THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 357

JESUS is the everlasting Father! JESUS is also the well beloved Son! And yes JESUS is the blessed Holy Spirit. Indeed, salvation is found in the man JESUS, He being the [seed] child conceived of the Holy Ghost. JESUS, the [seed] child is God [Himself] manifesting Himself in flesh. It is in the same flesh that all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily.

So while God rules and reigns, no man’s eyes have every seen God. In fact, creation declares openly the visible nature of the invisible creator. The visible things that were created displaying that the creator is Almighty. The unseen hidden Creator’s power and majesty being openly displayed by the things created.

Now the unseen creator God has chosen by His own counsel with Himself to manifest Himself, in form. The invisible becoming visible. The Creator God in form is the same God who has made all things. In fact, God stepped out of His Spirit world in form, prior to creation. Still, creation was the master plan of the mind of the Lord with God in spiritual form ruling and reigning over the very works of all of His creation.

The unseen spiritual form of God then was not created. For if the unseen spiritual form of God were a creation of God, as some folks like to insinuate, then the new form would be inferior to God. But with God there is no inferiority. Every thing that comes to pass is according to the plan originally constructed by God in the beginning.

Within this plan, man is an earthly creation fashioned after the similitude of the spiritual form of God. So wonderful was the creation that in the beginning, men were called the sons of God! Similarly, in the beginning, Adam and Eve fellowshipped with their Creator. It is recorded in the scriptures that Adam and Eve heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the evening.

There, God instructed Adam not to eat of the fruit from two trees. But God’s instructions fell upon deaf ears. Adam and Eve hearkened to the voice of another, called the devil, and in so doing Adam and Eve were put forth from Eden where the two entered into a untamed natural world.

Of course, Adam and Eve did not know that the voice they had listened to was the voice of an angelic spirit who had been cast out of heaven. Or that this angelic spirit opposed God, rebelling against God in the company of other rebellious angels. Together, they caused war in Heaven and as a consequence, God cast them out of Heaven. Now doomed to a destiny called Hell located somewhere in a place called outer darkness, the rebellious ringleader and fallen angel became known as the devil. The other rebellious angels became known as demons.

The point to remember then is that Adam and Eve were created as sons (and daughters)of God. And they are still by creation sons (and daughters) of God. Unfortunately, as we now recognize, fallen sons of God alienated from fellowship with God. Nevertheless, GOD loved His creation in the beginning and continues to love His creation today. None of these events came as a surprise to God for there is nothing hid from God. All things and events are naked and open before God’s eyes.

We further read that JESUS (His physical body as a man in the mind of God) was the beginning of the earthly creation of God. God knew that man would fall at some point and in so doing, man would be introduced into another more unnatural dimension. In this new world, man would become capable of choice. He would be given the possibility of choosing his own destiny.

But God did not abandon the human race. God in His Love, in His Grace and in His Mercy intervened. The Great Creator who made us also became man’s only means of salvation. In other words, God condescending took upon Himself a veil of flesh, conducting a life in the flesh which life would be the Life of God manifested.

The first man (Adam) sinned whereas the second Adam who is the Lord Himself veiled in sin prone flesh never succumbed to sin. Therefore, this man JESUS became the means whereby man can be saved. Call upon Him and in so doing men and women can be redeemed back into fellowship with God. Men and women and subsequently society can become all that God intended it to be. As it was prior to Adam and Eve hearkening to the voice of the usurper the devil. It is your choice! God in Christ laid down His sinless flesh for us! Come to Jesus today. Stand in the offering plate by offering yourself!