Jesus Christ is Lord.
Some people find it difficult to accept Christ’s Deity because:
1 Cor.12:3 NKJV. Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
The Greek word for Lord is “Kyrios”. When the Jehovah Witness’s published their New World Bible, in translation they had “restored” the name “Jehovah” 237 times, usually from the word Kyrios. If the Watchtower Society had been consistent they would have translated the above verse “Jesus is Jehovah!” Its context demands it! Other Christian groups do the same. (For a study on the name Jehovah go to the Jehovah Witness studies.)
That Jesus is Lord is a great truth which can only be fully understood by a person totally “led by God’s Spirit.”
The Bible teaches in Rom. 8:14-17 that those who are “led by the Spirit” are also “joint heirs” with Christ. Most Jehovah Witnesses believe they do not belong to this “class” who are joint heirs with Christ; most do not believe that they are considered born again and heavenly.
So these people, according to the Bible, are completely unable to comprehend this truth, of being led by the Spirit and of being joint heirs with Christ.
For this reason it is best not to start your discussions with people on the subject of the Trinity. It is best to start with discussions on the subject of the Holy Spirit. Only when they accept Him will they be able to exclaim in all its significance that, “Jesus is Lord!”(Jesus is one with God)
THE MIGHTY GOD:
1 Cor.12:3 NKJV. Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
The Greek word for Lord is “Kyrios”. When the Jehovah Witness’s published their New World Bible, in translation they had “restored” the name “Jehovah” 237 times, usually from the word Kyrios. If the Watchtower Society had been consistent they would have translated the above verse “Jesus is Jehovah!” Its context demands it! Other Christian groups do the same. (For a study on the name Jehovah go to the Jehovah Witness studies.)
That Jesus is Lord is a great truth which can only be fully understood by a person totally “led by God’s Spirit.”
The Bible teaches in Rom. 8:14-17 that those who are “led by the Spirit” are also “joint heirs” with Christ. Most Jehovah Witnesses believe they do not belong to this “class” who are joint heirs with Christ; most do not believe that they are considered born again and heavenly.
So these people, according to the Bible, are completely unable to comprehend this truth, of being led by the Spirit and of being joint heirs with Christ.
For this reason it is best not to start your discussions with people on the subject of the Trinity. It is best to start with discussions on the subject of the Holy Spirit. Only when they accept Him will they be able to exclaim in all its significance that, “Jesus is Lord!”(Jesus is one with God)
THE MIGHTY GOD:
lsa. 9:6. Jesus is called the Mighty God. People will be quick to point out that Jesus is not the Almighty God. (Jesus the Son is no less God than the Father. He was one with the Father from the days of eternity. Micah 5:2, John14:9)
In lsa, 10:20-21. NKJV. And it shall come to pass in that day That the remnant of Israel, And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, Will never again depend on him who defeated them, But will depend on the Lord (God) the Holy One of Israel (A name for Jesus), in truth. The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God.
Note: Mighty God is the term used for Jehovah! Study the following texts in various Bible versions:
Jer. 32:18. NKJV. You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them the Great, the Mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Deut. 10:17. NKJV. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. (Lord of Lords and King of Kings are titles attributed to Christ at His return to earth. 1 Tim 6:15, Rev 19:16)
THE ALMIGHTY GOD:
In lsa, 10:20-21. NKJV. And it shall come to pass in that day That the remnant of Israel, And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, Will never again depend on him who defeated them, But will depend on the Lord (God) the Holy One of Israel (A name for Jesus), in truth. The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God.
Note: Mighty God is the term used for Jehovah! Study the following texts in various Bible versions:
Jer. 32:18. NKJV. You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them the Great, the Mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Deut. 10:17. NKJV. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. (Lord of Lords and King of Kings are titles attributed to Christ at His return to earth. 1 Tim 6:15, Rev 19:16)
THE ALMIGHTY GOD:
The person will now explain that Jesus is only the Mighty God but the Father is the Almighty God!
Note: (The definition of “almighty” is “having all power or authority”).
Now there are two problems:
1. Two persons are God (Divine)
2. Jesus claimed to be the Almighty.
Matt. 28:18 “And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth”.
Rev. 1:7,8. NKJV. Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Rev. 22:12,13. NKJV. “And behold, I (Jesus) am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
Rev. 1:8. NKJV. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Rev. 11:17. NKJV. Saying: “We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.
Note: This verse claims that, the One who is and who was and who is to come (Christ) is the “Almighty”!
Many people find this a real revelation. However, most initially reject the idea outright! They are over whelmed by the thought that there could be two Beings who are “God,” and “Almighty” and yet there is still only “one true God”?
NO PERSON HAS EVER SEEN GOD THE FATHER.
Note: (The definition of “almighty” is “having all power or authority”).
Now there are two problems:
1. Two persons are God (Divine)
2. Jesus claimed to be the Almighty.
Matt. 28:18 “And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth”.
Rev. 1:7,8. NKJV. Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Rev. 22:12,13. NKJV. “And behold, I (Jesus) am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
Rev. 1:8. NKJV. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Rev. 11:17. NKJV. Saying: “We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.
Note: This verse claims that, the One who is and who was and who is to come (Christ) is the “Almighty”!
Many people find this a real revelation. However, most initially reject the idea outright! They are over whelmed by the thought that there could be two Beings who are “God,” and “Almighty” and yet there is still only “one true God”?
NO PERSON HAS EVER SEEN GOD THE FATHER.
John 1:18. No man has seen God at any time.
1 John 4:12. No one has seen God at any time.
Genesis 17:1. When Aʹbram was 99 years old, Jehovah appeared to Aʹbram and said to him: “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and prove yourself faultless.
JESUS WAS THE CREATOR:
John 1:1. NKJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Rev 19:13. NKJV. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
John 1:3. NKJV. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
This text is clear Jesus created everything. Nothing that was created was created apart from Him. This means Jesus was not a created being! The Father did not create Him!
Heb. 1:2. NKJV. Has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds.
Col 1:16-17. NKJV. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
AN UNCREATED CREATOR?
1 John 4:12. No one has seen God at any time.
Genesis 17:1. When Aʹbram was 99 years old, Jehovah appeared to Aʹbram and said to him: “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and prove yourself faultless.
JESUS WAS THE CREATOR:
John 1:1. NKJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Rev 19:13. NKJV. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
John 1:3. NKJV. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
This text is clear Jesus created everything. Nothing that was created was created apart from Him. This means Jesus was not a created being! The Father did not create Him!
Heb. 1:2. NKJV. Has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds.
Col 1:16-17. NKJV. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
AN UNCREATED CREATOR?
Some people denigrate Jesus by teaching that He is a created being. In John 1:1 the Watchtower says that, “Jesus is a god like the created angels and Satan”. The letter a they have added even though it’s not in the Greek.
The Lord warns people not to alter God’s word, the Bible.
Rev.22:18. NKJV. If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.
WHO CREATED ADAM?
Gen.2:7. NKJV. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Was this the Father who came down in person to planet Earth and formed Adam from the ground, or was it Jesus? From the previous texts it is clear it was Jesus. He was working of course in complete unity with His Father and the Holy Spirit.
JESUS IS CALLED JEHOVAH GOD.
TWO JEHOVAHS?
Are there two Jehovah's? Yes!
Gen. 19:24. NKJV. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens.
Gen. 3:22. NKJV. Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us (plural,) to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever -”
Gen. 11:6,7. NKJV. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
JEHOVAH AND ABRAHAM
The Lord warns people not to alter God’s word, the Bible.
Rev.22:18. NKJV. If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.
WHO CREATED ADAM?
Gen.2:7. NKJV. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Was this the Father who came down in person to planet Earth and formed Adam from the ground, or was it Jesus? From the previous texts it is clear it was Jesus. He was working of course in complete unity with His Father and the Holy Spirit.
JESUS IS CALLED JEHOVAH GOD.
TWO JEHOVAHS?
Are there two Jehovah's? Yes!
Gen. 19:24. NKJV. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens.
Gen. 3:22. NKJV. Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us (plural,) to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever -”
Gen. 11:6,7. NKJV. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
JEHOVAH AND ABRAHAM
Gen.18:1. NKJV. Then the LORD appeared to him…
V. 3, and said, “My Lord, if I have now found favour in Your sight.
V. 13,14, And the LORD said to Abraham,… Is anything too hard for the Lord?
V. 22, “...but Abraham still stood before the LORD.
V. 33 “ So the LORD went His way as soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham…
This visit to Abraham was made by the Lord (Jehovah) Himself! He continually referred to Himself as “I” as He made decisions and told Abraham he would have a son. This was not an angel!
It was not God the Father either:
John 6:46, “Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He (Jesus) who is from God (the Father). He (Jesus) has seen the Father”.
John 5:37, “…the Father …YOU have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his figure: “
It was Jesus Christ that Abraham saw, and He claimed this was so.
V. 3, and said, “My Lord, if I have now found favour in Your sight.
V. 13,14, And the LORD said to Abraham,… Is anything too hard for the Lord?
V. 22, “...but Abraham still stood before the LORD.
V. 33 “ So the LORD went His way as soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham…
This visit to Abraham was made by the Lord (Jehovah) Himself! He continually referred to Himself as “I” as He made decisions and told Abraham he would have a son. This was not an angel!
It was not God the Father either:
John 6:46, “Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He (Jesus) who is from God (the Father). He (Jesus) has seen the Father”.
John 5:37, “…the Father …YOU have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his figure: “
It was Jesus Christ that Abraham saw, and He claimed this was so.
John 8:56-58 NKJV “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day,...” Then the Jews said to Him, ‘You are not yet fifty years old and have You seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
WHO WAS THE “I AM”?
Jesus claimed He was! That He was the Deity of Exodus 3:13,14, that He was that Jehovah! The Jews understood perfectly what Jesus was claiming but they would not accept this, so in John 8:59 they took up stones to stone Him for blasphemy, for “calling Himself God”.
Some people and groups will not accept this as clear scripture proves Jesus is the I Am.
Some groups attempt to completely obliterate this truth!
WHO WAS THE “I AM”?
Jesus claimed He was! That He was the Deity of Exodus 3:13,14, that He was that Jehovah! The Jews understood perfectly what Jesus was claiming but they would not accept this, so in John 8:59 they took up stones to stone Him for blasphemy, for “calling Himself God”.
Some people and groups will not accept this as clear scripture proves Jesus is the I Am.
Some groups attempt to completely obliterate this truth!
