Jesus Christ Is True God. (Pasche)

"This is the true God and eternal Life." 1 John 5:20.

“What think ye of Christ ? Whose Son is He ?” Is He truly the Son of God? This question is vastly important. The answer to this question decides the destiny o f every individual soul. According as the Gospel of Jesus Christ is accepted or rejected, will men stand or fall. And how is this vital question to be decided? There are many conclusive and incontrovertible proofs that Jesus Christ is true God.

We look at Christ’s spotless character and His immaculate life. We listen to His heavenly teachings. Merely human mind and merely human lips never conceived and spoke as He did. He taught as one having authority and not as the scribes. He was the Teacher come from God; He Himself is true God.

And how clearly did He manifest His divine glory through innumerable miracles which He performed in His own power! His disciples testify: “We beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father.” God calls from heaven and says: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Jesus Himself testifies time and again that He is Christ, the Son of the Blessed. 

Numerous passages of the New Testament bear witness to the fact that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Holy Writ ascribes divine honor to Him, saying: “All should honor the Son even as they honor the Father.” All men should believe in Him and be baptized in His name in order to be saved. And how can man be saved? “No man can by any means redeem his brother nor give God a ransom for him.” It required One who was and is more than mere man to do that — the Son of God, who be­ came man. There is no proof so powerful that Christ is God as the sacrifice on Calvary. Who can look upon that scene without exclaiming with the centurion under the cross, “Truly, this was the Son of God!” ? If Christ were not God, no man could be saved.

Prayer.

O Lord Jesus Christ, Thou art the Second Person in the Holy Trinity; Thou art begotten of the divine substance of the Father from all eternity, God of God, very God of very God, Light of Light; Thou art the express image of Thy heavenly Father and the brightness of His glory, the true God and eternal Life, who in the fulness of time didst assume our flesh and blood and be­ come man. Thou art the Dayspring from on high that hath visited us; the Sun of Righteousness, which has risen unto us with healing in His wings. O come, Thou Light of the world, whose origin and coming are divine, and shine into our hearts. Thou art very God of very God, begotten, not made; being of one sub­ stance with the Father and for us men and for our salvation Thou earnest down from heaven and wast incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary. Glory be to Thee forever and ever! Amen.