JESUS IS GOD: Hebrews 1
Rebecca Lightfoot
The Deity of Christ is paramount to fully knowing the Power of Christ that is fully capable to completely cleanse His followers of all sin,& to have the Power of His Grace be real in our lives so that the REAL SECURE Peace that surpasses all understanding may be what keeps us stable in a tumultuous filled world..Without the Deity of Christ being the essence of What&Who He is,He would be incapable of having the absolute authority and the “endless currency” that is overwhelmingly sufficient to not only cleanse us from all UNrighteousness,but to make us Holy and Righteous in HIS PRESENCE!Only The One True God that has these “capacity’s” could make all the Promises of the Bible...and KEEP them!And ONLY a One True God that is Infinitely Omnipotent;Infinitely Omniscient;and Infinitely Omnipresent...only The God of all these attributes could have the fullness of SOVEREIGNTY necessary to follow through with these things!This is why Hebrews 1 puts an immovable stake in the ground about the Deity of Christ! Even though many that the book of Hebrews is addressed to were eyewitness to the crucifixion and the resurrection of Christ...& some even watched Him ascend into Heaven...& even though there was undeniable evidence for the veracity of Jesus identifying himself as God several times...there were those that were succumbing to the mumblings of doubt seeded by enemies of The Living God.The enemies of The True Living God were conniving lies to cover up the Truths of Christ and smearing the same Truths with deceptive tactics.These tactics were an effort to make Jesus out to be a very good man that had wise lessons to teach...,and no different from any other prophet.Problem with this is that if Jesus were anything less than Fully God,He would not BE what He had to BE...to COMPLETE what He did on the Cross and have the AUTHORITY to say what he did when He said,”It is finished!”(John19:30).This is why the author of Hebrews establishes WHAT&WHO Jesus IS at the very beginning of his message!Without this firm foundation of JESUS being FULLY GOD,there would be no firm hope for us to TRUST in for LIFE...no SOLID ASSURANCE that we can truly have a living relationship with The One True Living God as our FATHER in Heaven!Jesus HAD TO BE fully God in order to take care of the FULL penalty of death for our sin...without us having to do a single thing but TRUST in Christ only!If HE were not FULLY God,then seeking and following Him would be like following nothing but a prophet or a wise teacher...and if this were the case then we are back to the problem of adequately taking care of our sin debt, which is death!Jesus BEING FULLY GOD on our behalf is the only answer for a FULLY transformed life FULLY cleansed from the judgement of sin and it’s penalties....and free from the entanglements of sin that keep us from knowing the TRANSFORMING Peace and Joy and Wisdom and Discernment...only found in and through a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with The Living God as our Father in Heaven....made possible ONLY through God The Son-Jesus Christ.Dear Lord Jesus,I am awed by WHO&WHAT YOU ARE,and I praise YOU for becoming THE SACRIFICE that ONLY YOUR DEITY could become so that I could be made Holy & Righteous in YOUR Presence...and have a relationship with YOU as my Father in Heaven...so I can climb into your lap of SOVEREIGN DEITY and know a LOVE so AMAZING and TOTALLY TRUSTWORTHY...the ONLY LOVE that has the AUTHORITY & POWER to be trusted forever for my best!