The Deity of Christ

Jesus Christ is Referred to as Lord:

Psalm 110:1 “ The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at my right hand until I make Thine enemies thy footstool.

- Jesus referred to this passage in Matthew 22:41- 46 (NKJV)
41While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 saying “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” They said to Him, “ The Son of David” 43 He said to them, “ How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:
44 ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make your enemies Your footstool”’. 45 “ If David then calls Him ‘Lord.’ how is He his Son?. 46 And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.

Mark 12:35-36 (NKJV)
35 Then Jesus answered and said, while He taught in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?”36 “For David himself said by the Holy Spirit: ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make your enemies Your
footstool”.

Luke 20:39 – 44 (NKJV)
39 Then some of the scribe answered and said, “ Teacher, You have spoken well,” 40 But after that they dare not question Him anymore. 41 And He said to them, “ How can they say that Christ is the Son of David? “ Now David himself said in the book of psalms:
43 ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make your enemies Your
footstool”. 44 “Therefore David calls Him ‘Lord’; how is He then his son?”

Peter referred to it in his sermon at Pentecost, Acts 2:34 – 35. It is very important.
Acts 2: 34 – 35 (NIV)
34 For David did not ascend to heaven , and yet he said, The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at My right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”. 36 “ Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

** The prophecy was the Messiah-Savior would be the Divine Lord Himself**

The Virgin Birth would be God coming to Live with Men

Isaiah 7:14 (NIV)
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child & will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. ( This is the Savior that was coming).

Matthew 1:23 tells us that Immanuel means “ God with us.” This came true at Bethlehem.
The Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ was Given Divine Names in Prophecy

Isaiah 9: 6 – 7 (NIV)
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders and he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

Wonderful – Only God is truly wonderful
Luke 18:19 “Why do you call me good? Jesus answered. “ No one is good – except God alone.
Counselor – Only the omniscient God could be perfect counselor.
Psalm 16:7 – I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.
The Mighty God – The One prophesied to be the Messiah was to be God Himself
The Everlasting Father – John 10:30, Jesus said, I and My Father are one.

The Christ who was prophesied to come was to be from “Everlasting”

Micah 5:2 But you Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.

God and Christ both Gave their Personal names as “I AM”

Exodus 3:14 God said to Moses, “ I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites, I AM has sent me to you.
John 8:58 “Jesus said unto them, Verily, Verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I AM.
** Jesus is the great I AM**

Jesus Christ Forgave Sins

Mark 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, Son, your sins are forgiven.
Mark 2:7 Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone.
In forgiving sin Jesus either blasphemed or was God. Jesus was God and could forgive.

Jesus Claimed Equality with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 13:14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Jesus Claimed Omnipresence

To be omnipresent is a characteristic of God Almighty only, not with angels and men.
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them. ( Jesus promise to be anywhere, everywhere ay one and the same time.)

Jesus Claimed Omniscience

Omniscience is to know all things and is a characteristic exclusive of God Himself.
Mark 11: 2 – 6 2 Saying to them, Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. untie it and bring it here, 3 If anyone ask you, Why are you doing this? tell him, The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly. 4 They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, 5 some people standing there asked, “ what are you doing, untying that colt, 6 They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go.

Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

** Read Matthew 24: 3 – 31** Jesus exercised the gift of prophecy.

Jesus Claimed Omnipotence

Omnipotence, all power, is another exclusive attribute of the Lord God Almighty.
Matthew 28:18 Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘ All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Jesus Christ had Creative Power

To bring something into being from nothing, creation, is possible only to God. Jesus Christ was active in creation and continues to maintain the world.

John 1:1-3 1 In the beginning was the word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made, without him nothing was made that has been made.

Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. after he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.

Jesus Christ Received Worship due only to God

John 9:38 the men who had been healed of blindness recognizing the Savior, said, “ Lord, I believe. And he worshipped Him.” Jesus as God rightfully accepted this worship.

Luke 4:8 Jesus said to Satan at the time of temptation, “ Get thee behind me satan: for it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve.” To worship anyone but the Lord God is a terrible sin.

** When Jesus accepted worship, He was saying to the world, “ I am the Lord.”

Jesus Accepted the Testimony of Thomas

John 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, my Lord and my God.

If Thomas had made a mistake, misstatement or overstatement Jesus would have corrected it. Thomas had told the truth for Jesus was the Lord God, the eternal preexistent one.

The Fact of Jesus’ Resurrection

This is the strongest and supreme argument that Jesus is God.
Romans 1:4 “ And who through the spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
** This verse specifically states that the resurrection declare Jesus as the Son of God.

According to Romans 6:4 “ We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. ( it was the Father God, Himself, that raised Jesus from the dead.)

** The Father God thus proclaims conclusively to the world the deity of Jesus Christ**

Reference: One Hundred Bible Lessons
By: Alban Douglas