FULLNESS OF GODHEAD IN JESUS - PART NINE

All the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily in Jesus, for it pleased His Father, the Holy Spirit, that in Him should all His fullness dwell. He, Jesus being the brightness of God’s glory and the express image of Himself as a Son. Without question, He is God Himself, manifested in the flesh as a son. He is the unseen God now appearing a  a son. Within Jesus did all of God dwell. God in the beginning created man in His own image, complete with a perfect body equipped with God’s breath, and therefore becoming a living soul.

After his fall, this perfected man degenerated into a fallen body, like a dying or spiritually dead soul. Losing intimacy and fellowship with God, man would no longer enjoy those evening strolls with His creator. In other words, sin isolated man from God’s immediate plan. Adam was called a son of God by creation. Conversely, Jesus became a Son of God by the seeding of God’s own spirit. That which is conceived in you Mary is of the Holy Spirit.

There is only one God. Satan also believes that to be so and he trembles. Jesus, as a man (and similarly tempted to sin but never succumbing) spoke with God. He was altogether human. Man never instructed God on humanity. Rather, God now revealed Himself as a human. After all, humanity is spiritual requiring only a body to have visual expression. God is pure humanity. We are the fallen humanity being expressed either in a male or female body and existing all the days of our lives in male or female bodies.  Sons or daughters manifesting outwardly our inward feelings.

Let's look at this from a perspective that is already familiar to us. As children, we converse in son or daughter voices. As adults, we may become a father or mother. Still, in these new roles, we remain in the same bodies as we did when we were formally recognized as son and daughters. The difference is that we now express ourselves in the language of a father or mother and equally, depending on the scenario, use language as son or daughter. In short, we can speak both as a son or daughter or as a father or mother, whilst all this time confined in the same body. Taking this example one step further, we converse with others in a language becoming of neither a son  or daughter. Instead, we speak as free individuals, debating, discussing and fellowshipping with our peers and colleagues. All of this performance then being manifested in a son or daughter's body.

Ask yourself this question? Are you three persons? Of course, you are not !! You are one person. Further, had I known you as a son or daughter, and also in the role of a father or mother, and then again as a free individual, apart from these respective roles, then honestly I would be able to say yes, I truly do know this person well.

So, likewise God, in order to reveal Himself to us expressed Himself in demonstrative language that would not be foreign to us. He Himself as a son displayed to us of how we ought to walk. He Himself walked as Son. God as a Son permitted the vials of our sin to be poured upon Him. In His death, He fathered us. He took our place and we inherited His salvation freely. Now He who indwelt Jesus now inhabits us who believe, conversing with us in Spirit in the same manner originally designed in the beginning.

It is within this relationship, God desires that we would grow in grace and knowledge and not stagnate or grow weary. Rather, we should at all times earnestly contend for this one faith which at the first was delivered to the early believers by none other than the Lord Himself. Peace in Jesus Name. Stand in the offering Plate. Receive your redemption as a gift from your Great High Priest - Jesus. One God, revealing Himself as a Father and then as a Son, and finally, as your friend in His holy Spirit.