THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 356

The Scripture declares that the LORD -- HE IS GOD! And apart from the LORD who is GOD there is no Saviour. This is the message that Paul and Barnabas went up to Jerusalem for -- to communicate with Peter, James, and John. Note that Paul was chosen by JESUS to be His Apostle to the Gentiles. Paul outlined the gospel he was preaching to the Gentiles! In other words, Paul and Barnabas were extending the right hand of fellowship. (Galatians chapter 1)

Further, Paul in his writings professed that JESUS is LORD! And as we read in the scriptures, Paul refused to depart from the revelatory knowledge that it was God who had revealed Himself in the face of Jesus the Christ. That JESUS the Christ in fact is God Himself manifest in flesh. That this same God descended into the world as a Son, fulfilling His promise that He the LORD GOD would become man’s only Saviour!

As well, the early believers went everywhere preaching JESUS!There was no confusion as to who it was that they had believed upon. Neither was there any confusion as to whose name they had called upon for salvation. They knew who it was they had believed upon. And no, they had not been persuaded by others to change their perspective on who JESUS was. Indeed, they were totally persuaded and confirmed by the ghostly presence of God’s presence.

So, therefore, there is only One LORD! And that one Lord - JESUS - is LORD over all! Paul asked the Lord what His name was, and was told by the Lord Himself that His name is JESUS. Philip in conversing with JESUS also desired JESUS to show Him the Father and then he would be satisfied! And Jesus did. JESUS politely showed Philip the Father by saying to Philip, Have you been so long-time with me -- you are looking at Me your Father. In other words, Philip, if you have seen me, you have seen the Father. And Philip if you really knew me you would have realized that I am the Father! Thomas also had his doubts. That is, until JESUS stood before Him. It was at this point that Thomas exclaimed to JESUS "MY LORD and MY GOD."

Let's recap. God is the Father of all spirits. And we are spirit beings dwelling in a body. Our body without our spirit is dead! We cannot see our spirit but we can see the body in which our spirit lives! Wherever our spirit desires to go our body takes us. Yes, our spirit is hemmed in a body. Our spirit being manifested in our bodily actions. We were given of God to be born, male or female. And we grew up to be man or woman - speaking as a son or daughter! We then marry and father or mother children. As a consequence, we authoritatively speak as a father or mother.

Yet at the same time, we can still speak as a son or daughter. All of this transpiring in the same body. In fact, all our children are fathered or mothered in a son or daughter's body! We can converse spiritually in the same son or daughter's body. Still, we are not three persons when we take on different roles. We are one spirit!

God our creator and our Saviour fathered us first in creation and now today in redemption. All of God’s children are redeemed back to God in a Son’s body. He that believes on the redemptive work accomplished by God in a Son’s body has Eternal Life! God as a Son is our Father and God as a Son is the only visible Father that we are ever going to see. In JESUS we see our Father. PEACE to all brethren in JESUS!