THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 392

God was in the man JESUS the Christ reconciling the world to Himself. So if this is the case, the question is where will or can a person find God? Of course you would find God where He revealed He was. That is, in the man JESUS the Christ. For God is one Spirit. The Spirit of God is everywhere with the exception of one place and that place is inside a man’s inner being. His heart. Man through disobedience was cut off from fellowship with God resulting in sin laying between God and His creation.

Since that beginning in the Garden, we have learned that here is none who have not sinned. Why? Because all of us have sinned. All of us are exiled. Yes, each and every one of us. But God is not unaware of our lost estate for there is nothing hid from God's eyes.

Indeed, God is going to have for Himself a visible created Kingdom fashioned after His spiritually invisible Kingdom. This means that creation [obviously] is a work in progress. First, God steps out of the spiritual world to reveal Himself in visible spiritual form. Then He creates man in an earthy image of His form. God breathes into man the breath of life which in turn allows man to become a living soul. Man messes up and is, as a consequence cursed. This acts as a death sentence pronounced upon Adam and Eve and out of the Garden of Eden they are sent.

Still, God who knows the end from the beginning has all the bases covered. Before any creation came forth, God knew that He would have to be man’s Saviour. For it is written, JESUS is as a lamb slain before God had created anything. Note here that JESUS was not created.

So out of the garden the two went. Their growth was now impeded because of sin. Instead of being tutored by God, they now were under the rule of a new schoolmaster. The devil. However, prior to their expulsion from the garden, God in His mercy planted into Eve one new seed of promise, which SEED would in future time ‘bruise the serpent or devil's head.'

The Christ [life] of God was in that SEED. God implants into Abraham another SEED of promise saying to Abraham that, ‘In this SEED will all the nations of the earth be blessed." Now we have two SEEDS. These two SEEDS passed into Isaac, but were not to be born of Isaac. The SEEDS pass through ISAAC into JACOB journeying on as in the genealogy until what is called the fullness of times arrives. It is during this time the two SEEDS had arrived in a young virgin girl.

The Holy Spirit now brings His own two promised SEEDS together into the womb of Mary, who is a most willing and consenting surrogate mother. She expresses great joy over having been chosen of God to be the surrogate mother of the Lord. Her Spirit rejoices in God her Saviour. She was blessed among women but not as some might suggest -- above women.

The angel then declares that the holy thing that shall be born of Mary shall be called the Son of God and the child’s GIVEN name JESUS -- Immanuel or God with us.
The expression THING refers to a body that is clothed in Adam’s sinful flesh for in such flesh was the SEED of the Holy Spirit clothed upon in Mary’s sin prone womb.

JESUS, being the SEED of the Holy Spirit was in that child. The child appearing as we are. However, in this child dwells the eternal Spirit of God. You see JESUS was God Himself manifest in flesh as a man. The indwelling Spirit was the very life of God whose SEED JESUS was.

So if one wants to come to God the question is this. Who is the Father of all things? Has this been revealled to you? Yes, one must come to the Son for in the Son dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And if you desire to talk to God and you think that you cannot find Him, just call upon His name JESUS. I can guarantee that the Spirit of God who was in the man JESUS will come to you faster than your eyes can twinkle.

Conversely, if you chose not to come to JESUS who is the Son of the Holy Spirit you can never be saved. For JESUS is God Himself as a Son, man’s only Saviour. JESUS or GOD with Us sacrificed His Son's body for you and me, so that we could now be to the Holy Spirit the body of Christ. A people redeemed by the blood of the Holy Spirit. The ISRAEL of God. A Holy Nation. A Temple in which the Holy Spirit is pleased to dwell. A Temple not made with man’s hands.

Peace to all!