JESUS CHRIST: GOD-MAN - Vital Christianity

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He calls all men unto Him; promises to forgive their sins; to send them the
Holy Spirit; to give them rest and peace; to raise them up at the last day; and to
give them eternal life.
God is not more, and cannot promise more, or do more than Christ is said to be,
to promise, and to do. He has, therefore, been the Christian's God from the
beginning, in all ages and in all places."1
HIS IDENTITY
We have seen that Jesus Christ made His identity the focal point of His teaching. He
said that the Father sent Him. He declared that He came down from God; that the words He
spoke, God had actually given Him; and that everything He did, He did according to the
commandment of God. He claimed that He would be the final Judge of the world. He said that to
know Him was to know the Father, and that to see Him was to see the Father. In fact, He said
that He and God were one. He even claimed that no man could know God except as He, the Son,
revealed the Father, and that no man could come to God except through Him.
Jesus was One who never put Himself in the attitude of a sinner before God; never shed a
tear of repentance; never regretted a single thought, word or deed; never needed or asked divine
pardon; was never concerned about the salvation of His own soul; and boldly faced all His
present and future enemies in the absolute certainty of His spotless purity before God and man.
Jesus commanded His followers to believe in Him, love Him, obey Him, sacrifice for
Him, worship Him, and, if need be, die for Him as they would for God.
Now in light of these assertions, what is one to think concerning Jesus Christ?
The critical question Jesus put to those who followed Him was,
"Who do you say I am?"