Hebrews 1

Continuing the biblical case for Christ's deity, Pastor Martin brings four more witnesses (Philippians 2:6, Titus 2:13, Hebrews 1:8, and 1 John 5:20) in which Jesus Christ is explicitly called God in contexts that admit no lesser meaning. He summarizes the sevenfold witness in Colossians 2:9 — in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily — and applies the doctrine: the one who invites sinners is God able to fulfill every promise and every threat, He demands supreme religious affection, and He is the object of faith, worship, and a jealous guarding of the heart.

Pastor Martin introduces the third group of witnesses to Christ's deity: passages where He performs works that only God can do. He shows from John 1, Colossians 1:15-17, and Hebrews 1:2-3 that Jesus Christ is the Creator of all things, then from John 17:2, Ephesians 1:21-22, Colossians 1:17, and Hebrews 1:3 that He is the upholder and governor of providence, in whom all things hold together and by whom all things are upheld by the word of His power — the same Christ who made purification for sins.