Is Jesus God? – Part II - The Works of Jesus

  Last week we saw that Jesus is God very simply based on His names. This week we are going to see that the deity of Jesus Christ can also be shown through His works. Jesus Christ performed works that only God can do.

  First, in John 1:1-3, 14 Jesus is the subject of the context and we see that He creates. 

John 1:1-3, 14 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. … And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

  Second, in Hebrews where the Son of God, that being Jesus, is the subject we are clued into the fact that He preserves all things.

Hebrews 1:3 – “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;”

  Third, in Jesus Christ’s own ministry on this earth He very clearly and purposefully forgave sins. For this, some of the Jews of His day accused Him of blasphemies.

Mark 2:5-11 – “When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.”

  Lastly, Jesus Christ works the work of giving eternal life. For Christ to be able to give eternal life He would have to be God because nobody else could do such a thing.

John 17:1-2 – “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.”

  The very works of Jesus Christ, as revealed to us in the Scripture, is one more proof that He was and is God Himself.