 Hey smart Christians, there's a really interesting text that helps us to see that Jesus is in fact God. For some people it's going to be a problem, it's going to be a bother to them, but we've got to go with what the scriptures say. This is in John 1 and no it's not the passage in John 1 that you're probably thinking of, but while we're on that topic let's go to John 1 let's look at the passage. John 1 1, let's go there first since that's going to be an issue that people are going to want to talk about. In John 1 1 you know the passage in the beginning was the word and I want to just remember this how he starts us off in the beginning. I'm going to come back to that and tie it in just a little bit but the word was God, the word was with God and the word was God. I want you to notice something that we've talked about before in the Greek and this is not really my main point but I want you to see this that in the beginning was the word. The word was with God and the word was God and we've talked about this before that in the Greek we've got these two nouns one is the subject one is what's called the predicate nomative. The subject is obviously what the subject is we know about that but the predicate nomative what that does is it describes what the category or what the class or what the subject is so in this case the word is a subject the predicate nomative is theos and so what does theos do it describes what the word is now because of that it's important to recognize since the word is Jesus then who is he saying is God Jesus and add even extra emphasis if we look at the third clause Caipheos and Helagos will notice that the theos is actually shifted to the front or before Lagos why not to say that and God was the word no is to give emphasis to what the word is now there is no real confusion as to who the word is we know that the word is Jesus and so to kind of get to my point I want to drop down to verse 14 and look and see well says one that and the word became flesh which is what we said and dwelt among us and we saw his glory remember that as well glory as of the only begotten from the father full of grace and truth now I want to focus on that the son is who is the word who became flesh dwelt among us and we beheld his glory which is the glory of the glory as of the only begotten from the father and this word only begotten comes from this word over here monogon else or monogonase both of the same but in this case he is the only begotten or the unique the only one of his kind why is that interesting well because we're going to look at a passage in just a few verses that's going to use this only begotten again but it's not the only begotten son let's continue John testified about him and cried out saying this is whom this is he of whom I said he comes after me and is higher ranked than I am because he exists before me well that's interesting since John was literally physically born before Jesus was born but John recognized who Jesus actually is but he says verse 17 for the law for the law was given through Moses grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ now here it is no one has seen God at any time the only begotten God who was in the bosom of the father he has explained him so now this is the interesting part notice what he says the only begotten God who was in the bosom of the father well who do we know the father is we believe the father is God the father the full existence everything about him all of his glory that's the father who was in heaven but then who is this only begotten God who was in the bosom of the father so John is clearly stating that Jesus is the only begotten God and notice the same term here monogamous and so Jesus is also called God the only begotten son the only begotten God that's who Jesus is you can't get away from that it's not like he was just speaking about God either and in terms of someone being separate from Jesus he was not making a distinction he was making a comparison to say that Jesus is in fact God and it's no big stretch to say that Jesus is God because even God himself calls Jesus God remember in Hebrews 1 verse 8 he says but of the son he that's God the father says your throne oh God is forever and ever so God calls him Jesus the son calls him God why is this important well because if you don't accept the fact that Jesus is God well then we've got a problem because Jesus himself says in John 8 24 therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins well the I am first of all that he is not there in the green but he says unless you believe that I am and it's that this this term ego ma and he's not saying that he is something else but you must believe that I'm the I am and we know this is how the Jews took it because look what the Jews response was so they were saying to him who are you Jesus said to them what have I been saying from the beginning and it's kind of we've got a tie in the beginning was the word but that also what does John say in John 1 1 in the beginning the word was with God Jesus always made it known who he is he puts it before you you cannot come back and say well I wish he would have said it this way or which would have said it that way this is how he said it and we know what he meant because the Jews even though they weren't followers of his they knew what he meant they asked him or he asked them why do you want to stone me for what good works and they said not because any good works are bad works and nothing that you've done but because you a man make yourself out to be guided you call yourself God and that was a problem that the Jews had and Jesus didn't deny that Jesus was clear and he says unless you believe that I am then you will die in your sins and he reiterates this later on in John 8 58 before Abraham was I am he wasn't saying that he was old he wasn't saying that he has been living a long time unless you believe that I am in John 8 24 then he comes on that same chapter and states that before Abraham was I am well how did the Jews take that they wanted to kill him why because they believe that he was calling himself God why do they believe that he was calling himself God because he was and if you don't believe that he's the I am if you don't believe that he is the I am that Moses spoke with that Moses witnessed the glory of God which is why we see in John 1 14 the glory of the only begotten from the father the glory of the only one of its kind from the father Jesus says if you don't believe that then you will die in your sins as a matter of fact even in Romans Paul makes it clear he says that you must confess your mouth that Jesus is Lord you know what does that mean well there's only one faith one Lord one baptism one Lord we're told that the Lord is God there is no other besides him according to Moses and Deuteronomy 4 and so the Lord is God and that whoever calls upon the name of the Lord according to Paul and Romans 10 shall be saved if you do not call him the Lord recognize him as the Lord who is God Jesus indicates clearly that you will die and the key is again interestingly enough in 1 verse 18 of John that he is the only begotten God the only one of his kind the unique God Jesus is the unique God to put on the screen one last time so we can see this he says no one has seen God at any time the only begotten God the unique God who was in the bosom of the father and so John is clearly either he's making a mistake or he's being clear that Jesus is God and so guys it's vitally important even if we don't quite fully understand how this works together still it's vitally important we know that Jesus is God amen