Isaiah Roman

Who is Jesus?

The scriptures are full of evidence of the deity of Jesus, the Christ. Anyone who is interested can see it clearly, but clear vision requires that they ask God to make himself known to them through the Word. Yet, more than knowing “what” the Christ is, it should be the aim or desire of man to know “who” he is! It should be our priority to know him as we would endeavor to know another person, and yet even more intimately than this. He is worthy of one’s entire trust.

Throughout the New Testament the character of the Christ is displayed. The testimonies of the witnesses who surrounded him tell us of a singular character of grace, strength, wisdom and humility. Jesus was of a singular character.

Everywhere, every time Jesus appeared to mankind he was never alone. He had the fullness of his godly nature in him. He is the divine presence of the Godhead from which all things were created. When he was without form he remained the Word, which is the order by which this existence has been made. When he became flesh he condescended to self-restrict those portions of godliness that could not be held within creation. While he had certain limitations of the flesh, yet he was without sin.

God is infinite. It is very difficult for a finite being, who is bounded on all sides by time and events, to comprehend the concept of infinity. Every analogy the finite invents breaks down eventually, but God is Eternal and has never erred. This is described as perfection. Perfection is not natural, it is supernatural.

He alone is capable of always holding out love toward everyone, without measure. When we, as Christians, say that God sacrificed his Son on the cross many often fail to understand that the Son is the second person of the Godhead. God had, before the advent of time itself, set aside the person of the Son to be the Christ, in order to make it possible for the creature called mankind to be able to seek God through submission.

“Without me you can do nothing!” In that one verse alone we see who Jesus is. The reciprocal is apparent; with God we can do anything. He is God, one with the Father and the Holy Spirit. And after this has been said, “the half still has never yet been told.”

Eternity is infinite. God is infinite; God created time as a tool to measure, prove and evaluate creation and all that is in it. Mankind is locked into this temporal realm unless or until the God releases him. God has a plan for this cosmos; a plan that requires an obedient race to enact.

God in foreknowledge new all that could happen, all that would happen and as a master weaver he stands above the whole of the loom. Having chosen the pattern of the tapestry he began to weave. He knows when every thread should be laid, when every hitch will be encountered and just exactly how to adjust to correct it. He does not need to “start over” or alter the plan; his perfect law is enacted as we move along.

Jesus (the sinless man) is that part of God which forms the pattern by which everything is made. He is the Word, the Law that corrects all errors.

Who is Jesus? He plainly defined himself and gave evidence of himself from all eternity past, present and future. He was with God the Father from before the creation. He is God who condescended to be a man; He is both deity and flesh and blood. To know God we need only know the Son. This is the meaning of the existence of the Christ. All of the words of the men who encountered the one, true God have written about the character of God so that we may not seek what God is, but who God is.

When one knows who Jesus, when one understands the character and identity of Jesus, he also knows the Holy Spirit and the Father because they are all of one substance and inseparable; One God made manifest in three persons!