WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST?

IF YOU HAVE EVER HAVE WONDERED IF THE SCRIPTURES DEFINITIVELY PROVE THAT JESUS IS GOD, THEN THIS MESSAGE BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD IS THE MESSAGE TO LISTEN TO FOR HE EASILY AND SUCCINCTLY SHOWS FOR ALL TO SEE THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. ALSO HE PROVES THAT GOOD WORKS FOLLOW THE NEW CREATION, NOT VICE VERSA OR COLLABORATIVELY. EXCERPTS FROM GEORGE WHITEFIELDS SERMON ENTITLED: ‘WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST’“Besides, many Deceivers are gone abroad into the World. Mere Heathen Morality, and not JESUS CHRIST, is preached in most of our Churches. And how should People think rightly of CHRIST, of whom they have scarcely heard? Do bear with me a little then, whilst, to inform your Consciences, I ask you a few Questions concerning JESUS CHRIST: For there is no other Name given under Heaven, whereby we can be saved, but his.And First, What think you 〈…〉 the Person of CHRIST? Whose Son is he? This is the Question our LORD put to the Pharisees in the Words fol|lowing the Text; and never was it more necessary to repeat this Question than in these last Days. For Numbers that are called after the Name of CHRIST, and I fear, many that pretend to preach him, are so far advancedin the blasphemous Chair, as openly to deny his being really, TRULY and PROPERLY GOD. But NO ONE that ever was Partaker of his Spirit, will speak thus lightly of him. NO;if they are asked, as Peter and his Brethren were, but whom say ye that I am? they will reply without Hesitation, Thou art CHRIST the Son of the everliving GOD. For the Confession of our Lord's Divinity, “is “the Rock upon which be builds his Church. Was it possible to take this away, the Gates of Hell would quickly pre|vail against it.—My Brethren, if JESUS CHRIST be not very GOD of very GOD, I would never preach the Gospel again. For it WOULD NOT be Gos|pel; it would be only a System of moral Ethicks: Seneca, Cicero, or any of the Gentile Philosophers would be as good a Saviour as JESUS of Nazareth.is the Divinity of our LORD that gives a Sancti|on on to his Death, and makes him such a High-Priest as became us, viz. One who by the infinite Merits of his Suffering could make a full, perfect, sufficient Sacrifice, Satisfaction and Oblation to an infinitely offended Justice. And whatever Minister of the Church of England, makes use of her Forms, and eats of her Bread, and yet holds not this Doctrine (as I fear too many such are crept in amongst us) such a one belongs only to the Synagogue of Satan.—He is not a Child or Minister of GOD: No; he is a Wolf in Sheep's Cloathing, he is a Child and Minister of that Wicked One the Devil.Many will think these hard Sayings: But I think it no Breach of Charity to affirm, that an Arian or Socinian cannot be a Christian.—The one would make us believe JESUS CHRIST is only a Created God, which is a Self-Contradiction. And the other would have us look on him only as a Good Man, and instead of owning his Death to be an Atonement for the Sins of the World, would persuade us, that CHRIST died only to seal the Truth of his Doctrine with his Blood. But “if “JESUS CHRIST be no more than a mere Man, if he be not truly GOD, he was the vilest Sinner that ever appeared in the World.—For he accepted of Divine Adoration from the Man who had been born blind, as we read John ix. 38. And he said, LORD I believe, and WORSHIPPED him. Besides, if CHRIST be not properly GOD, our Faith is vain, we are yet in our Sins:—For no created Being, tho' of the highest Order, could possibly merit any thing at GOD's Hands: No, it was our LORD's Divinity, that alone qualified him to take away the Sins of the World; and therefore we hear St. the like Reason, St. Paul says, that he was in the Form of GOD.—That in him dwelt all the Fulness of the Godhead bodily.—Nay, JESUS CHRIST himself assumes the Title which GOD gave to himself,. Before Abraham, was, says he, “I AM”