JESUS.... "PART OF" or "ALL OF"?
JESUS.... Is all we need!!!
JESUS is not part of plural Godhead....
JESUS is God in the flesh... (I Timothy 3:16)
Before Abraham was, I AM Jesus said.....
If you've seen ME, then you've seen the Father Jesus said....
I and my Father are one and the same Jesus said!
And they called Him (Jesus), Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty GOD, Everlasting FATHER.....
Jesus, The God-Man....at once both God and man, God manifested in flesh in the form of His creation.....
At the same time as this obedient man (Jesus) was washing the feet of His disciples in the deepest humility, there was resident in His identity a divine claim, a claim to be Yahweh....God Almighty...the Creator!
In John 13:19, Jesus said to His disciples, “Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe that I AM He.....
In this text, “He” is italicized;.....what Jesus actually said was, “you may believe "I AM" (ego eime).
It is here, girded with a towel and washing the dirty feet of His disciples, that Jesus offered His greatest revelation of Who He really was to His disciples. Kneeling on the floor before them, the God who spoke the cosmos into existence, the One who covenanted on Sinai, the I AM that caused the bush to burn but not be consumed.....here He was present with them!
Bringing Colossians 1:15 to life...."Who is the IMAGE of the invisible God....and begging the answer to the indirect question that asks who is the Father of I John 2:1....the text gives the answer; the Father is Jesus Christ Himself.... that's why Jesus could say of Himself, if you've seen ME, you've seen the Father also.
It's dangerous to be baptized in a Roman, pluralistic baptismal formula rather than having just His name pronounced over you.... Acts 4:12 "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is NONE other NAME under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
That's why when you refer to and say the name of Jesus, you have to look no further OR say nothing else.....you are speaking and baptizing in the saving name of the Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, I AM, Messiah and Redeemer.
JESUS is all we need!!!
Excerpts from David Norris
