Tke Deity of Our
Lord Jesus Christ
Some Reasons Wkj) we Are Compelled to Accept it or Drop tke Name Ckristian Bi> REV. N. W. JENNINGS
Let us listen to another one of Jesus’ claims, “I am the door.” This is a great claim, it is an eternal claim, it was made for time and for eternity. He is the way here into the militant kingdom and He is the way into the eternal kingdom, on high. We go in here by Him, we will go in yonder by Him. We cannot go in by the door of the pope, priest or bishop; Jesus is the only door; the door. Good old Noah must go in through the door into the ark. God shut Noah and his family in with Himself and they were safe. The storms may rage and pound against the sides of the ship and lift it toward the skies and threaten to hurl it beneath the swirl and whirl, but God was with him, so will He be with us. The waters can not break down the tree of life, the fires cannot destroy one twig or leaf, the long winter’s frost cannot get at the tender bud, in Him we are safe. Jesus stands in the heart of the Bible and in the center of the highway and cries, “ I am the way, come this way for life, for I am the source of all life. Come this way for truth, for I am the founda tion of all truth. Come this way, I- will give you eternal life, I will put eternity into your soul.” “ I am the light of the world.” What a claim. I wish I might be able to erect a monument here as high as heaven and chain up and down the four sides of that monument the elec trical light of heaven in these words, “ I am the light of the world,” and stand that monument in the heart of the world, that all who pass by might see and read, “I am the light of the world.”
BELIEVE in the deity of our Lord because of His own eternal claims concerning Himself. Listen to Him speak, “ Before Abraham was, I am.” There never
was a time when Jesus Christ did not exist. He was a slain lamb before thè foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8). Long before God built His throne and stretched the golden curtains over its jasper beauty and trimmed its borders with silver ciouds, Jesus was. Before an anf?el ever harped on his golden harp, yes, long before God tossed the worlds out into space, way back in the dim night of eternity before the dawn of the first day, Jesus was. The deity of our Lord is the center wheel, the master wheel which contains the.fullness of all truth. Jesus is the revelation and the representative of the Godhead, even God. He is God manifest in the flesh. The Holy Ghost, the third person of the Trinity, wrought in the chosen virgin, thè body of the Son of God. The Holy Ghost prepared the body of pur Lord, that He might be the Godman, the sinless man. Jesus was bom not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God. It is impossible to conceive of an ab solutely holy human being in the midst of a sinful humanity on a purely natural basis. The virgin birth is the greatest miracle that ever took place in the phy sical world. By the virgin birth our Lord is marked off as a unique and divine product, the only begotten Son of God.
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