Very God of Very God

"Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature." (Colossians 1:15)

Now, the Bible has a great deal to say about the manner in which sinful man may come into the fellowship and the presence of God, and it all has to do with forgiveness and grace and regeneration and justification in Jesus Christ! It all boils down to the teaching that Jesus Christ is everything that the Godhead is! The image of the invisible God, the brightness of His glory, the express image of His person - all of these we find in and through Jesus Christ!

We believe with rejoicing that Jesus Christ was the begotten of the Father, before all ages, that He is God of God, Light of light, very God of very God, begotten and not made, of one substance with the Father, and it is by Him that all things were made!

He was and is and can never cease to be God, and when we find Him and know Him, we are back at the ancient fount again! Christ is all that the Godhead is!

How amazing is Your plan of redemption, Lord, that through finding Christ we find You. Let me know Him more, that I may enter into fellowship with You. Amen

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God - Or An Idiot

"I and my Father are one" (John 10:30)

Now the words of the Lord Jesus were words so lofty and so astounding and so filled with authority that no other religious teacher in history could ever match His teachings.

Frankly, the claims that He made brand Him immediately as being God - or an idiot!

Of His own body He said, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" (John 2:19). He told His hearers, "I beheld satan as lightning fall from heaven" (Luke 10:18). He declared with authority, "Before Abraham was, I am!" (John 8:58). He predicted that

when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. (Matthew 25:31-33).

No one else has ever been able to say, "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth" (John 5:28-29).

No one else has ever talked like that!

Lord, I know that You are God and I see the authority in Your words. Help me to share You faithfully with those around me who still do not believe. Amen

~A. W. Tozer~