Who is this Jesus? Has God sent us the Christ – the anointed Messiah?
God and The Person of JESUS
“JESUS IS and was and will be.
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JESUS IS God! just as we introduced last time through the beginning in John’s Gospel — “..and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God..”
“No one has ever yet seen God..”
John 1:18a Berean Standard Bible
If the Person of Jesus IS GOD, then how was God revealed in HIM? If no one has seen God then how IS Jesus (who the world has seen born, died and risen) the Very Person of the unseen God?
Begotten, NOT made
John continues [John 1:18 BLB].
“.. the only begotten God who is in the bosom G2859 of the Father, He has explained Him.
Gospel of John 1:18 LSB – Strong’s G2859 – kolpos – ‘the front of the body between the arms
Look closely at John’s Gospel and understand that GOD IS ONE, yet God is a God of relationship – THREE PERSONS with very personal roles and relationships to created men and women.
Jesus, himself, confessed:
“I and the Father are one.”
the Personality of JESUS the Son
- Can you attach a Personality to the Face of God who you cannot see?
- Will you relate to a PILLAR OF FIRE or the unseen Hand of the whirlwind?
Even so, the LORD GOD relates to those He loves even as a Father guides and provides for his own.
God the Father of our Lord JESUS Christ reveals from His unseen ever-existence, two Personalities, a loving Father and His only Son, to which created mankind can relate in addition to His unseen Spirit-to-spirit power, Holy and separated from that which He has created.
Personality of sons and daughters of man
per·son·al·i·ty (pûr′sə-nălĭ-tē) DEFINITION
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
Body, mind and spirit born of a woman
- The totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior, that are peculiar to a specific person.
- The collection of distinctive qualities of a person, especially those distinguishing personal characteristics that make one socially appealing
- The quality or condition of being a person.
WE cannot comprehend the TOTALITY of the Personality of JESUS the SON of GOD any more than that of God the FATHER.
Never-the-less the Bible reveals the Face of God in the Persons of the Father and the Son – it is, in part, a relationship to which even sinful man may relate.
Jesus IS God from God
The PERSON of JESUS — perhaps a little difficult to understand, but we can relate to HIS relationship as SON of the One Father of all, even Almighty God.
And as mysterious and illusive is God’s power, so we must hear from what God has said through Scripture about the Person of the Holy Spirit.
Our basic CHRISTIAN teaching and belief, including study of GOD [theology] as THE TRINITY is outlined in several creeds of the church, including the NICENE CREED written by our Church fathers in A.D. 325.
JESUS Christ explained by the Nicene Creed
We believe in one God..
And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
Begotten from the Father, only begotten,
that is, from the substance of the Father,
God from God, light from light, true God from true God,
begotten not made,
of one substance with the Father,
through Whom all things came into being,
things in heaven and things on earth…
THINK about these TEACHINGS of our Church Fathers living just a few generations after the incarnate JESUS, Son of Man.
Consider in your heart for a moment of our mortal time:
WHY would GOD show His Face to mankind as a Son, our Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST?
- We cannot be like GOD; but why would GOD want to become as one of us?
Why not consider JESUS in your heart rather than dismissing the God you cannot see simply in your self-created thoughts?
JESUS the Person of relationship with our personality
JESUS did this for ME?
Hear the theology of our our Church fathers as you embrace the mystery of God in more of the Nicene Creed:
Jesus Christ..
Who because of us men and because of our salvation came down, and became incarnate
[Embodied in human form; personified – American Heritage Dictionary]
and became man,
and suffered,
and rose again on the third day, and ascended to the heavens,
and will come to judge the living and dead…
JESUS.. the GOD-MAN!
Returning to the unseen.. in the heavens..
Christ ascended
AND WILL COME AGAIN TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD..
which is of course the ROLE and right of GOD ALMIGHTY, Creator of all men and Maker all things.
the Role of Christ Jesus
Even though we cannot fully understand incarnation, that is, GOD becoming a MAN — let’s not confuse the PERSON of JESUS (of one substance with the Father and the Holy Spirit) with the ROLES of JESUS.
Χριστὸν – Christ
And He [Jesus] said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
And Peter answered and said, “The Christ of God.”
Gospel of Luke 9:20 LSB [vs. 18-20]
Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?”
Peter replied, “You are the Messiah [Or the Christ. Messiah (a Hebrew term) and Christ (a Greek term) both mean “the anointed one.”] sent from God!”
MORE about JESUS the Messiah or Christ of God NEXT time, God-willing.
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