Who Is The Word? Our Lord God and Saviour Jesus - Part 624

If God be for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword? Nay, in all things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." (Romans 8:35-39)

Further, "whosoever is born of God overcomes the world and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith." (I John 5:1-4) But this begs the question. "Who is He that overcomes the world?" Verse five responds with the announcement that the individual who "believes that Jesus is the Son of God" has overcome the world. Indeed, people who believe the same Jesus is the only begotten of the Father. The First and the Last. The Everlasting. The Almighty God in the flesh. The Alpha and Omega. (Revelation 1:8) 

Indeed, Jesus -- The Word. The scriptures verify this point. I John 5:7 states: "there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one." 

God descended. And man ascended. But throughout history, God revealed Himself to His people as a faithful creator .. a loving Saviour .. a holy Redeemer and  in these latter times, our forever friend. In the beginning God. (Genesis 1:1) In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God ... and the Word became flesh." (John 1:1-14)

In other words, God did not send someone else to suffer the pain and agony of the cross. Or to pay the price for our transgressions. Rather, God Himself left His throne of glory, taking upon Himself the form of a servant in order that we might have salvation. That we as believers in Jesus might experience His abundant grace. His mercy. His love that surpasses all human understanding. 

God knew throughout that He would purposely be crucified, dying an unusually cruel death upon a Roman cross. Not that He as a Son did anything to deserve such cruel punishment. Still, Jesus stood before the judge to be tried, being falsely accused. As it is written in the scriptures, “They hated me without having a cause.” In fact, we read in the scriptures that Jesus' accusers fanatically mocked, scoffed, whipped, spat, and pulled at his beard before placing a crown of thorns upon His head.

Nevertheless, even in His death, He reigned supreme. Throughout, God was in the man Jesus. In fact, Jesus was the two Seeds of promise given by the Holy Spirit of God. The promise prophesied in the Old Testament, being “that the seed of a woman would bruise the serpent’s head.”  This promise was fulfilled by Jesus at Calvary, where Jesus laid down His natural life, offering His life as a sacrificial substitution for you and I. 

Our Lord God and Saviour Jesus who had never sinned gave up His own life for man’s redemption, providing an opportunity for Adam’s prone to sin race -- us -- to return to the God who loved us even before the world was shaped. The Spirit indwelling Jesus being Almighty God who for our sake manifested Himself as a Son - the Holy Spirit veiled in flesh. All the fullness of the Godhead did dwell within that body. God manifested as a Son in that body. What do the scriptures state?

If you have seen me, said Jesus, then you have seen the Father. I and my Father are one. The same God who made the world was in the world. Jesus then is the wisdom that was hid in the bosom of the Father until the appointed time - the very Word of God manifest. The book of John records that he had seen, and handled the Word of Life. The Word of life referred to here is Jesus. 

Moreover, the Holy Spirit who indwelt the man Jesus, raised the man Jesus from death prior to the body of Jesus entering the state of corruption. The Holy Spirit saying that He would not leave His body to see corruption. Therefore, when Jesus arose from the tomb He did so not as one of Adam’s descendants. Rather, Jesus died and was raised to life as a new Adam - the New Adam being the Lord God Himself -- still clothed in flesh but it was a new kind of flesh - a spiritual flesh.

In sum, the body of Jesus was the Holy Spirit body, for it was God who had laid aside His glory for our sake. The greatest love story ever told. Trust in Jesus today. Love Him because He first loved us. (I John 4:19) Become more than a conqueror through Jesus who loves us. Stand in the offering plate.