Jesus Christ

Definition

Jesus, the Christ, a created individual, is the second greatest Per­sonage of the universe. Jehovah God and Jesus together constitute the Superior Authorities (Romans 13:1) toward all creation. He was formed countless millenniums ago as the first and the only direct creation by His Father, Jehovah, and, because of His proved, faultless integrity, was appointed by Jehovah as His Vindicator and the Chief Agent of life toward mankind. Christ, one of His titles, means “The Messiah”, “The Anointed.” Jesus or Jeshua is the shortened form of the Hebrew Jehoshua, meaning “Jehovah is the Savior”.

First-born Son of God, a Spirit

Revelation 3:14 “These are the things the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God.”

Colossians 1:15-17 “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, because by means of Him all other things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lord­ships or governments or authori­ties. All other things have been created through Him and for Him. Also He is before all other things and by means of Him all other things were made to exist.”

John 1:1-3 “Originally the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. This one was originally with God. All things came into existence through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into existence.”

Proverbs 8:22, 27-30 “Jeho­vah formed me as the begin­ning of His way, the first of His works of old. When He established the heavens, I was there: when He set a circle upon the face of the deep, when He made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong, when He gave to the sea its bound, that the waters should not trans­gress His commandment, when He marked out the foundations of the earth; then I was by Him, as a master workman.”

Also: John 6:62; 8:23, 58; 17:4, 5.

Lesser than Jehovah

Philippians 2:5-8 “Christ Jesus, who, although He was existing in God’s form, gave no consideration to a seizure [scorned a thing to be seized], namely, that He should be equal to God. No, but He emptied Himself and took a slave’s form and came to be in the likeness of men. More than that, when He found Himself in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient as far as death, yes, death on a torture stake.”

1 Corinthians 11:3 “But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn, the head of a woman is the man; in turn, the head of the Christ is God.”

John 14:28 “I am going My way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.”

Luke 22:42 “Let, not My will, but Yours take place.”

Born as a Human Son of God in October, 2 B. C.

Galatians 4:4, 5 “But when the full limit of the time arrived, God sent forth His Son, who was pro­duced out of a woman and who came to be under law, that He might release by purchase those under law.”

John 1:14 “So the Word be­came flesh and resided among us, and we had a view of His glory, a glory such as belongs to an only-begotten son from a father, and He was full of undeserved kindness and truth.”

Luke 1:30-35 “The angel said to her: ‘Have no fear, Mary, for you have found favor with God; and, look! you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and you are to call His name Jesus. … Holy spirit will come up­on you, and power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason also what is born will be called holy, God’s Son.’ “

Luke 2:10-14 “The angel said to them: ‘Have no fear, for, look! I am declaring to you good news of a great joy that all the people will have, because there was born to you today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, in David’s city.’ .. . ‘Glory in the heights above to God, and upon earth peace among men of good-will.’ “

Became the Messiah Seed in Fall, A.D. 29

Genesis 22:15-18 “And the angel of Jehovah called unto Abraham … and said, By myself have I sworn, says Jehovah, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, that in blessing I will bless you,… and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in your seed shall all the na­tions of the earth be blessed.”

Galatians 3:16 “Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. It says, not, ‘And to seeds,’ as in the case of many such, but as in the case of one, ‘And to your seed,’ who is Christ.”

Daniel 9:24-27 “Seventy weeks [of years] are decreed upon your people. . . . Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to re­store and to build Jerusalem unto the anointed one [Messiah], the prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks.”

Luke 3:21-23 “Jesus also was baptized and, as He was praying, the heaven was opened up and the holy spirit in bodily shape like a dove came down upon Him, and a voice came out of heaven: ‘You are My Son, the beloved; I have approved you.’ Further­more, Jesus Himself, when He commenced His work, was about thirty years old.”

Acts 10:38 “Jesus who was from Nazareth, how God anointed Him with holy spirit and power, and He went through the land doing good and healing all those op­pressed by the devil, because God was with Him.”

Also: Genesis 3:15; Deuteronomy 18:18, 19; 1 Chronicles 17:11-14; Acts 3:20­23; Luke 1:32, 33.

Died on Stake as Ransomer in Spring, A.D. 33

Matthew 20:28 “Just as the Son of man came, not to be minis­tered to, but to minister and to give His soul [life] a ransom in exchange for many.”

John 1:29 “The next day he beheld Jesus coming toward him, and he said: ‘See, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!'”

Hebrews 2:9 “We behold Jesus, who was made a little lower than angels, crowned with glory and honor for having suffered death, that He by God’s undeserved kindness might taste death for every man.”

Also: Verses 14-17.

Colossians 1:19-23 “God saw good for all fullness to dwell in Him and through Him to reconcile again to Himself all other things by mak­ing peace through the blood He shed on the torture stake, no matter whether they are the things upon the earth or the things in the heavens. Indeed, you who were once alienated and enemies because your minds were on the works that were wicked, He now has again rec­onciled by means of that one’s fleshly body through His death, in order to present you holy and unblemished and open to no ac­cusation before Him, provided, of course, that you continue in the faith.”

Resurrected Immortal on Third Day

John 10:17, 18 “I surrender My soul, in order that I may receive it again. No man has taken it away from Me, but I surrender it of My own initiative. I have authority to let go of it, and I have authority to receive it again. The commandment on this I re­ceived from My Father.”

1 Peter 3:18, 21. 22 “Christ died once for all time concerning sins, a righteous person for unright­eous ones, that he might lead you to God, He being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive in the spirit.. .. through the res­urrection of Jesus Christ. He is at God’s right hand, for He went His way to heaven, and angels and authorities and powers were made subject to Him.”

Romans 1:4 “Who with power was declared God’s Son according to the spirit of holiness by means of resurrection from the dead.”

Romans 6:4, 9 “Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father… . For we know that Christ, now that He has been raised up from the dead, dies no more; death is master over Him no more.”

Acts 13:33-37 “God … resurrected Jesus; even as it is written in the second Psalm, ‘You are My Son, I have become your Father this day.’ “

Revelation 1:5, 17, 18 “Jesus Christ, ‘the Faithful Witness,’ ‘The first­born from the dead,’ and ‘The Ruler of the kings of the earth.’ … ‘I am the First and the Last, and the living one; and I became dead, but, look! I am living for ever and ever.’ “

Alive Forever Over All Creation

Hebrews 4:15 “For we have as high priest, not one who cannot sympa­thize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tested in all respects like ourselves, but with­out sin.”

Luke 1:30, 32, 33 “The angel said to her: ‘… This one will be great and will be called Son of the Most High, and Jehovah God will give Him the throne of Da­vid his Father, and He will be king over the house of Jacob forever, and there will be no end of His kingdom.’ “

John 5:22, 23 “For the Father judges no one at all, but He has committed all the judging to the Son, in order that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father.”

Revelation 19:11, 15 “And I saw the heaven opened, and, look! a white horse. And one seated upon it is called Faithful and True, and He judges and carries on war in righteousness. And out of His mouth there protrudes a sharp long sword, that He may smite the nations with it, and He will shepherd them with a rod of iron.”

Ephesians 1:20-23 “He has operated in the case of the Christ when He raised Him up from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above every government and authority and power and lordship and every name named, not only in this system of things, but also in that to come. He also subjected all things under His feet, and made Him head over all things to the congregation, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills up all things in all.”

Philippians 2:9, 10 ‘For this very reason also God exalted Him to a superior position and kindly gave Him the name that is above every other name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.”

Isaiah 9:6, 7 “The government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonder­ful. Counsellor, Mighty God, Ever­lasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his govern­ment and of peace there shall be no end.”

Christ as King of New World

John 18:36 “Jesus answered: ‘My kingdom is no part of this world. If My kingdom were part of this world, My attendants would have fought that I should not be delivered up to the Jews. But, as it is, My kingdom is not from this source.’ “

1 Timothy 6:14, 15 “… our Lord Jesus Christ. This manifestation the happy and only Potentate will show in its own appointed times, He the King of those who rule as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords.”

Psalm 2:6, 7 “The Eternal’s [Jehovah’s] edict let me tell: ‘I, I have installed My king on Sion, on My sacred hill.’ “

Daniel 7:13, 14 “I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before Him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, na­tions, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlast­ing dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”

Revelation 11:15 “The kingdom of the world has become the king­dom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will rule as king for ever and ever.”

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