Jesus, “My Lord and My God”

By Bryan R Braswell

God is one, but in three persons, and we see Him in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, made clear like a mirror image in the New Testament. (e.g., Matthew 28:19). Before the New Testament, we note communication between God, and perhaps wonder in awe, as to Who it is doing the communicating. For example: “The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.” (Psalm 110:1). Jesus uses this passage to prove something: “What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.” (Matthew 22:41-46). This must have intrigued the Pharisees, but they would not answer Jesus on this passage. However, the question is a good one, and makes no sense if Christ, the Lord, is not eternal with God, existing before David with God, and equal as God. (John 1:1ff.)

The book of John establishes principles, that go along with this too: “Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.” (John 5:17-18). The coexistence (equality) of the Father and Son are unique, and Jesus is “equal” with God. John 8:58 proves this point when Jesus says: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I Am.” (John 8:58). Before Abraham, we see Jesus, but where? He said before Abraham existed, He existed, and from the original language the tense is in the present indicative, meaning this: “The present tense represents a simple statement of fact or reality viewed as occurring in actual time. In most cases this corresponds directly with the English present tense.  The indicative mood is a simple statement of fact. If an action really occurs or has occurred or will occur, it will be rendered in the indicative mood.” Take note of this relative to the indicative mood: “if an action occurs, has occurred, or will occur, the indicative is the mood,” which means this relative to Jesus’ statement: “I exist, have always existed, and will always exist, and therefore am eternal.”

To prove this, we find Jesus, as John describes, as the logos or the Word in the John 1:1-5, 14. That Word became flesh, but before that how did He exist? Apparently in Word, or as the Word of God, eternal and existent before time and up to time (i.e., creation), and existent throughout time. Now He is known as the Son of God, reigning at the right hand of His Father’s throne in heaven. Therefore Jesus is the Word which embodied flesh and stands as God’s standard, by which  He will judge all nations and people according to the truths herein, which are always right and contained in His Word, the Bible.

Jesus was one of the “us” and “our” in Genesis 1:26, when God created man in His own image. The plural pronouns here must represent the Elohiym in Genesis 1:1, which states : “In the beginning God (elohiym) created the heaven and the earth.” And so, when God spoke, we see Jesus, or the pre-incarnate Son of God-the Word of God, go into action with these words: “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light…” (1:3). The psalmist declared, as Paul declared: “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.” (Psalm 33:6). “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him…” (Colossians 1:16).

Miracles cannot be defined by natural laws, and our Lord is not confined or defined by them either, of which He established, and therefore we cannot fully wrap our minds around this fact; but nonetheless, This is fact, and He is “My Lord and My God;” the LORD, worthy of praise and honor! (John 20:28). In and by Jesus all things exist, and without Him nothing exists.