MEMORY VERSE: ‘They shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.’ Matthew 1:23.
LESSON AIM: To demonstrate from Scripture that Jesus is God; therefore our High Priest Mediator is divine for He is truly God.
‘Since Jesus came to dwell with us, we know that God is acquainted with our trials, and sympathises with our griefs. Every son and daughter of Adam may understand that our Creator is the friend of sinners. For in every doctrine of grace, every promise of joy, every deed of love, every divine attraction presented in the Saviour’s life on earth, we see “God with us.” Desire of Ages, page 24.
1. How does the Bible express in human language that Jesus is indeed very God? Hebrews 1:3. Compare verse 8.
NOTE: ‘I am so thankful that God has made a way that we may have full and free salvation. We need not look at the shadows that Satan casts on our path. He would eclipse heaven and Jesus and the light and power of heaven to us, and we keep talking of the power of Satan. But we need not talk of that. Isaiah presents it this way: “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” ( Isaiah 9:6). Does not that say that I and My Father are one?’ Faith and Works, page 75.
2. Who alone is worthy to receive our worship and our service? Matthew 4:10; Luke 4:8.
NOTE: ‘Satan had asked Christ to give him evidence that He was the Son of God, and he had in this instance the proof he had asked. At the divine command of Christ, he was compelled to obey. He was repulsed and silenced. He had no power to withstand the peremptory dismissal. He was compelled without another word instantly to desist and leave the world’s Redeemer.’ Confrontation, page 54.