THIS question is the supreme test to-day. It is not sufficient to ask, Is Jesus, the Son of God? for it is common nowadays to teach that Shakespeare, Byron, Charles Bradlaugh, Colonel Ingersoll, the drunkard reeling out of the public house, the murderer in the condemned cell, are all sons of God. Such a statement is as false as it is blasphemous.
But ask a plain YES or NO to this question, IS JESUS, GOD THE SON? If the answer is NO, give a very wide berth to the religion that can so reply. Rest assured it is of the devil, however specious and plausible its teachings.
Let the following scriptures speak for themselves on this point.
" The Word was God " (John 1. 1).
" All things were made by Him " (John 1. 3).
" The Word was made flesh " (John 1. 14).
" John bare witness of Him... and bare record that this is the Son of God” (John 1. 15, 34).
Let these scriptures shatter forever the lie that Jesus is not God the Son. Here it tells us the Word-a Divine Person-was God, and the Creator of everything. That being the case He could never cease to be God. Next, we are told that this Divine and Glorious Person became a man-Jesus, the Son of God. No wonder His very name carries this thought. The name, Jesus, means Jehovah Savior, and Jehovah is God. More than seven centuries before His Virgin birth His name WAS given, EMMANUEL (GOD with us).
Let us answer like Thomas of old as be found himself in the presence of the risen Savior.
" My Lord and MY GOD " ( John 20. 28).