Sometimes words completely fail us. There are things in life that are so big and powerful that words fail us. Like when a parent or spouse or your child dies. We can only groan.
Words fail us when we try to describe Jesus, especially in relationship to the Trinity. This is an important message because most of us don't know Jesus very well. Three important questions:
1. Who is Jesus?
2. Where was Jesus before Bethlehem?
3. What was He doing?
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
When was the beginning? “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1
Jesus is the Word and He was with God in the beginning.
“He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”
John 1:2-3
He was in charge of creating everything.
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
John 1:14
He put on skin and bones and flesh and blood.
John (the author) says he was there and saw Jesus and no one was like Him, nor will anyone ever be again!
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.”
John 1:14, 18
1. Jesus is the Word and He is God.
2. He was with God for all eternity (from before the beginning).
3. He created ALL things.
How can this be. He was with God and He IS God?
When He prays, does He pray to Himself?
“For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”
1 Corinthians 13:12
“For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”
Colossians 1:13-20
“For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,”
Colossians 2:9
Satan has blinded us from seeing who God is...
“The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.”
2 Corinthians 4:4-6
God the Father is like a floodlight, the source of all light and truth and power. We can't see Him. We see the light when it shines on something - that is Jesus - He is the light. We can't see the connection between the floodlight and the light, but we can feel it - that is the Holy Spirit. We feel His warmth and comfort and working in us.
“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.”
Hebrews 1:3
If you want to know God and His will for your life, stare at (study) Jesus.
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