A Sermon by Reverend Hollis Ray Mathis

reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

The Lord Jesus, The Son Of God

I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST, AS THE WORD OF GOD, HAS BEEN IN GOD THE FATHER SINCE EVERLASTING. THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD, SAYS THAT HIS GOING FORTH HAS BEEN FROM EVERLASTING. MI:5:2 BUT THOU, BETHLEHEM EPHRATAH, THOUGH THOU BE LITTLE AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF JUDAH, YET OUT OF THEE SHALL HE COME FORTH UNTO ME THAT IS TO BE RULER IN ISRAEL; WHOSE GOING FORTH HAVE BEEN FROM OF OLD, FROM EVERLASTING. BUT IN THE BEGINNING OF CREATION GOD THE FATHER SPOKE, AND HE TOOK HIS WORD AND SHAPED IT, AND FORMED, IT IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE WORD OF GOD BECAME THE SON OF GOD. JN:1:1 IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD. THE HOLY SCRIPTURES SAY THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK, AND POWERFUL, AND SHARPER THAN A TWO EDGE SWORD. JESUS CHRIST IS QUICK, AND POWERFUL ABLE TO DIVIDE SOUL, AND SPIRIT. HEB:4:12 FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK, AND POWERFUL, AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWOEDGED SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING ASUNDER OF SOUL AND SPIRIT, AND OF THE JOINTS AND MARROW, AND IS A DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHTS, AND INTENTS OF THE HEART. JESUS CHRIST WAS THE BEGINNING OF CREATION, THERE WAS NOTHING CREATED BEFORE HIM. JESUS SPOKE THESE WORDS RV:3:14 AND UNTO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH OF THE LAODICEANS WRITE; THESE THINGS SAITH THE AMEN, THE FAITHFUL AND TRUE WITNESS, THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. JESUS, THE SON OF GOD, WAS THE FIRST BORN OF EVERY CREATURE. WHAT IS A CREATURE? A CREATURE IS SOMETHING THAT WAS CREATED. COL:1:15 WHO IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY CREATURE. JESUS, THE SON OF GOD, IS THE ONLY GOD EVER FORMED, OR EVER SHALL BE FORMED. IS:43:10 YE ARE MY WITNESSES, SAITH THE LORD, AND MY SERVANT WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN: THAT YE MAY KNOW AND BELIEVE ME, AND UNDERSTAND THAT I AM HE: BEFORE ME THERE WAS NO GOD FORMED, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE AFTER ME. WHEN JESUS CREATED ADAM, HE WAS CREATED A LIVING SOUL, WHEN GOD CREATED THE LORD JESUS HE CREATED HIM A QUICKENING SPIRIT. A QUICKENING SPIRIT IS ABLE TO GIVE LIFE. 1COR:15:45 AND SO IT IS WRITTEN, THE FIRST MAN ADAM WAS MADE A LIVING SOUL; THE LAST ADAM WAS MADE QUICKENING SPIRIT. JESUS CHRIST, GOD’S PRECIOUS SON, WAS CREATED IN THE FATHER’S EXPRESS IMAGE. WHEN YOU SEE JESUS HE WILL LOOK EXACTLY, EXPRESS IMAGE, AS GOD THE FATHER. HEB:1:1 GOD, WHO AT SUNDRY TIMES AND IN DIVERS MANNERS SPAKE IN TIME PAST UNTO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS. 2. HATH IN THESE LAST DAY SPOKEN UNTO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE HATH APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS, BY WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLD: 3. WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY, AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON, AND UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER, WHEN HE HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS, SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH. WHEN GOD THE FATHER CREATED THE LORD JESUS, HE CREATED HIM EQUAL TO HIMSELF. FOR ANY TWO THINGS TO BE EQUAL THEY MUST BE IDENTICAL, THEREFORE WAS JESUS CREATED OF THE SAME SUBSTANCE AS THE FATHER, DOES HE HAVE THE SAME POWER AS THE FATHER, DOES HE HAVE THE SAME APPEARANCE AS THE FATHER? YES, JESUS WAS CREATED IDENTICAL TO GOD THE FATHER. PHIL:2:6 WHO, BEING IN THE FORM OF GOD, THOUGHT IT NOT ROBBERY TO BE EQUAL WITH GOD; GOD BY JESUS CHRIST CREATED ALL THINGS, VISIBLE, AND INVISIBLE. EPH:3:9 AND TO MAKE ALL MEN SEE WHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP OF MYSTERY, WHICH FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD HATH BEEN HID IN GOD, WHO CREATED ALL THINGS BY JESUS CHRIST. ALL THINGS CONSIST BECAUSE OF JESUS CHRIST. IF A NATION IS A NATION IT IS BECAUSE OF JESUS, THE ANOINTED ONE. IF A MAN IS A MAN IT IS BECAUSE OF JESUS, IF A MAN IS RICH, OR IF A MAN IS POOR, IT IS BECAUSE OF JESUS CHRIST. JESUS MAKES RICH, AND HE MAKES POOR, IT IS HE THAT KILLS, AND IT IS HE THAT MAKES ALIVE. COL:1:15 WHO IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY CREATURE: 16. FOR BY HIM WERE ALL THINGS CREATED, THAT ARE IN HEAVEN, AND THAT ARE IN EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THEY BE THRONES, OR DOMINIONS, OR PRINCIPALITIES, OR POWERS, ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM, AND FOR HIM; 17. AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND BY HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST. JESUS IS THE FIRST BORN FROM THE DEAD THAT HE MIGHT HAVE PREEMINENCE IN ALL THINGS. COL:1:18 AND HE IS THE HEAD OF THE BODY, THE CHURCH: WHO IS THE BEGINNING, THE FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD; THAT IN ALL THINGS HE MIGHT HAVE THE PREEMINENCE. CHRIST JESUS HAS ALL POWER IN HEAVEN, AND EARTH. TO GIVE YOU SOME IDEA OF HIS POWER HE CREATED THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS, AND PLACED THEM IN SPACE IN ONE DAY. MT:28:18 AND JESUS CAME AND SPAKE UNTO THEM, SAYING, ALL POWER IS GIVEN ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. BEFORE THE LORD JESUS WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY THE NAME OF THE SON OF GOD WAS A MYSTERY. JESUS APPEARED TO MEN BY THE NAME OF “ THE WORD OF THE LORD. “ FOR EXAMPLE JESUS CHRIST APPEARED TO JEREMIAH, AND SPOKE THESE WORDS TO HIM. JER:1:4 THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING, 5. BEFORE I FORMED THEE IN THE BELLY I KNEW THEE; AND BEFORE THOU CAMEST FORTH OUT OF THE WOMB I SANCTIFIED THEE, AND I ORDAINED THEE A PROPHET UNTO THE NATIONS. 6. THEN SAID I, AH, LORD GOD! BEHOLD, I CANNOT SPEAK: FOR I AM A CHILD. 7. BUT THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, SAY NOT, I AM A CHILD: FOR THOU SHALT GO TO ALL THAT I SHALL SEND THEE, AND WHATSOEVER I COMMAND THEE THOU SHALT SPEAK . 8. BE NOT AFRAID OF THEIR FACES: FOR I AM WITH THEE TO DELIVER THEE, SAITH THE LORD. 9. THEN THE LORD PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TOUCHED MY MONTH. AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, BEHOLD, I HAVE PUT MY WORDS IN THY MOUTH. JESUS CHRIST AS THE WORD OF THE LORD APPEARED TO ELIJAH IN THE CAVE, AND ASK ELIJAH “ WHAT DOTH THOU HERE ELIJAH?” 1KGS:19:9 AND HE CAME THITHER UNTO A CAVE, AND LODGED THERE: AND, BEHOLD, THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO HIM, AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, WHAT DOEST THOU HERE, ELIJAH? 10. AND HE SAID, I HAVE BEEN VERY JEALOUS FOR THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS: FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE FORSAKEN THY COVENANT, THROWN DOWN THINE ALTARS, AND SLAIN THY PROPHETS WITH THE SWORD; AND I, EVEN I ONLY, AM LEFT; AND THEY SEEK MY LIFE, TO TAKE IT AWAY. 11. AND HE SAID, GO FORTH, AND STAND UPON THE MOUNT BEFORE THE LORD, AND BEHOLD, THE LORD PASSED BY, AND A GREAT AND STRONG WIND RENT THE MOUNTAINS, AND BRAKE IN PIECES THE ROCKS BEFORE THE LORD; BUT THE LORD WAS NOT IN THE WIND; AND AFTER THE WIND AN EARTHQUAKE ; BUT THE LORD WAS NOT IN THE EARTHQUAKE; 12. AND AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE A FIRE; BUT THE LORD WAS NOT IN THE FIRE; AND AFTER THE FIRE A STILL SMALL VOICE. 13. AND IT WAS SO, WHEN ELIJAH HEARD IT, THAT HE WRAPPED HIS FACE IN HIS MANTLE, AND WENT OUT, AND STOOD IN THE ENTERING IN OF THE CAVE. AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A VOICE UNTO HIM, AND SAID, WHAT DOEST THOU HERE, ELIJAH? YOU MAY WONDER WHY ELIJAH WRAPPED HIS FACE IN HIS MANTLE BEFORE HE WENT TO SPEAK TO GOD THE FATHER. IF ANY MAN SEES THE FACE OF GOD THE FATHER HE WILL DIE. EX:33:20 AND HE SAID, THOU CANST NOT SEE MY FACE; FOR THERE SHALL NO MAN SEE ME, AND LIVE. THERE IS ONE GODHEAD, AND IN THE GODHEAD ARE THREE DEVINE PERSONS. EACH GOD HAS SOME UNIQUE QUALITIES ABOUT THEM, FOR EXAMPLE ; NO MAN HAS SEEN GOD THE FATHER AT ANY TIME. JN:1:18 NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME; THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WHICH IS IN THE BOSOM OF THE FATHER, HE HATH DECLARED HIM. JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD. AND, HE HAS THE ONLY NAME UNDER HEAVEN WHEREBY MEN MAY BE SAVED. ACTS:4:10 BE IT KNOWN UNTO YOU ALL, AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, THAT BY THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, WHOM YE CRUCIFIED, WHOM GOD RAISED FROM THE DEAD, EVEN BY HIM DOTH THIS MAN STAND HERE BEFORE YOU WHOLE. 11. THIS IS THE STONE WHICH WAS SET AT NOUGHT OF YOU BUILDERS, WHICH IS BECOME THE HEAD OF THE CORNER. 12. NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER; FOR THERE IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN, WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED. HOW ARE THE ELECT OF GOD SAVED BY THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST? WE ARE SAVED BY FAITH IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. ACT:16:31 AND THEY SAID, BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED, AND THY HOUSE. WE ARE SAVED BY BEING BAPTIZED IN HIS NAME. ACT:2:38 THEN PETER SAID UNTO THEM, REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. THIS IS ONE QUALITY UNIQUE ABOUT THE HOLY GHOST. IF A MAN SPEAKS ONE WORD AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST IT SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN HIM IN THIS WORLD, NEITHER IN THE WORLD TO COME. WHEN CHRIST CREATED MAN HE CREATED MAN A TRINITY IN UNITY BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT. THE BODY CAN DIE, AND THE SOUL LIVE ON. OR THE SOUL CAN DIE, AND THE BODY LIVE ON. WHEN THE SPIRIT LEAVES THE BODY, THE BODY DIES. JMS:2:26 FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD, SO FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD ALSO. PRV:6:32 BUT WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING; HE THAT DOETH IT DESTROYETH HIS OWN SOUL. THE PHYSICAL BODY OF FLESH, AND BLOOD SHALL PERISH; IT IS THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. FOR THE SOUL IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. 2:COR:4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. IT WAS JESUS CHRIST THAT CREATED THE MAN ADAM, HE CREATED ADAM IN ONE DAY, AND PLACED WITHIN ADAM ALL HUMANITY. GN:2:7 AND THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND, AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE; AND MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL. WHEN JESUS, THE SON OF GOD, WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY HE WAS OF TWO NATURES, HE WAS BOTH GOD, AND MAN. I BELIEVE THAT HE WAS GOD, I BASE MY OPINION ON THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE. MT:1:22 NOW ALL THIS WAS DONE, THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN OF THE LORD BY THE PROPHET, SAYING, 23. BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD, AND SHALL BRING FORTH A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME EMMANUEL, WHICH BEING INTERPRETED IS, GOD WITH US. I BELIEVE THAT JESUS WHEN HE WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY WAS A MAN ABLE TO SUFFER, BLEED, AND DIE. I BASE MY OPINION ON THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE. HEB:2:16 FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS; BUT HE TOOK ON HIM THE SEED OF ABRAHAM. 17. WHEREFORE IN ALL THINGS IT BEHOVED HIM TO BE MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN THAT HE MIGHT BE A MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HIGH PRIEST IN THINGS PERTAINING TO GOD, TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE. IF ANY MAN DOES NOT CONFESS THAT JESUS CAME IN THE FLESH WHEN HE WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY HE IS A FALSE PROPHET. 1JN:4:1 BELOVED, BELIEVE NOT EVERY SPIRIT, BUT TRY THE SPIRITS WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD; BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS ARE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD. 2. HEREBY KNOW YE THE SPIRIT OF GOD: EVERY SPIRIT THAT CONFESSETH THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH IS OF GOD. YOU CAN SEE BOTH NATURES OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, THE SON OF THE VIRGIN MARY, WHEN HE WAS UPON THE SEA OF GALILEE WITH HIS DISCIPLES. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT JESUS, THE SON OF THE VIRGIN MARY, SLEPT. GOD DOES NOT SLEEP NOR SLUMBER. ANY TIME THAT YOU WANT TO PRAY TO HIM HE IS ALWAYS AWAKE. PS:121:4 BEHOLD, HE THAT KEEPETH ISRAEL SHALL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP. WHEN THE SHIP WAS ABOUT TO SINK, AND HIS DISCIPLES WOKE HIM, JESUS, THE SON OF GOD, SPOKE TO THE WIND, AND THE WAVES, AND THEY OBEYED HIM. MT:8:23 AND WHEN HE WAS ENTERED INTO A SHIP, HIS DISCIPLES FOLLOWED HIM. 24. AND, BEHOLD, THERE AROSE A GREAT TEMPEST IN THE SEA, INSOMUCH THAT THE SHIP WAS COVERED WITH THE WAVES: BUT HE WAS ASLEEP. AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME TO HIM, AND AWOKE HIM, SAYING, LORD, SAVE US: WE PERISH. 26. AND HE SAITH UNTO THEM, WHY ARE YE FEARFUL, O YE OF LITTLE FAITH? THEN HE AROSE, AND REBUKED THE WINDS AND THE SEA; AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM. IF ANY MAN DOES NOT BELIEVE IN BOTH GOD THE FATHER, AND JESUS CHRIST THE SON; HE IS ANTICHRIST. 1JN:2:22 WHO IS A LIAR BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST? HE IS ANTICHRIST THAT DENIETH THE FATHER AND THE SON. NO MAN CAN EVER LOVE YOU MORE THAN JESUS CHRIST. GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR A FRIEND. JN:15:13 GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. THERE ARE FALSE PROPHETS THAT WOULD HAVE YOU TO BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST WILL RETURN BEFORE THE ANTICHRIST, BUT THAT IS HERESY. JESUS CHRIST WHEN HE RETURNS SHALL KILL THE ANTICHRIST WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING, AND THE SPIRIT FROM HIS MOUTH. 2THES:2:8 AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH, AND SHALL DESTROY WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. WHEN JESUS CHRIST RETURNS THE FIRST TO BE GATHERED ARE THE CHILDREN OF SATAN. THE FIRST TO BE GATHERED SHALL BE CAST INTO THE FLAMES OF HELL. MT:13:30 LET BOTH GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE HARVEST: AND IN THE TIME OF HARVEST I WILL SAY TO THE REAPERS, GATHER YE TOGETHER FIRST THE TARES, AND BIND THEM IN BUNDLES TO BURN THEM: BUT GATHER THE WHEAT INTO MY BARN. WHEN JESUS RETURNS IT WILL BE IN THE NAME “ THE WORD OF GOD. RV:19:13 AND HE WAS CLOTHED WITH A VESTURE DIPPED IN BLOOD : AND HIS NAME IS CALLED THE WORD OF GOD.


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