The Deity of Yeshua

who do you say that I am Yeshua says and I see so much going on on the internet lately people post some stuff on Facebook videos being posted on YouTube you know be people I know personally even who I've seen go through this and it's really concerning me as the number of people who are they're losing faith in Yeshua they they are saying you know he's not God or he's maybe he's he's not the Messiah or you know maybe the whole thing was fake and he didn't even exist I mean I've seen the gambit of stuff that people are posting you know someone will say he's not God but yeah he's still the Messiah and then someone will say you know it wasn't God he was just a man and then for a while that's what they teach and then they realized that wait a minute if he's just a man then how did he save us and then they start falling away and say well you know he's not really the Saviour someone will say he's a good teacher some say he's a prophet well what is it that the minute the Muslims say they say he was a prophet but they don't accept him as Messiah they don't accept him as God you know atheists say the whole thing was probably just made-up and he didn't even exist according to a lot of atheists I recently saw a Torah teacher he has a he has a YouTube channel he's been teaching Torah from a messianic perspective for quite a few years probably at least as long as I have and he recently within the last couple months change his mind about Yeshua and he said Yu Shu is not God and the whole New Testament was probably just made-up Torah teacher miss Henoch used to be a messianic believer in Yeshua now rejecting the entire New Testament and so this is this is a topic that is pretty serious and it's very close to my heart because we're to love him with all of our heart soul - strength and so when I see people turning away from him and denying him and leading other people that direction it really really bothers me and so today I just want to talk about what does the Bible tell us about Yeshua is he God should he be worshiped what is his place in all this and so first off I compiled a series of verses into a specific arrangement kind of in paragraph style form various verses throughout the New Testament and a few from the old and I just want to read them to you and just be listening to what these verses are telling us about Yeshua 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 through him and without him nothing was made that was made in him was life and that life was the light of men and the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it he was in the world and the world was made through him and the world did not know him and the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign behold the Virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel after this his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit and she will bring forth a son and you shall call his name yeshua for he will save his people from their sins so all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the Prophet saying behold the Virgin shall be with child embarrassed and they shall call his name Emmanuel which is translated God with us for unto us a child is born and unto us a son is given and the government will be upon his shoulder and his name will be called wonderful counselor mighty God everlasting father Prince of Peace he is the image of the invisible God the firstborn over all creation for by him all things were created that are in heaven and there are on the earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created through him and for him and he is before all things and in him all things consist and he is the head of the body the church who is the beginning the firstborn from the dead that in all things he may have preeminence for it pleased the father that in him all the fullness should dwell for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness God was manifested in the flesh justified in the spirit seen by angels preached among the Gentiles believed on in the world and received up into glory for the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present age looking for the Blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Yeshua the Messiah who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for himself his own special people zealous for good works therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit is made you overseers to Shepherd the Church of God which he purchased with his own blood who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation taking the form of a bondservant and coming in the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man he humbled himself and he became obedient to the point of death even the death of the cross therefore God also has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name that at the name of Yeshua every knee should bow of those in heaven and of those on earth and of those under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Yeshua the Messiah is Lord to the glory of God the Father that all should honor the son just as they honor the father he who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him God who at various times in a various ways spoke in times past to the father's by the prophets has in these last days spoken to us by his son whom he has appointed heir of all things through whom also he made the world's who being the very brightness of his glory and the Express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had himself purged our sins sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high having become so much better than the Angels as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they Messiah came who is over all the eternally blessed God amen everything I just said comes straight out of the Bible everything I just read is Scripture it's not commentary it's not opinion scripture the writers of the New Testament believed Yeshua is God in the flesh and that's the picture that they are trying to paint for us that is the image that they're giving us and so we are left with questions of what are we gonna do with what they said I want to go through some of these real quick actually I want to start in Colossians I think that's where I want to focus mostly it's in Colossians chapter 1 verses 15 through 19 he is the image of the invisible God the firstborn over all creation for by him all things were created that are in heaven and then on earth invisible and visible and ago zona says that here's the first one from the dead that in all things he may have the preeminence for please the father that in him all the fullness should dwell so he's the image of the invisible God and that in all things he should have preeminence and that in him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily this is some very strong statements about Yeshua in early church history the first couple hundred years of church history there was some controversy that was going on and there were there were two major divisions in the church about what they were gonna do with Yeshua and the argument and the question was was he God or was he man this was and this was in around the third and fourth centuries where the big debate was and this is why church council started happening why the Council of Nicaea took place and why they said some of the things I said why the Apostles Creed says some and things that says is they were trying to form doctrine about what are we gonna you know what are we gonna do about Yeshua is he God is He Man and so they had these questions as they started trying to answer those questions one group said he's he's only man one group said no he's God and man and these you know he's God in the flesh dwelling as a man and rather than to get in and rehash all of their arguments I really just want to say what is the Bible telling us you know we could go over the church councils we can go over their decisions we can go over their Creed's but the important thing is what is the Bible telling us it doesn't really matter to me what the Council of Nicaea decided it doesn't really matter what the you know the Apostles Creed says I want to know what the scripture says so I want to read Isaiah 43 we're gonna we're gonna look at a lot of scripture today I know you know some preachers get up and they give you one verse and they give you a commentary for an hour and a half I figure my opinion is not that important so I'm gonna give you a lot of verses and a little bit of commentary for I am the Lord your God the Holy One of Israel your savior I am the Lord your God your Savior what God is saying sorry verse 10 you are my witnesses says the Lord and my servant whom I have chosen that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he before me there was no God formed nor shall there be after me I even I am the lord and beside me there is no Savior I am the Lord and beside me there is no Savior and Hebrews says I am Yahweh and beside me there is no Savior but did you catch what he said and my servant whom I have chosen that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he who is a servant he's talking about well now let's look at Philippians chapter 2 Philippians chapter 2 verses 6 through eleven who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation taking the form of a bondservant and coming in the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death even death on the cross therefore God is also highly exalted him and give him the name which is above every name that at the name of Yeshua every knee should bow of those in heaven and of those on earth and of those under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Yeshua the Messiah is Lord to the glory of God the Father do you see the connection between Isaiah 43 and Philippians 2 what he's saying and as they have 43 he prophesied and said I am sending my servant and I am he I am he I am the servant is what Yahweh says right here in Isaiah 43 do you see that and there is no Savior but Yahweh now I know a lot of people especially anti missionaries Jewish anti missionaries they will quote verses like this it says I am Yahweh and there is no Savior but me and they'll say see Yeshua can't be the Savior because he's not Yahweh he was just a man there's no man that can save you and only God can save you only Yahweh can save you they'll say things like that and they have some pretty convincing arguments and if you don't if you don't know that you're sure was God and you don't believe that he's God you're gonna be like oh man I guess you're right there's no Savior but God and if you Shu is not God then I guess there's no Savior I guess your shoes not our Savior this is the this is the trail that people head down this is the path that you know you so a little bit of doubt someplace and you put a crack in there in their armor and then pretty soon though they you know a few months or a few years go by and pretty soon they're like man I don't even know if I believe in your shoe anymore it's because they don't have a solid foundation of who Yeshua is the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God and the word became flesh dwelt among us yeah I think most people probably know that by heart don't they you know John John chapter 1 is one of those verses that so many people have studied and memorized and and I mean I think what if you're in Greek if you want I know that verse by heart but do we really comprehend what it's saying in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God in the Word was God and the word became flesh we're saying that Yeshua is God that's what it's saying he's not just a man sent by God He is God incarnate first Timothy 3:16 I want to read some of these again just for emphasis and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness God was manifest in the flesh 1st Timothy 3:16 God was manifest in the flesh I've heard people make the argument well if you know if you're sure walked in the room would you would you bow down and worship Him yeah yeah I would I would kiss his feet and cry on him like a baby and I'd probably wipe his feet with my beard yes I would worship him at his feet just like like Mary whenever she came and wept on his feet and wiped his feet with her hair and washed it with her tears yes he is worthy of our worship and we see throughout the scriptures that he was worshiped what happened you know at his birth Wiseman traveled from the east to do what it's coming to worship Him he hadn't done anything yet he was just a baby and Wiseman came to worship him are we wise men if you're a wise man then you should probably worship him wise man came to worship Yeshua Matthew 14 let's look at that real quick Matthew chapter 14 this is right after walking on the water starting verse 32 okay so your shoe comes walking on the water Peter says he wants to come out and walk with him and he pulls Peter back up out of the water he falls and then immediately Yeshua stretched out his hand and caught him and said oh you have little faith why did you doubt and when they got into the boat the wind ceased then those were who were on the boat came and worshiped him saying truly you are the son of God his disciples worshiped him Matthew 28 this is right before his ascension verse 16 is 17 this is the great commandment I mean started the Great Commission then the eleven disciples went away to Galilee to the mountain which Yeshua had appeared to them when they saw him they worshiped him but some doubted and Yeshua came and spoke to them saying all Authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth all Authority has been given to me on heaven and on earth all Authority was he saying he has all authority he you grasping the power of this statement all authority in heaven is his all authority on earth is his he's God all Authority is his therefore go and make disciples baptizing them in the name of the Father and the son of the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all things that I've commanded you and lo I'm with you always even to the end of the age his disciples came and worshiped him here we see other times when people tried to worship someone who is not God what happened they get up right all throughout the Bible there are a number of places in the Bible where people try to worship angels and they bow down to him an angel says no don't don't worship me I I'm just a servant like you in Hebrews chapter one it goes on and says that not only is he exalted above the Angels says for to which of the Angels did he ever say you're my son today of I have begotten you and again I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a son but when he again brings the firstborn into the world he says let all the angels of God worship Him so of Yeshua he says let all the angels of God worship Him and of angels he says who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire but to the son he says your throne O God is for ever and ever God says to his son your throne O God is for ever and ever do you get why there was some confusion in the early church history about the nature of God because we have God the Father and we have God the Son and it says if you've seen me you know you're sure said if you've seen me you've seen the father this is I and my father are one and throughout the Bible you know it says that God is one you know the the Shema Deuteronomy six it says hear o Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one Shema Israel Yahweh hello hey new Yahweh a fraud but the word I've had it doesn't mean singular it means a unity so it's the same word whenever God took Adam and Eve and he said he gave Eve to Adam and he said this is your wife you know going and make Eve your wife he said the two will become one flesh you remember that the word is yes God the two shall become one Akkad and so it's this coming together of two and unity well this is Yahweh Elohim Yahweh F Codd so Yahweh is if God is a unity so there's this idea that it's a plural unity the word Elohim ooh Elohim they're plural words is talking about something more than one L is a singular Elohim is a plural and so it's there's the sense that there was a plurality to God he's not just one singular being what does it say he said that he created man in His image well okay so just think about what that means in US are we just made of one thing no even the way he described it he said he took the dirt and formed a body then he breathed into it the breath of life and then it became a living soul right and another place that says love the Lord your God with all your heart soul mind and strength okay so we have different parts of us is my mind me yes and no if you take my mind out of my body is it still me I don't know you know it's one of the things that I don't know how it all fit fits together you know am i a body yeah but is my body me I don't know if what what is it that makes me me it's all of it together right it's it's this sum total of our heart soul mind strength our being our spirit everything together is what makes us who we are and so we are multifaceted we are in a sense we have a plurality to us we're made in God's image so does it surprise us that there's this sense of God is more complicated than we expect and we have such finite minds how can we even try to grasp and comprehend the nature of our creator to say oh I I I got it figured out let me let me write a doctrine for you and we're gonna we're gonna write this out we're outline it we're gonna say this is what God is I don't think so without controversy great is the mystery of godliness God was manifest in the flesh great is this mystery I know it's beyond my comprehension you know I'm not the smartest guy on the earth but I'm not the dumbest either I'm decently intelligent and this is way beyond my understanding I I'm not even gonna pretend to try to explain to you how the father and the son are separate but they're the same I I don't I don't I don't have the words to explain it or express it but I know that that's what the Bible is telling us says that Yeshua in him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead bodily that he is the image of God that he is the word that created all things and yet he prayed to the Father he's not talking to himself he's he said I didn't come to do my will I came to do the will of the Father he's God but he's not the father he's God but he's not the father I don't know how that fits together but I know that that's what the Bible is telling me but John 5:23 that all should honor the son just as they honor the father he who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him we were to give the son the same honor as we give the father that's what he's saying right I know there's there's a lot of people who have a lot of doubts you know let's say well should we pray to Yeshua you know should we only pray to the Father we're sure we pray to you schewe the Bible says that he intercedes for us on our behalf and it says all the all who call upon his name will be saved well what does it mean to call upon his name if you look throughout scripture where's that used it's talking about praying to call upon his name is to pray to him that's how that that's what that word is used in reference to numerous times throughout the scriptures in all things he may have preeminence and so what does that mean what is preeminence they may familiar that word it's not a it's not a word we use a lot it there's there several aspects to it they come into play one is is talking about he's first he comes his first place he is above but before first before anything else and so he is to have preeminence and everything so he is to have preeminence in our life he is first it talks about superiority that he is of higher quality he is of higher just superiority he has all superiority over everything that everything is less than him all for by him all things were created that are in heaven and on the earth he created the things in heaven and on the earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created through him and for him he's talking about Yeshua all things were created through him and for him and he is before all things and in him all things consist everything exists because of him and it's only because of him that we're still here if at any moment he decided to stop letting life happen all life would just cease we exist because he continually maintains the existence of everything in him all things exist that he may have the preeminence for in him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily Titus 2 it just I just want to emphasize tie to Paul Raisa Titus and he says looking for the Blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Yeshua again he's calling Yeshua God is it make do you guys get why this is important and so when people come along and they say Yeshua's not God that tells me they're not reading the Bible because over and over and over says he is God what does he say he said before Abraham was I am right there he is claiming to be God before Abraham existed I am what a wooded you always say to Moses in the burning bush Moses said who do I tell them sent me he said I am that I am I am it's his statement of fact that he exists the name Yahweh is was this is kind of cool so you know I whether you call it yeah you pronounce it Yahweh or Yahoo or Yehovah you know whatever pronunciation no nobody knows for certain how you pronounce the the letters of the name most scholars have have said as y'all way but some people say Jehovah OVA but how are you pronounce it the word itself it means the one who was the one who is the one who is to come that's what the word means and so what did they say he said tell them I am since you he said I am that I am and in Hebrew it's a ax yeah yeah yeah oh yeah and then what does Moses turn around he says go away so what God says he says I am and when we say it we say he is the one who is he is what does what does the Bible say about Yeshua he is the same yesterday today and forever I was as God does not change so why does all this matter because if Yeshua is the Savior he has to be God and if your shoe is God he is the one that gave us the Torah right what does it say if you love me keep my Commandments all throughout the Old Testament that is what God said if you love me keep my Commandments and then your shirt comes along and says if you love me keep my Commandments look at John chapter 14 this is one of those chapters that has a lot of really great stuff in it let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me in my father's house there are many mansions see ok verse 6 you should have said to him I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the Father except through me if you had known me you would have known my father also and from now on you know him and I've seen him Philip said to him Lord show us the father and it is sufficient for us and Yeshua said to him have I been with you so long and yet you have not known me Philip show us the father have I been with you so long that you don't know me that was his response he who has seen me has seen the father so how can you say show us the father do you not believe that I am in the father and the father is in me the words I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority but the father who dwells in me does the works believe me I am in the father and the father and me or else believe me for the sake of the works himself verse 15 if you love me keep my Commandments and I will pray the father and he will sit he will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him but you know him for he dwells with you and will be in you let's go to 19 a little while longer and the world will see me no more but you will see me because I live you will also live at that day you will know that I am in my father and you in me and I in you he who has come and he who has my Commandments and keeps them it is he who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my father and I we'll love him and manifest myself to him so if you love me keep my Commandments and I'm gonna manifest myself to you if anyone loves me he will keep my word and my father will love him and he we will come to him and make our home with him he who doesn't love me does not keep my words and the word which you hear is not mine but my father's who sent me so again he says my words are not my own they're my father's if you keep my words and you're keeping the father's words right and the way the truth and the life no one comes to the Father except through me James chapter 4 James chapter 4 verse 12 there is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy there was one lawgiver who was able to save and to destroy so if Yeshua is the one who is able to save that means that he's the lawgiver right before Abraham was I am in the beginning was the word the Word was with God the Word was God spoke to Moses on the mountain gave him Commandments what does it say he says I am the beginning in the end the Alpha and Omega and Hebrew the Oliphant the Tov these all these claims are to deity and so if we if we somehow say no Yeshua's not God he's not deity he's just he's just a man sent by God it's a good teacher maybe a prophet yeah he's sure he's he's Savior Messiah he's not God that's false because if you say he's not God you're saying he cannot be our Savior if he's God he is the lawgiver if he is God he is the Savior if we call him Lord it demands our obedience why do you call me Lord and do not what I command you he says right why do you call me Lord Lord and do not do what I command you if we call him Lord and we don't obey Him we're just giving him lip service you know if you were to if we lived in some country where there's a king or a queen and you know you were to go up to the king and say O king I worship you you are my king you're my Lord do whatever I'll do whatever you command me and he tells her to do something you say I don't think I want to do that what do you do off with his head right you're a traitor treason what does Romans chapter 8 say for those starting verse 5 for those who live according the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh but those who live according to the spirit have their minds on the things that spirit for to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace because the carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God nor indeed can it be so those who are in the flesh cannot please God the carnal mind is an enemy of God because it is not subject to God's law you notice that the phrase they're subject to his law what is it that when we are in the presence of a king we are what his subjects we're subject to his law to his commands to his rulings we're his subjects and if you don't walk according to the command of the king you're an enemy your treason your treacherous thrown in jail beheaded cast out of the kingdom what does it say that they'll be weeping and gnashing as they're cast out of the kingdom's it's the same kind of language that the Bible is using if we call him Lord we need to do what he commands yes he has saved us by grace we are saved by faith through grace by grace through faith in the blood of lamb right we're saved by grace through faith and blood lamb but once we're saved we're given instructions on how to live as redeemed people how to live in his kingdom he's given us the manual the constitution of the kingdom right here the constitution of the kingdom this is how you live in his kingdom he's king of kings and Lord of lords at the name of Yeshua every knee will bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth he is our great God and King we eagerly wait for his return the return of our great God and King Yeshua our Messiah those are the words of Paul he's our great God and King and at the name of Yeshua every knee will bow in heaven the angels in heaven bow before him how dare some man on earth stand up a say no he's not he's not God I'm not gonna bow before him how dare anyone say that right the Angels will bow before him and so you know this this Torah teacher that I that I saw on YouTube that he's used to be messianic who's turned away from Yeshua he's lost and you know we need to pray that he's gonna did he find Joshua because it doesn't matter how much tour you keep if you don't have your schewe you're lost he is our salvation the shoe asked his disciples and said who do you say that I am you're the Christ the Son of the Living God you're the Messiah the son of God right

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Published: Mon Jan 01 2018