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Powerful Jesus Day 49
Jesus calls Himself God. Because Jesus was truly God he could use the descriptive God name "I am" of himself. "Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.'"1 In another place, Jesus acknowledged that he had descended from heaven. "No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man."2 The writer to a group of Jewish Christians confessed the same truth "He (Jesus) is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word."3
Various worldwide meetings of the leaders of the church have affirmed these truths. The Council of Nicaea in AD. 325 agreed Jesus to be truly God, and the Council of Constantinople in AD. 381 that he is truly man. In AD. 431, the Council of Ephesus added that though God and man, he is one person and twenty years later yet another Council at Chalcedon clarified that though one person, he is both God and man perfectly.4 Malcolm Muggeridge in "Conversion" adds his own comment "Jesus in the eyes of God, a man and in the eyes of men, a God."
1John 8.58 2John 3.13 3Hebrews 1.3 4John Stott
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