THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 369

Speaking to people in a packed auditorium a preacher once painstakingly said, “That we ought not to pray to JESUS but rather we should pray to His Father." Interesting twist given that the scriptures reveal a different message. Let's examine this point further.

God is Spirit! God’s Spirit we cannot see. And yet, creation positively shows forth the manifold wisdom and power of the creator leaving us to stand in awe. Further, we believe there is God. Only a demonic spirit would say there is no God.

Even so, no man has seen God at any time. The ‘Only Begotten Son’ [JESUS] who has come forth from the innermost being of God, it is He alone who reveals and manifests the unseen. Ishmael born of sin prone flesh (religiously minded) opposed the SEED of promise (which is not as many imagine the Jewish race). The SEED of promise being the promised SEED of the Holy Spirit of God, which SEED when manifest in flesh is JESUS the Christ. Or as the scriptures point out God with us.

Now if JESUS is ‘God with Us’ being the express image (essence) of the ‘unseen God now manifest in flesh' and we are being instructed by some religious representative that we are not supposed to pray to Him {JESUS} who is ‘God manifest in the flesh' what do we do? We need to discern the message and read the Bible for the truth.

The evening when I myself, on bended knee knelt at the foot of the Cross (holy ground) and became enlightened of God and personally recognized that the Lord who I cannot see died for me, I cried out saying these words, "I thank you Lord JESUS for dying for me!" I was not praying to JESUS' body. No sir. I was talking to my Lord who sacrificed His body and who by His grace and mercy blanketed me like a husband blankets his bride.

For surely you must see for yourself that it was the Spirit of God who was in the man Christ JESUS endeavouring to reconcile the world to Himself. God as a Son is the man JESUS and the man JESUS is God who is One Spirit manifest!

JESUS as a Son then is the embodiment of the Holy Spirit whose SEED fathered the life within the flesh. Therefore, JESUS said, "If you have seen Me you have seen the Father and conversely if you do not see the Father dwelling within Me, then you really have not known me!"

The so called church fathers of 300/400 AD have so infiltrated the earth with there poisonous message -- that God is three distinct and separate persons -- that an auditorium jammed packed with people embrace the thought that one should not talk to JESUS whose face is the revealed face of the Holy Spirit of God! They have not understood for themselves that He that has the Son he has the Father also. And that as many as had received Him {JESUS} to them gave He the power (and right) to become the sons and daughters of God!

How can one believe on Him of whom many now misrepresent as being another person other than God Himself? It was JESUS who is God who laid down His life for you. We are praying to the Holy Spirit whose SEED indwelt JESUS, for in JESUS did DWELL ALL the FULLNESS of the Godhead bodily! The Holy Spirit is the Spirit in Jesus and whenever you call upon God, you are calling upon JESUS in whom the Holy Spirit is pleased to dwell!

Be blessed!