stepped up to an intelligent looking man at the back of the room and
said to him, "Are you a Christian?" He replied, "I do not suppose you
would consider me a Christian." I said, "Why not?" He said, "I am a
Unitarian." I said, "What you mean then is that you do not think that
Jesus Christ is a person who should be worshipped." He replied, "That
is exactly what I think," and added, "the Bible nowhere says we ought
to worship Him." I said, "Who told you that?" He replied, "My pastor,"
mentioning a prominent Unitarian minister in the City of Boston. I
said, "Let me show you something," and I opened my Bible to Heb. 1:6
and read, +"And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into
the world, he saith, and let all the angels of God worship him,"+
and he said, "Does it say that?" I handed him the Bible and said, "Read
it for yourself," and he read it and said, "I did not know that was in
the Bible." I said, "Well it is there, isn't it?" "Yes it is there."
Language could not make it plainer. _The Bible clearly teaches that
Jesus, the Son of God, is to be worshipped as God by angels and men,
even as God the Father is worshipped._
VII. INCIDENTAL PROOFS OF THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST
The six lines of proof of the Deity of Jesus Christ which I have given
you leave no possibility of doubting that Jesus Christ is God, that
Jesus of Nazareth is God manifest in a human person, that He is a being
to be worshipped, even as God the Father is worshipped; but there are
also incidental proofs of His absolute Deity which, if possible, are in
some ways even more convincing than the direct assertions of His Deity.
1. Our Lord Jesus says in Matt. 11:28, +"Come unto me, all ye that
labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."+ Now any one
that makes a promise like that must either be God, or a lunatic, or an
impostor. No one can give rest to all who labour and are heavy laden
who come to him unless he is God, and yet Jesus Christ offers to do it.
If He offers to do it and fails to do it when men come to Him, then He
is either a lunatic or an impostor. If He actually does it, then beyond
a question He is God. And thousands can testify that He really does it.
Thousands and tens of thousands who have laboured and were heavy laden
and crushed, and for whom there was no help in man, have come to Jesus
Christ and _He actually has given them rest_. Surely then He is not
merely a great man, He is God.
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