Is Jesus Actually God

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Is Jesus Actually God?

• Many say No
• Jehovahs Witnesses He was a created being
• Muslims A great prophet - but only a prophet

These, and others like them, say that Jesus is
not equal with God. Thus, Jesus cannot be
worshiped, nor should he receive the glory that
should go to God.
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Jesus Was Worshiped

• When they had come into the house, they saw the
  young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down
  and worshiped Him. (Matthew 211)

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Jesus Was Worshiped
Matt. 211 - wise men visit infant Jesus Matt.
1433 - after Jesus walked on the Sea Matt. 1525
- The Gentile woman John 938 - The healed blind
man Matt. 289 - The women who saw Him
resurrected
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Jesus Claimed Equality With Father
John 523 All should honor the Son just as they
honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son
does not honor the Father who sent Him. John
819 They said to Him, "Where is Your Father?"
Jesus answered, "You know neither Me nor My
Father. If you had known Me, you would have known
My Father also." John 1030 I and My Father
are one.
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Jesus Claimed Equality With Father
John 147 "If you had known Me, you would have
known My Father also and from now on you know
Him and have seen Him." John 149 Jesus said
to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet
you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me
has seen the Father so how can you say, 'Show us
the Father'?
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Jesus Claimed Equality With Father
John 1523 He who hates Me hates My Father
also. John 1615 All things that the Father
has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take
of Mine and declare it to you.
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O.T. Terms for God

• LORD YWHW, name for the One True God
• Lord Adonai, lord or ruler
• God Elohim, plural for of El, a generic term
  for deity
• Almighty Shaddai

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Jesus and Jehovah (LORD)
Isa. 403 The voice of one crying in the
wilderness "Prepare the way of the LORD Make
straight in the desert a highway for our God.
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Jesus and Jehovah (LORD)
Ps 979 For You, LORD, are most high above all
the earth You are exalted far above all gods.
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Jesus and Jehovah (LORD)
Isa. 446 There Is No Other God "Thus says the
LORD, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the
LORD of hosts 'I am the First and I am the
Last Besides Me there is no God.
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Jesus and Jehovah (LORD)
Prov. 164 The LORD has made all for Himself,
Yes, even the wicked for the day of doom.
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Jesus and Jehovah (LORD)
Joel 232 And it shall come to pass that whoever
calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved.
For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be
deliverance, As the LORD has said, Among the
remnant whom the LORD calls.
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Jesus and Jehovah (LORD)
Ps. 168 I have set the LORD always before me
Because He is at my right hand I shall not be
moved.
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John 11, 14

• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God.
• ... and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

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Jesus claimed that He was equal to the
Father. The rest of the N.T. backs up that
claim. Jesus was God in the flesh, even while on
the Earth.