Posted on 11/17/2022 2:22:38 PM PST by metmom
“‘All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him’” (Matthew 11:27).
Any genuine invitation to salvation such as Jesus gives here must include mention of God’s revelation. Nobody, even the most sincerely religious or philosophically determined, has ever obtained real salvation unless God sovereignly revealed it—and such revelation has to include the truth that Jesus Christ is God.
Jesus without doubt or qualification equates Himself with God and calls Himself the Son of the Father. The Jews of His day would never have used the expression about divine fatherhood unless they were referring to God’s fatherhood over their nation. Jesus’ statement was and is one of His clearest declarations of deity, and it discloses an intimate, unique, and inseparable relationship with the Father.
Without question, Jesus’ audience knew that His statements about a relationship with His heavenly Father meant He was claiming to be the Son of God. The unbelieving Jews did not at all accept this claim. On other similar occasions they would want to kill Him for such “blasphemous” assertions (see John 5:18; 10:30–38).
That Jesus is God is an essential component of the gospel, because apart from deity no savior could redeem a single soul. The heresy of making Christ just another human teacher or martyr devalues the gospel and robs it of its true saving power.
Ask Yourself
To trust God completely means also knowing that He is fully capable of revealing Himself to anyone He desires, any time He desires. Our task is merely to be faithful to reveal what we have heard and seen in Him, trusting the Lord to save His people. Are you being true to that calling?
From Daily Readings from the Life of Christ, Vol. 1, John MacArthur. Copyright © 2008. Used by permission of Moody Publishers, Chicago, IL 60610, www.moodypublishers.com.
Studying God’s Word Ping
I hope that I am.
John 8:58. Before Abraham was, I am.
Exodus 3:14. I AM that I AM.
God is God.
AMEN!
Thank you for posting the thread!
Amen.
John 10:30-33
30 I and the Father are one.”
31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
Bump.
Amen, and thank you, Metmom!
Oh our pastor has been preaching on Wednesday night’s from the book of Hebrews....
Last night’s message really brought emphasis to the fact that Jesus IS GOD!! What a revelation that God came down in human flesh to dwell with us and provide salvation!!!!!
....and that Jesus is our High Priest.... we can go directly to God...AMEN!!
Like many people today, the 1st century Sanhedrin could not tolerate or believe a "man" telling them that "Before Abraham was, I AM!"
In word and deed. http://peacebyjesus.net/deityofchrist.html
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