About This Video
In this teaching, Shawn explains that while Jesus of Nazareth was not God in his earthly form, his resurrection marked his deification as the only begotten Son of God. Shawn emphasizes that God was within Jesus, but it was through overcoming sin and death that He became God, challenging the traditional understanding based on the Trinitarian doctrine.
Jesus of Nazareth was recognized as God through His resurrection, which marked the fulfillment of becoming God in the flesh and established Him as God's only begotten Son, exemplifying the pathway to deification by overcoming sin and death. Believers, through faith and the Holy Spirit, are justified and become heirs with Christ, as they undergo a transformation similar to Jesus, being adopted as children of God.
The Concept of Deification
Show 41s The Deified Flesh of Yeshua the Anointed
Taped July 18th 2021
Aired July 26th 2021
There are a lot of questions about my views on what I call the Deification of Jesus of Nazareth. For some people, it can be a troubling phrase because they have grown up having been taught the idea that Jesus is God. Period. So, if Jesus was God from birth while walking around on earth, how could he be deified – or what would be the purpose of the deification. Because of this confusion, I dislike the blanket statement that Jesus was God. It’s misleading and muddies the waters in our understanding of Him and His Father and it is a direct result of the Trinitarian doctrine that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three separate persons from all eternity that make up the One True God.
But because of this dogma, people will look at the baby born in the manger, the boy learning obedience through the things he suffered, the Man tempted in all things before dying on the cross, and will blindly repeat the misleading mantra – nope, Jesus was God, Jesus was God.
The baby Jesus in the manger was God.
The boy Jesus was God.
The man Jesus tempted in all things was God and the Savior dying on the cross was God.
So, let’s explain just how “the Word of God made flesh” WAS, in fact, “God with us” but how that his flesh born of a woman, tempted in all things, that bled and died was not God – because God cannot be tempted, and God cannot die. Therefore, if the flesh of Jesus of Nazareth which was tempted in all things and did experience deathSeparation from God—now overcome. Physical death remains, but it no longer separates us from life with God., it was not God and it needed deification. Therefore, the man called Jesus of Nazareth, His flesh, was NOT God. What was in Him was, God, but what was in Him was not Jesus of Nazareth, what was in Him was the Word of God.
Scripture Insights
So people will say to me, “Well is Jesus of Nazareth God now?” And the answer to that question is “absolutely.” And I explain that He – his resurrected body, his soul which overcame sinMissing the mark of faith and love—no punishment, just lost growth or peace., death, Satan and the grave, was deified, and ultimately became the only begotten Son of God Himself. Prior to that, he was merely God’s beloved human Son. Born of a woman, born under the law.
But let’s listen to scripture to assist us in comprehension of this idea. In Psalm 2:7 we read the following where YHWH himself speaks and says:
Psalm 2:7
I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my son, today I have begotten you.
Then we go to Hebrews 1:5 where the writer says, comparing Jesus to angels and says
“For to what angel did God ever say, "Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee"? Or again, "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?
And then again, the begetting of Jesus by God is expressed four chapters later in Hebrews when the writer writes:
Hebrew 5:5
So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee."
The Designation of the Only Begotten Son
When and where did God deem Jesus His Only Begotten Son? Most people believe that it was at his conception, or at his birth, or at his baptism – but these views are all incorrect. Paul is the one who gives us a hint as to when God would actually call Jesus his only begotten. Listen to Romans chapter 1:1-4 where Paul writes
Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God
2 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,
3 the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
4 and designated Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Do you hear what Paul admits here? That it was by HIS RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD THAT GOD designated him according to the Spirit of Holiness, His Son. See, if God cannot be tempted (James) and God cannot die (otherwise he is not eternal) than Jesus of Nazareth, prior to overcoming sin and death, could Not be called God. He wasn’t even called God’s only begotten BY GOD Himself.
The Deification of Jesus Through Resurrection
Because he was still subject to his flesh. For people to call Jesus of Nazareth God is only true in the application to what was in Him, who His father was, and the fact that He had not sinned. But the confirmation of Him being God, or should we say, becoming God in the flesh, was only confirmed once He resurrected. In fact it was BY HIS RESURRECTION that God was free to then call Him His Only Begotten.
Just listen to what Paul says in Acts 13:
Ac 13:32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, 33 this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm, 'Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee.'
Here Paul takes the second Psalm that we started with and assigns the time when God would say to Jesus, “Thou art my Son today I have begotten you,” TO HIS Resurrection – which was the ultimate consummate deification of Him as a man.
Ascension and Authority
By and through the deification of His human flesh, which could not be called God until it was glorified, Jesus was able to ascend into the heavens as a former mortal (subject to temptation, sin, and death) and having overcome it, was worthy, as a former human being, to sit at the right hand of His Father and receive all power and authority as God. This was not possible until AFTER He overcame sin and death. And it was possible then only because Jesus of Nazareth became God’s only begotten Son by and through his resurrection.
Becoming Sons and Daughters of God
The model is then set for all who look to Jesus in faith and having been justified by such, are also filled with the Holy Spirit of God, and too, face life with God in them, ultimately becoming Sons and Daughters of God by and through the mortification of their flesh through the presence of the Spirit.
And in and through this, the words of Romans 8 make sense when Paul says:
Romas 8:16 it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Yeshua the Anointed was the first heir, God’s only beloved who through His resurrection was called God’s begotten – and then we become Joint Heirs with Christ by and through adoption.
If you have ears to hear, may you hear.
