Testament it is CHRIST (Eph. 4:5; 1 Cor. 8:6). It may not be clear to every reader that the New Testament

consistently uses the title kurios to translate the title Jehovah, so we pause to establish this fact. Romans 4:8 is a

quotation from Psalm 32:2; Hebrews 7:21 quotes Psalm 110:4, and in both cases Paul follows the rendering of the

Septuagint. Matthew 3:3 quotes Isaiah 40:3 `Prepare ye the way of the Lord' (Jehovah in the Hebrew of Isaiah,

kurios in the Greek of Matthew). In addition to this evidence three passages, when taken together are sufficient to

prove that Jesus Christ is LORD, in this higher sense. They are Isaiah 35, Romans 14 and Philippians 2. Isaiah 45

reiterates the truth that there `is none else'. The idea of `A God' or another who holds the title is intolerable.

`I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside Me'.

`I am the LORD, and there is none else'.

`Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God'.

`I am the LORD; and there is none else'.

`There is no God else beside Me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside Me. Look unto ME, and be ye

saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else' (Isa. 45:5,6,14,18,21,22).

At the close of this tremendous chapter we read these words:

`I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return. That

Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear' (Isa. 45:23).

Yet Paul knowing this chapter, and believing the reiterated emphasis that `there is none else' ascribes this claim to

universal homage to Christ, saying:

`Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a (the) name which is above every name: that at

(in) the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the

earth; and that EVERY TONGUE should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father' (Phil. 2:9-

Yet further, in Romans 14, he quotes this passage as follows:

`For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee

shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God' (Rom. 14:10,11).

What are we to say to this? Is Paul a muddled thinker? Did Paul write by inspiration of God? Did he forget the

emphatic `none else' of Isaiah 45? Or did he purposely use the quotation, once of God and once of Christ, because

he knew that Jesus Christ, before His incarnation, was the LORD GOD of Israel?

`Jesus - Jehovah is the only Saviour' (Adolph Saphir).

Recently we had the painful duty of reading a pamphlet which did its utmost to belittle the claims of the Lord

Jesus to supreme Deity. At the close, was a list of similar publications; one line read:

`JESUS CHRIST IN THE OLD TESTAMENT -

reduced to 25 cents!'

which aptly summarizes this dreadful teaching. There seems to be no neutral ground in this matter. Either Jesus

Christ is `Lord' or He must be reduced to `25 cents', and His claims not only discounted but rejected as blasphemy.

We either side with those who took up stones to stone Him, or with those who fell at His feet and worshipped Him.

If Jesus Christ is `Lord' as the New Testament makes abundantly clear, then He must be the `God' of Israel, as

Deuteronomy 6:4 declares.

`The LORD our God is one LORD'. For Israel had, and could have `no other'.

Let us return to the witness of Isaiah 43:10-12. It will be remembered that Israel are there spoken of as the

Lord's witnesses `That ye may know and believe ... that I am He'. The LXX reads here ego eimi `I am', and these

words are uttered in some solemn contexts in the New Testament:

`Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was (genesthai "came into being"), I AM (ego eimi)' (John 8:58).