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I received the following question:
I am dealing with a heresy there which says that one should not worship Jesus. They say you should worship the Father, but Jesus just didn’t want to be worshiped. So they will pray to the Father, through Jesus but never to Jesus. Can you show that we should worship and pray to Jesus, directly?
The best book to go to to show the Godhood of the Lord Jesus Christ is the book of John. There, we read, in John 1:1:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
That this Word is the Lord Jesus is established in verses 14 and 15:
“And the Word became 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. John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, ‘This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’’”
That the Word is the Lord Jesus is plain, and that the Word was God is established in verse 1. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you considered the topic I mentioned in my last message on “What Is God Doing, Anyway?” I think knowing the purpose of God in His works today is perhaps one of the most important things a Christian can know. But, before we learn what God’s purpose for today is, we must know what His ultimate purpose is. Read the rest of this entry »
I suppose one of the most important, as well as perhaps the most frustrating, studies for a new Christian is the study of God’s present work and how God deals with us as believers. We come into our Christian life supposing that now that we are on the side of God, great blessings must be just lined up waiting to come our way. That God has a definite program and plan for us we are certain, and we look to our church leaders and the mature Christians around us to point us in that direction and explain to us just exactly what God is doing and what we are to expect from Him. All too often, though, the message which young Christians get concerning God’s dealings with us today are either confused, incomplete and dissatisfying, or just plain wrong. In some ways, the church leaders and mature Christians no more understand God’s workings than do the young Christians, and thus can provide all too little leadership or help in this area. Thus the young Christian is left on his own to learn through experience the way God is dealing with people today. How many young Christians have started out fired up for the Lord and certain that God is going to do thus and thus and thus for them, only to discover that their expectations just do not pan out? And all the older Christians can do is watch with sympathy but all too little explanation. Read the rest of this entry »
The voice of the LORD is a glorious thing! Psalm 29 is a psalm comparing God’s voice to the lightning and thunder. In Psalm 29 verse 3 we read,
The voice of the LORD is over many waters;
The God of glory thunders;
The LORD is over many waters.
The voice of the LORD is powerful;
The voice of the LORD is full of majesty. Read the rest of this entry »
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to live life without anyone whom you knew loved you? That is the sad reality for far too many children in our day. Love is one of the most powerful…no, THE most powerful tool God has given us. Babies need love terribly much, and as we get older we need it just as much, whether or not we admit it. Thus, I often think with sadness of those who have never even experienced love from their parents. How terribly lonely that must be! No wonder many young people now lose their virginity so quickly…they are searching for someone to truly love them.
I don’t think there is a greater gift that anyone could receive from another than his love. Everything else we might give someone is external, but when we give other people our love, we give a part of our very soul to them, and build them up by it. Read the rest of this entry »
In my last message, I was talking about the difference between faith and trust, saying that when we make a decision we must say that we are trusting God, not having faith. I thought that I might have seemed to imply that if the decision we made was God’s will everything would go wonderfully, and if it wasn’t everything would be terrible. I hope I didn’t mean this, as that is not right at all. We may do exactly what God wants us to do and run into problem after problem and hardship after hardship…On the other hand, we may do precisely what God doesn’t want us to do and have everything go wonderfully. This is not the test of whether or not we are in the Lord’s will. Didn’t Christ say that those who followed Him would suffer for it? Overwhelming success could even be a sign that we aren’t following God’s will! Read the rest of this entry »
