Title: Do Jehovah's Witnesses Worship Jesus Christ? Meta: In this video clip Paul Washer talks about the death of Jesus Christ and who Jesus Christ is. Why must Jesus be God in order to pay for our sins? Tags: Jehovah's Witnesses (Religion),Jesus Christ (Deity),Jehovah (Deity),JW's,The Watchtower (Magazine) 1 00:00:01,922 --> 00:00:05,717 Let's talk about the death of Christ for a moment. 2 00:00:05,787 --> 00:00:10,574 We know that the one who dies on that tree must be a man. 3 00:00:10,574 --> 00:00:12,213 We know that, don't we? 4 00:00:12,213 --> 00:00:17,032 Because the blood of bulls and goats will not take away our sin. 5 00:00:17,047 --> 00:00:22,043 A man must die on that tree! 6 00:00:22,043 --> 00:00:23,525 But, then again, 7 00:00:23,525 --> 00:00:29,579 more than a man must die on that tree. 8 00:00:29,579 --> 00:00:32,059 The one who dies on that tree 9 00:00:32,059 --> 00:00:34,464 must also be God. 10 00:00:34,464 --> 00:00:39,559 Why must the one who dies on that tree be deity? 11 00:00:39,559 --> 00:00:42,012 Be God in the flesh? 12 00:00:42,012 --> 00:00:44,248 Be God the Son, the Son of God? Why? 13 00:00:44,248 --> 00:00:48,065 Well, first of all, a small statement in the book of Jonah. 14 00:00:48,065 --> 00:00:51,855 "Salvation is of the Lord. " 15 00:00:51,855 --> 00:00:54,606 Isaiah is quite clear. 16 00:00:54,606 --> 00:00:58,712 God shares the title of Savior with no one. 17 00:00:58,721 --> 00:01:02,709 That is why the doctrine of the Jehovah Witnesses is such an abomination 18 00:01:02,709 --> 00:01:08,993 because they say that God created an innocent creature to go down 19 00:01:08,999 --> 00:01:12,020 and save men. 20 00:01:12,020 --> 00:01:14,074 To put away sin. 21 00:01:14,074 --> 00:01:18,976 And if that's that case, then it is a creature that has saved us. 22 00:01:18,983 --> 00:01:23,414 But what you need to understand is Christ was no creature but the Creator. 23 00:01:23,414 --> 00:01:26,203 The eternal Son of God 24 00:01:26,217 --> 00:01:27,932 who stepped down out of Heaven, 25 00:01:27,932 --> 00:01:30,932 did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped. 26 00:01:30,932 --> 00:01:33,088 But came down from Heaven. 27 00:01:33,107 --> 00:01:35,688 He did not lay aside His deity. 28 00:01:35,688 --> 00:01:38,785 He laid aside the glory and privilege of His deity. 29 00:01:38,785 --> 00:01:41,420 He did not become something less than God, 30 00:01:41,420 --> 00:01:43,632 but He became something God had never been. 31 00:01:43,649 --> 00:01:47,401 He took to His divine nature, human nature. 32 00:01:47,401 --> 00:01:50,842 He took to Himself flesh and He became a man. 33 00:01:50,842 --> 00:01:54,775 And He went to that tree as the God-man 34 00:01:54,784 --> 00:01:57,360 and He died on that tree as the God-man 35 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,407 and He rose again from the dead as the God-man. 36 00:02:01,450 --> 00:02:05,856 And the one that we call Savior is not just man, 37 00:02:05,856 --> 00:02:08,000 but He is God! 38 00:02:08,012 --> 00:02:14,968 And so, the words of Jonah remain intact, "salvation is of the Lord." 39 00:02:15,414 --> 00:02:19,012 If you have a Jehovah's Witness come to your door ask them about that. 40 00:02:19,027 --> 00:02:22,287 Say, "Do you worship Christ? 41 00:02:22,302 --> 00:02:24,536 Do you love Christ? 42 00:02:24,537 --> 00:02:27,807 Do you adore Christ?" 43 00:02:27,826 --> 00:02:32,502 We've talked about that before. That's something that they can't relate with. 44 00:02:32,939 --> 00:02:38,436 One of the things in which it is very important to help the Jehovah's Witness to understand, 45 00:02:38,436 --> 00:02:43,586 anyone who would deny the deity of Christ, 46 00:02:43,586 --> 00:02:47,690 is when they ask me, "why do you believe that?" And I say well, 47 00:02:47,699 --> 00:02:51,503 because I believe the Bible. 48 00:02:53,576 --> 00:03:02,993 And I believe the Bible to such an extent that I have to accept everything it says 49 00:03:02,999 --> 00:03:06,441 even if I cannot explain it. 50 00:03:06,452 --> 00:03:08,380 And then I go on the attack. 51 00:03:08,415 --> 00:03:11,125 Your problem is this, 52 00:03:11,125 --> 00:03:17,123 you believe that you can believe only what you can explain. 53 00:03:17,123 --> 00:03:21,317 And if you can't explain it then the Scriptures must not be saying it 54 00:03:21,317 --> 00:03:23,997 and so you throw out, 55 00:03:23,997 --> 00:03:31,270 or twist, or change some of the texts of Scripture to make them fit your reasoning. 56 00:03:31,270 --> 00:03:33,187 You can't do that. 57 00:03:33,187 --> 00:03:39,817 I am and must be submitted as a slave to Scripture. 58 00:03:39,817 --> 00:03:44,232 I must submit my intellect to Scripture. 59 00:03:44,232 --> 00:03:47,590 If Scripture says that there is one God 60 00:03:47,590 --> 00:03:55,591 but Scripture attributes deity to three persons equally, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, 61 00:03:55,591 --> 00:03:59,170 I must accept that truth even if I can't explain it. 62 00:03:59,170 --> 00:04:03,381 You can't explain it so you change the text. 63 00:04:03,381 --> 00:04:07,257 I can't do that. 64 00:04:07,257 --> 00:04:09,388 Also, another thing that is very, very good, 65 00:04:09,388 --> 00:04:11,428 when you are dealing with a Jehovah Witness... 66 00:04:11,428 --> 00:04:12,991 I'll never forget this. 67 00:04:12,991 --> 00:04:18,061 I had been in the jungle several days with a missionary by the name of Homer Crane. 68 00:04:18,088 --> 00:04:26,763 And we came out of there and we were not doing good. 69 00:04:26,769 --> 00:04:30,412 We were supposed to be met by a group of other missionaries. We were not. 70 00:04:30,412 --> 00:04:36,059 We had to sleep out in the jungle without mosquito nets laying on the ground. 71 00:04:36,059 --> 00:04:37,381 And 72 00:04:37,399 --> 00:04:40,361 it was no fun. 73 00:04:40,361 --> 00:04:44,345 I'll never forget. I came back in and I was carrying the diesel back up, 74 00:04:44,345 --> 00:04:45,725 these big drums of diesel. 75 00:04:45,725 --> 00:04:47,895 I was a lot younger back then. 76 00:04:47,895 --> 00:04:53,320 And I pulled them out of the back of the boat and I was carrying them up the dock and I got diesel all over me. 77 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:57,711 So, not only was I muddy, I hadn't taken my boots off in about five days, 78 00:04:57,712 --> 00:05:00,977 I hadn't bathed, and now I had diesel all over me. 79 00:05:00,977 --> 00:05:04,682 Well, I finally got everything taken care of and I'm walking back. 80 00:05:04,682 --> 00:05:07,475 And I'm walking through the plaza 81 00:05:07,475 --> 00:05:09,098 just trying to make it to a hotel. 82 00:05:09,098 --> 00:05:11,814 That is all that I wanted to do. 83 00:05:11,814 --> 00:05:16,716 And here the Jehovah Witnesses just converge on me. 84 00:05:16,716 --> 00:05:20,564 And I'm like, "Oh! Just not now, Lord!" 85 00:05:20,564 --> 00:05:22,773 And I'm sitting there as they are talking, 86 00:05:22,773 --> 00:05:26,113 just wondering, "Lord, do I enter into an argument with them, what do you want me to do?" 87 00:05:26,113 --> 00:05:32,330 And just all of a sudden it came to my mind what I ought to do. 88 00:05:32,330 --> 00:05:34,851 So, I just looked at him and I said, "you know, 89 00:05:34,851 --> 00:05:38,203 I love talking about God, I really do. 90 00:05:38,203 --> 00:05:42,093 And I really appreciate people like you who talk about God. 91 00:05:42,093 --> 00:05:45,660 I said, "But you know what I like to talk about the most?" 92 00:05:45,660 --> 00:05:48,315 And I said, "You'll understand this. 93 00:05:48,315 --> 00:05:50,982 Because you're a people who love God." 94 00:05:50,982 --> 00:05:56,186 I love to talk about those times, you know those times in prayer when you're praying 95 00:05:56,186 --> 00:06:00,733 and all of a sudden the presence of God just seems to fill the room 96 00:06:00,733 --> 00:06:03,963 and fill your heart and you break out in worship 97 00:06:03,963 --> 00:06:05,793 and it just goes on for hours 98 00:06:05,793 --> 00:06:07,920 and you literally almost have to cry out to God 99 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,569 and ask Him to take His hand off of you because it will just kill you 100 00:06:11,569 --> 00:06:14,872 because He is so real and His presence is so powerful 101 00:06:14,872 --> 00:06:17,122 and there's so much joy in your heart 102 00:06:17,122 --> 00:06:22,122 that you literally end up crying out, 'O God! Take your hand off of me lest I die!' 103 00:06:22,122 --> 00:06:26,039 Share with me some of the times you've had like that in prayer." 104 00:06:26,039 --> 00:06:30,116 And they just go... 105 00:06:30,116 --> 00:06:32,046 Because they can't. 106 00:06:32,046 --> 00:06:34,655 Because there is no presence, 107 00:06:34,655 --> 00:06:36,954 there is no power, 108 00:06:36,954 --> 00:06:38,341 there is no joy. 109 00:06:38,341 --> 00:06:40,495 And when you see the bewildered look on their face, 110 00:06:40,495 --> 00:06:46,039 just say, "You can't even talk about it, can you? 111 00:06:46,039 --> 00:06:49,224 Because you don't even know what I'm talking about. 112 00:06:49,224 --> 00:06:51,817 Because you have a religion, 113 00:06:51,817 --> 00:06:54,031 you don't have God, 114 00:06:54,031 --> 00:06:58,790 you don't have God because you don't have Christ." 115 00:06:59,617 --> 00:07:01,802 So, now God is just. Why? 116 00:07:01,816 --> 00:07:04,434 He has punished our sin 117 00:07:04,434 --> 00:07:09,873 but He has punished our sin 118 00:07:09,873 --> 00:07:14,870 in His only Begotten Son. 119 00:07:15,103 --> 00:07:18,293 He alone is uniquely qualified to carry it away 120 00:07:18,293 --> 00:07:21,960 because the blood of bulls and goats will not take away sin. 121 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,528 So, a body was prepared, 122 00:07:24,528 --> 00:07:27,188 and the Son of God was born. 123 00:07:27,188 --> 00:07:31,530 The man Christ Jesus. 124 00:07:31,536 --> 00:07:32,979 Adam had sinned. 125 00:07:32,979 --> 00:07:34,581 The Son of Adam must die. 126 00:07:34,581 --> 00:07:39,834 He became a Son of Adam and died in the place of His people. 127 00:07:39,836 --> 00:07:43,437 He had to be man but He also had to be God. 128 00:07:43,437 --> 00:07:47,374 That is why the doctrine of the Jehovah WItnesses is so vile. 129 00:07:47,381 --> 00:07:52,641 Because the claim that Christ was nothing more than a mere creature that God sent down 130 00:07:52,641 --> 00:07:54,166 to do a work of salvation. 131 00:07:54,166 --> 00:07:57,193 No! God came down 132 00:07:57,193 --> 00:08:01,846 to do a work of salvation! 133 00:08:01,846 --> 00:08:02,815 He had to be God. 134 00:08:02,815 --> 00:08:03,983 Why did He have to be God? 135 00:08:03,983 --> 00:08:05,504 If He is not God, He is not Savior, 136 00:08:05,504 --> 00:08:07,464 and if He is the Savior He must be God 137 00:08:07,464 --> 00:08:11,774 because Jonah says, "Salvation belongs to the Lord." 138 00:08:11,774 --> 00:08:14,713 It comes from the Lord and no one else! 139 00:08:14,713 --> 00:08:16,277 Why did He have to be God? 140 00:08:16,277 --> 00:08:21,638 Who but God can withstand the wrath of God and rise again? 141 00:08:21,638 --> 00:08:23,357 Why did He have to be God? 142 00:08:23,357 --> 00:08:25,475 He had to give His life away. 143 00:08:25,475 --> 00:08:29,280 I hear all of these people saying, "God couldn't find a perfect angel." 144 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,901 "God couldn't find a perfect man." 145 00:08:31,901 --> 00:08:35,165 It wouldn't have mattered if He had found a perfect angel or a perfect man! 146 00:08:35,165 --> 00:08:37,855 It still wouldn't have worked! 147 00:08:37,855 --> 00:08:41,231 God came down! 148 00:08:41,231 --> 00:08:45,475 God became a man. 149 00:08:45,475 --> 00:08:48,557 God... 150 00:08:48,557 --> 00:08:50,470 for you... 151 00:08:50,470 --> 00:08:53,453 And gave His life away. 152 00:08:53,453 --> 00:08:55,470 Let me ask you a small question, 153 00:08:55,470 --> 00:08:56,990 the life that you have, can you give it away? 154 00:08:56,990 --> 00:08:58,563 It's not even yours to start off with. 155 00:08:58,563 --> 00:09:01,235 It's not inherent in you. 156 00:09:01,235 --> 00:09:04,195 It's something derived. Your life comes from God. 157 00:09:04,195 --> 00:09:07,901 Me giving my life away is like me giving your car away. 158 00:09:07,901 --> 00:09:09,607 It's is not mine to start off with. 159 00:09:09,607 --> 00:09:12,247 But Christ said I have authority to lay down my life 160 00:09:12,247 --> 00:09:14,032 and I have authority to take it back up again. 161 00:09:14,032 --> 00:09:15,602 It's His own!