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Jesus Christ - His Divine AttributesPlace your cursor over the reference to see the passage.
(1) Omnipotence
= unlimited power
(a)Luke 4:39
Jesus
has power over disease, it is subject to his word.
(b)
Luke 7:14-15
Luke 8:54-55
John 5:25
The Son of
God has power over death; it is subject to His word.
(c)
Matt. 8:26-27
Jesus
has power over the winds and sea; they are subject to His word.
(d)
Matt. 8:16
Luke 4:35-36,
Luke 4:41
Jesus
the Christ, the Son of God, has
power over demons; they are subject to His word.
(e)
Eph. 1:20–23
Christ
is far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every
name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come;
all things are in subjection under His feet. All the hierarchies of
the angelic world are under Him.
(f)
Heb. 1:3
The Son of
God upholds all things by the word of His power.
FIRST PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is omnipotent.
(2) Omniscient
= 1. having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight 2. possessed
of universal or complete knowledge
(a)
John 4:16–19
Jesus
knew men’s lives, even their secret history.
(b)
Mark 2:8, Luke 5:22,
John. 2:24-25, Acts 1:24
Jesus
knew the secret thoughts of men; He knew all men; He knew what was in man.
In 2 Chron. 6:30
Jer. 17:9-10 we are told that God “only knoweth the hearts of the children of men.”
(c)
John 6:64
Jesus
knew from the beginning that Judas would betray Him. Not only men’s present
thoughts but their future choices were known to Him.
(d)
John 1:48
Jesus
knew what men were doing at a distance.
(e)
Luke 22:10–12,
John 13:1, Luke 5:4–6
Jesus
knew the future regarding not only God’s acts, but regarding the minute
specific acts of men, and even regarding the fishes of the sea.
Note.—Many,
if not all, of these items of knowledge up to this point could, if they stood
alone, be accounted for by saying that the Omniscient God revealed these
specific things to
Jesus.
(f)
John 21:17,
John 16:30, Col. 2:3
Jesus knew
all things; in Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
SECOND PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ is omniscient.
Note.—There
was, as we shall see when we come to study the humanity of
Christ,
a voluntary veiling and abnegation of the exercise of His inherent Divine
Omniscience. (Compare
Mark 11:12–14:
Phil. 2:7.)
(3) Omnipresent
= present in all places at all times
(a)
Matt. 18:20
Jesus Christ
is present in every place where two or three are gathered together in His
name.
(b)
Matt. 28:20
Jesus Christ
is present with every one who goes forth into any part of the world to make
disciples, etc.
(c)
John 3:13—“And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from
heaven, even the son of man which is in heaven.”
The Son of
Man was in heaven while He was here on earth.
Note.—The
reading here is doubtful. It is found in this way in the Alexandrian MS., and
almost all versions. The closing words are omitted in the Sinaitic and other
important MSS. It is accepted by most of the best editors;
e. g.,
Tischendorf and Tregelles, but it is rejected by Westcott and Hort.
(d)
John. 14:20, 2 Cor. 13:5
Jesus Christ
is in each believer.
(e)
Eph. 1:23
Jesus Christ
filleth all in all.
THIRD PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ is Omnipresent.
(4) Eternity
John. 1:1, Mic. 5:2,
Col. 1:17, Isa. 9:6, John 17:5, John. 8:58, 1 John 1:1,Heb. 13:8
FOURTH PROPOSITION:
The Son of God was from all eternity.
(5) Immutability
Heb. 13:8, Heb. 1:12
FIFTH PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ is unchangeable. He not only always is but always is the same.
(6.)
Phil. 2:6
SIXTH PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ before His incarnation was in the form of God.
Note.—The
Greek word translated “form,” means “the form by which a person or thing
strikes the vision; the external appearance.” (Thayer, Greek-Eng. Lexicon of
the N.T.)
(7)
Col. 2:9.
SEVENTH PROPOSITION:
In Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the God-head in a bodily way.
***GENERAL PROPOSITION: Five or more distinctively Divine Attributes are ascribed to Jesus Christ and all the fullness of the God-head is said to dwell in Him.
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