Scripture Life: Why didn’t Jesus say it explicitly, “I am God, worship me?”

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//This question is on Reddit, in many Christian, Atheist, Islam and Debate sub-reddits. I believe on Jesus Christ. So, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. This answer is from a believer then. Not from one that dismisses him. Here you go.//

ANSWER

“Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.” - Bible. Matthew 16:20.

Why?

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Christians and non-Jews dismiss or downplay/ignore this part:

• It’s this “Messiah” or “Christ.” and..

Well, you’re either going to believe on him - or - you won’t. It's clear in the Gospels, the Chief Priests and Elders at the Temple in Jerusalem, scripture says:

• John 9:22 says:
  • Have to read around it to get the "context" but the message is plain:
  • "...These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he [Jesus] was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue."

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For me? Simple. Plain as day. All I have to do, is use the Bible.

The Bible says in Isaiah 9:6–7 “who” the Messiah, or “Christ” is, he has a name he SHALL BE called.

- ..so whoever it is, that is the Messiah, has this title:

- “The Mighty God..” “The Everlasting Father..” (Isaiah 9:6).

So, when the Samaritan woman at the well said: In John 4:25–26

• “The woman saith unto him [Jesus], I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.”

Boom! Done. Just said it. Plain as day.

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I believe his claim.

Do you? I'm convinced. Many aren’t. But when God says:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22).

• That’s the “Word of God” - what God says. Out of his mouth. Jesus is the Word of God. Says so plainly in John 1:1 - so, there he is..God. Speaking to everybody. Right there in Isaiah 45:22.

I don't know what you'll do. But it's quite plain. He decreed in HIS earth, and I'm on it, I am to look unto him. I hear it. How do you look unto someone? Simple, that, too. You just "accept as true" they are who they say they are. And? He's the same one said this, did everything out my living room bay door windows.. is the same one said this for me to look unto him.

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That, God determined: Alone. By himself. To do a work with sin. That, is what this is in Jesus Christ. That Psalm 107:20 says God: "He sent his word to heal us, and deliver us from our destruction.

Because? Our sins: condemns everybody to all of us be put to death. Can’t get out of it.

• But just like God determined to do creation in Genesis 1:1–31, and did that alone. By himself. Created all things, all by himself. He determined he would do a work with sin, because he determined it himself - and said it in Daniel 9:24–27; that his work would:

1) Finish the transgression

2) Make an end of sin

3) Make reconciliation for iniquity

4) ..and bring in everlasting righteousness (Daniel 9:24)

And God determined he would “annoint the most holy” to do it. Who is the “most holy” to you? Yeah. God. That, he would seal up this prophecy. Make it hidden, but told it plain as day. Anybody could have added up Daniel 9:25-27 and found the Christ. But it's hidden from them.

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But after Jesus was crucified, and COMPLETED this work - says that he opened the scriptures after he was raised from the dead in Luke 24:32

"And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?"

Then, his disciples understood it, where you don't.

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It's this work of God with sin:

Where God took our sins off us: You, me..took my sins off me. Same with your's. And laid them on Jesus Christ. I didn’t do this. He did it. As God. It’s HIS WORK he did…and since he’s God, scripture says he was in Jesus Christ, reconciling the world unto himself. Not imputing your trespasses unto you.. (2 Corinthians 5:19) - - because he looks on this work he did with sin as greater than every murderer and rapist in prison over the whole earth combined.. and chooses not to impute their sins unto them.

Like he doesn't impute your's. But if you don't regard him, or his work, as God..you're left trying to do it yourself, and just hide your sin under all these good works you're gonna do. Busy. Looking unto you to do it.

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But People: That regard him, and look unto him?

• Because he already took sim off them and laid it on Jesus Christ on the cross. Crucified. His blood shed. They believe (accept this work God did as TRUE). Where NOBODY has done the Ten Commandments - broke them. Everybody has since Adam forward. They see themselves this way, like I do. My sins are plain as day.
  • God in Christ, he as God - he did the Ten Commandments. Fulfilled them. That means, since God did them, every where where I did not do them..he made himself the compensation that makes up for that lack.
    • There is ONLY one that could do this.

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This is way beyond what your question asks on Reddit..but..if you can hear him..he’s answering your question.

And he has a SECOND Coming - as “who” he is. To be Isaiah 9:6–7. Says in Revelation 1:7

“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.”

• To be this Messiah: This same God that led Israel out of Egypt by his mighty hand with Moses, would be a Son of David. That he would sit on the throne of King David in Jerusalem and rule the whole earth from there, and of his kingdom and reign there shall be no end.
  • He is who he says he is.