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Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
Hosea 7:15
Scriptural Confirmations # 3
3. Christ
1. The Lord is called in many places Jehovah, Jehovah of hosts, and in particular God, the God of Israel, the Holy One, and the Holy One of Israel, and Lord, the Rock, Angel, the Arm of Jehovah, Prophet, the Son of man, while very frequently Jehovah is named, even He, since they are one - the Mighty One of Jacob, the Rock of Jacob. Therefore in general by Jehovah the Father Himself, and Lord are at the same time meant, as is clear from the following passages.
Jesus was taken up into heaven, and a cloud received Him, and then two angels said, This Jesus shall so come as ye have seen him going into heaven (Acts of the Apostles 1:9, 11).
Jesus rose from the dead according to the prophecy through David (Psalms 16:10), and that there Christ is meant and not David (Acts of the Apostles 2:27-29, 31; 13:24-37). Then said Jehovah, the Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at My right hand until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool (Psalms 110:1; Acts of the Apostles 2:34, 35).
The Lord our God (Acts of the Apostles 2:39). He is the Lord of all (Acts of the Apostles 10:36).
Ye have slain the Prince of life (Acts of the Apostles 3:15).
That when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord, he may send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you, whom the heaven must receive until the time of the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all the prophets from of old (Acts of the Apostles 3:20, 21).
Moses said, The Lord your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from your brethren, unto him ye shall hearken, whatever soul shall not hearken to that Prophet, he shall be destroyed from among the people; all the prophets have foretold him (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19; Acts of the Apostles 3:22-24).
Prediction from Isaiah (53:7-9), the Lord would suffer (Acts of the Apostles 8:32, 33).
Christ was the Son of God (Acts of the Apostles 8:37; 9:20).
Jesus is the Lord of all (Acts of the Apostles 10:36). He is the Judge of the living and the dead (verse 42).
They were called Christians first in Antioch (Acts of the Apostles 11:26). Paul explains the saying, this day have I begotten thee (Psalms 2:7) as referring to Jesus (Acts of the Apostles 13:33).
He is called the light of the nations, for salvation to the uttermost part of the earth (Isaiah 49:6; Acts of the Apostles 13:47).
The coming of the Lord for the rebuilding of the ruins (Amos 9:11; quoted Acts of the Apostles 15:16, 17).
Paul said that he was ready to be bound and die for the name of the Lord Jesus (Acts of the Apostles 21:13).
Paul at Rome preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Christ (Acts of the Apostles 28:31).
In the Acts of the Apostles it is said that they preached the Lord Christ only, and that they should believe in Him, and nowhere that they should believe in God the Father.
Romans 4
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What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
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For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
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For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."
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Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
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But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
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Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
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"Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
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Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."
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Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
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How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
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He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
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He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
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For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
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For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
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For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
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For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
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As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
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Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."
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Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
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Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
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and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
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Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."
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Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
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but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
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who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
