JESUS WAS GOD

John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
LUKE 1:1-4; JOHN 1:1-18 Jesus was not just a man sent from God, He was God. This is the most important statement of the New Testament. On this truth hangs all other truths. If Jesus was only a man, then regardless of how good He was, His life could only provide a su stitute for one other man. !ut since He was God, His life was worth more than every human life since creation. Indeed it was worth more than the sum total of the universe that He created. "ny compromise on this point will negate the wor# of $hrist in our lives. Jesus was God manifest in the flesh %& Tim. '(&)*+ ,et this "lmighty God came to dwell in a human ody. He hum led Himself and too# the form of a servant %-hil. .(/*. $hrist0s humanity truly made Him one of us. He suffered the same temptations and pressures that we suffer %He . 1(&2*. It was His divinity, however, that gave Him the power to save us to the ma3 %He . /(.2*. 4e must never let His humanity lind us to the fact that "lmighty God Himself ecame our friend %Jn. &2(&'5&2*. "nd we must never let His divinity lind us to the fact that He #nows e3actly how we feel and cares for us. 6et the Holy 7pirit give you a true revelation of the deity and humanity of our 6ord Jesus $hrist throughout this new year.