Well, my text this morning is
the motto of Nebwith Grace Fellowship. It's found in Ephesians chapter
3 and verse 8. We say on our leaflets and bulletins
and on the website, preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ. That's what we seek to do is
to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. Unsearchable implies
that you can't plumb the depths of them. You can't get to the
bottom of them. But that doesn't mean you can't
start. Many people say, oh, it's just too mysterious. Let's move
away from it. We're going to start. We're going
to start. But we can't plumb the depths because they're unsearchable.
Because how can we know the infinite? We're talking about the things
of God. How can we know the infinite? the unsearchable riches of Christ. We're talking about riches, we're
talking about treasure. Jesus said in the Sermon on the
Mount in Matthew chapter 6 verses 19 and 20, he talked about not
seeking treasure on earth, laying up for yourselves treasure on
earth, because on earth, moth and rust corrupts. With the passing
of time and with the passing of our lives, all of these things
will be utterly worthless. But he says, lay up for yourselves
treasure in heaven, where moth and rust does not corrupt. It's
eternal treasure. We live in days of the worst
financial crisis for 70 years or more. And no doubt it's going
to get worse before it gets better. And people are very, very worried,
as the article in the Bulletin points out this week. But again,
in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says this, take no thought for
those things. Don't be worried. Don't be concerned.
If you're a child of God this morning, you know that your Heavenly
Father has said He doesn't suffer His children to go begging bread.
He says that He will give us all that we need, but He says
seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. And all
these other things that you need, and He knows you need, will be
added to you without you striving and worrying about them. So what
is this treasure, these unsearchable riches that we're talking about?
And where do we find it? Well, the answer, I'm going to
come straight to it. The answer is in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ is the bank where we go for this heavenly currency. He's
the one to whom we go for this heavenly currency. And why do
I say that? Because Colossians chapter 2
verse 3 says this, that in Him, in Christ, are hid all the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge. Oh, as we go through this life
with all of its mysteries, with all of its conundrums with all
of its confusion oh what a thing it is to know true wisdom and
to have true knowledge and where do you find it says the scriptures
in Jesus Christ in this one in Matthew chapter 19 the person
that's known as the rich young ruler comes to Jesus and asks
a question what must I do to have eternal life to inherit
eternal life And I'm not going to go off down the side alley
into that discourse, it's far too long, it's another subject.
But at the end of it, Jesus says, then you shall have treasure
in heaven. What must I do to inherit eternal
life? Then you shall have treasure
in heaven. Eternal life and treasure in heaven, Jesus is equating
these things, he's equating. The unsearchable riches of Christ
are to do with eternal life. That's what it is. They concern
eternal life. And so each one of us, all of
us here, those that might listen to this, do you see your interest
in these riches? Every one of us, a flesh and
blood mortal people, to whom it is appointed to die once and
then comes the judgment. Do you see your interest in these
riches that are in Christ? These riches of eternal life. These unsearchable riches that
you can't plumb the debts of. Great riches that are in the
Lord Jesus Christ. It's all based, all of it, on
the person and the work of Christ. So important. If you study nothing
else, study this. If you seek no other knowledge,
seek this. What does it mean, the person
and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ? Who is He? and what has
he done? Who is he about so many will
be speaking even as we speak now in this land that name will
be echoing through buildings of great architecture up and
down this land and even in this village this small town where
we are now who is he really this Jesus Christ and what has he
done? Do you know it's the most important
question in Matthew 22 and verse 42 Jesus asked the Pharisees
What think ye of Christ? What do you think of the Christ?
Whose son is he? And so on. He develops the conversation
with the Pharisees. But it's a crucial question.
Who is Jesus Christ? Now what I want to do this week
and next week is answer those two questions. Who is he? And
what has he done? This week I want to focus on
who he is. who is Jesus Christ and next
week we'll come back to it and we'll look at what he has done
because it makes a good Christmas message you shall call his name
Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins that will be
our subject next week but for now who is Jesus Christ it's
an important question in Matthew's gospel chapter 16 and verse 13
Jesus asked the disciples this he said Who do men say that I,
the son of man, am? That was the question. You're
closer to them than me, in a sense, even though he was the one who
knew all things. In a kind of a person-to-person gossiping
way, the disciples were closer to the everyday man in the street.
So he's saying, who are they saying? When you have your conversations
with them, who are they saying that I, the son of man, am? And
there were all sorts of different views. This prophet, or that
prophet, or this person come back from... Somebody very special,
no doubt. And so it is in our day. For
example, Islam. Islam, about which there is so
much concern in the world these days of politics. But Islam,
honors Jesus Christ. It does. It regards him as a
prophet, a mighty prophet. Not as mighty as the ultimate
prophet that came, Muhammad, but they honor Jesus Christ as
a prophet. So, yes, he's not God, but he's
a prophet. And the Jehovah's Witnesses say,
Oh, Jesus is my Savior. Don't ever think that you're
going to get an answer from the Jehovah's Witnesses that's anything other
than that. They'll say, Jesus is my Savior. He died for my
sins. But he's not God. He's the best
thing that God ever created. He's the top man that God created,
but he's not God. And most of mainstream Christian
religion, all around us, in this country and around the world
today, they preach of Jesus as a saviour, as a shedder of blood
on the cross of Calvary to pay for the sins of people but the
possibility of paying for the sins of people and not the actual
finality and accomplishment of it and therefore they do not
preach a Jesus who is sovereign and who is God in all things
they don't and Jesus says to the disciples okay there are
all those opinions but who do you say that I am? This is what
he says to believers. Who do you say? And do you know
what the believer responds as they did? Spokesman Peter, you
are the Christ, the son of the living God. And in that, there
is such force and power and weight. You are the Christ, the Son of
the Living God. I am looking at a man who has
no comeliness that we should desire him and I know that you
are God come to this earth for the purpose of saving your people
from their sins as the prophets all spoke, as the scriptures
all declared. This is what he's saying. You
are the Christ, the Son of the Living God and Jesus said to
him, you are Peter and on this rock, Peter's a little stone,
Peter's a little pebble. It's the same word as a stone.
Petros, the word for a little stone. You are a little stone
but on the rock of what? Of what you have just said. The
rock of the truth of what Christ is. That he's God who came to
save his people from their sins. That he's God who came to live
and die in the place of his people. On that rock, the rock of that
fact, I will build my church and everyone who is in his kingdom,
a member of his kingdom, is there because of what Christ has done
in establishing righteousness, in satisfying justice, in paying
the penalty for sins, in paying the liberation, the redemption
price, the propitiation that is in his blood. This is about
people being saved for eternity. So who is Jesus Christ? Here
is my answer, here is Scripture's answer. He is God, the only Savior. Who is Jesus Christ? He is God,
the only Savior. Listen to these words from Isaiah
43 and verse 3, For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of
Israel, thy Saviour. Isaiah 45, 21, he says, There
is no God else beside me, a just God and a Saviour. Do you know
who's speaking those words? The One who is the Word. In the
beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word
was God. That's the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the second person
of the Trinity, as all the words of Scripture are His words, saying,
I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour. Well,
aren't I leaping out in the dark there? Surely it's God that spoke
in the Old Testament, and Jesus speaks in the New Testament.
Oh no, my friends, no. It's Christ who speaks. He is
the voice of God to mankind. He is the one by whom God speaks. Let me show you some things that
prove that He is God, the only Saviour. Because you see, the
Lord Jesus Christ shares with God these characteristics. It's not as if God has some and
Jesus has some of them and they share them out, you know, like
you might share out a bag of sweets between two people. No. They're one and the same. They
have one and the same. He shares God's name He shares
God's nature. He shares God's power. He shares
God's sovereignty. He shares God's glory. And as
God, He deserves the worship of God. As God. So let's look
at these things. Our Lord Jesus Christ is God
the only Savior because He shares the name of God. His name is
the name of God. He has the same name. In Romans
chapter 9 and verse 5, He is Christ. who is over all." And
then it says, God, blessed forever. It couldn't be more explicit.
The Scriptures teach, Romans chapter 9 verse 5, and we know
they're the Scriptures, they're the writings of Paul. Peter the
Apostle said in one of his letters, as all the writings of Paul,
as they do all the rest of the Scriptures. He equates the writings
of Paul with the Scriptures. And in there, Paul says this,
Christ who is over all, God, blessed forever. And another
apostle, John, 1 John chapter 5 and verse 20 says this, We
know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding. We are in Him who is true, in
His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal
life. This is the true God. Jesus Christ,
he's saying, John is saying, this is the true God and eternal
life. Do you know in the Septuagint
translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, it's a translation
of the Old Testament into Greek, and the word for Jehovah in that
translation is Kyrios, K-Y-R-I-O-S, Kyrios, and that's exactly the
same name that is used of Jesus Christ. The same name! He shares
the same name! Now, we're running up to Christmas,
and of course, certain scriptures get well turned over and well
recited and well used and the choirs go off and sing Handel's
Messiah and of course one of the most favoured and well-loved
choruses is Isaiah chapter 9 and verse 6, for unto us a child
is born and unto us a son is given and the government shall
be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful
Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. this
child who would be born, this son who was to be given, had
the name Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. You see, I'm
not going out on a limb when I say that our Lord Jesus Christ
is God, the only Saviour. This is part of these unsearchable
riches. This is essential to it, to know
who He is. If you do not know that Christ
is the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, the Mighty God,
you don't know the true Saviour. You know a God of your own imagination. As we read in Isaiah 45, you
might as well have gone and got a bit of wood and carved an idol
and bowed down to it because what you are worshipping is a
Jesus who is the God of your own imagination, just an idol
and not the God of Scripture. For he is the everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace. In Isaiah chapter 7 verse 14,
another text, For behold, the Virgin shall conceive and bear
a son, and shall call his name Immanuel, which means God with
us. His name shall be called God
with us. This is the name of this one
who was coming. He shares God's name, Immanuel,
God with us. Say unto the cities of Judah,
Isaiah 40, 9 to 11. He's coming, it says, prepare
the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our
God, and say unto the cities of Judah, behold look at your
God there he is the one who is walking amongst us what did John
say and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father full of grace and truth God amongst us turn with
me to Revelation chapter 1 Revelation the first chapter now in verse 8 of chapter 1 I
think you will agree there is no question that this is Almighty
God who is speaking and he says this I am Alpha and Omega Alpha
and Omega are the first and the last letters of the Greek alphabet
meaning the beginning of everything and the end of everything. And
everything in this world around us that we see and in this existence
of consciousness that we all go through in our relationships
with one another, the beginning of it is Almighty God, He is
the Alpha. And where will it end? It ends
in Him, when He ends all things. He is the Alpha and the Omega.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and ending. says the Lord which
is and which was and which is to come the Almighty no question
who's speaking there is that everybody would agree this is
God who's speaking now look down a few verses look down at verse
11 well verse 10 John was in the
spirit on the Lord's day and heard behind him a great voices
of a trumpet saying I am Alpha and Omega the first and the last
and then we'll carry on, he's told to write letters to some
churches and then we have this vision, he turned to see the
voice, verse 12 and being turned I saw seven golden candlesticks
and in the midst of the seven candlesticks, look who's there
speaking, I am the Alpha and the Omega, one like unto the
Son of Man clothed with a garment and we have this glorious picture
of him all the way down and look at verse 17 and when I saw him
you see out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword which
is the word of God that came out of his mouth this one who
likewise is called the Alpha and the Omega and when I saw
him verse 17 I fell at his feet as dead and he laid his right
hand upon me saying unto me fear not is that a comfort to your
soul that one who is the Alpha and the Omega says fear not I
am the first and the last look I am he that liveth and was dead
who else was dead Christ died and lives behold I am alive forevermore
and have the keys of hell and death he shares the name of God
the Alpha and the Omega and then he shares the nature of God the
nature of God in Philippians chapter 2 and verse 6 You know
these verses, they're very familiar, telling believers to have the
same mind in them as was in Jesus Christ, who being in the form
of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. In being
equal with God, Jesus Christ, in nature, took nothing away
from God that was rightly his. he stole nothing that was not
rightly his he is God in the form of God thought it not robbery
to be equal with God he shares the same nature as God when Moses
had fleed from Egypt and was working for his father-in-law
and he was working as a shepherd just as a herdsman and he's on
his own in the wilderness and he sees that bush that burning
bush that wasn't consumed and he goes over to see what it is
and a voice comes out of the bush and it's God speaking to
him. Who is it that's speaking to
him? Who is it that's speaking to him? By whom does God speak
to mankind? By his Son. In these last days
he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he has made heir of all
things. And God speaks to him and tells
him to go and tell Pharaoh to let the people go and bring the
people out of Egypt and Moses says but if I go to them the
children of Israel who shall I say has sent me and God says
to him say I am has sent you say the great I am the one who
alone is existent in himself. We are not existent in ourselves. We don't exist in and of ourselves.
We only live and move and have our being in what God allows.
He sets the bounds of our habitation. he controls all that happens
to us, all the circumstances and events around us but he himself
is the pre-existent one he is the one who exists in and of
himself and he said go and tell them that I am has sent you and
in John chapter 8 Jesus is talking to the Pharisees about Abraham
and they're getting really annoyed with him because they're saying
Abraham is our father and you don't know what you're talking
about and Jesus said to him these words he said I tell you truly
before Abraham was I am he didn't say before Abraham was I have
been or I... he said before Abraham was I
am those very words that God spoke to Moses out of the burning
bush he shares the nature of God in John chapter 14 The disciples
are wondering what's happening. They're in the upper room. It's
the day before the crucifixion, the night before the crucifixion.
And there's all of that dialogue. There's been the washing of the
disciples' feet. There's all the talk about the Holy Spirit
coming. And they want to know the way.
And Jesus says, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man
comes to the Father but by me. Well, show us the Father and
that will suffice. Show us the true nature of God.
Philip, have I been so long with you? and yet you have not known
me. He who has seen me has seen the Father. He shares the nature
of God the Father. Why? Because what does Paul say?
Colossians chapter 2 and verse 9. In Him, in our Lord Jesus
Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Not just
somebody who's a good teacher about who God really is. Not
somebody who gives us a good example of what godliness is.
No. In Him dwells, dwells, the fullness of the Godhead in a
body, in a body that they could touch. John leaned on his breast
at the Last Supper, the disciple whom Jesus loved. and in him
dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily he's the same by nature
in Malachi chapter 3 and verse 6 we read of Jehovah who is unchanging
the same yesterday today and forever and you read in Hebrews
chapter 13 verse 8 so is our Lord Jesus Christ the unchanging
eternal God who is Jesus Christ he is God our Savior he shares
God's power in creation. He shares God's power. Who is
it that has made the worlds? In Genesis 1 and verse 1 you
know in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. but
in John chapter 1 and verses 1 to 3 in the beginning was the
Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God he was in
the beginning with God all things were made by him and without
him was not anything made that has been made not anything at
all if it's a made thing he made it is what that scripture is
saying Colossians chapter 1 and verse 15 he is the image of the
invisible God the image of the invisible God the firstborn of
every creature the driving force is what that word really means
doesn't mean the first created as the Jehovah's Witnesses would
tell you means the firstborn the driving force the originating
force of every creature for by him our Lord Jesus Christ were
all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth
visible and invisible whether they be thrones or dominions
or principalities or powers all things were created by him and
for him and he is before all things and in him by him all
things consist all things hold together I know I've said it
many many times but I'll say it again this is the way to think
of it It is the active, positive power of the word of our Lord
Jesus Christ that is holding the atoms and the molecules together
in the chair that you're sitting on that means that your chair
is staying in one piece and so are we. All things, the sun in
its place, the planets going round the sun, the moon round
the earth, all held in place, they all consist in him and he
is the head of the body which is the church. He's got power
over all these things, power over creation. As he walked this
earth, as God in human flesh, as the God-man, he had power
over demons. You read the Gospels again, you
read those accounts of where somebody possessed of evil spirits
is met by the Lord Jesus Christ and the devils that possess him
cry out, Oh, what have we got to do with you, you son of man,
you son of God? leave us alone leave us alone
leave us leave us in peace you you've come to trouble us you
see they knew who he was the demons the devils knew who he
was but he had power over them and he sent them away you know
he sent devils into that herd of swine and they ran down the
hill over the cliff he has power over the weather how often we
wish we had power over the weather how often we wish we could drag
that nice big summer high pressure in to give us some warm weather
in the summer but he has power over the weather and it's recorded
that they were in that boat and they were saying to him he was
asleep in the back of the boat and the storm was causing the
waves to wash into the boat don't you care that we're about to
perish they said to the Lord Jesus Christ O ye of little faith
And what does he do? He gets up and he just says,
he speaks, he speaks to the elements, the weather. Peace, be still.
Can you imagine the shock of those people in that boat? A
raging storm. Peace, be still. It's calm. He's got power over creation.
Power over physical infirmities. He goes to that place, Caesarea,
I think it was. He's preaching in the house The
friends bring the man who's been sick and lame all his life on
his bed. and they can't get in because
there's too much of a crowd so they go up on the roof you probably
not thank people for doing this to your house these days and
they break a hole in the roof and they let him down through
the hole in the roof so that he can get near to Jesus and
he sees their faith and he sees it because he knows it he's planted
it there and he says to the man the most important thing that
the Son of God can ever say to you not you've won the lottery
not that you've cured of this disease he says to them He says
to them, to all of them, not only the man on the bed, but
those who brought him, your sins are forgiven. And oh wow, did
that incense the Pharisees? Because he has power to forgive
sins. He says, your sins are forgiven. And he says, just to
show you that I have power to do that, I'm going to say to
him, rise up and walk. And he does. And the man rises
up and walks, the one who'd been infirm. He showed that he had
that power over physical infirmities. How many did he heal? They came
to Him and He healed all their sicknesses and infirmities. He
even had power over death. Death. Not just Lazarus. Many
others. He raised from the dead. He has power in creation over
all things. And He's sovereign. As God is
sovereign in all things, our Lord Jesus Christ is. And especially
in salvation. Do you know the greatest glory
of our God? is his sovereignty Moses said
show me your glory this I plead show me your glory and God says
I will cause all my goodness to pass before you and this is
his goodness this is his glory it's his saving grace it's his
sovereign saving grace I will be gracious to whom I will be
gracious and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion
oh praise God that doctrine to the rebellious human mind is
something that they hate, something they want nothing to do with,
but to the child of God who's seen it, but for that grace of
God, I too would be lost. Oh, the grace of God. Oh, the
love that drew me. Oh, the grace that drew me. Oh,
the grace that called me to the fold. I can't remember the words,
you know the hymn I'm alluding to. The grace of God over salvation. It's repeated in Romans 9. Compassion
on whom he will have compassion. He has power to forgive sins,
as I've already said. Sovereign. He, the Lord Jesus
Christ, has that sovereign power. As he said to the thief on the
cross, who was it who said it? This day you shall be with me
in paradise. They were so incensed at him
that he kept telling people, your sins are forgiven. Who has
the power and the right to forgive sins other than God himself?
Nobody does. Only God has that power and right.
Only God is the judge in his court of divine justice and he
is the one who has the power to forgive sins and he did again
and again. He exercises his saving sovereignty
where? In the Lord Jesus Christ alone.
For Paul tells the Ephesians just as he chose us in Christ
before the foundation of the world. Just as he tells Timothy
about the purpose and grace of God in Christ which was given
to us by grace by sovereign power by election before the world
began before time began he shares the sovereignty of God he shares
the glory of God just turn to that passage in Exodus chapter
33 Exodus 33 and verse 18 this is Moses with God on the
mount and Moses said in Exodus 33 verse
18 he said I beseech thee show me thy glory and he said God
said I will make all my goodness pass before thee and I will proclaim
the name of the Lord before thee which must mean more than just
a name it means everything that the name means the saving grace
and the sovereign gracious power of God before thee And I will
be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy
on whom I will show mercy. And he said, Thou canst not see
my face, for there shall no man see me and live. And the Lord
said, Behold, there is a place by me. There is a place. Are
you comforted by that? No man shall see me and live,
but there is a place beside me. And thou shalt stand upon a rock.
And we know from the New Testament that that rock was Christ. and
it shall come to pass while my glory pass by that I will put
you in the cleft of the rock because that rock was a broken
rock and why was it a broken rock? it was broken for his people
Christ was broken for his people that his people's sins might
be paid for that his life might be poured out that his precious
blood might be poured out and I will cover thee with my hand
while I pass by and I will take away mine hand and thou shalt
see my back parts but my face shall not be seen." This is clearly
the unknowable God speaking to Moses about what it is. You know
the Old Testament saints were terrified of seeing God for they
knew no man shall see me and live. When God, when the angel
of the Lord, when the messenger of the covenant appeared to Gideon's
parents. They were terrified that they
were going to die for no man shall see me and live. So how
can we? How can we see God and live?
It's in the Lord Jesus Christ. For 2 Corinthians chapter 4 and
verse 6 tells us that the light of the knowledge of the glory
of God has shined into our hearts in the face of Jesus Christ. You shall not see my face but
we can see the face of Jesus Christ. And there we see the
truth and the essence of God. and the glory of the Lord shall
be revealed when he comes says Isaiah 40 verse 5 that his Messiah
his Christ was coming and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
do you know God says that he will not share his glory with
another says this quite clearly Isaiah 42 and verse 8 God says
he's a jealous God he will not share his glory with another
it's uniquely the glory of God and our Lord Jesus Christ prays
that same night John 17 the night before the crucifixion and he
prays to his father John 17 verse 5 and this is one of the things
he prays glorify me with thine own self with the glory that
I shared with thee before the beginning of time that's what
he prayed Glorify me now. He was humbled for a season.
For a while he laid aside his glory. He was made for a little
while lower than the angels for the suffering of death. But now
he prays, here's the cross and thereafter glorify me. With that
glory which is rightfully mine, Jehovah will not share his glory
with another. Ah, so how do we make sense of
it? Christ is God. He is God our
Saviour. Whose glory was it that Isaiah
saw? The New Testament tells us. John
in his Gospel, chapter 12 and verse 41. When Isaiah saw the
Lord filling the temple in Isaiah 6, he saw Christ's glory and
spoke of Him. Do I understand these things?
How can I possibly understand them? I can't. Do I believe them? Yes, I do. But Lord, help thou
mine unbelief. Help thou my periods of unbelief. Help thou the weakness of my
own weak mind to understand these things and show me. I can't understand. How can God the Father pour out
His Spirit on God the Son? How can God the Son, as a man,
pray to His Father? How can God the Father desert
His Son so that His Son on the cross cries out, My God, My God,
why hast Thou forsaken Me? And yet, how can they all still
be God, infinitely perfectly God? I don't know. I don't understand. But it's what the Scriptures
declare. And therefore, Lord, help thou mine unbelief, and
help me to believe and see these things that you have shown us."
We look, as Paul says to Titus, for the glorious appearing of
the great God and our Saviour, Jesus Christ. That's not two
separate people he's talking about. No God else beside me,
says God our Saviour. And as God, He deserves our worship. Oh, this Lord Jesus Christ deserves
our worship. He is very God of very God. Let all the angels of God worship
Him, says the writer to the Hebrews, Hebrews 1 and verse 6. We read
in Revelation 5 about the Lamb who is worthy of all praise.
He's the object, He's the center of all of the praise of the angels
and of the host of His church in glory. The Father says, John
chapter 5 and verse 23, this is God's will that all honor
the Son. just as they honour the Father.
If you want to honour God, if you want to truly worship God,
you must honour the Son to the same extent as the Father. And
some still doubted, and Thomas doubted, even the risen Lord,
he doubted that he'd risen from the dead. And he came, he was
meeting with the disciples and he would not believe, and Christ
came through the door and appeared to them and showed him, Thomas,
come here, look, look at the nail prints, look at the spear,
wound in my side look and Thomas sees and then Thomas knows because
he's seen and Thomas falls at his feet and Jesus accepts his
worship my Lord and my God everywhere else where somebody bows in worship
before a human form before a an angelic form He receives a rebuke. Don't do that. I'm just a man
just as you are. I'm just one like... Don't do
that. Don't worship me. Worship God. But our Lord Jesus
Christ rightfully accepted that worship. My Lord and my God. I am God and there is none else. We read it in Isaiah 45, 22 and
23. This is what God says. Unto me
every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear. And you know
in Philippians chapter 2 verses 9 and 11, 9 to 11, the passage
that we were reading earlier, God has highly exalted Christ. He's highly exalted Him. He's
given Him the name that is above every name, even above His own
name. Surely He wouldn't do that. Ah,
He's God. He's God, our infinite Saviour, that at the name of
Jesus, the man Jesus, every knee should bow isn't that what Isaiah
45 said about God every knee should bow before the Lord that
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow and every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father if
you want to truly glorify God the Father if you want to truly
worship God you only do it by confessing that Jesus Christ
is Lord The Lord Jesus Christ is the only God and Saviour. That's who He is. We've barely
scratched the surface. It's the message of the Scriptures.
But that's the truth that we declare to this generation. He's
the only God and Saviour. And what has He done? He came
as a man whose name was Jesus, which means Saviour, because
He shall save His people from their sins.