JESUS CHRIST IS GOD
There are many who think they
do honor to the Lord Jesus Christ when they say that, "Christ is like
God", or that "Christ is a God". They do him no honor at all.
Their pretended honor is naked blasphemy! Their religion is a mockery of the
Lord Jesus Christ, for he claimed that he is very God of very God. Did he not
say, "Before Abram was, I AM" (John
The Word of God
expressly declares that Jesus Christ is God. "Thy throne, O God, is
forever and ever" (Ps. 45:6; Heb. 1:8). "Hereby perceive we the love
of God, because he laid down his life for us" (I John
If our Savior had been nothing more than a good,
righteous man he could never have redeemed us and justified us before God's
holy law. Only God could render perfect righteousness of infinite merit to the
law. Only one who is both God and man in one glorious Person could have
suffered to full satisfaction the infinite justice of God, so as to merit by
one great sacrifice the eternal salvation of God's elect. The Lord Jesus Christ,
our Savior, is "Immanuel", God with us, God in our nature, the
God-man our Mediator. Were he not God, he was the greatest imposter who ever
lived; and we are all miserably lost and without hope.