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Divine Worship to Be Given to Jesus ChristPlace your cursor over the reference to see the passage. (1) Matt 28:9
Luke 24:52
Matt. 14:33,
(Compare
Acts. 10:25,
26)
Rev. 22:8,
9
Matt. 4:9
FIRST PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ accepted without hesitation a worship which good men and angels
declined with fear (horror).
Question:
Is not the verb translated “worship” in these passages, sometimes used of
reverence paid to men in high position?
Answer:
Yes, but not in this way by worshipers of Jehovah, as is seen by the way in
which both Peter and the angel drew back when such worship was offered to
them.
(2)
1 Cor. 1:2, 2 Cor. 12:8,
9, Acts. 7:59
SECOND PROPOSITION:
Prayer is to be made to Christ.
(3)
Ps. 45:11
John 5:23
(Compare Rev.
5:8,
9,
12,
13)
THIRD PROPOSITION:
It is God the Father’s will that all men pay the same divine honor to the son
as to himself.
(4)
Heb. 1:6
Phil. 2:10,
11
(Compare
Is. 45:21–23)
FOURTH PROPOSITION:
The Son of God, Jesus, is to be worshipped as God by angels and men.
GENERAL PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ is a person to be worshipped by angels and men, even as God the
Father is worshipped.
Summary:
By the use of numerous Divine names, by the ascription of all the
distinctively Divine attributes, by the predication of several Divine offices,
by referring statements which in the Old Testament distinctly name Jehovah God
as their subject to Jesus Christ
in the New Testament, by coupling the name of
Jesus Christ with that of God
the Father in a way in which it would be impossible to couple that of any
finite being with that of the Deity, and by the clear teaching that
Jesus Christ should be
worshipped, even as God the Father is worshipped—in all these unmistakable
ways, God in His word distinctly proclaims that Jesus Christ is a Divine
Being, is God.
Note:
Whoever refuses to accept
Jesus
as his Divine Savior and
Lord
is guilty of the enormous sin of rejecting God. A man often thinks he is good
because he never stole or never murdered or never cheated. “Of what great sin
am I guilty?” he complacently asks. “You are guilty of the awful, damning sin
of rejecting God,” we reply. But suppose one questions or denies His divinity.
That does not change the fact nor lessen his guilt. Questioning or denying a
fact never changes it. Suppose that one denies the goodness of a man who is in
fact the soul of honor. It would not alter the fact but simply make the
questioner guilty of awful slander. So denying the fact of the Deity of
Jesus
Christ does not make it any
less a fact, but it does make the denier guilty of awful blasphemous slander.
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