I Am Your God in the Flesh; Come to Save You.

Class Outline:

Thursday May 8, 2025

 

Main Idea: Jesus came to the disciples because they were in trouble in a situation that required He remove the veil over His deity.

 

Intro: There have been many reasonings about the uniqueness of Christ, some theories, we should admit, were not unique at all. All have one thing in common. They did not accept the Scripture as inspired and inerrant.

 

One of the first and most influential was Arius (318 AD).

 

The result was that Constantine called the Council of Nicea in 325 and the orthodoxy of Christology concerning the absolute deity of Christ was set down.

 

We believe in one God, the Father almighty,

maker of all things visible and invisible;

And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God,

begotten from the Father, only-begotten,

that is, from the substance of the Father,

God from God, light from light,

true God from true God, begotten not made,

of one substance with the Father,

through Whom all things came into being,

things in heaven and things on earth,

 

Main Idea: Jesus came to the disciples because they were in trouble in a situation that required He remove the veil over His deity.

 

Text: MAT 14:22-27.

 

Scene: Jesus alone on the mountain, the disciples sent off in the boat, and the crowds dispersed.

 

This shows the necessity of being alone with the Father.

 

Principle of application: The more you come to know the reality of the Person of God, the more you will long to be with Him.

 

Should we go away to live out the rest of our days in the desert?

 

Duty calls. The disciples are in trouble (again). He goes to them out of necessity, for their sake.

 

Your God has come to you to rescue you.  …“I am”

 

JOB 9:8 Who alone stretches out the heavens

And tramples down the waves of the sea;

 

HAB 3:15

You trampled on the sea with Your horses,

On the surge of many waters.

 

PSA 77:19

Your way was in the sea

And Your paths in the mighty waters,

And Your footprints may not be known.

 

ISA 43:16

Thus says the Lord,

Who makes a way through the sea

And a path through the mighty waters,

 

To rescue you, God the Son took upon Himself humanity.

 

His goal is to deliver them and then take them where they need to go. (Sound familiar?)

 

So, as the Scripture says, God alone walks on the sea. Jesus unveils His deity in order to get to the disciples.

 

He who does not see God in Christ, does not see God at all, JOH 5:23; 1JO 2:22-23.

 

Richard Watson in his Theological Institutes has written a worthy declaration of Christ’s essential deity. It should be preserved and read by all:

 

Of Christ, it will be observed that the titles of Jehovah, Lord, God, King, King of Israel, Redeemer, Saviour, and other names of God, are ascribed to him, that he is invested with the attributes of eternity, omnipotence, ubiquity, infinite wisdom, holiness, goodness, etc.,—that he was the Leader, the visible King, and the object of the worship of the Jews,—that he forms the great subject of prophecy, and is spoken of in the predictions of the prophets in language, which if applied to men or to angels would by the Jews have been considered not as sacred but idolatrous, and which, therefore, except that it agreed with their ancient faith, would totally have destroyed the credit of those writings,—that he is eminently known both in the Old Testament and in the New, as the Son of God, an appellative which is sufficiently proved to have been considered as implying an assumption of Divinity by the circumstance that, for asserting it, our Lord was condemned to die as a blasphemer by the Jewish Sanhedrim,—that he became incarnate in our nature,—wrought miracles by his own original power, and not, as his servants, in the name of another,—that he authoritatively forgave sin,—that for the sake of his sacrifice, sin is forgiven to the end of the world, and for the sake of that alone,—that he rose from the dead to seal all these pretensions to Divinity,—that he is seated upon the throne of the universe, all power being given to him in heaven and in earth,—that his inspired apostles exhibit him as the Creator of all things visible and invisible; as the true God and the eternal life; as the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God and our Saviour,—that they offer to him the highest worship,—that they trust in him, and command all others to trust in him for eternal life,—that he is the head over all things,—that angels worship him and render him service,—that he will raise the dead at the last day,—judge the secrets of men’s hearts, and finally determine the everlasting state of the righteous and the wicked.—Theological Institutes, 1, 473

 

We are definitely sitting between two worlds and we can think earthly or heavenly. Did heaven really enter the world? Did God really become a man?

 

Application: Know your Savior is God; absolute deity.

 

If He is for you, then who is against you? (ROM 8:31)

 

If He will come to your aid, why do you fear? (HEB 2:18)

 

If He says you are complete, why do you listen to other minds? (COL 2:9-10)