WHO IS THIS JESUS, HIS FATHER, AND HIS SPIRIT
John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:36, “And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!” John 10:36, “Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, thou blasphemeth; because I said, I am the Son of God?” Hebrews 1:3, “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of Majesty on high.” John 1:9, “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” John 1:4, “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” John 1:12, “But 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 1:14, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” John 1:18, “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.” John 18:36, “Jesus answered, my kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.”
Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God. There is no real knowing of God except through him. When the soul sees Jesus in his full glory it is realizing who and how God really is. When the heart sincerely believes in Jesus and his grace through the blood from the cross of substitution, it thus comprehends the loving mercy of God, that God is so forgiving as to give of himself a replacement for us at retribution. When it should have been us far from God, God forsook Jesus at the cross. When it should have been us in hell, Jesus was offered like a burnt offering when at the cross. When we should have been subjected to all kinds of horrible pains of the body’s sicknesses, life’s misfortunes, darkness of soul, hurt to the heart, and disturbance of mind, instead it was Jesus who let himself be thirsty at the cross, in terrible pains of the body, in the darkest of hours, humbling himself rather than retaliating, and somehow managing to say the words, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do!” Oh the love of Jesus! How wonderful his grace is to us! For we were totally undeserving. Yet for us the worthless and unneeded he came, yielding his soul to undeserved death, and his body to pains it wasn’t worthy of.
Jesus did not begin to exist when born as a baby to Mary, his father in name only being Joseph of the line of David via Solomon, which was the line of kings, so that Jesus could rightly be called Christ, a king. Mary was also a descendent of David, though through Nathan, the third born of David, while Solomon was the fourth born. The reason for Jesus being descended from David’s third son might have to do with the consistent theme of the Old Testament symbolically alluding to the first coming and death and resurrection of Jesus on the third day by making use of the number three most of the time for that purpose, as with Abraham walking three days’ journey to the mountains of Moriah and God commanding the Israelites to prepare themselves over three days before meeting him at the mountain. Jesus had eternally existed with his Father prior to being born in the world. It was him who appeared with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace. It was him who was the Captain of the armies of the Lord in the book of Joshua before Jericho’s high walls came down. It was him who would meet with Moses face to face on the mountain and at the tent of meeting. He was and is Melchizedech.
THE FATHER AND THE SON
What God does is what Jesus does, what God says is what Jesus says, the way God thinks is the way Jesus thinks. All the servants of God sent into the world before and after Jesus were and are imperfect. Only the very Son of God is perfection. There is never a disconnection, misunderstanding or miscommunication between Jesus and God. Jesus can never misrepresent God or distort his message. We can very well say that what God says is: Jesus; and what Jesus says is: God. Jesus is the complete Word of God. I mean that in the manners and methods of Jesus we are actually witnessing those of his Father, and in the totality of the Scriptures, when every question has been brought up and every answer supplied, all that the Scriptures are telling man is that for every requirement of man the reply of God is: Jesus! Because we see for ourselves that God is indeed love when we come across Jesus, like we see the holiness of the Father in him, as well as the almightiness of the Father. For Jesus did miracles that are beyond comparison, loved more than we ever knew before, and was sinless to the point of being blameless, not only before his friends, but before his enemies too, being a lamb without blemish.
His heavenly Father was heard by the people saying, “This is my beloved Son; in him I am well pleased.” The devils themselves were heard in public saying, “You are the Holy One of God!” When Jesus was baptized John the Baptist said to him that in that case it was supposed to work the other way round, with Jesus baptizing John, because John as a prophet who could see the sins in men and the holiness in Jesus, was simply acknowledging that he was sinful when in the presence of the glorious holiness of Jesus. For there is no greater holiness than that of God, since all holiness is of God, he being the one who makes us know what is unholy and what is holy, himself being by nature constant in holiness. And Jesus is God, because when we see him we see his Father, when we hear him we hear his Father, when we go to him we go to his Father, and when we accept him as our own we are receiving the Spirit from the Father, having been made acceptable to our Father by reason of the beloved, who having received our souls at the cross turns us into the beloved of God and sons of God, which is what he is. In him is life, and outside of him there is death. He is Light and besides him there is none but darkness, which is evil.
1 Corinthians 11:3, “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.” Acts 4:30, “By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of they holy child Jesus.” John 4:24, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” Matthew 28:19, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” 1John 5:7, “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”
GOD IS ONE
The primary and foremost teaching of the bible on the collectiveness of God is that he is one, which is a factor agreed upon by the entire Old Testament. The nature or form of God is such that it should appropriately be termed infinite. A thing that is entirely infinite is so large, long, broad and deep that every direction in which you go in it and every perspective from which you experience it there is always a multiplicity to it, hence the of word for God in Hebrew being Elohim, which signifies to be one yet with a many-ness to you, in that you easily look and sound and feel and act like an unlimited-ness. That explains why in the book of Revelation 4 we read that the throne of God has voices proceeding from it, as opposed to one voice, as is similarly the case with Revelation 1 where we read that our Lord’s voice is like many waters, showing that the Lord Jesus in his glorious might also speaks in his Father’s overwhelming and unconfined manner. The greater part of the Four Gospels make it amply clear that Jesus is the Son of God, which automatically equates him to God, as confirmed by his ministry. Therefore from then on God is officially recognized as being two, the Father and his Son, the sender and the sent.
From the end of each of the Four Gospels through Acts and into the rest of the New Testament up to Jude, God officially gets to be regarded as being three, with the introduction or elevation of the Holy Ghost on earth into a new ministry of being actual God to the church in Christ, just like he is Christ present to them in another sense, whom they hear personally and are moved by the feelings of, touched. We not only believe in the name, the person, the fire, the heart, the mind, the word, the flesh and the blood of Christ, which needless to say, are of God, seeing that Christ proceeds from God as his Word of power, wisdom and life from before the creation, but in fact we receive into our souls the flesh and blood and heart and mind of the Lord, and into our spirits his name, word, person and fire, in the Holy Ghost. The reason why the Spirit of God in the New Testament acquires another name, Holy Ghost, and all his names are written starting with capitals, as with personalities, while he is no longer only regarded as being ‘it’, as denoting a thing, but is more often than not acknowledged as ‘he’, is precisely because he has come in the capacity of being God, like it is with the Son, both being just like the Father.
The Father is ultimate God, the Son is God because the Father is God first, as we know that he is “of God”, which serves to recognize the superiority of the Father as the primary source, the Spirit also being “of God”, while “God the Father”, to whom alone belongs that phrase, is never defined as being “of God”, for he is all the God there ever can be, being the one and only who spoke the word and it did his will of creating. The Son is the “revelation/appearing” of God, for words are in fact the revelation the will of the speaker, as much as to be the “express image of” means to be the visible appearing of that unseen one(1Timothy 2:13). The Holy Spirit on the other hand should easily be recognized as the “presence” of God (Exodus 33:14). Jesus is in the bosom of the Father. That makes him the heart of God! If any one desires to know the true desires in the heart of God they need not look any further than his Son. God himself is said to be the head of Christ. That makes Christ a doer of only the will of his heavenly Father! Now that we have established that we are in fact faced with one person who is the head and has a heart, we need to identify his body, by means of which he has eternally been moving and acting.
THE HEAVENLY PERSON
When the first church was being persecuted for the first time they gathered in unison to seek intervention from our Father in Jesus, who is most pleased to hear his children pray and to see them delivered from the evil one, whether that evil one be the devil himself or a temptation or trouble. In their prayer they requested that the Father of mercies stretch forth his hand and move powerfully. Which he did immediately by sending the Holy Ghost afresh to refill them and to shake the place where they were gathered, filling even the place itself, so that nothing unwelcome could spiritually intrude. The name “Holy Ghost”, being unlike simply “Holy Spirit”, signifies that someone’s spiritual person is around, because unlike a spirit, which can either be of a human or not, a ghost has to be from a person, and that person, concerning the Holy Ghost, is none other that our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, the holy. The Holy Ghost comes to glorify the name of Jesus, by doing the things Jesus used to do, who came to glorify his Father, who is glorified by his holy word working, which works by the Spirit of God moving. As God is a Spirit and never flesh, his body, and outstretched hand, must be the Spirit from heaven.
Hebrews 13:29, “For our God is a consuming fire.” Genesis 1:3, “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” Acts 2:2-4, “And suddenly there came from heaven as of a mighty rushing wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” James 1:17, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” In another scriptural way God the Father can be perceived as being like a flame of fire, which is not just how he is but literally what he is spiritually. That is why those who really know who he is and what he is like, in all his might and holiness, insist that we all fear God and obey his commandments, for they understand that no unholiness can even come close to God, no matter how much his love, which is in his bosom, may love like a burning fire with mercy ready to forgive, his bigger outer self of purifying fire would be blindingly bright for the unclean and so consumingly hot that the defiled would burn up.
If in spiritual terms God is really a fire then Jesus, his holy Word, and gracious Lamb, is a Light that comes from the fire, spiritually speaking, and that Light as his Word commands people on how to live while as the Lamb that same light humbly causes believers to be godly. Any one who is spiritually minded, having the mind of Christ, can easily figure out that with the bible being a book the Father wrote about his only begotten Son, Genesis 1:3 has to be author’s introduction of the main character. Genesis 1 has both spiritual and scientific connotations, of which the scientific I explain in another place, and here I will just state that this light appearing before day 4 of the physical lights appearing must be a spiritual one, which then must be Jesus and how he destroys the works of the evil one and has come that we might have life and have it more abundantly (1John 3:8/John 10:10). Every fire produces two things, which make it meaningful and useful, and they are light and heat, the light aspect having just been covered now. Even with God the order of succession is the same, with the Father being the fire itself, the substance, his Son the light that travels faster than all physical entities, and his Spirit the heat.
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