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1 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | kalos | 55128 | ||
Joe: I agree with you 100 percent. As far as John 1:1, the JWs and other cults and anti-Trinitarians have years of experience twisting that verse beyond all recognition. They use cheap tricks and word games to make John 1:1 say what it clearly does not say. Joe, we owe you many, many thanks for being so diligent in defending the truth and for exposing heresy and blasphemy wherever you find it. Grace to you! kalos |
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2 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | Robert Nicholson | 55140 | ||
Dear friends: The Man Christ Jesus Part 1 We live in a day in which there are many “reasonable facsimiles” of Christ proposed. Some would see him simply as a good man who set a good example for us to follow, others would suggest that he is the son of God who began his days at Bethlehem and others would suggest he never lived at all. Nevertheless, the scripture is clear, Jesus Christ is the Son of God and is God manifest in the flesh. The study of the Godhead is profoundly interesting and yet as we approach the infinite we find that our finite minds can hardly take it in. Who are we to question our creator? I believe we must avoid trying to bring the God of eternity to our level of understanding “since his ways are past finding out"? The unfathomable mystery to humans is that there is one God and yet we see him manifest as three persons in one. He does not work independently of himself, indeed it is with full harmony within the Godhead which God has revealed himself to humankind. Who was Jesus Christ? Was he the Son of God or was he God manifest in the Flesh? Both! We read that “God who in many parts and in many ways spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days hath spoken unto us (in) Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things by whom also he made the worlds(ages). Who (the Son) being in the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high.” (Hebrews 1:1) The Son of God “being” perfect tense, was, is and always will be in the brightness of his glory. The Son of God who is the express image of his person. Jesus described this “He that hath seen me hath seen the father” (John 14:9) The Son of God who upholds all things by the word of his power. This would show that he is coeternal with the father. John speaks of Christ in this way “ In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made.” (John 1:1-4) God by his Spirit teaches us that Christ “is” that he always was and always will be. He was there in the beginning in creation, in fact he is the Creator. Amazing grace is that in obedience to his father, the Creator takes a lowly stoop into this world. “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory as the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth” (John 1:14) John was a person witness, friend and disciple to the Lord Jesus. He shows to us that Jesus was not simply the Son of God who began his life at Bethlehem, but this man Christ Jesus was God incarnate. Peter in 1 Peter 2 writes concerning the Lord Jesus “who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth” V22 Paul writes to the Corinthians “for he hath made him to be sin for us, (he) who knew no sin: that we might be made the righteousness of God through him. Peter In 1 Peter 1:19 reminds us that we are redeemed “with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” Without blemish shows us his perfection as he came into the world and without spot shows his sinless walk in his journey here below. The important message here is that the Son of God was truly a man and yet truly God. He did not make a choice not to sin, because he could not sin, that is the divine character of God. Robert Please read part 2 |
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3 | Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man | John 9:24 | Robert Nicholson | 55143 | ||
The Man Christ Jesus Part 2 In Philippians 2 we consider his eternal existence and equality with his father and his lowly stoop with his incarnation. “Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery (or not a thing to be grasped at) to be equal with God: But he made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of man: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross” (v5-8) God again by his Spirit is showing us that Christ was with God, equal and coeternal and that he set that glory aside and took the lowly stoop via the virgins womb and walked this scene in perfect harmony with his father, proving time and time again who he was and willing allowed his journey to lead to the cross where he gave his life for us. “he said I have the power to lay down my life and I have power to take it up again” On the cross he cried “Finished” the conquers cry, and he said “Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit” then he bowed his head and died. Even in his death we are made to realize this was no ordinary man, this was God manifest in the flesh. Paul writing to the Colossians “For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily” (Col.2:9) The important truth that Paul is teaching is that the Lord Jesus never ceased to be what he always was, by that which he became. When Jesus was on earth we read in Mark 2 how the Pharisees in their derision confirmed that Jesus is God. “Why doth this man speak blasphemies: Who can forgive sins but God. The spoke the truth, but did not know that it was God whom they were dealing with when Jesus to the paralyzed man “Son thy sins be forgiven thee” and than said “ that ye might know the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins” v10 we find he healed the man. Time and time again Jesus refers to himself as the son of man which is equivalent to God in the flesh. Is it not wonderful that God shares with us his eternal counsel we read such prophetic words in Isaiah 6; 8 “the Lord saying whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said I ; Here am I; send me” In Psalm 40:7 and in Hebrews 10:9 we read the words of the Lord Jesus “Lo I come in the volume of the book which is written of me, to do thy will O God.” For God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten (unique) Son , that whosoever, believeth on him , should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 May those who have trusted him always value him for who he is: God manifest in the flesh. Robert If we could only tell him as we know him! |
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