And Jesus approached and spoke to them, saying: "All authority has been given me in heaven and on the earth. Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things." - Matthew 28:18-20
Now the latter were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the Scriptures daily as to whether these things were so. Therefore many of them became believers, and so did not a few of the reputable Greek women and of the men. - Acts of the apostles 17:11-12
But he who guarantees that you and we belong to Christ and he who has anointed us is God. He has also put his seal upon us and has given us the token of what is to come, that is, the spirit, in our hearts. - 2Corinthians 1:21-22
I say, then, to you, Everyone that confesses union with me before men, the Son of man will also confess union with him before the angels of God." - Luke 12:8
"Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am mild-tempered and lowly in heart, and you will find refreshment for your souls. For my yoke is kindly and my load is light. - Matthew 11:29-30
However, become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves with false reasoning. For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, this one is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, and off he goes and immediately forgets what sort of man he is. But he who peers into the perfect law that belongs to freedom and who persists in [it], this [man], because he has become, not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, will be happy in his doing [it]. - James 1:22-25
I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is destined to judge the living and the dead, and by his manifestation and his kingdom, preach the word, be at it urgently in favorable season, in troublesome season, reprove, reprimand, exhort, with all long-suffering and [art of] teaching. For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do [the] work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry. - 2 Timothy 4:1-5
And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come. - Matthew 24:14
En Jezus trad naderbij en sprak tot hen, en zei: "Alle autoriteit in de hemel en op aarde is mij gegeven. Gaat daarom en maakt discipelen van mensen uit alle natiën, hen dopende in de naam van de Vader en van de Zoon en van de heilige geest, en leert hun onderhouden alles wat ik U geboden heb. En ziet! ik ben met U alle dagen tot het besluit van het samenstel van dingen." - Mattheüs 28:18-20
De laatsten nu waren edeler van geest dan die in ThessaloniÌika, want zij namen het woord met de grootste bereidwilligheid des geestes aan en onderzochten dagelijks zorgvuldig de Schriften of deze dingen zo waren. Velen van hen werden dan ook gelovigen, evenals niet weinigen van de achtenswaardige Griekse vrouwen en van de mannen. - Handelingen der apostelen17:11-12
Doch hij die waarborgt dat gij en wij Christus toebehoren en hij die ons heeft gezalfd, is God. Hij heeft ook zijn zegel op ons gedrukt en ons in ons hart het onderpand van wat komen zal gegeven, namelijk de geest. - 2 Korinthiërs 1:21-22
Wordt echter daders van het woord en niet alleen hoorders, door uzelf met valse overleggingen te bedriegen. Want indien iemand een hoorder van het woord is en geen dader, dan gelijkt zo iemand op een man die zijn natuurlijke aangezicht in een spiegel bekijkt. Want hij bekijkt zich en gaat dan weg en vergeet prompt wat voor een mens hij is. Wie daarentegen tuurt in de volmaakte wet, die tot de vrijheid behoort, en daarbij blijft, die zal, omdat hij geen vergeetachtig hoorder maar een dader van het werk is geworden, gelukkig zijn doordat hij [het] doet. - Jakobus 1:22-25
Ik zeg U dan: Belijdt iemand voor de mensen dat hij in eendracht met mij is, dan zal ook de Zoon des mensen voor de engelen van God belijden in eendracht met hem te zijn. - Lukas 12:8
Ik gelast u plechtig voor het aangezicht van God en Christus Jezus, die de levenden en de doden zal oordelen, en krachtens zijn manifestatie en zijn koninkrijk: predik het woord, houd u er als met een dringende zaak mee bezig, in gunstige tijd, in moeilijke tijd, wijs terecht, berisp, vermaan, met alle lankmoedigheid en [kunst van] onderwijzen. Want er zal een tijdsperiode komen dat zij de gezonde leer niet zullen verdragen, maar zich overeenkomstig hun eigen begeerten tal van leraren zullen bijeenbrengen om hun oren te laten kittelen; en zij zullen hun oren van de waarheid afwenden en zich daarentegen tot onware verhalen keren. Houdt gij echter in alle dingen uw zinnen bij elkaar, lijd kwaad, doe [het] werk van een evangelieprediker, volbreng uw bediening ten volle. -2 Timotheüs 4:1-5
"Neemt mijn juk op U en leert van mij, want ik ben zachtaardig en ootmoedig van hart, en GIJ zult verkwikking vinden voor UW ziel. Want mijn juk is weldadig en mijn vracht is licht." - Mattheüs 11:29-30
En dit goede nieuws van het koninkrijk zal op de gehele bewoonde aarde worden gepredikt tot een getuigenis voor alle natiën, en dan zal het einde komen. - Mattheüs 24:14
“in that God was in Christ reconciling to Himself a world of humankind, no longer reckoning to them their trespasses–and He entrusted to us the message of reconciliation.” (2Co 5:19 MHM)
The thought many would like for us to see in this verse is that God was in Christ, and being in Christ this makes Christ God Almighty. This, of course, is not what the verse is saying.
God was in Christ, or by means of Christ, reconciling the world to himself. That is all that is says. In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. — 2 Corinthians 5:19, New Revised Standard Version God was using Christ as the instrument to restore his relationship with humanity. ... Jesus himself gives us a hint as to its meaning, when he tells his disciples: “In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.” (John 14:20) Here Jesus likens his relationship to his Father to his relationship to his disciples. Now if his being in his father means that he is God, then his being in his disciples and his disciples’ being in him, would make the disciples God Almighty also, since, according to trinitarian philosophy, Jesus is God Almighty. Of course, none of these scriptures mean that Jesus is God Almighty, but it does show a closeness, a harmony between God and Jesus, and between Jesus and his disciples. Jesus praying to his God (John 17:1,3), that his disciples “may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us.” Here it is plainly stated that the two unions are the same kind of union.
None of this means that Jesus is Yahweh, or that the church is Yahweh, or that the church is Jesus, etc. Thus there is nothing in 2 Corinthians 5:19 that would lead us to believe that Jesus is Yahweh, or that Jesus was God Almighty in human form.
Revelation 1:8 - Is Yahweh or Jesus Being Quoted? http://godandson.reslight.net/?p=66 Who is speaking in Revelation 1:8? Jesus or the God and Father of Jesus?
The Doctrine of Christ http://godandson.reslight.net/?p=72 A Scriptural and Historic Examination of the Trinity Doctrine (Associated Bible Students, Glawson, MI)
Father of Eternity - Isaiah 9:6 http://godandson.reslight.net/?p=78 An examination of the argument that Isaiah 9:6 speaks of Jesus as the "father of eternity."
The Spirit Given to Jesus Without Measure - John 3:34,35 http://godandson.reslight.net/?p=88 The scripture (John 3:34) says that Jesus has the holy spirit without measure. Does the mean that Jesus is the only true God?
