View source for 20:28 What do we learn from Paul's statement here that God has purchased the church with his own blood?

==20:28	What do we learn from Paul's statement here that God has purchased the church with his own blood?==

This is another proof of the Deity of Jesus: that Jesus is God. Jesus has not eternally been the Son of God as many in the church suppose. He has been an equal member of the Godhead from all eternity. He became the Son at His incarnation - when He took on human form (CP Nu 21:4-9 with 1Cor 10:9). 

In 1Cor 10:9 (KJV) we learn that the Lord who sent the fiery serpents among the Israelites in the wilderness when they murmured and complained against Him in Nu 21:4-9 is Christos/Christ (CP Psa 45:6-7 also He 1:8-12). Psa 45:6-7 is a prophetic Messianic Psalm referring to Messiah/Jesus' Deity in V6, and His sonship in V7, proving again that Jesus has always existed as God, and that He only became the Son at His incarnation (CP Isa 6:1-12 with Jn 12:37-41). 

Here we also learn that the Lord who Isaiah saw sitting upon the throne, high and lifted up, whose train filled the temple in Isa 6:1-12 was Jesus. In V1-8 and 11, He is called Adonay, meaning ruler or master. In V3, 5 and 12 He is called Jehovah, denoting God in the Old Testament. These names all refer to the one person in these passages, and as it was Jesus' glory John said Isaiah saw, then the names refer to the pre-incarnate Jesus. 

This again is clear proof of Jesus' Deity and is further evidence that Jesus was not eternally the Son of God, but that He became the Son at his incarnation (CP Mic 5:2; Mt 1:18-23; Jn 1:1-2, 14; 3:13; 8:56-58; 17:5; Php 2:5-8; Col 2:8-10; 1Ti 3:16; Tit 2:13; 2Pe 1:1-2 - not KJV or NKJV). According to Kenneth Wuest's Word Studies in the Greek New Testament, 2Pe 1:2 should read, "Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied in the sphere of and by the full knowledge of our God, even Jesus, the Lord" (CP 1Jn 1:1-2; 3:16; Rev 1:8, 11, 17-18; 3:14; 21:5-7; 22:13, 16). 

Every one of the scriptures we have studied here clearly teach that Jesus is the Christian's God, yet there are still many professing Christians who deny it. 

They teach that Jesus is not God, only Jehovah or God the Father is, and that Christians should not pray to Jesus or worship Him. We need to be thoroughly familiar with these scriptures so we can share them with those who do not know them (see also comments on Mt 1:18-21, 3:16-17; Lu 1:35(B), Jn 1:1, 5:16-23, 12:41, Ac 13:33, 1Ti 3:16, Php 2:5-8; Col 2:9; He 1:5, 5:5, 1Jn 5:6-9, Rev 1:8 and author's studies Jesus - eternally God in his book Advanced Studies in the Christian Faith (Volume 1), and The Doctrine of the Trinity in his book Advanced Studies in the Christian Faith (Volume 2)).

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