I don't live in Carmel. I live in Central PA around Harrisburg. Now that wasn't the main point of my message. I am doing a 4 part series on how the Bible is a miraculous book. I made this comment during minor point 3. "So What Is The Point".
Jesus said
in John 14:9 Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Today, we are going to look at how The Messiah has God’s Attributes. He looks like His Father. The Messaih has God’s Attributes.
Probably
the most important claim the Old Testament makes about Messiah is that He is truly God. These claims are made in the form of ascribing God’s traits to Messiah and describing Messiah as God’s Son.
I.One aspect of God’s Messiah is that He is eternal. The prophet Micah tells us in
Micah 5:2 that the Messiah Himself is eternal when he, talking about Messiah, says, “...whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.” Compare this to the claim of eternality Jesus made in the New Testament in
John 8:58. Paul describes many attributes of Jesus which indicate an eternal Messiah in
Ephesians 1:3-14 and in
Colossians 1:15-19.
II.Another aspect of the Messiah is that He is the true and only Son of God, being Himself God. The writers of Psalms and Proverbs make this link for us in
Psalms 2:7 and
Proverbs 30:4. In
Luke 1:32, an angel of God is telling Mary that she is about to become the mother of Jesus and says to her, “He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give to him the throne of his father, David.” In
Matthew 3:17, God Himself speaks at the baptism of Jesus and says of Him, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” John 5:18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
The Old Testament gets even clearer about the fact that
III.Messiah is God, that God Himself will be the Messiah, that the name of the Messiah is
Y-H-W-H. Read the description of Messiah in
Isaiah 9:6. There we read of a Son who will be given to govern the world. Of the five names listed that the Messiah will be known by, note that one of them is
Mighty God. The prophet Jeremiah is even more blatant about applying the name of God to the Messiah in
Jeremiah 23:6. Of course, the question is, does the Bible apply God’s name to Jesus? Noting that the name
Y-H-W-H is above any other name in authority, read what Paul wrote about Jesus in
Philippians 2:9. There he writes that God gave Jesus “the name which is above every name.”
IV.What’s the Point? It’s a matter of trust We as sinners have to have someone who can take on our sin, pay the penalty for it. We have to have a Messiah who can save completely those who will come to Him The second stanza of A Mighty Fortress Is Our God makes the point.
Did we in our own strength confide,our striving would be losing,were not the right Man on our side,
the Man of God's own choosing.You ask who that may be?Christ Jesus, it is he;Lord Sabaoth his name,
from age to age the same;and he must win the battle.ose who will come to Him. If you think about it we are not saved because we are on God’s side. We are saved because God the Son, the Messiah Savior is on our side. Don’t you see that the Bible is a miraculous book? For it clearly teaches the deity of the Messiah whose name is Jesus. Jesus’ name means, “God saves”.
Benediction. Jewish scholars have little doubt about the deity of the Messiah, but many people have a hard time accepting that Jesus is God.
John 1:1-3 speaks specifically about His deity.