Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from Phillips, Craig, and Dean singing … Great I AM … poignantly singing of desire as Christians to declare forever that Jesus was - AND IS - the Great I AM!!
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Highlight Verse[s]: Hebrews 1:[2]-3 [NKJV] … 2 [God’s Son] … 3 Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, …
… Jesus is God!!
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Highlight Passage [context]: Hebrews 1:1-10 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru the author if Hebrews, express clearly that Jesus was the Son of God and the clear image of God in the flesh.
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Reference Passage : … John 10:22-39 [NKJV]… USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus expresses as clearly as one could that He and God are one in the same; … see especially verse 30, which states in red letters … “I and My Father are one.”
Reference Passage : … John 20:30-31 [NKJV] … 30 And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
… The Apostle John believed that Jesus was God!
Reference Passage : … Colossians 1:16-17 [NKJV] … 16 For by Him [Jesus] all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or [a]principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
… AND, … the Apostle Paul certainly believed that Jesus was God!
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Jennifer Benson Schuldt, uses a painting of a stream as a word picture to illustrate that sometimes we see reality as a reflection of what we perceive. The ODB author wrote: To celebrate a special occasion, my husband took me to a local art gallery and said I could choose a painting as a gift. I picked out a small picture of a brook flowing through a forest. [see photo] The stream-bed took up most of the canvas, and because of this much of the sky was excluded from the picture. However, the stream’s reflection revealed the location of the sun, the treetops, and the hazy atmosphere. The only way to “see” the sky was to look at the surface of the water.
The ODB author today asks a very revealing question, What is God like? … And how would my readers answer that one as you read this here.
Well the Author of Hebrews (in the highlight passage) answers it unequivocally. He writes that Jesus was, in truth, the Son of God; and that He was was Whom He said He was (in John 10:30) … and Who the Apostle Paul said He was (see Col. 1:16-17).
Well, let’s get down to the bottom-line question, which was brought out by Josh McDowell in 1977 in his classic little book, More Than A Carpenter , where he asked (see Chapter 2), Is Jesus LIAR, LUNATIC, or LORD? Since Jesus clearly claimed to be God, we must decide, as those who heard Him make that claim. Was He a liar? Was He a lunatic? Or … was He Who He claimed to be … LORD?
Like the Jews and others who encountered Jesus in His day, we have to decide if Jesus was Whom He claimed to be … or not? Because that decision is the most important eternal decision we’ll ever make. … Because those who truly believe that Jesus was (and is) God and the Lord of our lives, will - as Jesus promised - have everlasting life. But those who doubt His claim of divinity … WON’T!
We get to choose!
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for giving me the faith to choose to believe that You and the Father are one.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … I will follow You thru life as MY LORD!! … Amen
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