SOME OF CHRIST’S BIBLE TITLES
Pastor J. C. O’Hair
Let us prayerfully consider what Christ said of Himself some years after He was raised from the dead: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8). “ I am He that liveth and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.” (Revelation 1:18).
Then note what the heavenly messengers said in Revelation 5:12: “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.”
When we read these statements we do not wonder at the words of Thomas when he saw Christ in His resurrection body, “My Lord, and My God.” (John 20:28).
Thus we see that professing Christians, who claim to worship Christ but deny that He was ‘‘Immanuel” (God with us) (Isaiah 7:14), God manifest in the flesh (John 1:1 to 3 and John 1:14), the eternal I AM (John 8:24), should decide that they are either “infidels” or “idolaters.” If Christ was not God, but only a good man, to worship Him is idolatry. If He was God, not to accept and worship Him, is to be an infidel. In Ephesians 2:12 we learn that any man, religious or otherwise, without Christ, is without God, “atheos” - an “atheist.”
In I Corinthians 2:8 we learn that because the rulers of this world knew not, they crucified the Lord of Glory. - “Killed the Prince of Life.” (Acts 3:14 and 15).
The Prince of Life said that He was the resurrection and the life; that He had power to lay down His life and take it again. (John 11:25 and John 10:17 to 19). He proved this by showing Himself alive after His death by many infallible proofs. (Acts 1:3).
By this mighty work Christ spoiled principalities and powers, destroyed Satan’s death power, abolished death and hath brought life and incorruptibility to light in the gospel. (Colossians 2:13 to 16 - Hebrews 2:14 - II Timothy 1:10).
Christ was the effulgence of God’s glory, the express image of God’s Person, and when He had by Himself purged sin, He sat down on the right hand of the Majesty in heaven, where He is a Priest forever after the order of Melchisedec, the believer’s Advocate. (Hebrews 1:1 and 2 - Hebrews 7:1 - I John 2:1).
Christ will return as the King of Glory, the Prince of Peace, to govern this world. (Psalm 24:7 - Isaiah 9:6 and 7). He is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah; but He is the Lamb of God Which beareth away the sin of the world. (Revelation 5:5 - John 1:29 - I Peter 1:18 and 19). Is it any wonder that the Holy Spirit calls Christ’s shed blood (Matthew 26:28) the precious blood?
Christ is coming as the Sun of Righteousness. (Malachi 4:2). “I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.” He is the Plant of Renown. He is included in Elohim (God); for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the God-head bodily.
Christ created the sun and the stars and all things and He is before all things. (Colossians 1:15 to 21). More than twenty times in John’s Gospel Christ called Himself the “I AM.” If you do not believe Christ to be the I AM, ye shall die in your sins. (John 8:24). Christ has more than two hundred titles in the Bible, from “Elohiym” and “the Seed of the woman,” in the first part of the first Book, Genesis, to “the Lord Whom Ye Seek” in the last part of Malachi, and from Jesus Christ, “the Son of David,” “the Son of Abraham” in Matthew 1:1 to “our Lord Jesus Christ” in Revelation 22:21.
At the present Christ is far above all heavens, the Head of the Church Which is His Body, and believers are united to Him, to be with Him, one flesh (Ephesians 4:9 to 13 - Ephesians 1:19 to 23 - Ephesians 5:31 and 32). It is wonderful to have such a Christ as Author and Finisher of our faith.
Posted By – Cecil Spivey
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