So the Old Testament says that a virgin's gonna conceive
and that his name is gonna be called Immanuel.
It says in Matthew, chapter one, verse 20.
But while he thought on these things,
behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream,
saying, Joseph, thou son of David,
fear not to take unto thee, marry thy wife,
for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
And she shall bring forth the son
and thou shalt call his name Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sins.
Now, after all the things we've been reading,
these words just light up on the page, don't they?
The fact that he's gonna save
is another proof that he's got already, okay?
Verse 22, now, all this was done
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
behold, a virgin shall be with child
and shall bring forth the son
and they shall call his name Immanuel,
which being interpreted is God with us.
Now, if I'm out soul winning
and I need to prove that Jesus is God,
I always just turn here.
Because there's just so much about Jesus
in all of these verses.
You got the fact that he's born of the Virgin Mary.
You get the fact that he's Jesus.
You get the name very clearly written.
You also have the fact that he's gonna save his people
from their sins.
You also have the fact that what?
His name was Immanuel,
which is being interpreted God with us.
After looking at this, you either have to deny the text
or you just have to admit Jesus is God, in my point.
Now, I'll show them one other place,
but this isn't the first place that I take them.
I think it's a really powerful portion of scripture.
It's very clear, it's very easy to be understood.
And a few times I've had people
that are a little bit uncertain on the Trinity
they're not crystal clear about Jesus being God.
I just take them to this and usually just case closed.
Okay, yeah, you're right.
That is what the Bible says, yeah.
Makes sense.
John chapter number 10, go to John chapter number 10.
But Jesus, he wasn't going around denying the fact
that he was God.
He was making it manifest who he was.
Now, he might not have just said, I'm God, okay?
But if he calls himself the good shepherd,
if he says, hey, I'm the savior,
hey, if he says he's the son of God,
hey, if he says he's the son of man,
he says, he's still saying he's God.
John chapter number 10, look at verse 24.
Then came the Jews round about him and said unto him,
how long does thou make us the doubt?
If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
Jesus answered them, I told you.
Oh, I'm just hiding it.
I told you, and you believe not.
The works that I do in my father's name,
they be witness of me.
He's saying, not only did I tell you,
I'm showing you that I'm God.
Some people are like, oh, Jesus didn't go around
claiming to be the Messiah, claiming to be, he did.
It was the Jews that tried to make up lies
about what he's, he was just going around saying like,
believe in the son of man, believe in the son of God.
Who is that?
It's me, you know.
Do not believe that I am he.
You shall die in your sins.
He's not hiding who he is.
That's why they said, he said that he was the son of God.
Why don't you tell us that you're the son of God?
He's like, I told you.
What do you want me to say at this point?
Even my works?
You know, are you Pastor Shelley?
Yeah, here's a card.
Even the card has my name on it.
Will you just tell us plainly?
I told you.
You know, it's like, what do you want?
I can see why I got mad at them.
Verse 26, but you believe not
because you're not of my sheep as I said unto you.
My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me
and I give them the maternal life
and they shall never perish.
Neither shall any men pluck them out of my hand.
My father, which gave them me is greater than all
and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand.
I and my father are one.
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Now, when you study the word one,
it's always meaning unity and meaning what?
Jesus is God, the father is God.
It's not saying they're the same person, okay?
That would be a fallacy.
That would be a wrong interpretation
because notice how they interpret this, okay?
Look at verse 32.
Jesus answered them, many good works have I showed you
from my father, for which of those works do you stone me?
The Jews answered him saying, for a good work
we stone thee not, but for blasphemy.
And because that thou being a man makest thyself God.
So notice they say, well, what you're saying
is that you're God here.
Why don't you just tell us if you're God?
He's like, well, I did.
And then they interpret it as a make himself God.
It's just, they don't want to believe it.
It's called willing ignorance at that point.
It's like, are you God?
Yes.
Well, why don't you just tell us already?
It's like, I did.
I keep telling you, my father and I are one.
You know, what do you want me to say at this point?
What do you want me to prove to you?
What do you want me to show?
He couldn't, that's why they were blinded.
There was no hope for them.
They had seen Jesus Christ before miracles
by the power of the Holy Ghost.
And they said he did it by the power of Beelzebub.
At that point, it's just like, you're done.
You have nether forgiveness.
It's basically, you drink a pound of cure
and it doesn't work.
It's like, two more pounds isn't going to help.
You know, if the cure didn't work, it's too bad.
Go to John chapter one.
But notice the Jews, they believe
that Jesus is calling himself God.
Hey, we want to stone you
because you're making yourself God here.
You're saying you can forgive sins.
You're saying you came down from heaven.
You say that you're older than Abraham.
You say, I mean, just everything that he says
and does is just proving that he's God
over and over to them, okay?
My sixth point, though, of why Jesus is God
is because he's the Christ.
Now, what does the Christ mean?
I want to get a few verses here so we get a clear picture
of what the word Christ means
because it's so closely associated with the name Jesus
that I think a lot of times we think of it
as like a surname.
Like, you know, my name's Jonathan Shelley.
So you almost think it's like a surname,
but it's not really a surname.
It's something different.
It says in John chapter number one, verse 41,
he first find his own brother Simon and saith him,
we have found the Messiahs,
which is being interpreted to Christ.
So Christ means Messiah.
Christ means Messiah.
That's very clear.
Go to Luke 23 now, go backwards, go to Luke.
John chapter four, we have the same information in verse 25.
It says, the woman saith him, I know that Messiahs cometh
which is called Christ.
When he is come, he will tell us all things.
So the Bible tells us that Messiah means Christ,
Christ means Messiah, but you say,
I still don't have any clarification.
Okay, but let's get more clarification.
Luke 23, verse 35, and the people stood beholding
and the rulers also with them derided him saying,
he saved others, let him save himself
if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
So in fact, to be the Christ means
you're the chosen of God.
What does it mean to be the Messiah?
You're the chosen of God.
Go all the way back to Psalms chapter 89, Psalms 89.
The Christ means he's chosen.
Why would God choose Jesus?
Well, first of all, he's God, he's the savior.
He's gonna do everything that the father wants him to do.
I do all those things that please him.
He's not gonna pick me, I would screw it up.
He's not gonna pick you because you were gonna screw it up.
You know why God chooses certain people?
Because he knows what they're gonna do.
You know why he picked Abraham?
Because he knew Abraham was gonna be faithful
in all his house and he was gonna instruct Isaac
in the ways of the Lord.
You know why Jesus chose Judas?
Because he knew he's gonna betray him.
You know, some people make the election of God
as Calvinist doctrine of like,
oh, God's just choosing based on unconditional election.
No, it's actually based on his foreknowledge.
He knows you, he knows the thing.
He knew Jesus.
They've been together for a long time, forever.
That's why he chose him.
That's why he's the messiahs.
That's why he's the anointed one.
He's the only one that could have done it.
He's the only one that could have lived the perfect life.
He's the only one who could have died
on the cross for sin.
He's the only one that could taste death for every man.
He's the only one that could be beaten and spit upon
and just mocked and ridiculed
and have thorns shoved down his brow
and carry his own cross to the point
where he can't even carry it anymore
and then get nailed to it
and then look up to God and say,
Father, forgive them for they no know what they do.
You and I would have just, you know, cursed them.
You and I would have been, we couldn't have done that.
We wouldn't have had that much love.
He had so much love for us.
He died for the ungodly is what the Bible says.
He tasted death for every man.
He even bought them that deny him.
It's incredible the sacrifice he made.
Look at Psalms 89 verse 19.
For the Lord is our defense
and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
Then thou spake his envision to thy Holy One and saidest,
I have laid help upon one that is mighty.
I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
God chose Jesus Christ.
That's why he's the Christ.
That's why he's the Messiah.
He's the chosen one of God.
He's the anointed one of God.
Go if you would to John chapter 11, John chapter nine.
I know we're dancing around, but I just like this.
It's fun.
Luke chapter two verse 25 says,
and behold, there was a man in Jerusalem
whose name was Simeon
and the same man was just and about
waiting for the constellation of Israel
and the Holy Ghost was upon him
and it was revealed in him by the Holy Ghost
that he should not see death before he had seen
the Lord's Christ and it's possessive there.
It's Lord apostrophe S Christ.
Why?
Because it's God's chosen one.
It's God the father who elected and anointed
and chose Jesus Christ.
And the Bible makes it clear
that Jesus Christ didn't pick himself.
He didn't anoint himself.
He's not the chosen.
Well, we need someone to do a work here.
I choose Pastor Shelley.
It's like, that doesn't work.
I'm pastor's choice to preach the sermon tonight.
You'd be like, you're full of yourself.
You know, there has to be another person there.
And it was God the father who anointed the son
to be the savior of the world,
to give him the preeminence,
to give him the honor and to give him the glory.
He's the savior.
John chapter 11, look at verse 27.
She sayeth unto him,
Yea, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ,
the son of God, which should come into the world.
Who do you think she thinks he is?
God.
He's the chosen.
He's the son of God.
The Bible says in Luke two,
for unto you is born this day in the city of David,
a savior, which is Christ the Lord.
I mean, when you study these words out,
a little bit of depth,
it's just like, he's God, he's God, he's God.
It's just like the three bars and you win the jackpot.
I mean, just everything about him makes him God.
The fact that he's the Christ.
Now, the Shabbir Ali guy,
okay, we'll go back to him for a moment.
He says, did Jesus claim the title son of God for himself?
As we have said before,
a careful study reveals that the title son of God
is not one that Jesus claimed for himself,
nor did his true disciples call him by that title.
What book are you reading?
Now go to Mark chapter 14.
This is my favorite place to go.
So after, if I'm going soul winning, okay,
and I wanna prove that Jesus is God,
I go to Matthew chapter number one,
and that's my first hammer.
And then this is my second hammer
because if you deny this one, again,
at this point, there's probably no help for you, okay?
But to say that Jesus Christ didn't claim any of these titles
you know, well, he didn't say the son of God, okay?
That's true, technically speaking.
You can't find a place where you see Jesus
using that exact phrase with that exact verbiage.
But what about a phrase like the son of the blessed?
I mean, who's the blessed?
Wouldn't you say that's God?
I mean, if he's gonna call, what if they ask him that?
Let's see, Mark chapter 14, verse 61.
But he held his peace and answered nothing.
Again, the high priest asked him and said in him,
art thou the Christ, the son of the blessed?
And Jesus said, I am Shabir Ali.
He didn't say, I don't know.
He took that title.
They wanna hide that from you.
Well, he never took the title of the son of God.
Well, he did take the title of the son of the blessed.
He took the title of the son of man.
And you know, when the Jews were recounting,
they said he did call himself the son of God.
And a lot of other people said that.
Well, that wasn't the true disciples, you know, whatever.
Well, why did that get recorded in the Bible?
Because my Bible says all these words
came from the Holy Ghost.
Holy men of God spake as they're moved by the Holy Ghost.
That's weird to think
that you would just have all these unsaved people
recording false information about Jesus for no reason.
No, it's a spiritual book full of the truth is reality.
He says, I am, and ye shall see, notice this,
the son of man sitting on the right hand of power
and coming in the clouds of heaven.
So he claims the son of man at the same time
claiming the son of the blessed.
Why?
Because it's the same person.
That was the last place I'll be turning.
Go to Revelation chapter one.
Let's recap.
Jesus is God, why?
Because he's the son of God.
Jesus is God, why?
Because he's the son of man.
Jesus is God, why?
Because God was manifest in the flesh.
And who was manifest in the flesh was Jesus.
Number four, it's because he's the savior.
Number five, because he made himself God.
That's what the Jews said, thou makest thyself God.
Number six, he's the Christ.
Another proof that he's God.
And my bonus seventh point,
because I don't want to end on six points,
is that he's the almighty.
Now again, I could show you a hundred points.
Because the Bible's saying that Jesus is God
is just everywhere.
Just let it fall open.
It's just everywhere.
But I wanted seven points
and I think this is a good one to end on.
He's the almighty.
Now who could you say is the almighty other than God?
Almighty means the most powerful.
He's the one in control.
He's the one that's been given all the power.
The father has given all power unto the son.
Just like Pharaoh gave Joseph all the power,
it's the same as the father giving Jesus Christ
all the power.
He's the almighty.
Look at verse eight.
I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the ending,
saith the Lord, which is and which was
and which is to come, the almighty.
That's none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.
Notice before he first came, he is.
Then he was because he tasted death.
And notice he is to come.
And he's the only person that's tasted death like that
and is still living.
The only person to go to hell and is not in hell.
Jesus Christ.
He was dead.
He tasted death.
What does taste mean?
Taste means something short.
Three days and three nights.
He tasted death because he went into hell
but he's come back and he is to come,
meaning there's a second coming.
He's the almighty.
There's no other descriptions of Jesus
than other than the fact that he's God.
If you read this book from Genesis Revelation,
Jesus is God.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you, Father, so much for this great.