From: "Beverly French" <frenchb@vcss.k12.ca.us>
To: "Heritage" <gheritage@juno.com>
Subject: Joyous Sunday Greetings
Date: Sunday, August 19, 2001 7:59 AM

"For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or
authorities -- all things have been created by Him and for Him."
Colossians 1:16-17

How awesome that the One who came to earth to save that which was lost is
the Creator of all things.  We know many things about Jesus' humanity, today
let's look at few Scriptue verses that tell something of our glorious and
magnificent Lord's divinity.  As our opening verse tells us He is the
creator of all things.

Christ, the Creator!
"All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into
being that has come into being."  John l:3

"Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and
we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we
exist through Him."  1 Corinthians 8:6

"And to make all people see what is the fellowship of the mystery, whch from
the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things
through Jesus Christ."  Ephesians 3:9

"God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many
portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son,
whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world."
Hebrews 1:1-2

A mark of our Lord's divinity is His pre-existance:
"But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
 Too little to be among the clans of Judah,
 From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel.
 His goings forth are from long ago,
 From the days of eternity."  Micah 5:2

"Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I
am.'"  John 8:58

"And now, glorify Thou Me together with Thyself, Father, with the glory
which I had with Thee before the world was."  John 17:5

"I am the alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the
end."  Revelation 22:13

The portion of Scripture that so clearly marks the Deity of Jesus Christ is
found in John and how I love the way the Gospel writer laid this out -- can
anything be more clear?

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was
God."
"He was in the beginning with God."  John 1:1-2
"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory,
glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth."
John  l:14

All praise and honor to Christ Jesus our Lord as we join our voices and sing
of His glory!
O, the glory of Your name,
The splendor of  Your  name,
And none can compare
With the power of that name;
You are Jesus, You are Lord, You are God.
Amen!