CHRIST'S WORKS DECLARE HIM TO BE GOD

WORKS ARE DONE BY CHRIST WHICH ONLY GOD CAN DO

 

 

He Created All Things (The Creator)

•          John 1:3
•          John 1:10
•          Col. 1:16 ASV

He Upholds and Preserves All Things

•          Col. 1:17 ASV margin
•          Heb. 1:3

He Guides and Directs the Stream of History

•          1 Cor. 10:4, 9, 11
•          Heb. 1:2 ASV margin. cf. Isa. 9:6
•          Rev. 1:13, 20 (cf. Rev. 2 and 3)
•          Rev. 5:5; 6:1, 5, 7, 9, etc.

He Forgives the Sins of Men and Gives Eternal Life

•          Mark 2:5-12 with Isa. 43:25 (cf. Psa. 51:4)
•          John 10:28
•          Col. 3:13

Problem: John 20:23 “Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained”

Only Christ can remit sins, and He does so on the basis of saving faith in Himself. The disciples, however, were given authority to recognize such faith, and then to give assurance to new believers. The authorization, as evident from the tenses in the Greek, should actually read: “Whose soever sins ye remit, they shall have been remitted unto them.”

He Builds the Church and Maintains its Corporate Existence

•          Matt. 16:18
•          Eph. 4:7-16
•          Phil. 1:2
•       Phil. 4:23

He Receives and Answers Prayer

•          John 14:14 cf. Acts 7:59
•          2 Cor. 12:7-9

He Will Raise the Dead in the Resurrection

•          John 5:21
•          John 5:28-29
•          John 11:24-25

He is the Final Judge of the World

•          Matt. 25:31-46
•          John 5:22 why? cf. 5:27
•          Acts 10:42
•          Acts 17:31
•          2 Cor. 5:10

Conclusion:

(1) The above "works" are not to be classed as miracles which might be done through delegated agents such as prophets and apostles.

(2) Such "works" in the Old Testament were not only-attributed to God, but they were the marks of the one true God, The New Testament writers knew this, yet they did not hesitate to assert them of Jesus Christ.