THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 353

God is the Father of all things, whether seen or unseen by our eyes!
Moses of old, when conversing with the Lord regarding the exodus from Egypt said, "Who will I say to Pharaoh (the Egyptian ruler) has sent me?" God told Moses to say to Pharaoh that "I AM" sent him! In other scriptural renderings, the verses use the terminology - I Will be that I Will be. These are yet further examples showing that God our Creator is only one Spirit. And the one Spirit which fills all the Heavens and earth! Indeed, God is before all things(self existing) and without God there is nothing! As well, God has neither beginning of days nor ending of life!

The foregoing scriptures refer to God as a Father. The following scriptures will represent the SAME God as a Son! Indeed, as the scriptures attest, the Son-ship of God was never apart from the Spirit of God. For we read that the eternal life that was with and in the Father was manifested in the flesh. We have both seen and handled this same eternal life - this life that has now come forth from the innermost being of God! Remember from earlier posts that Jesus is the SEED of the Holy Spirit. And because Jesus is the very SEED of the Holy Spirit it also means JESUS is the Holy Spirit. In other words, the life in the veins of JESUS' body was the life of the SEED of the Holy Spirit, which life is eternal life!

Yes, JESUS is the Word of God. God's Word. One cannot separate sords from the person whose words they are. And the words spoken by JESUS are the very words of God’s counsel, for God surely did counsel with Himself prior to our universe being brought forth. In creating, God made man an earthly image of Himself. But unfortunately, man (Adam and Eve) side-stepped God’s original instructions which has left us here we wandering and questioning our existence. Yes, in the Garden of Eden we became estranged from the wisdom and knowledge of God. Each and every one of us as a consequence have become like sheep that have gone astray. As a consequence, we turn inwardly to the foolish imaginations of our wandering minds. We are essentially sheep without a Shepherd. In this latter state, we are even foolish enough to listen to those with prompters who earnestly endeavour to persuade us that they have the answer. But they do not. They promise life abundant but all we are left with are the remnants - body bags everyone. Hold that thought for a moment. We will return to it later.

The good news is that we were created to have an inseparable fellowship with the One God who created us! And who is this one God. It is JESUS! Jesus is the ONE GOD who created us. He is the one God who created the world that indwelt the man JESUS the Christ. In short, JESUS is God (who is Spirit) now manifest as a Son. For surely JESUS is the Son of God, the SEED of God coming forth from God. Indeed, altogether God, for in JESUS does dwell all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

We know this from the scriptures. For example, when Phillip asked JESUS to show Him the Father, so that he would be satisfied Jesus said, "Phillip, if you have seen Me, you have seen the Father. Therefore why are you saying show me the Father?" Yes, the same God the Father was veiled in a body of flesh for one reason. To redeem His fallen creation. To redeem those who were originally sons of God but through the devil’s deceptions, are nothing more than fallen sons.

Still, God LOVES His creation. He loves His creation so very much that He descended into this very world so that the beings (us) that He created be redeemed. God did so at the cost of His own sinless body's death! Yes, GOD LAID DOWN HIS LIFE AS A SON ONCE AND ONCE ONLY FOR YOU AND I. That is why there is no other means of salvation. That is why height of the steeple in religious edifices does not matter. Because no matter how high the steeples are, they do not go high enough.

There is only one way to obtain salvation. That is, ONLY BELIEVE!