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                               Jesus is God   
      
   Most people don't know whom Jesus is. Also many who profess that   
   they believe in the Bible, deny that Jesus is God. That is the same as to   
   degrade the Creator and say he is only a part of the creation. In Col.   
   1:14-19 we see that Jesus is the firstborn of every creature, for by him   
   all things were created. Jesus say in John 17:5, "And now, O Father,   
   glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with   
   thee before the world was."   
      
   In Hebr. 1:1-14 it is God Father himself who speaks to his Son, and   
   calls him God. The Father says, "Thy throne, O. God, is for ever and   
   ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou   
   hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy   
   God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows."   
      
   God's angels will worship him. (Verse 6). If Jesus is not God, then   
   it would imply that all God's angels would be guilty of idolatry   
   when they worship Jesus.   
      
   When Thomas said to Jesus, "My Lord and my God!" then Jesus had   
   no objection. John 20:28. No one of God's angels would dare let   
   himself be addressed in this way. In Revelation 19:10, 22:8-9 we   
   can read, when John would worship an angel, the angel said, "See   
   thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and for thy brethren and   
   prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship   
   God." When the disciples worshipped Jesus, then he received their   
   worship, and he said nothing against that. Matt. 28:9, 17. Jesus   
   himself says in John 5:23, "He that honoureth not the Son honoureth   
   not the Father which have sent him."   
      
   Please, read John 1st chapter. "In the beginning was the Word,   
   and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was   
   in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and   
   without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life;   
   and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness;   
   and the darkness comprehended it not." Verses 1-5.   
      
   Refusing of Jesus as the Creator is refusing of his divine nature.   
   "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the   
   world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received   
   him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to   
   become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:   
   Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, but of   
   God." John 1:10-13.   
      
   When we through the faith in Jesus are born again, then this is a   
   great wonder. From having been only created beings, we become   
   related to the Creator. Jesus is our Brother and his Father is our   
   Father.   
      
   If you will deny that Jesus is God, then you are not born anew.   
   Then you are only a lowly being, in comparison with those who   
   love Jesus. Do repent, and receive Jesus as your personal Saviour   
   and let him baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and you come to   
   rise considerably in order of precedence, and get authority to   
   command over the devil. 1 Peter 5:8-9. James 4:7.   
      
   While you are not born anew, you can get only a smattering of the   
   Bible. If you had been able to read the Bible in its original language,   
   Greek and Hebrew, you had yet understood very little of the Bible   
   because no one can come to the Father or understand God's word   
   except through Jesus. John 14:6. The belief in Jesus is as a key to   
   the Bible. If you are not willing to believe in Jesus, then you can   
   neither understand God's word.   
      
      
      
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