On This Day: Surprising Evidence that Jesus is God

   So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4:18-20)

   I have had JW’s come to the door and tell me that Jesus is not God (I must be a marked man because I see them come to our neighbourhood, but no longer to my house!). I have watched videos of Muslims demanding that the Christians show where Jesus ever said the words, “I am God”. I have seen atheists defending their faith that there is no God. And I grew up with the agnostic claim that we can’t ever know if there is a God for certain.

   From a young age, I knew there was a God and that he was watching over me in a good way, so that ruled out atheism and agnosticism.

   Over the subsequent decades, I have seen the Triunity of God all through the pages of Scripture. It has been amazing to me how people can claim otherwise when it is so clearly revealed.

   A big part of the focus on the Trinity is whether the Bible ever presents Jesus as God. To me, that’s a silly question. Read your Bible. It presents Jesus as God.

   However, the older I get, and the better I get to know the Bible, the more delightful it is when God completely surprises me with something I have never noticed before. And all the more so when it is in a familiar section of Scripture!

   When Peter and John said, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God,” I suddenly saw two persons. The apostles first pointed upwards (with their words) to “in the sight of God”. For their Jewish listeners, in God’s sight meant in the sight of the God of Israel, the one we call “Yahweh”. God was in heaven above, so to be in his sight meant he was looking down on the proceedings, evaluating what both parties were doing (the apostles vs the religious elites).

   The second person was the one the apostles had listened to as “to God”. We could fill pages upon pages with examples of Jesus identifying himself as God, with the apostles and prophets revealing him as God, and how Jesus was the one who told the apostles to teach the “good news of great joy” announced by angels and fulfilled in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Lord.

   After the apostle John told us that “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1-2), he added, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (vs 14). This is what the apostles had seen.

   The apostle Peter wrote of himself, “as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ” (I Peter 5:1). And, of course, Peter’s witness of the sufferings of Christ included the unforgettable experience of denying his Savior three times while Jesus was suffering on his way to the cross!

   There are such good resources online addressing Jesus’ deity in general, but also in specific response to Muslims, JW’s, Jews, and Mormons who all claim Jesus was not God. However, today God had a very personal ministry to me (after asking him to make my time with him feel like I was with him, not just me trying to understand his word), showing me afresh the multi-faceted revelation of his word that doesn’t require the exact words from Jesus, “I am God”, to show he, his Father, and the Scriptures, all bear witness to the deity of Jesus Christ our Lord.

   Did you need to see this treasure of wisdom and knowledge as much as I did? I certainly hope so. But if not, part of the lesson in sharing this is that God speaks through his word, so make sure you are in God’s word each day, hearing what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Whatever God shows each of us will be equally delightful in ministering to our souls exactly what we need in Jesus’ name.

 

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