One God Series by Robert Sabin (1-7)

Robert Sabin: The Mystery of Christ
Just why is it important to know about Jesus Christ? Jesus Christ claimed to be the Savior of the world. Where shall we look? At the most authenticated literature that is known to the human race, the Word of God.
The Bible rings out in Deuteronomy 6:4, “Hear, 0 Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD.” In Malachi 2:10, “Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?” Isaiah 46:9, “For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me.” Isaiah 42:8, “I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another neither my praise to graven images.” In Isaiah 43:1014, The Lord said, “I am He:” not “we are they.” But “I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.” In Isaiah 44:6, Jehovah, the King of Israel says this, “I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.” No eternal progression of gods “no successive revelation of gods” “beside me there is no God.” Isaiah 44:8, “Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.” Now who is speaking in all of these verses? Jehovah God. Whenever we find a capitol L-0-R-D, in the King James Version of the Bible, it represents the Hebrew tetragrammaton, that four letter, four consonant word in the Hebrew language, substituted by LORD in our King James Bible, which means Jehovah is speaking in all of these instances in the Old Testament telling us that He is absolutely one. In Isaiah 45:21 we read, “. . .who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.” Now that one God was absolutely alone in creation. Remember what we said? Malachi 2:10, “Hath not one God created us?” And Isaiah 44:24 declares unequivocally, “I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself.” Malachi 3:6, “For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” So we find that the Lord was absolutely alone in creation. Old Testament also declares to us that no other one was ever to be brought into being to be God. The Lord said, “I am the first; I am the last; beside me there is no God.” No one was ever to be brought into being as God. What about Jesus Christ? He claimed to be God, and the Bible claimed Him to be God. Colossians 1:17 says, “He is before all things.” John the Baptist said of Him in John 1:30, “He was before me.” John the Baptist was really older than Jesus Christ, and yet John said, “He was before me.” I John 1:1 says, “That which was from the beginning.” I Timothy 3:16, “God was manifest in the flesh.” Colossians 2:9, “For it is in Christ that the complete being of the Godhead dwells embodied,” says the New English Bible. The King James reads, “For in him dwelleth all the full of the Godhead bodily.” Colossians 1:19, New English Bible, “For in him the complete being of God, by God’s own choice came to be.” And the words of Paul in the King James Version, of II Corinthians 5:19, “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself. “So, friends, the great God, the Creator of the universe, the only divine person, actually came into this world in the flesh or body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew 1:23 makes it so plain: “Behold, a virgin. . .shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” Remember the incident recorded in the 14th chapter of John? Jesus said, “If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, skew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John 14:7-9). Oh, friend, this Lord Jesus Christ possessed the attributes of God.
He was omnipresent. He said, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20). He said, “No man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven” (John 3:13), declaring unto them that while He was here on earth, the Spirit that was in Him radiated out through Him to all known expanse. He said, “Before Abraham was, I am.” In Revelation 22:13, He said, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” How much like Isaiah that is when Jehovah was speaking and said “I am the first and the last.” Now Jesus says, “I am the first and the last.” Jesus said, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Matthew 28:18). Some will declare, “If it was given unto him, somebody had to give it unto him.” In John 12:45, the Bible declares that Jesus said, “He that seeth me seeth him that sent me.