Jesus Christ Our Savior Is Jehovah Our God
John 1:1
Don Fortner
We are trinitarians. We
worship one God in the trinity, or tri-unity, of his sacred Persons: the
Father. the Son and the Holy Spirit. There are three
distinct Persons in the the eternal Godhead. But those three Divine Persons are
One (I John 5:7). The Father is God. The Son is God. And the Holy Spirit is
God. Yet, they are not three Gods, but One God. And this eternal Godhead, in
all the fulness of the Divine Beings, is revealed by and forever dwells in the
body of that Man whose name is Jesus, the Christ (Col. 2:9; John 1:1,14;
14:6-10; Isa. 9:6-7).
The triune God reveals
himself to men, deals with men, and is known by men only in the Person of that
One who is the only Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus (I
Tim.2:5; John 1:18;14:6). And this Man, Jesus Christ, is himself the eternal
God (Rev. 1:4,8). His name is Immanuel, God with us
(Matt.
This is the wondrous
mystery of the incarnation: "God was manifest in the flesh" (I Tim.
Jehovah Jesus bridged
the gulf between God and man, which neither the holy God nor fallen man could
ever bridge apart from him. God could not receive a guilty man. And man could
not remove his guilt. But the glorious God-Man, Jehovah Jesus, has established
righteousness as a Man for men and suffered death as a Man for the atonement of
men's sins. And the righteousness and atonement of this Man's life and death is
of infinite merit for all who come to God by him, because this Man is God. God
and man meet together in peace only in the God-Man, Jehovah Jesus.