2). He is from Everlasting and is of the Godhead.

When Isaiah looked forward to the coming of God’s Chosen One he called Him ‘the mighty _____, the everlasting _______’ (Isaiah 9.6). Thus Jesus is seen as participating in the almightiness and Father-likeness of God. Micah also declares of the One Who is to come forth as ‘ruler of Israel’ that ‘His goings forth are from of old, from _________________ (Micah 5.2). Indeed Hebrews says of Him, ‘your throne, oh _____, is for ever and ever’ (Hebrews 1.8). This is confirmed by John who says of Him as the Word, ‘in the beginning ______ the Word’ and ‘the Word _____ God’ (John 1.1). So He existed in the beginning, and was God. We can compare with this how in the book of Revelation Jesus can say ‘I am the ______ and the ______, and the living One’ (Revelation 1.17). This compares with the words spoken of the Lord God Almighty in Revelation 1.8, ‘I am the _______ and the ________ (the first and last letters in the Greek alphabet), which is and which was and which is to come’. That is why we look for ‘the blessed hope of the _____________ appearing of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ’ (Titus 2.13), and Peter can speak of those who have ‘obtained a like precious faith with us in the ______________ of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ’ (2 Peter 1.1).

Indeed, as Paul tells us, having humbled Himself and voluntarily relinquished ‘the form of God’ and ‘equality with God’ to take on ‘the form of a servant’ so that He could die for us, He is highly exalted and given ‘the name which is above every name’, which is the name of Yahweh, so that every tongue confesses that ‘He is Lord (the Greek equivalent of Yahweh in the Greek Old Testament)’ (Philippians 2.6-11).

Because He is the One through Whom God is revealed to man He is called ‘the image of the _____________ God (Colossians 1.15). This image cannot refer to His material form for it is of the invisible God. Thus it refers to revealing what God essentially is. Hebrews goes even further declaring that ‘He is the ___________ of His glory and the very image of His substance’ (Hebrews 1.3). So we see ‘the ______ of Christ Who is the image of God’ (2 Corinthians 4.4). (For further explanation about the Word as God see The Word).

3). He Is One with the Father

In John 14 Jesus says to His disciples, ‘if you had known me you would have known my Father also, and from now on you _______ Him and have _____________ Him’ (John 14.7). Then He makes His meaning plain, ‘he who has ________ has seen the Father’ (John 14.9). So Jesus here claims that to have seen Him at work and in action is to have seen the Father at work and in action in a unique way. Thus He can say, ‘I and my Father are ______’ (John 10.30). That is why He can be linked with the Father and the Spirit of God on equal terms, ‘baptising them in the name of the ___________, the _____ and the _______________’ (Matthew 28.19). Notice here that the three members of the Godhead have one Name, the name of Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament. So Paul can speak of each member of the Trinity equally in His prayer, ‘the _________ of our Lord Jesus Christ, the _____ of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all’ (Romans 13.14).

Many activities which are in some places said to be the work of the Father or the work of God are elsewhere stated to be the work of Christ. Thus while God is ‘the judge of all the world’ (Genesis 18.25) and ‘the judge of all’ (Hebrews 12.23), and Peter speaks of ‘the Father, Who without respect of persons, judges’ (1 Peter 1.17), at the same time we are told ‘He has committed all __________ unto the Son’ (John 5.22) and it is God Who will ‘judge the _________ of men by Christ Jesus (Romans 2.16). This is so that men ‘will honour the Son, even as they honour the Father’ (John 5.23). When He comes back to earth in glory ‘then will He sit on the throne of His glory’(Matthew 25.31) and all men will come before Him for judgment, for ‘He is ordained of God to be the ________ of the living and the dead’ (Acts 10.42; 2 Timothy 4.1).

Again ‘as the Father raises the ______ and gives ______ to them, even so the Son also gives life to whom He will’ (John 5.21). So ‘the dead will hear the ______ of the Son of God, and those who hear will live’ (John 5.25) and it is He Who will ______ men at the last day (John 6.40).

Thus Paul can conclude, ‘in Him dwells all the __________ of the Godhead in bodily form’ (Colossians 2.9). This does not, of course, mean that Jesus is just another name for the Father. Rather that they are so closely linked in every way in essence, action and will that what One is involved in the Other is involved in. They are a unity.

4). He Is Omniscient, Omnipresent and Unchanging.

Paul says of Christ ‘in Him are hid all the treasures of _________ and ___________ (Colossians 2.3). This includes a knowledge of the hearts of all men for Jesus Himself declares, ‘I am the one who __________ the reins and hearts’ (Revelation 2.23). (In Psalm 7.9 it is God who ‘tries the reins and hearts’). This is bad news for the sinful, but for those who are His it is good news, for ‘He who _________ the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes _______________ for the people of God according to the will of God’ (Romans 8.27). Furthermore He is the only One Who can reveal the Father, for He says, ‘all things have been ______________ to me of my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son pleases to reveal Him’ (Matthew 11.27). His universal presence is known by the fact that ‘where two or three are ___________________ in My name, there am I among them’ (Matthew 18.20) and His promise that ‘lo, I am with you __________, even to the end of the world’ (Matthew 28.20). He is indeed ‘the same yesterday, _______ and for ever (Hebrews 13.8). He is always the same and His _____ will not fail (Hebrews 1.12).

5). He Is the Holy One.

In Acts 2.27 He is referred to as the ‘_______ One’, and in Acts 3.14 as ‘the _____ and Righteous One’, and even the evil spirits declare that He is ‘the ______ One of God’ (Mark 1.24; Luke 4.34). So Jesus is declared to be Holy in a unique way. To be ‘holy’ means to be set apart to God, and set apart from the world so that there is something ‘other’ (numinous) about the holy person or thing. In the case of Jesus it refers to His ‘otherness’, both of essence and of purity. So Hebrews tells us that as our High Priest He is ‘_______, guileless, __________, separate from sinners and made higher than the Heavens’ (Hebrews 7.26). This holiness comes out as especially revealed in a number of incidents in His life. When He is in the mountain with Peter, James and John ‘the fashion of His ________________ was altered’ (Luke 9.29), His face shone as _________ (Matthew 17.2) and He was ‘transfigured before them, and His clothes became _____________, exceedingly white (Luke adds ‘and dazzling’), such as no launderer on earth could make them’ (Mark 9.3), and ‘they saw His _______y’ (Luke 9.32). That is one reason John could say ‘we beheld His ______’ (John 1.14).

Twice we are told that in special incidents in His life something was revealed that filled men with awe. When told in the Garden of Gethsemane that the soldiers were seeking Jesus of Nazareth He replied “I am he”. Then, we are told, ‘they went _________ and ______ to the ground’ (John 18.6). It is clear that they sensed something unearthly about Jesus. The second was when Peter, seeing the catch of fish that Jesus had directed them to, ‘fell down at Jesus’ knees saying, “_______ from me, for I am a ________ man, Oh Lord’. It is very significant that the miraculous action made him aware, not only of Jesus’ miraculous powers, but of his own sinfulness. This was due to the ‘holiness’ of Jesus.

6). He is the Righteous One. John tells us ‘we have an _________ with the Father, Jesus Christ the _________’ (1 John 2.1), and in Acts 3.14 He is ‘the Holy and ______________ One’. Hebrews tells Him ‘ The sceptre of ______________ is the sceptre of Your kingdom’ (Hebrews 1.8). It is because He was truly righteous that He could die for us the unrighteous, so Peter informs us, ‘For Christ has also once suffered for sins, the _______ for the ________, that He might bring us to God’ ( 1 Peter 3.18). In fact Peter, who had ample opportunity to watch Jesus, declared of Him ‘He did no _____ , neither was _________ found in His mouth’ (1 Peter 2.22), while Paul also calls Him, ‘He who knew no _____’ (2 Corinthians 5.21). Hebrews further adds He was ‘__________ in all points like we are, and was yet _________ sin’ (Hebrews 4.15). Thus He can be described as ‘holy, ________, ________, separate from sinners’ (Hebrews 7.26). This was why He could challenge His opponents, asking ‘Which of you __________ me of sin’? (John 8.46). Thus He can be called ‘a lamb without ________ and without _____’ (1 Peter 1.19). And the glorious fact is that, because of His sacrifice on the cross, we also are being changed so that we may attain ‘unto a ________ man, unto the measure of the stature of the ________ of Christ’ (Ephesians 4.13).

7). He Is Loving and Merciful

Paul challenges in Romans 8.35, ‘who shall __________ us from the love of Christ?’ and goes on immediately to declare that nothing can defeat us, for ‘we are more than _______________ through Him that loved us (Romans 8.37). Indeed ‘the love of Christ _______ ______ us’ to new and better living because of what He has done for us (2 Corinthians 5.14). Which is why Paul is concerned that we ‘know the love of Christ which ________ knowledge, so that we may be ___________ unto all the fulness of God’ (Ephesians 3.19). So we too must ‘walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as an _________ and __________ to God’ (Ephesians 5.2). For ‘the Lord Jesus Christ, and God, even our Father, has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace’ (2 Thessalonians 2.16). It is through His mercy that we will receive ________________ (Jude 1.21).

8). He is Sovereign

Paul speaks of ‘the working by which He is able even to _____________ all things to Himself’ (Philippians 3.21). Indeed ‘He is the _______ of all things’ (Hebrews 1.2), and ‘ruler of the _______ of the earth’ (Revelation 1.7), and what is more everything depends on Him for ‘He ______________ all things by His powerful word’ (Hebrews 1.3). The world’s creation and destiny are in His hands for ‘You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the ______________ of the world, and the Heavens are the _______ of Your hands. They will _______, but You continue, and they will all become old like clothing, and like a cloak you will _______ them up and they shall be changed. But You are the same and your _______ will not fail’ (Hebrews 1.10-12). For ‘the Father ______ the Son and has given ________________ into His hand’ (John 3.35), so that Jesus can declare ‘all things that the Father ______ are mine’ (John 16.15). So our Lord Jesus Christ has all things in His hands.

IS THERE SOMETHING IN THE BIBLE THAT PUZZLES YOU?