Galatians
4:4
"But
when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made
of a woman made under the law."
Why?
To purchase man’s Redemption which will bring mankind to Salvation
through his act of repentance and by it receive redemption. When done
with and through a whole hearted action and not some kind of mind
game (for God is not deceived, we only deceive ourselves into
thinking that we are saved), where we repeat some one else's prayer.
Which is what has been taught by the worlds churches. Redemption is
coupled with our reception of the Holy Spirits infilling of us.Those
who preform a prayer by repeating another's words in prayer are not
praying from the heart but are only doing an empty lip service,
of mimicking, as
shown in Isaiah 29:13, Matthew 15:8 and Mark 7:6. Such
people are only focusing on their conduct an are not being Christ
focused or Christ centered.
Colossians
1:15
"Who
(speaking of the Son up in verse 14) in whom we have redemption
through his blood. (So you know that has to be God the Son)
is the image of the invisible God, (in other words,
Jesus Christ was the visible, physical, manifestation of the
invisible God that we are going to be looking at again here in
Colossians) the firstborn of every creature."
Colossians
1:16
"For
by him (God the Son) were all things created, that are
in heaven, and that in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things
(today we would say EVERYTHING) were created by him, and for
him."
Before
I go into the next verse that shows how He is also the glue that
holds the whole universe together, I would like to show all the verses that
pertain to His Creator-ship. And of course, we are going to take you
back to John’s synoptic gospel for a moment. John’s gospel
chapter 1, verse 1. I think that everybody knows and for some reason
or other it escapes them that this is the Person of the Godhead, Who
called everything into being. And He did it with the spoken word. And
that also enlightens us when we get into Revelation chapter 20, that
it will be by the spoken word that He will destroy the nations at the
Battle of Armageddon. It’s by His spoken word that He accomplishes
His massive power. As it moves across the land scape with shock waves, like an atomic bomb blast. People just do not get the magnitude of just Who Christ Jesus really is.
John
1:1-3
"In
the beginning (same three words that Genesis 1:1 begins with)
was the Word, (capitalized and I always emphasize,
what are words used for? To communicate. So we’ve got to the place
where we call Christ the Communicator (the meaning of Exodus 3:14 in
the “I AM that I AM”), because He’s the One Who speaks the Word. And so
regardless of whether He’s communicating with the invisible things
that will become visible, or whether He’s communicating to the
human race today, it’s always God the Son Who is the Communicator*)
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was
in the beginning with God. (And now verse 3 makes it so
plain) All things (everything) were made by him;
and without him was not any thing made that was made."
(*If
we have not the ontological essence of Christ's own Spirit we are
indeed NONE of His because He is the one through Whom God speaks to
us, this is how we can know that we are truly His. By having become one
with Him, the Father and the Holy Spirit this was a secret which had
been hidden and remains hidden from the world at large. Look
at John 8:44 for the negative side and then John 14:23-27 for our
reality.)
Then
to confirm what we are talking about God the Son, or Jesus of
Nazareth as we know Him back in His earthly ministry, let’s look at
verse 14 and it puts the frosting on the cake.
John
1:14
"And
the Word was made (what?) flesh and dwelt among us.
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father,) full of grace and truth."
See
how plain that is? The Word, the Communicator, that Person of the
Godhead Who created every thing was made flesh and dwelt among us.
And John says, "we beheld His glory and the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father."
Come
on over now to Ephesians chapter 3. I do this so that all of you
out there, if you’re teaching one on one or in a Sunday School
class or a men’s group or whatever, will be able to show them these
verses – that this is what the Word of God says. Ephesians 3 and
dropping down to verse 9.
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