Friday, January 4, 2013

The Messiah: Man or God?


A list of verses to ponder over.

The Messiah is a Man Appointed by God:

Acts 10:38 NKJV
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Acts 17:30,31 NKJV
Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.

Romans 5:15 NKJV
But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

1 Corinthians 15: 21,22 NKJV
For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

The Messiah is a Man Authorised by God.

Matthew 28:18 ESV
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Ephesians 1:16-22 ESV
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
- may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened,
- that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you,
- what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
- and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe,
- according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ
- when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
- far above all rule and authority and power and dominion,
- and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
- And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Colossians 2:10 KJV
And you are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power:

Revelations 5:12 ESV
saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”