Have Ye Not Known? Know Ye That The Lord -- He Is God -- Part 1448

”For through Him we both have access by One Spirit unto the Father.” (Ephesians 2:18)

Jesus said, ”I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” (John 10:7-11)

Isaiah prophesied of a time to come, when the good Shepherd would lay down His life for the sheep. Indeed, Isaiah wrote, ”He shall feed His flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are young, who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being His Counselor hath taught Him? With whom took He counsel and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge, and shewed to Him the way of understanding?

Behold, the nations are as a drop in the bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold, He takes up the isles as a very little thing ... all nations before Him are as nothing; and they are counted to Him less than nothing and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? Or, what likeness will ye compare unto Him?

... Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He that sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, that stretch out the heavens as a curtain, and spread them out as a tent to dwell in ... lift up your eyes on high, and behold, who hath created these things; that brings out their host by number; He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might, for that He is strong in power; not one fails.

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and My judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known? Hast thou not hard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? There is no searching of His understanding.” (Isaiah 40:13-31)

Isaiah was speaking of Jesus to come, and Jesus was saying the Kingdom of God is nigh! As when Jesus said to His disciples,”If ye had known Me, ye should have known My Father also: and from henceforth, ye know Him and have seen Him.” (John 14:6-10)

Jesus went onto say: ”Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the very works sake.” (John 14:11)

It is here that the false trinitarian doctrine begins to take root, advancing the claim that God must be three persons, co-existent and co-equal with one another. But these err. Let me explain.

The scriptures tell us that Jesus was Almighty God manifest in the flesh. (I Timothy 3:16; Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 42:13) He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not. (John 1:10-11) The same God who created man and woman in the beginning loved us enough to became our Saviour. (Titus 3:4-7) The Word (which was with God and was God) was made flesh and dwelt among us. (John 1:1-18; I John 5:7) Emmanuel, meaning God with us. (Matthew 1:21-23)

Not another, or a lesser God but the One and Only God. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Mark 12:28-31; Ephesians 4:5-6) ”Know ye that the Lord -- He Is God. (Psalm 100:3) ”For in Him dwells ALL the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” (Colossians 2:9; Colossians 1:17-19) In And, as Peter standing with the eleven on the day of Pentecost said, ”This same Jesus whom ye have crucified is BOTH Lord and Christ.” (Acts 2:36-38)

But how can this be, you ask. How can Jesus be both God and the promised Christ?

God came forth as a mighty man -- robed in sin-prone flesh and yet without sin -- as a servant. And she shall bring forth a son and He shall save His people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21-23)

And the angel answered and said unto her, ”The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore, also, that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.”

In other words, the Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary. The same Holy Ghost who is to become our Comforter, leading and guiding us into all wisdom and truth.

Jesus said, ”But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. ” (John 14:26)

Jesus said, ”But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of Me.” (John 15:26)

And we know this to be true from Acts 1:2:
”Until the day in which He was taken up, after that He through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen ...”

Who is He but Jesus. The same Spirit of the Lord God who created the world in the beginning was in the world reconciling His creation to Himself. He brought us salvation at a huge cost. And yet, because of His abundant love for you and I -- His beloved -- God willingly shed His precious blood on that cross for you and I. The greatest love story ever told, and yet, those who err in religious circles want to rewrite the pages of the Bible to fulfill their own agenda. How sad for them! Still, the Word of God is true. Indeed, we are instructed to let God be true and every man a liar.

Nevertheless, the good news is this:

”For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God that before ordained that we should walk in them. Wherefore, remember, ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh (who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands); that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world ... but now -- in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were afar off are made nigh by the blood of Christ, for He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the Law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so make peace; and that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby ...” (Ephesians 2:10-16)

Stand in the offering plate.