Did Jesus Ever Explicitly Say, "i Am God, Worship Me"?
1) Direct answer
No, the exact sentence “I am God, worship me” is not recorded in Scripture. But Jesus clearly revealed Himself as God manifested in flesh, received worship, and spoke words that only God can speak.
2) Scriptural explanation
- He identified Himself with the divine Name: “Before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). They took up stones because they knew what He was claiming.
- He made Himself one with the Father: “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). The Jews answered, “because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God” (John 10:33).
- He said, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father… the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works” (John 14:9-10).
- The Bible declares: “In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was God… And the Word was made flesh” (John 1:1,14). “God was manifest in the flesh” (1 Timothy 3:16). “In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9). “Emmanuel… God with us” (Matthew 1:23).
- He accepted worship: “They that were in the ship came and worshipped him” (Matthew 14:33). The disciples “held him by the feet, and worshipped him” (Matthew 28:9,17). The healed man said, “Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him” (John 9:38). Thomas said to Him, “My Lord and my God” (John 20:28), and Jesus did not rebuke him—He blessed that confession (John 20:29).
- He forgave sins, which only God can do: “Thy sins be forgiven thee… that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins” (Mark 2:5-10).
- He demanded the honor due to God: “That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father” (John 5:23).
3) Simple clarifying logic
Now notice, Jesus didn’t have to use a man-made phrase. He spoke in Bible language and did God’s works. If He were not God manifested, He would have refused worship as angels and apostles did (Revelation 19:10; Acts 10:25-26). Instead, He received it. He forgave sins. He claimed the “I AM.” He said the Father dwelling in Him did the works. It’s not three Gods, and it’s not three persons. The one God, the Father, was above us, then came and was manifested in the Son, and now dwells in us by the Holy Spirit. The body was the Son; the indwelling was God.
4) Reinforcing statement
So while the exact sentence isn’t printed, the testimony of Scripture is plain: Jesus Christ is God revealed in flesh and worthy of worship.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 6:E-63
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I will restore unto you, saith the Lord
54-0809A §33
The devil takes his man but never the spirit. It come upon Cain, it come all down through the ages, in the Pharisees, and plumb down into this day in religious teachers. This ain't blanchy milk. Look, my brother, there's Cain... If we're going to say fundamental, Cain was just as fundamental as Abel was. If believing on God, worshipping God, belonging to church, making sacrifice; he was just as fundamental in his belief as Abel was. But Abel had a vision from the Lord: It was spiritual revealed truth that it wasn't...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 9:E-2
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Elijah
53-1018 §22
...end down the drought." And he closed off the heavens that it didn't rain. And now, I want you to, just, to notice now, just for a prefigure what taken place here. Now, when God told Elijah to go do this, and he went down and predicted to the people what was going to happen, well, those people, no doubt, said, "Well, that man's crazy." Now, if you could've seen him come up, he wasn't a great diplomatic looking man. He had an old piece of sheepskin wrapped around him like this, and his beard sticking all out over his...
Does God ever change His mind about His Word?
65-0418E §43
Jesus one day, coming off the mount, said to his disciples, "Who does men say I the Son of man am?" One said, "You're Moses," and the other ones say, "You're Elias," and "You're Jeremias," or "one of the prophets." He said, "But who do you say that I am?" That's when the apostle Peter, inspired of God, quickened by the Spirit, made that tremendous statement: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Notice the statement: "Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonas: flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. M...