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Dear Friends of The Lion and Lamb Ministry,



The "god" that is being pushed everywhere today no more resembles the Almighty God, The Supreme Sovereign of Holy Scripture than does the light from a candle to that of the sun. The "god" who is now talked about from most pulpits, spoken of in most Sunday Schools, mentioned in most of the religious books and literature of today, is a figment of man's imagination.



LOOK, THERE IS NO OTHER POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE BETWEEN AN ABSOLUTE SUPREME GOD AND NO GOD AT ALL!



Is this getting through? I want you all to be very clear on this



A "god" whose will is resisted, whose plans are frustrated, and whose purpose is checkmated, possesses no title to Deity, and FAR FROM BEING THE RIGHT OBJECT OF WORSHIP, MERITS NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT!



This is NOT the GOD of the Bible.



The God of the Holy Bible, YAHoshua Ha'Maschiach, The LORD Jesus Christ, is Absolutely Supreme and A TOTAL SOVEREIGN! This is MY GOD!!!



Thank you for reading...



In YAHoshua,

Dave

The LORD Jesus Christ IS God. This is a statement that has gotten quite a beating through the years. Here is a short study to help you all remember and keep foremost in your hearts and minds who it is that we serve as Christians and Messianic Jews.



The Deity of Yeshua Ha'Mashiach,

The LORD Jesus Christ

John 1: 1 -18; I Timothy 3:16



1) HIS NAMES PROVE THAT HE IS GOD!



- He is called "GOD" - John 1:1; 20:28; Acts 29:28; Romans 9:5; Titus 2:13;

Hebrews 1:8; I John 5:28 cf. Isaiah 9:6

- He Is called the "SON OF GOD" - refers to position, not origin (word for "born

one" In Greek, teknon, is never used of Jesus Christ) - cf. John 5:18; 10:30-36;

19:7

- He is called the "LORD" (Greek - kurios) - used in LXX (the Septuagint) for the Hebrew

YAHWEH (Jehovah) - Isaiah 45:22-23; Joel 2:32; Acts 2:21-36; Romans 10:9-10;

Philippians 2:5-11

- He is called the "LORD OF GLORY" - Psa. 24:7-10; 1 Cor. 2:8

- He is called the "HOLY ONE" - Isa. 48:17; Acts 3:14

- He is called "THE FIRST AND THE LAST" - Isa. 44:6; 48:12-16; Rev.1:17-18;

2:8; 22:12-13, 16

- He is called the "LORD OF HOSTS" - Isaiah 44:6 (Hebrew word is YAHWEH

not adonai)





2) HIS ATTRIBUTES PROVE THAT HE IS GOD!



- He is ETERNAL - Isaiah 9:6; 1 John 5:11

- He Is UNCHANGEABLE - Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 1:8-12; 13:8

- He Is OMNIPRESENT - Matthew 18:28; 28:20; Colossians 3:11

- He Is OMNISCIENT - John 2:23-25; 16:38; Colossians 2:3

- He Is OMNIPOTENT - Philippians 3:20-21; Revelation 1:8; 22:12-13

- He is PERFECT - Colossians 1: 19; 2:9-10

- He is INCOMPREHENSIBLE - Isaiah 9:6; 55:8-9; Matthew 11:27; Romans

11:33-36; Ephesians 3:8, 19





3) HIS ABILITIES PROVE THAT HE IS GOD!



- He CREATED all things - John 1:3, 10; Colossians 1:16

- He CONTROLS all things - Colossians 1:17; Hebrews 1:2-3

- He CURES all diseases - Matthew 4:23-24

- He CALMS the sea - Mark 6:47-51

- He CONQUERS death - John 11:25-26

- He CLAIMS to forgive sins, answer prayer, and give eternal life - Mark 2:1-12;

John 10:27-33; 14:13-14



Let's never be "Stiff-Necked" about this!

When I was growing up I loved to roller skate. So did my best friend John. We both did. Loved to roller skate. But there was something in John that was different. He began to consider who was the better skater based on the number of times we fell down. Whoever fell the least was...the better skater. So in seeking to not fall, he limited where he would skate, and how far, how fast, ALL to keep from falling.

He considered himself the best skater among us. Became prideful of his NON-falling skating ability. Even to the point where he looked down on the kids that weren't as good a NON-faller as he was. Now he didn't do this outwardly. Outwardly he would warn the others that in order to not fall, they shouldn't skate so fast, or go on a particular street cause it was bumpy. When they WOULD fall, he would shake his head , and say "See you should have listened, then you wouldn't have fallen."

Over a short period of time he became prideful of his NON-falling ability. Yet he couldn't see that he had SO limited his true skating potential through the fear of falling, so that his skating ability wasn't so great at all. Soon he realized that the true way to keep from falling was to NOT skate at all.

Me, on the other I skated all over, fell down all the time, got right back up and kept going. Sure Mom and Dad cleaned up my, just about daily, scrapes. But I didn't care I was back out there the next day loving skating, the bumpy road, racing, all of it. I was not about to allow my fear of falling from stealing the joy I received from my love of skating.

Herein, lays the essential difference between Living for Jesus and Living for Not Sinning.

Read Romans 5:20, 6:4, 6:11, 6:14-19. Now go to Galatians 4:4-18, 5:1

Look, too many Christians live in the negative. Meaning the emphasis is on NOT sinning.

The thrust of our lives should be ON Jesus and living FOR Him.

Thank you for Reading,

In Christ,
Dave