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(3) That He is the true God and is entitled to every attribute of Deity.
We are not called upon to explain that which Scripture does not explain, but we are bound to believe that which
God has written. The attack upon the true Christ is among the final preparations for the false christ, the man of sin.
Let us `honour the Son', even as we honour the Father, for this, and nothing short of this, is in harmony with the
Word of truth.
`AT (IN) THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW ...
AND THAT EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS THAT
JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER'.
If we were asked to select one passage of the Old Testament which declared most definitely the absoluteness of
God in all the infinitude of His Deity, we could not find a better passage than Isaiah 45:21-25, yet we shall find that
the Scriptures have used equally definite and absolute terms with reference to Christ. Let us consider them:
O.T. WITNESS TO GOD
N.T. WITNESS TO CHRIST
`The Word was God' (John
`There is no God else beside Me;
a just God and a Saviour; there is
1:1).
none beside Me.
`Jesus Christ the righteous: and
He is the propitiation for our
sins' (1 John 2:1,2).
`Behold the Lamb of God,
`Look unto Me, and be ye saved,
which taketh away the sin of
all the ends of the earth: for I am
God, and there is none else.
the world' (John 1:29).
`Neither is there salvation in
any other' (Acts 4:12).
`We shall all stand before the
`I have sworn by Myself, the
judgment seat of Christ. For it
word is gone out of My mouth in
is written, As I live, saith the
righteousness, and shall not
Lord, every knee shall bow to
return, That unto Me every knee
Me, and every tongue shall
shall bow, and every tongue shall
confess to God' (Rom.
swear.
14:10,11).
`At the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of things in
heaven, and things in earth,
and things under the earth'
(Phil. 2:10).
`Surely, shall one say, in the
`That we might be made the
LORD have I righteousness
righteousness of God in Him'
(2 Cor. 5:21).
`Christ Jesus, Who of God is
made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness,
and
sanctification, and redemption'
(1 Cor. 1:30).