Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread - Part 1245

In the beginning, God. (Genesis 1:1) He created the heaven and earth from the earth that was without form, and void. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, "Let there be light, and there was light."  (Genesis 1:2-5)

As we know from reading Genesis, God is a Spirit, filling the heavens and the earth. The scriptures state, "Why even the heavens cannot contain God?" How big is God? Well, in God, we live and we move and we have our being. Further, God created man in His own image. This might be where we begin to think of God as HE.

When that initial creation intersects with salvation in the second Adam -- Christ -- it is here that our understanding of the gospel message is increased. Herein, God begins to reveal Himself to us through His Word. Why? Because no man has seen God at any time. Only the begotten who is in the bosom of the Father -- He has declared Him. 

For God so loved ....

The only begotten. Jesus spoken of Him as the Only begotten. In comparison, we are spoken of as begat. The difference is that Jesus is God’s holy child -- described by Luke as a holy thing -- being conceived of the Holy Ghost, spoken of in the scriptures as one who is without father or mother. He has no beginning of days, nor end of life. His life after the order (the lead) of Melchisedec.

When the Word that was with God and was God became flesh, and we beheld His glory, we understood that the Spirit of the Christ was embodied. for the flesh covering began in the womb of Mary when she served as a surrogate mother. The fetus being seeded of the Holy Ghost. "And ye shall call His name Jesus for He shall save His people from their sins." (Matthew 1:21-23)

That which was conceived Mary is of the Holy Ghost ... and finished at Calvary. He was sown a natural body and yet raised a spiritual body. Jesus is introduced as being God with us -- God manifest in the flesh. (II Timothy 3:16) The Word was made or veiled and the flesh lived among us.

The Word of God did not become a human being, rather the Word was clothed in the flesh of fallen humanity. Having been clothed with flesh in Mary’s womb, the pure humanity is attributed to the Holy Ghost which was in the man Jesus the Christ. God was in Christ. Indeed, the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in the man Christ Jesus.

God did not come to earth to acquire humanity. 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. This is why God walked in the cool of the day with His creation. That is, until the temptation was revealled -- Adam and Eve seeking for the first time ever to cover themselves while they hid.

But through it all, God was endeavouring thereby, 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. Fresh air. The same air which keeps us up and running yet is incapable of providing us with spiritual humanity. In the Old Testament, we learn that Adam was a "created" son of God. One could say that if you had seen Adam, you had perhaps seen God, in a created form.

But in the New Testament, we read that the Word was veiled in flesh. The Word -- 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 for you and I. 

God took upon Himself the form of a servant in a son form. This is why He was referred to as the second Adam. He was the Lord Himself!

Peter declared on the day of Pentecost -- this same Jesus whom ye have crucified is both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36-38)

Thus, God who at different times and in various manners spoke to us through the mouths of prophets has now spoken to us as/in His 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 repeatedly said, "My glory, I will not give to another." There is none other god beside Me. I, the Lord have become your Saviour. 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!" And as believers in Jesus by faith, so should we. 

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. (Ephesians 4:5-6) Stand in the offering plate.