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In
the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God Himself.... And the Word (Christ) became
flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh,
lived awhile) among us....
– John 1:1,14, The Amplified Bible
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The deity of the Lord Jesus
Christ is something that can never be brought into question by any
born-again believer. Our very salvation rests on the fact that Jesus
Christ is divine, the second person of the Godhead, God—the Son.
The
beloved disciple and apostle, John, forever puts to rest any doubt
about that in John 1:1,14. Anyone who doubts what those verses say could
not possibly have been born of the kingdom of God. For the deity of
Jesus forms the very foundation of our faith in Him.
Yet, if
you'll search the Gospels, you'll see that Jesus didn't go around
proclaiming Himself as God during His 33 years on earth. He acknowledged
that He was the Son of God, the Messiah. He referred to God as His
Father (which enraged the Pharisees), but He never made the assertion
that He was the Most High God. In fact, He told His disciples that the Father God was greater and mightier than He (John 14:28).
The
reason is simple. He hadn't come to earth just as God. He'd come also
as man. The Word says He set aside His divine power and took the form of
a human being—with all its limitations. Since God was His Father, He
was not born with the sin nature that had been passed along to the sons
of Adam. But by being born of a woman, in all other respects He became a
man and called Himself the Son of Man or, literally, the Son of Adam.
How,
then, did He do all those mighty works? The same way He expects us to
do them today—by the Anointing and the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts
10:38). He said, "It's the Father within Me who does the work."
What
does that mean to you? It means that Jesus meant exactly what He
declared when He said that you, as a believer, would be able to do the
works that He did (John 14:12)!
It means that you, as a reborn
child of God, filled with the same Holy Spirit as Jesus was, have the
opportunity to live as He lived when He was on earth.
In fact, that is exactly what He intends. He went before you, as a man, and opened the way. Don't just admire Him for it. Follow Him in it today!
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