Good morning all,
Raymond, maybe this will help to show you that Jesus is indeed God.
Matthew 1:20 - 23
But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, " Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: " The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" -- which means, " God with
us."
** so.......... The angel told Joseph that Mary's child was conceived by the Holy Spirit and would be a son. This reveals to us that indeed Jesus is two things -- he is both God and human. Although this is a stickler point for many, probably yourself included. But indeed Jesus is and was God and man. One of the wonderful blessings of belief in Christ is to realize that he lived here on earth as a man with all of the temptations etc... that all men and women face on earth. And yet, he lived perfectly...sinless for his entire life!!!! Only a man who was conceived by the Holy Spirit could have done this. Jesus means " the Lord saves " Jesus came to earth to save us because we can not save ourselves from sin. No matter how " good " we are in this life here on earth, we can never eliminate the sinful nature present in all of us. Only Jesus can do this. Jesus was to be called " Immanuel " or " God with us ", as predicted by the prophet Isaiah 7:14. Jesus was God in the flesh; thus God was LITERALLY among us, " with us " .
As Steve already showed you in John 1:1 " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Case closed isn't it ? The Word was God. Jesus is the Word and the word was God. This is the truth about Jesus and the foundation of all truth.
Many " mysteries " for lack of a better word, exist when we look at God's will, the Bible, Christ's life, salvation etc.... We need to realize that WE are human and the grace of God and His will are FAR BEYOND our understanding. We need to believe as a child, with childlike faith in Christ. Difficult at times I know, but we can not rationalize our way through the bible to understand everything in it. Impossible to do. But we can be comforted that the Peace of God, which passes all of our human understanding can and is with us through the Holy Spirit. And for that I say Amen.
Thanks be to God for sending us his Son who is both God and man to save us and bridge the gap between this earth and our Father.
Enjoy the day all.
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