👏🏾 400th Episode! Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today as I discuss: John 8:24: "I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.” When Jesus states in this verse that one must believe "I am he," it's yet another instance where He does, in fact, tell others that He is God.
Jesus expressly acknowledged that he is God, and said that he expects all believers to recognize that he is God. Thomas called Jesus "My Lord and my God." Jesus acknowledged it as true, and commended Thomas for perceiving it, saying, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed" (John 20:28-29).
Jesus said many things about Himself that could only be said about one WHO IS GOD. So today, we are going to look at a ton of Scripture that shows the attributes of Jesus' deity, namely:
👉🏾AUTHORITY: All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me" (Matthew 28:18).
👉🏾AUTHORITY TO JUDGE MANKIND: Jesus has authority to judge all men. "The Father... has entrusted all judgment to the Son" (John 5:22, see also verse 27).
👉🏾SOURCE OF SALVATION AND ETERNAL LIFE: "My Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life" (John 6:40).
👉🏾AUTHORITY TO FORGIVE SIN: According to Jewish teaching only God could forgive sins. Jesus shocked the "teachers of the law" by declaring that "the Son of Man (his name for Himself) has authority on earth to forgive sins" (Mark 2:10; see also Luke 7:48-49).
👉🏾CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN: Jesus told the Jewish religious leaders, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world" (John 8:23).
👉🏾BROUGHT THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO EARTH: Jesus' entire preaching was about the Kingdom of God. He began His preaching by declaring, "The time is fulfilled; and the kingdom of God is at hand" (Mark 1:15).
👉🏾LIVES ETERNALLY: Jesus' words declare that He lives eternally and has no beginning or ending in time. They confirm His statement in John's vision in the Book of Revelation that He is, "the First and the Last," and lives forever (Revelation 1:17-18).
👉🏾INSTITUTED A NEW COVENANT: Jeremiah 31:31 had announced that God would institute a new covenant in which He would write His laws on men's hearts. At the Last Supper, Jesus declared that the wine "is the new covenant in my blood" (Luke 22:20). Hebrews chapters 8 and 9, after referring to Jeremiah's prophecy, confirm that "Christ is the mediator of a new covenant" (Hebrews 9:15).
👉🏾WILL COME AGAIN IN GLORY: Jesus told the High Priest, "In the future you will see the Son of Man [his name for himself] sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven" (Matthew 26:64). Amen!
🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!
