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in Bethlehem. In Micah 5 :2 we read, “ BUT THOU, BETHLEHEM, EPHRATAH , THOUGH THOU BE LITTLE AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF JUDAH? Y E T OUT OF THEE SHALL HE COME FORTH UNTO ME TH AT IS TO BE RULER IN ISRAEL ; WHOSE GOINGS FORTH HAVE BEEN FROM OF OLD, FfiOM EVERLASTINQ.” And in Isa. 9 :6 we are told o f the child that is to be born, “ FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS G IVEN ; AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER ; AND H IS NAME SHALL BE CALLED WONDER FUL, COUNSELLOR, THE M IGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER , THE PRINCE OF PEACE.” And in Heb. 13:8 we are told that “JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY , AND TODAY, AND FOR EVER.” ' His immutability is also taught in the passage just quoted from Hebrews, and in the first chapter o f the same book, the twelfth verse we are told that while even the heavens cjiange, the Lord Jesus does not change. The exact words are,, “THEY SHALL PERISH, BUT THOU REM A INEST : THEY ALL SHALL W A X OLD AS DOTH A GARMENT ; AND AS A MANTLE SHALT THOU ROLL THEM UP, AS A GARMENT, AND THEY SHALL BE CHANGED : BUT THOU ART THE SAME. AND THY YEARS SHALL NOT FAIL.”'- So we see that each one o f the five distinctively Divine attributes were ascribed to our Lord Jesus Christ. And in Col. 2:9 we are told in so many words, “ IN HIM DWELLETH ALL THE FULNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY (I. E. IN A BODILY FORM ).” Here again we might rest our case, for what has been said under this head, even if taken alone, clearly proves the absolute Deity o f our Lord Jesus Christ. It shows that He possessed every perfection o f nature and character that God the Father possesses.
o f all, omnipotence is ascribed to Jesus Christ. Not only are we taught that Jesus had power over diseases and death and winds and sea and demons, that they were all subject to His word, and that He is far above all principality, and power, and might) and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world but also in the world to come (Eph. 1:20-23), but in Heb. 1 :3 it is said in so many words that He ‘‘UPHOLDS ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER.” Omnis cience is also ascribed to Him. W e are taught in the Bible; that Jesus knew men’s lives even their secret history (John 4:16, 19), that He knew the secret thoughts of men, knew all men, knew what was in man (Mark 2 :8 ; Luke 5:22; John 2:24, 25) which knowledge we are distinctly told in 2 Chron. 6:30 and Jer. 17:9, 10, God only possesses, but we are told in so many words in John 16:30 that Jesus knew “all things,” and in Col. 2 :3 we are told that in Him “are hid all the treasures of wis dom and knowledge.” Omnipresence is also ascribed to Him. We are told in Matt. 18:20 that where two or three-are gathered together in His name, that He is in the midst o f them, and in Matt. 28:20 that wherever His obedient disciples should go He would be with them, even unto the end o f the age, and in John 14:20 and 2 Cor. 13:5 we are told that He dwells in each believer, in all the millions o f believers scattered over the earth. In Eph. 1 :23 we are told in so many words that He “filleth all in all." Eternity is also ascribed to Him. W e are told in John 1 :1 that “ in the begin ning was the Word, and the W ord was with God, and the W ord was God.” In John 8 :S7 Jesus Himself said, “ VERILY, VER ILY, I 'SAY UNTO YOU, BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM .” Note that the Lord Jesus did not merely say that “before Abraham was I was,” but that “before Abraham was, I am ,” thus declaring Him self to be the eternal “I am ,” Even in the Old Testament, we have a declaration o f the eternity o f the Christ who was to be born
(To be Continued)
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