Lesson Four: Jesus Is God
Pastor Ryan Story
I enjoy writing devotions. I enjoy getting different topics to study and then write about that topic. I enjoy studying, learning, and writing. This is one of those devotions I did not enjoy writing as much as devotions past. Not because of the topic, the topic of Jesus is God is amazing! Ideas, stories, analogies, and truths that can be applied that flow from this fact are numerous and beyond count! The reason this devotion was not that enjoyable was that in just three words one could sum up every clever, insightful thing I could possibly say: Jesus is God. There is nothing else that needs to be said. Jesus being God is such a fundamental fact in my mind, my mind would not let me go any further. I almost wanted to just increase the size of the font and say, “Jesus is God.” Those three words would cover the whole page, and it would be my entire devotion. That is all that needs to be said about this topic.
In the first chapter of the Gospel of John, he starts his account of Jesus’ life with some poetry. I love reading the Gospel of John because Matthew, Mark, and Luke write similar styles and even use each other as sources in their accounts. Then you have John who is super poetic and full of imagery. In John 1:1, he says “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” In John 1:14 he continues, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” So we can use some simple deductive reasoning. By looking logically at the premises, we can draw a conclusion. Since “the Word was God” that means that God is the Word. Since the “Word became flesh and dwelt among us” means that God became flesh and dwelt among us. Finally, since Jesus was the part of the Trinity that became flesh to dwell among us, that concludes that Jesus is God.
We have already discussed the fact that everything in the Bible is true and comes from the creator of the universe. We must make the fact that “Jesus is God” a truer statement of our lives than us telling ourselves the sun will come up the next morning. “Jesus is God” must be the truest fact in all of our lives.