The Lord Jesus Christ is God, the Son of God, God in the flesh. He has always been God; He has always been with God. Jesus himself asked a question of those who sought to lay hold on him (Mark 12:12): How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David? For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son (Mark 12:35-37)?

For anyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ and the Bible is God’s Word, our Lord clarified that the Father knows the Son is God and the Holy Ghost knows that the Son is God and the Old Testament believers know that the Son was God, as represented by David.

God became flesh, that is, the Son became flesh. Mary herself asked, How can this be, seeing I know not a man (Luke 1:34)?

Gabriel explained: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God (Luke 1:35).

Christ was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin (1 John 3:5). He is the sacrifice for our sins. God set forth the Son to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God…that he might be just and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus (Romans 3:25-26).

Jesus Christ is the propitiation for our sins (believers), and not for our only, but also for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2). God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son (John 3:16). Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins [the world’s sins] (1 John 4:10).

Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29), is also our great High Priest!

He who is God with God is anointed by the Father with the oil of gladness above his fellows (Hebrews 1:9). The first mention of the term high priest in the Old Testament regards his anointing: And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, (Leviticus 21:10). We now are a priesthood of believers, because we have received the anointing of the Holy Ghost (1 John 2:27), who sealed us upon our faith in Christ (Ephesians 1:13) as the baptism of the Holy Spirit performed by Christ (Matthew 3:11).

Christ took upon him the seed of Abraham, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God. He was made like unto his brethren [the own who received him not (John 1:11)] to make reconciliation for the sins of the people (Hebrews 2:17). Though crucified by the religious leadership of Jerusalem, as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name (John 1:12).

Wherefore, holy brethren [Jews and Gentiles who have received Christ as their Savior (Ephesians 3:6), partakers of the heavenly calling (Hebrews 3:1), consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.

We have a high priest which can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, being tempted in all points like as we are (Hebrews 4:15). He is our forerunner, having entered into that which is within the veil (Hebrews 6:19-20), a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle (Hebrews 8:2).

Christ has obtained a more excellent ministry than that of the Old Covenant, being the mediator of a better covenant, established upon better promises (Hebrews 8:6).