Present Truth

By James H. Brookes

BIBLE READING - DIVINITY OF CHRIST

Chapter 2

 

Second, He is called the Son of God in a sense that implies sameness of nature with the Father.

Ps. ii. 7.—I will declare the decree: the LORD. hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Compare with Acts xiii. 33.—God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

Matt. iii. 17.—And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Matt. xvi. 16.—And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Matt. xvii. 5.—While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

Matt. xxvii. 54.—Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

Mark iii. 11.—And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

Mark v. 7.—And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

Mark xiv. 61, 62.—But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Luke i. 35.—And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Luke x. 22.—All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father, and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will Reveal him.

John i. 18, 34, 49.—No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. * * * * And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. * * * * Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.

John iii. 18.—He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

John v. 25.—Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

John vi. 69.—And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

John ix. 35, 36.—Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?

John x. 36.—Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

John xi. 4, 27.—When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby, * * * * She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.

John xix. 7.—The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

John xx. 31.—But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

Acts viii. 37.—And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Rom. i. 4.—And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

Rom. viii. 3.—For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.

I Cor. i. 9.—God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

II Cor. i. 19.—For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

Gal. ii. 20.—I am crucified with Christ: never the less I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Eph. iv. 13.—Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

Col. i. 13.—Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

Heb. iv. 14.—Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

II Pet. i. 17.–For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

I John i. 3, 7.—That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. * * * * But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

I John ii. 22–24.—Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

I John iv. 9, 10, 14, 15.—In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. * * * * And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

I John v. 5, 10, 13.—Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? * * * * He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Rev. ii. 18.—And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass.