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"martus" |
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06 Mar 2004 08:38:35 AM |
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Jesus the Word! |
Jesus the Word
Genesis 1:1-3 (NKJV)
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth
was without form, and void; and darkness
was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over
the face of the waters.
Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
Humm!!
God spoke things into being with God's Word!
When a person speaks words they are verbal expressions of the thoughts
of that person and those verbal expressions have the full backing of
the man that spoke them even though the words have left the person
that spoke them.
Genesis 15:1 (NRSV)
15 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision,
"Do not be afraid, Abram,
I am your shield; your reward shall be very great."
Humm!!
So many time in the Old Testament/Tanack when God speaks to His people
it is worded as above. The single "Word" of God conveys a message of
words, to Abram in this case. Why isn't it the "words" of the Lord
came to Abram unless all the words of God are contained in the
singular Word of God. Two characteristic of this Hebrew word that has
been translated into English is that this word is a noun and
masculine.
The Hebrew word for the "Spirit" of God is noun and feminine which
expresses the idea that God's thoughts are conveyed by God's Word
which is then given birth by the power of the Spirit of God.
God's: Thought- "Let there be light", Word-"The thought is verbalised
and goes out", Spirit-"Gives birth to that verbalised idea"
Deuteronomy 5:23-27 (NRSV)
23 When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain
was burning with fire, you approached me, all the heads of your tribes
and your elders; 24 and you said, "Look, the Lord our God has shown us
his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the fire.
Today we have seen that God may speak to someone and the person may
still live. 25 So now why should we die? For this great fire will
consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, we
shall die. 26 For who is there of all flesh that has heard the voice
of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and remained
alive? 27 Go near, you yourself, and hear all that the Lord our God
will say. Then tell us everything that the Lord our God tells you, and
we will listen and do it."
Humm!!
Nearly all the people were afraid to death of the Word of God when the
voice came out of nowhere so Moses was asked to be a go between, to
mediate between God and His people.
Deuteronomy 18:15-18 (NRSV)
15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from
among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet. 16 This is what
you requested of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly
when you said: "If I hear the voice of the Lord my God any more, or
ever again see this great fire, I will die." 17 Then the Lord replied
to me: "They are right in what they have said. 18 I will raise up for
them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my
words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything
that I command.
Humm!!
God told Moses that God would raise up another prophet like Moses who
spoke the mind of God but the major difference is that this time God's
Word would come directly out of His mouth i.e. this prophet was the
direct mouthpiece of God. Instead of God's Word coming to us from a
mountain or a bush the Word is housed in a Human being, which people
are a whole lot more comfortable with.
John 1:1-18 (NRSV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came
into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being.
What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light
of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness
did not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a
witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through
him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the
light. 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into
the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet
the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own, and his
own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who
believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who
were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of
man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his
glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified to him and cried out, "This was he of whom I said,
‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.' ")
16 From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 The
law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus
Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is
close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.
Humm!!
God is all seeing, all knowing and in every atom of creation while
people and angels are created and housed in their bodies giving them
individualities, apart from God. The action of these individualities
are free to follow God's perfect will or rebel against God's will
causing destruction to God's harmony.
God created family for God but if the members of that family turn
their backs on God then they will in time, forever be cast out of God
to the hell's of their creation. Jesus is the focal point of God's
Word creating the harmony between the individuals and God, being of
one mind with God the Father and God's Spirit.
There is only one God and yet God is shown as plural form in some
bible verses which others take as meaning that their are more gods
than the one God so they make gods out of angels or even mankind
themselves which is not true. God the Father(the Source) of God's
Word/Jesus carried out by God's Spirit are of one mind and purpose.
Are not the spoken words of a man, now separate from that man that
spoke them, have a power and a life of their own to cause change
directly according to the thoughts of that man that spoke them with
the full force of the man behind those words. How much more so with
God's Word that was formed into a man called Jesus who is the focal
point of the omnipresent God for all the created individuals.
John 8:58 (NKJV)
58 Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham
was, I AM."
Humm!!
What Jesus is saying that He is the same "I Am" that was revealed to
Moses years before He came in human form.
Exodus 3:13-14 (NRSV)
13 But Moses said to God, "If I come to the Israelites and say to
them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and they ask me,
‘What is his name?' what shall I say to them?" 14 God said to Moses,
"I Am Who I Am." He said further, "Thus you shall say to the
Israelites, ‘I Am has sent me to you.' "
Humm!!
Who is the I Am but God as it is clearly revealed in the above
scripture. Although the Word/Jesus came out from God, Jesus still is
one mind with God. Jesus is the human part of God who interacts with
humankind and those that cut themselves from Jesus cut themselves off
from God.
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| User: "John Ings" |
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| Title: Re: Jesus the Word! |
06 Mar 2004 08:58:37 AM |
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On 6 Mar 2004 06:38:35 -0800, (martus) wrote:
John 3:12 If I have told you about earthly things and you do not
believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
Humm!
The Word tells me falsely about many earthly things.
How then shall I believe when it tells me of Heavenly things?
## An honest god is the noblest work of man....
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