That's from the book of Philippians. And right now we're talking about the deity and divinity of Christ. The deity and divinity of Christ. The triune part of the triune God. Now when I talk about a trinity, I'm talking about you. God made you in his image. In Genesis 1-26 it tells us about it. God made us in his shadow casting likeness. His spiritual image. He made us in his The likeness, his blood-flowing likeness, that word comes from Dom in Hebrew, it means blood-flowing likeness. And in his sovereign likeness, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, the Son, and then the Father, actually, in that verse. Now we're going to read this here, and we're going to look at different places in the Bible where it talks about the deity of Christ. Jesus Christ Fulfilled all of the Jehovah titles all of the Jehovah titles He is Jehovah, he is Jehovah God Jehovah God And Greek it says host morphe Theo Keep our calm Luke ah Spock moon Hey gay, Sato Toe a nay It's a feel Who in the absolute essence that were to inform of morphous we got a word morphosis out of that God Brought himself he broke into space and time in the form of Jesus Christ in that form God became flesh. The word Jehovah, Jesus' title, that's His name. Jehovah is His name. Jehovah means He who shall become. In John 1, verse 14, it says, And the word, or the Jehovah, flesh He became, and dwelt among us, and we saw the glory of the Eternal Father, and the grace and love of God in Him. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. He gave his son. Son is the essence of him in the flesh. You want to see God? Look at Jesus Christ. That's who he is. That's God. That's God in form. And I said this a long time ago on a computer. A programmer said to me, he said, boy, that just blew me away. I said, the triune God is like hardware on a computer. That's Jesus. The software is the Father, and the spirit is the energy that puts all of it together, makes it all work together. He said, wow. Well, that might be a poor way to do it, but that's like God. All you're ever going to see of God is a son. All you're ever going to know of God is the Father, all that you ever feel of God, and the energy in you that wants you to serve God is in the Holy Spirit. Who? Nobody's singular, masculine, relative pronoun, host. Morphe, in form, in likeness, absolute essence being, of God. That word can be genitive or oblative to either one. Genitive case is the case of possession. But also, the oblative case is the case of origin. And here, we have a genitive oblative. You know, Jesus belongs to God, and Jesus came out of God from what we see in Jesus is God. Who in form of God constantly existing. He always was. This is the eternal God. Nobody's singular, masculine, present, partizan, or lactic, but it's hippo and arco. Not. Uk, abbreviation there, 294. And then harpogmone. That word harpogmone means to pray upon, to rob, to pray upon, to embezzle. We got people in the world out here They don't want to work, but they want to embezzle. Their whole life is spent on, how do I get that person's money without working for it? That word robbery right there, not robbery. And then here with third person singular, first person indicative, middle voice here now. That comes from hageomai, and it means to calculate, to deem, to lay out, to where you can physically see a plan, to blueprint. He didn't calculate, He didn't deem it, robbery, the thing, to be, that little anay there, that comes from Amy, and that's present infinity back to, equal things, Esau, Esau, equal things with God. He did not think it would be His deity, He didn't consider a thing to be held on to. Now, Jesus Christ was born in this world. Let's go back to John 1 and 1 for a moment. Look at that. In RK, ein hologos. Kai hologos ein proston theon. Kai theos ein hologos. In beginning, the absolute beginning of time, Jesus is the eternal God. He's the Ancient of Ages. He is the eternal God. In beginning, singular beginning, in Genesis 1 it says, Barashith, and that means in one of the beginnings, in one of the beginnings. But John 1.1 says in the beginning. John 1.1 is the oldest verse as far as time goes in the Bible. In beginning kept on being Hologos. Hologos there is a Hebraism for the Jehovah. In beginning kept on being the Jehovah and the Jehovah kept on being towards pro stone thing on he kept on existing as God Jehovah always was God he never didn't cease from being God and then the last part of that verse it's actually the third sentence in John 101 it says and the God or God kept on being the word Jesus never ceased on being. Jehovah never ceased being God when He came in flesh. John 1.14, "...and the Word, the Jehovah Flesh, He became, and dwelt among us. We beheld the glory, the glory, the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1.18 says, "...no one has seen God at any time, but the only begotten God, the One being in the bosom." That One has led Himself out. He led Himself out of eternity into time. He, when he was on the earth, he became obedient as a slave to you and the Father. The will of God, the Thelematos of God, was that his son would come into this world and give his life for you and for me. That's the will of God. That's the will of God. All the way back into the Daniel. Let's go back to the book of Daniel. Daniel I Can ever get there The book of Daniel the seventh chapter Then I kept looking Of the sound of the boastful words, which the horn was speaking. He's talking about this prophecy now I kept on looking to the beast was slain and this is talking about in the in the tribulation period way over here And that period of time And I kept on looking until the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and given to the burning fire. As for the rest of the beast, and their dominion was taken away, and the extension of life was granted to them for a pointed time of time. We're talking about what's going to happen in Revelation, the 19th chapter also, starting with verse number 11 onward. And I kept on looking in the night vision, and behold, were the clouds of heaven, and I saw one like the Son of Man, coming and He came up to the ancient of days and He was presented before Him and to Him was given dominion and glory and kingdom that all the peoples and nations and men of every language might serve Him and His dominion is an everlasting dominion. This is talking about Jesus, people, which will not pass away and His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed. Let's look over in Revelation. Well, look at Revelation, the first chapter first. And we'll go back to the book of Daniel again, and Isaiah. Revelation 1 and verse 8. Go back to verse number 6. And He has made us a kingdom, a priest to Him, and God and Father to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. just like what said in Daniel remember the dominion glory forever and ever blessed is he behold he is coming with clouds and every eye shall see him and those who have pierced him that's when they've nailed him to the cross that's Israel and all of the tribes of the earth will mourn over him even so amen And then Jesus speaks, Jesus talking here, I am Alpha and Omega, I am the beginning and I am the end, saith the Lord God, Jehovah Elohim, who is, exists forever, who was, who actually became, is what it says in the original language, who became, Jesus became in flesh, when he was born into this world, when he was conceived in his mother's womb. God came in flesh. And who is coming? The Almighty. El Shaddai. The term for the Almighty God is Jesus' term. John, in the book of Revelation, in the 19th chapter, Revelation for John the Revelation the 19th chapter I Can find it over here verse number 11, and I saw heaven opened up and behold a white horse Luke oh he Luke oh he he pass and He sat upon him called faithful and true and in righteousness. He judges and makes war. This is Jehovah This is this is Jehovah. I read this is the Lord my batters. This is the Lord of of armies, El Shaddai. Yehovah saw the oath. And his eyes are like a flame of fire, and upon his head are many diadems, many conquered areas. And he has a name written upon him which no one knows except him. We don't know how to say the word Jehovah, do we? We say it, but that's a misnomer. That is not what it is. If you want to say the name Jehovah, all I can say is breathe out. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood. His name is called the Word of God, the Jehovah of God, the one who shall become of God. And in the armies of which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, following him on white horses. And from his mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it he may smite the nations. He will rule them with a rod of iron, just like it said in Daniel. And he treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God Almighty, Jehovah, Elohim, El Shaddai. These are Jesus' titles. And on His robe and on His side He has a name written, Adonai, Ha, Adonaiim in the Hebrew. Adonai, Ha, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Now I'll go back again to the book of Daniel. I can find it here. Book of Daniels. I kept looking in the night vision and behold the clouds of heaven and one like the son of man was coming. Revelation 19 now, this is exactly it. We read this before. And he came to the ancient of days and was prepared to him and was given dominion and glory and a kingdom. All the peoples and nations and men of every kind might serve him and his dominion is how long? Everlasting, everlasting, which will not pass away in his kingdom as one which will not be destroyed and back over in the book of it. Isaiah. Forty four. Isaiah chapter forty four. Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Goel, Archimandrite. God became flesh so that he could redeem us from ourselves. Thus saith the King of Israel, his Redeemer, and his Goel, the Lord of hosts, Jehovah Savioth. I am the first, I am the last. Revelation, the first chapter. I am the first, I am the last, and there is no God besides me. There is no God besides me. Jesus is the only God you will ever see. He's the only God you will ever see. He's it. 1 Timothy, again Paul's writing. First Timothy Chapter 2 God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Verse number four and two, second chapter, there is one God. There aren't three gods up there, there's one God. Just like you are one person. You are spirit, you are soul, and you are body. Well, there is one God and one me here, but also between God and men, and that's the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for all, a testimony born at the proper time. Galatians 4 and 4 says, when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son made under the law, made of a woman, made under the law, that he might redeem those under the curse of the law, who gave himself a ransom for all, a testimony born at proper time. And for this I am appointed preacher and apostle. I am telling the truth. I am not lying. As a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth, Colossians. Colossians. Look at Colossians for a moment. Colossians, the first chapter. You know, a lot of people talk about Jesus. Jesus is a prophet. Jesus is a good man. Jesus was a master teacher. The Muslims talk about Jesus as a prophet. They talk about him having some end-time prophecy, this prophet will come out of Arabia. Except their prophet, Jesus, is going to kill the Jews. Jesus is going to save the Jews. Everything that's good in the Quran is bad in the Bible. Everything that's bad in the Bible is good in the Quran. Paul and Apostle Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy, our brother, to the saints and faithful ones, brethren in Christ Jesus, who are in Colossae, grace to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus. We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints, because a hope is laid up for you in heaven. of which you previously heard of, the word of truth, the gospel, of which has come to you just as in all the world also is constantly bearing fruit and increasing even as it has been doing in you since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God. Now here we come, just as you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow bond servant who is faithful servant in Christ and on our behalf who also informed us of the love of the in the spirit for this reason also since the day we heard of it we have always not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge that's the word knowledge remember we look at that word just in the last verse or so in the previous class the knowledge of his will and all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And here he uses all the words for mind. His will, his spiritual activating force. So that you may walk worthy of the Lord and to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge, strengthening, being steadfast, giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints and light. Now we're getting down closer and closer. to what Paul is going to say and he's emphasizing who Jesus is. For he delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son in whom we have the redemption and forgiveness of sin and he is the image of the invisible God. The first, the head of all creation. What it is, that's said the head of all creation. The head of all creation. For in Him all things were created, both in heaven and upon the earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things have been created through Him, by Him, and for Him. And He is before all things. In Him all things are held together. He is the head of the body of the church. He is the beginning. He's the firstborn from the dead. He's the Alpha and Omega again. so that he himself might come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness of God to dwell in him." Jesus Christ was God and man. He's related to you. He's related to you that he might give his life to you, for you. In Genesis, the third chapter, it talks about man sinning. Man sin. And then it talks about the woman that God gave man, she was tempted by Satan and she sinned and she ate and kept on eating from that tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And then she gave to her husband and he kept on eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. She was deceived, he was not. Adam sinned openly and willfully and because of that All of us are born with the sin nature. When we are conceived in our mother's womb, we don't have her blood in us. We have His blood. And that blood gives us a sentence of death and sin. The writer of the book of Genesis says in the third chapter, verse 15, he said, now let's go back there a moment. Genesis 3.15. and beforehand. Now, it's hard for me to read my Bible sometimes. I've got to show this to you. I keep all the notes from falling out. That's what it looks like. This Bible. That's what it looks like. Sometimes I have trouble reading through all the notes. Start with verse number 10. And he said, I heard the sound of you walking in the garden. And I became afraid. Now, I'm changing the wording of this to the Hebrew more accurately. And I became afraid because I had become naked. And I hid myself. And he said, who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree which I commanded you not to eat? And the man said, the woman that you gave to me, she gave it to me. It's your fault. It's her fault, not mine. And I ate. I kept on eating, is what he said. He kept on... I kept on eating. Third person, masculine, singular, wow, consecutive and perfect in Hebrew. And I kept on eating. And the Lord God said to the woman, the Ishah, what is this that you have done? And the woman said, the serpent deceived me and I ate. I didn't know what I was doing. He deceived me and I ate. Now the woman does not pass on the sin nature to the child. And this is how Jesus could be born in the world without sin. The sin of Adam was not in him. The woman gave him life. And the Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this, cursed you are above all the cattle, and more than all the beasts of the field, and on your belly you shall walk, and in dust you shall eat all the days of your life. And I will put active hatred This is the promise of the Messiah. I will put accurate hatred between you and the woman and between her seed, Jesus Christ, and your seeds down to time and culminating in the son of Satan as the Antichrist. Between you, your seed, and her seed, your seed, he's going to have a child. He's going to procreate and he's going to bring forth the man of sin. And He shall bruise you as to the head, and you shall bruise Him as to the heel. Because the woman does not pass on the sin nature, we have a Savior. And that Savior is God Almighty, El Shaddai. He is Jehovah Jireh. He is our God. He is our Jehovah, the one that became flesh to dwell among us. He is our Kinsman Dreamer. He is our Goel. He is our Savior. And if you've asked the Lord to save you and forgive you of your sins and repent of them, you are His and He is yours. He is your Elohimu. He is your God. And you are His child. Our Father, we send this message out. It's only the beginning of showing the deity of your Son and the power and glory that He shall have always. even because he redeemed us. Please forgive me where I fail you. Use your word wherever it goes. In this world, in Jesus' name I pray, amen.