[ This article was originally written in 1918 to counter the cults and heretical groups at the turn of the century which constantly discounted or outright rejected the Bible truth relating to the Lord Jesus Christ's absolute, eternal deity. The same understanding is needed today, more than ever before ]

By R. A Torrey

“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?” Matthew 22:41, 42

There is no room left to doubt the absolute Deity of Jesus Christ. It is a glorious truth. The Saviour in Whom we believe is God, a Saviour for Whom nothing is too hard, a Saviour Who can save from the uttermost and save to the uttermost. Oh, how we should rejoice that we have no merely human Saviour, but a saviour Who is absolutely God in all of His fulness and perfection.

On the other hand, how black is the guilt of rejecting such a Saviour as this! Whoever refuses to accept Jesus as his Divine Saviour and Lord is guilty of the enormous sin of rejecting a Saviour Who is God. Many a man thinks he is good because he never stole, or committed murder, or cheated. “Of what great sin am I guilty?” he complacently asks. Have you ever accepted Jesus Christ? “No” Well, then, you are guilty of the awful and damning sin of rejecting a Saviour Who is God. Continued…

[ This article was originally written in 1918 to counter the cults and heretical groups at the turn of the century which constantly discounted or outright rejected the Bible truth relating to the Lord Jesus Christ's absolute, eternal deity. The same understanding is needed today, more than ever before ]

By R. A Torrey

“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?” Matthew 22:41, 42

The six lines of proof of the Deity of Jesus Christ which I have given you leave no possibility of doubting that Jesus Christ is God, that Jesus of Nazareth is God manifested in a human person, that He is a being to be worshipped, even as God the Father is worshipped. But there are also incidental proofs of His absolute Deity which, if possible, are in some ways even more convincing that the direct assertions of his Deity.

1. Our Lord Jesus says in Matthew 11:28, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Now any one that makes a promise like that must either be God, or a lunatic, or an impostor. NO one can give rest to all who labour and are heavy laden who come to him unless he is God, and yet Jesus Christ offers to do it. If He offers to do it and fails to do it when men come to Him, then He is either a lunatic or an impostor. Continued…

[ This article was originally written in 1918 to counter the cults and heretical groups at the turn of the century which constantly discounted or outright rejected the Bible truth relating to the Lord Jesus Christ's absolute, eternal deity. The same understanding is needed today, more than ever before ]

By R. A Torrey

“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?” Matthew 22:41, 42

There is a sixth line of proof of the absolute Deity of our Lord Jesus. Those already given have been decisive, each one of the five have decisive, but this, if possible, is the most decisive of them all, and that is that we are taught in so many words that Jesus Christ should be worshipped as God, both by angels and men. In numerous places in the gospels we see Jesus Christ accepting without hesitation a worship which good men and angels declined with fear and which He Himself taught should be rendered only to God( Matt. 28:9; Luke 24:52; Matt. 14:33; Acts 10:25-26; Rev. 22:8-9; Matt.4:9-10). A curious and very misleading comment is made in the margin of the American Standard Revision upon the meaning of the word translated “worship” in these passages, and that is that ” the Greek word translated worship denotes an act of reverence, whether paid to a ‘creature’ or to the ‘ Creator’.” Continued…

[ This article was originally written in 1918 to counter the cults and heretical groups at the turn of the century which constantly discounted or outright rejected the Bible truth relating to the Lord Jesus Christ's absolute, eternal deity. The same understanding is needed today, more than ever before ]

By R. A Torrey

“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?” Matthew 22:41, 42

The fifth line of proof of the absolute Deity of our Lord is found on the way in which the name of Jesus Christ is coupled with that of God the Father. In numerous passages His name is coupled with the name of God the Father in a way in which it would be impossible to couple the of any finite being with that of the Deity. We have time for but a few illustrations that might be given. A striking instance is in the words of our Lord Himself  in John 14:23  where we read,” Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” Here our Lord Jesus does not hesitate to couple Himself with the Father in such a way as to say,” We,” that is, God the Father and I, will come and make our abode with him. In John 14:1 He said,” Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” If Jesus Christ was not God, this is shocking blasphemy. There is absolutely no middle ground between admitting the Deity of Jesus Christ and charging Christ with the most daring and appalling blasphemy of which any man was ever guilty.

[ This article was originally written in 1918 to counter the cults and heretical groups at the turn of the century which constantly discounted or outright rejected the Bible truth relating to the Lord Jesus Christ's absolute, eternal deity. The same understanding is needed today, more than ever before ]

By R. A Torrey

“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?” Matthew 22:41, 42

The fourth line of proof of the absolute Deity of Jesus Christ is found in the fact that over and over again statements which found in the Old Testament are made distinctly of Jehovah, God, are taken in the New Testament to refer to the Lord Jesus Christ. We have not time to illustrate this at length, but will give one illustration where might be given. In Jeremiah 11:20 the prophet says, ” Continued…

[ This article was originally written in 1918 to counter the cults and heretical groups at the turn of the century which constantly discounted or outright rejected the Bible truth relating to the Lord Jesus Christ's absolute, eternal deity. The same understanding is needed today, more than ever before ]

By R. A Torrey

“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?” Matthew 22:41, 42

The first line of proof of the absolute Deity of our Lord Jesus is that many names and title clearly imply8ing Deity are used of Jesus Christ in the Bible, some of them over and over again,the total number of passages reaching far into the hundreds.Of course, I can only give you a few illustrations at this time.Turn with me first of all to Revelation 1:17,”And when I saw him,I fell at his feet as dead.And he laid his right hand upon me,saying unto me,Fear not;I am the first and the last.” The text shows clearly that our Lord Jesus was the speaker, and here the Lord Jesus distinctly calls Himself ” The First and the Last.” Continued…

[ This article was originally written in 1918 to counter the cults and heretical groups at the turn of the century which constantly discounted or outright rejected the Bible truth relating to the Lord Jesus Christ's absolute, eternal deity. The same understanding is needed today, more than ever before ]

By R. A Torrey

“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?” Matthew 22:41, 42

But we do not need to rest the case here.There is a third unanswerable line of proof that Jesus Christ is God, namely, all the distinctively Divine offices are predicated of Jesus Christ. There are seven distinctively Divine offices. That is to say, there are seven things that God alone can do, and each one of these seven distinctively Divine offices is ascribed to Jesus Christ. The seven distinctively Divine offices are: Creation, Preservation, Forgiveness of Sin, the Raising of the Dead, the Transformation of Bodies, Judgement and the Bestowal of Eternal Life, and each of these is ascribed to Jesus Christ.

Creation is ascribed to Him. In Hebrews 1:10 these words are spoken of our Lord: ” And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.” The context clearly shows that the Lord addressed is the Lord Jesus. In John 1:3 we are told that ” All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” Continued…