Pertinent Scriptures

Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Set Apart From Sinners

Hebrews 7:26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens

Every Knee Should Bow

Philippians 2:7-10 But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow . . .

The Lion & the Lamb

Revelation 5:5-6  . . . Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah  . . . I saw in the middle of the throne  . . . a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain

Revelation 6:16 They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb . . .”

Sympathizes with our Weaknesses & a Consuming Fire

Hebrews 4:15 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities

Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

The Sun of Righteousness with Healing in its Wings

Malachi 4:2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. . . .

The Judge

Matthew25:31-32, 46 “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. . . . These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Acts 10:42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

Acts 17:31 “Because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”