Is JESUS GOD?

Is JESUS GOD?

Yes He Is!

The clearest statement by JESUS as to Who He Is was in John 8:58, “JESUS said to them, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.’” The same name GOD gave to Moses to tell the children of Israel Who sent him, “And GOD said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM!’ And He said, ‘Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, “I AM has sent me to you!”’”

So JESUS said He is GOD because He is I AM, the self existent GOD who created everything. The Jews understood that He claimed to be GOD, “The Jews answered Him, saying, ‘For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You being a Man, make Yourself GOD.’” The disciples believed He was GOD, study John 1:1-18, 3:15-21, 5:16-23, 8:48-59; Colossians 2:1-10; 2 Peter 1:1-4.

On top of that, John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was The Word and The Word was with GOD and The Word was GOD.”; and Revelation 19:13 says, “He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His Name is called, The Word of GOD.”

Father & Teacher

 Father & Teacher

“JESUS said, ‘But you, do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, The CHRIST, and you are all brethren. Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He Who is in Heaven.’” Matthew 23:8-9 This scripture has caused some controversy in the Church.

Since the world began men have been called father, in every language there is a word for father, the male parent of a child.

Since the world began there have been people who teach knowledge and skills to others and in every language there is a word for teacher, a person who trains others.

In the context of Matthew 23:1-11 JESUS is talking about vanity and pride “But all their works they do to be seen by men…and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’” JESUS ends this teaching with this admonition, “But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.”

JESUS was not saying that we could no longer call our male parents “father” or those who instruct or train us “teacher”. He was telling us to not be vain and boastful for ourself and not to give too much honor to those who are fathers and teachers.

Psalm 46

Psalm 46

Tree of Life Version

“For the music director, of the sons of Korah, according to Alamoth, a song.

GOD is our Refuge and Strength, an ever present Help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth changes, though the mountains topple into the heart of the seas, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains quake at their swelling. Selah.”

What a concept! That no matter how bad things get, the natural disasters are destroying everything around us and yet we have no fear. How is that possible, even the twelve apostles had fear in the face of nature’s rage, “So He woke up and rebuked the wind. And He said to the sea, ‘Quiet! Be still!’ Then the wind stopped, and it became totally calm. And He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid? Even now you have no faith?’” Mark 4:39-40 The story of JESUS sleeping in the boat in the middle of the sea of Galilee during a storm is a small example of what everyone on earth faces now and especially during the Last Days. “At that hour there was a great earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to The GOD of Heaven.” Study Mark 4:35-41; Revelation 11:13.

“There is a river whose streams make glad the City of GOD - 

the Holy dwelling place of Elyon.

GOD is in the midst of her, she will not be shaken.

GOD will help her when the morning dawns.

Nations are in an uproar, kingdoms totter,

He utters His voice, the earth melts!

ADONAI-Tzva’ot is with us.

The GOD of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.”

Today we see this all over the earth, wars and threats of war, terrorism everywhere. Yet GOD is eternal and He has prepared us a place in His Eternal Kingdom. “Do not let your heart be troubled. Trust in GOD, trust also in Me. In My Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to Myself, so that where I am you may also be.” John 14:1-3

“Come see the Works of ADONAI, who brings devistations on the earth.

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth.

He breaks the bow and shatters the spear.

He burns chariots with fire.

Be still and know I Am GOD.

I Am Exalted among the nations.

I Am Exalted in the earth.

ADONAI-Tzva’ot is with us.

The GOD of Jacob is our Strong Tower. Selah.”

GOD both brings devistations and peace, He judges the wicked and the righteous and rewards them accordingly. The earth, seas and heavens will be destroyed by fire and a new eternal earth and a new eternal heaven will be created for those who love and serve GOD by abiding in JESUS. Study John 15:1-11; Revelation 20:11-21:5.

GOD is our Refuge, Strength, Strong Hold, Strong Tower and more; He is our Salvation and Peace. Yet we always ask the questions why? Why do Christians get sick and die, why do Christians get hurt and die, why do Christians die miserable deaths?

The easy answer and true answer is sin, not their sin necessarily, the sin that is in the world. Every human is subject to the effects of the sin of the world, the rebellion of humanity from GOD’s Will. But as we study The Bible we see that the results of the world’s sin is no excuse for us to complain and question. Study the lives of GOD’s servants throughout The Bible! Look at what is happening to Christians in every nation of the world today. The LORD spoke through Samuel, “Has The LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices. As in obeying the voice of The LORD? Behold, to Obey  is better than sacrifice.” 1 Samuel 15:22; JESUS said, “Do not think that I came to bring Peace on the earth. I did not come to bring Peace but a Sword.” Matthew 10:34

All of JESUS’ servants in The Bible from John the Baptist on suffered and died inflicted deaths except John the Revelator.

1 Peter 1:3

1 Peter 1:3

“Blessed be The GOD and Father of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, Who according to His abundant Mercy has begotten us again to a Living Hope through the Resurrection of JESUS CHRIST from the dead.” Wow! What a statement.

In Genesis 2:15-17 we see that GOD put Adam in the Garden and told him he could eat the fruit from any tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and if he did eat from that tree in that day he would die. In Genesis 3 we see that Adam and Eve did eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and they died - eternally not physically. GOD drove them from the Garden where they would have lived eternally into the world where their time was limited. This was passed down to all the generations of humanity. “For since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so In CHRIST all shall be made aAlive.” “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the Judgment.” 1 Corinthians 15:21-22, Hebrews 9:27

So GOD made man in His Own Image and made him immortal, but Adam sinned and lost that immortality and so did the whole human race. But GOD knew that Adam would sin and had prepared redemption for humanity before He even made the earth. “All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in The Book of Life of The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:8

“For GOD so Loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting Life. For GOD did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be Saved.” John 3:16-17 JESUS had just told Nicodemus that we must be born again by The SPIRIT and water because that is what He was born as The Son of Man to do, restore us to relationship with our Eternal Father in His Heavenly Kingdom. “He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” 1 Peter 1:20

“JESUS answered and said to him, ‘Most assuredly I say to you, unless you are born again you cannot see The Kingdom of GOD…Most assuredly , I say to you, unless one is born of water and The SPIRIT, he cannot enter The Kingdom of GOD.” John 3:3-5 Study John 3:1-21; Romans 5 & 6

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Reprobate!

 Reprobate!

Reprobate = n. unprincipled or immoral person. adj. immoral.1

Reprobate = Hebrew: mâ’ac; a prim. Root; to spurn; also (intrans.) to disappear:-abbor, cast away (off), contend, despise, disdain, (become) loath (-some) melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, X utterly, vile person.2

Reprobate = Greek: adŏkimŏs; from 1 (as a neg. particle) and 1384; unapproved, i.e. rejected;  by imp. worthless (lit. or mor.):-castaway, rejected, reprobate.2

Reprobate System: Revelation 17:1, 18:21 “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked to me, saying to me, ‘Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters.’...Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great mill stone and threw it into the sea, saying, ‘Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore.” (Study Revelation 17, 18)

Reprobate Nation: Jeremiah 6:30 “People will call them rejected silver because The LORD has rejected  them. (Study 6:27-30)

Reprobate Nation: Micah 1:6 “Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field; places for planting a vineyard; I will pour down on her stones into the valley, and I will uncover her foundations.” (Study 1:1-9)

Reprobate City: Isaiah 1:21 “How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.” (Study 1:21-23)

Reprobate Religion: Matthew 23:39 “...for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He Who comes in The Name of The LORD!’” (Study 23:37-39)

Reprobate Individual: Proverbs 1:28 “Then they will call on Me, but I will not answer; they will seek Me diligently, but they will not find Me.” (Study 1:20-33)

Reprobate Individual: Romans 1:18, 32 “For the wrath of GOD is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness and of men, who suppress the Truth in unrighteousness,...who, knowing the righteous judgment of GOD, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.” (Study 1:18-32)

Reprobate Individual: 2 Timothy 3:8 “Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;” (Study 3:1-9; Exodus 7:11-12, 22; 8:7; 9:11)

Reprobate Individual: Titus 1:16 “They profess to know GOD, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.”  (Study 1:10-16)

But, there is salvation to those who do not become reprobate, for GOD does not want to destroy people. Ezekiel 33:11 “Say to Them: ‘As I live’ says The LORD GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’” (Study 33:8-11)

2 Corinthians 13:5 “Examine yourselves, as to whether you are in the Faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that JESUS CHRIST is in you?-unless indeed you are disqualified.” (Study 13:4-9; John 3:14-21)

Are there reprobates in the Church? Yes!

2 Timothy 3:1,5,9 “But know this, that in The Last Days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves,...having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!...but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all,...” (Study 3:1-9; 1 Timothy 6:3-5)

Titus 3:9-11 “But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless. Reject a divisive man after the first and second warning, knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self condemned.”

3 John vs. 1 “I wrote to the Church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us.” (Study 2 John vs.7-11; 3 John vs. 9-12)

The most telling is JESUS’ own Words, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘LORD, LORD,’ shall enter The Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does The Will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in That Day, ‘LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in Your Name, cast out demons in Your Name, and done many wonders in Your Name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Matthew 7:21-23

All Scripture is quoted from The New King James Version Bible, Thomas Nelson, 1994

1The Oxford American Dictionary; Oxford University Press, 1998

2 Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of The Bible, MacDonald

Might And Authority

 Might And Authority

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right (authority) to become Children of GOD, to those who believe in His Name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of GOD.” John 1:12-13 NKJV.

In John 1:12-13 GOD declares that he gives the authority (right - NKJV, power - KJV) to become Children of GOD to anyone who believes in JESUS’ Name, if they are born again according to John 3:1-21(5-6).

The Authority (power or right) to be a Child of GOD comes from being born again and filled with GOD’s SPIRIT. Being born of the flesh only leads to death, “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, so CHIRST was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.” Hebrews 9:27-28.

“Now then, we are Ambassadors for CHRIST, as though GOD were pleading through us; we implore you on CHRIST’s behalf, be reconciled to GOD. For He made Him Who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the Righteousness of GOD in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 NKJV (Study Isaiah 53)

In 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 GOD declares we can be reconciled to Himself because JESUS, Who was sinless, became sin for us (in our place) so that we might become the Righteousness of GOD. GOD’s SPIRIT dwelling in us is His Righteousness (1 Corinthians 3:16-17), Who JESUS said would teach us, counsel us, comfort us, correct us in righteousness, sin and judgment and remind us of everything that JESUS said and did. (Study John 14:15-18, 25-26; 16:5-15).

Authority and might have in common that they must be enacted by the person receiving whatever is the promise or reward. The promise or reward cannot be received passively! The exercise of authority as power is not its own reward, it is only belief and action that result in receiving the promise or reward of GOD. (Study James 1:21-27, 2:14-26)

Might also is only accomplished by belief and action; you might be told that you can do something, but if you do not believe it or do it you will not accomplish it nor receive the reward or benefit. Might is only fulfilled by doing!

So, are you seeking The Kingdom of GOD and His Righteousness first? That is what JESUS told us to do in Matthew 6:33-34!