Embodied in the Flesh - Part 765

God is a Spirit, filling the heavens and the earth. The scriptures state that even the heavens cannot contain God. No man has seen God at any time. It is the only begotten who is in the bosom of the Father that has "declared" Him. The Word. 

Jesus was the only begotten. The only begotten Son. He was not begat. The difference between the word begotten and begat is that Jesus is God's holy child conceived of the Holy Spirit, spoken of on the scriptures as one who is without mother or father. He has no beginning of days, nor end of life. Why? Because His reign is after the order (the lead) of Melchisedec.

The Spirit of the Christ was embodied because the flesh covering began in the womb of Mary. The fetus was seeded by God's Holy Spirit.  What do the scriptures state? That which is conceived in you Mary is of the Holy Spirit. He was sown a natural body and yet as we know from the cross -- raised a spiritual body. 

Right from the beginning, Jesus is introduced as being God with us as a Son. His name Emmanuel -- God with us. The Word was made or veiled -- and God in the flesh lived among us. The Word of God did not become a human being as some suggest, rather the Word was clothed in the flesh of fallen humanity. Having been clothed with flesh while in Mary’s womb, the pure humanity is attributed to the Holy Spirit which was in the man Jesus the Christ. God was in Christ.

God is, and always will be the source of pure humanity. Before the fall, Adam was perfect in all his ways, an earthly expression of God. In offering mankind salvation, God was endeavouring to reveal His own spiritual humanity in visible earthly created form. A form created from the dust of the earth into which God breathed the breath of life.

In the Old Testament, we learn that Adam was a created son of God. As an analogy, if you had seen Adam, you might say that you have seen God, in a created form.

But in the New Testament, we read that the Word was veiled in flesh. The Word was God Himself. The SAME Word (or counsel of God ) that had brought forth Adam. God Had promised that He would become our Saviour, and in keeping with His promised Word, He conceived Himself into Mary’s womb. Even though He had created all things, God still humbled Himself because He loved us -- His creation -- from the beginning. 

God took upon Himself the form of a servant in a son form. This is why He is referred to as the second Adam in the scriptures. He was the Lord Himself, Not God in three persons co-equal with each other, or the trinity as many churches present but Almighty God living as one of us so that we might respond to His call and experience His love.

Throughout the Bible we know that God (at different times and in various manners) spoke to us through the mouths of prophets. Now, in these last times -- the dispensation of grace -- God has spoken to us as/in His begotten Son. God’s spirit created all things and by Himself (as a Son) and for Himself, all things were made. Apart from Himself, there is nothing made that was made. 

God said, "My glory, I will not give to another." It is further said, "Let all the angels of God worship Him. Jesus, the Christ, is the same God, yesterday, today and forever. This is why Thomas declared to Jesus,“My Lord and MY God!" So should we. There is only one God and His name is Jesus. Let him who has ears to hear, hear. Stand in the offering plate!