‘Who Jesus Really is’

We must first realize that the man, Christ Jesus, is the only begotten Son of God Jehovah, and was born of a Jewish virgin named Mary, His mother, by miraculous overshadowing of God, the Holy Ghost, by what has been termed by the Christian Churches as ‘immaculate conception’.

Jesus healed a man who had been blind from birth, as we read in John 9:1-34.

Then Jesus heard that the Pharisees of the Jews had cast the man out of the synagogue, because the man insisted that Jesus had indeed healed him, and a very interesting happened in that account which showed that the Jews called Jesus a 'sinner', because He healed on the Sabbath day.

However, in order to get the truths which the man spoke in response of the challenge which the Pharisees raised, you must read this account. It will divide the Jewish religion at that time, from the 'kingdom of heaven', which John the Baptist, Jesus, and the apostles preached, which included, 'judgment, mercy, and faith', as Jesus said in Matthew 23:23-38, and issued a condemning decree to the nation of Israel, who had declared adamantly to the man that was healed that Jesus was a sinner; and the man still declared his miraculous healing from the man from God! (Matthew 23:24-33)
John 9:35-38:
35) "Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He said unto him, ‘Dost thou believe on the Son of God?’
36) "He answered and said, ‘Who is He, Lord, that I might believe on Him?’
37) "And Jesus said unto him, ‘Thou hast both seen Him, and it is He that talketh with thee.’
38) "And he said, ‘Lord, I believe.’ And he worshipped Him.

So that it might not be confusing to many who have not understood the Godhead, and the man, Christ Jesus, let me clarify the principle of the Godhead, by the scriptural fact that there are Three Members in the Godhead, Which is referred to in the scripture as ‘God’, in the singular form, as will be made more clear in the following passages of scripture, and the analyzing comments adjacent to those true scriptural passages, which are the 'word of truth': II Timothy 2:15; II Timothy 3:15-17.

I John 5:7:
7) "For there are Three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and These Three are One (God)."

We know God, the Father, is greater than the man, Christ Jesus.

And God, the Word is the pre-incarnate Christ, with the Holy Ghost, being also called the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of truth, and the Holy Spirit, or the Spirit, as denoted in various places in the Bible, and specifically beginning with the first account of creation of heaven and earth: (Genesis 1)..

John 14:28(c): Jesus Christ, the Man, declares the following principle of God, the Father:
28(c): "for My Father is greater than I."

And, though the man, Christ Jesus, being the direct descendant from God (the Holy Ghost), Jesus Himself is deity, for He is the Son of the Almighty, as He was symbolized by the ark of the covenant in the tabernacle, which we shall thoroughly detail in other writings on the topic in which it shall be properly disclosed, basically being that the wood ('shittim', a soft, weak wood) used in construction of the ark represented ‘human’ (flesh), and the gold covering (within and without) if the ark of the covenant, which strengthens the weak, soft wood on all sides, represents the deity of Christ, as the ark represents both His humanity, and His deity, which was made by highly-skilled craftsmen, whom Moses was commanded by God to personally select, tthat is should conform to the exact and specific pattern which God gave Moses, during the forty days God spoke with Moses, in the top of Mount Sinai, in Horeb.

Moses himself was taught in all the skills and crafts of Egypt, from its greatest architecture, to the finest adornments of the palace, thereby becoming a ‘master craftsman’ in charge of the creation of all things in the kingdom, having been the ‘son’ of Pharaoh’s daughter, for the sole purpose that Moses (who was named by the daughter of Pharaoh, which name, Moses’, means essentially, ‘drawn from the water’) would, at God’s appointed time, be who God made him to be, the prophet and lawgiver to the Israel, as well as ‘commander-in-chief’ of the Israeli army, ‘meekest man in all the earth’:

Exodus 25:40: God speaks specifically to Moses of all things made for the tabernacle:
40) "And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount."

God is precisely specific and concise in all things which are to be implemented in our service as a son, to our Father, Jehovah God, and all of God’s precepts, principles, and purposes are verily given to us in the truth in the word of truth, the scriptures, without question.
(Ref: II Timothy 3:16-17, II Peter 1:20-21; Isaiah 55:8-11; John 5:39; Isaiah 28:9-10;
Hebrews 4:12; II Timothy 2:15; Acts 10:43; Matthew 24:34; Joshua 1:8; John 14:24; Deuteronomy 18:18-19; Psalm 119:89)

And in numerous other scriptures, types, shadows and symbols, those truths shall be found, , which the diligent seeker of God’s truth, and not of man’s ‘doctrine’, will find, according to this principle of knowing the truth of God:

Isaiah 28:9-10:
9) "Whom shall He (God, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of truth) teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to understand (God’s) doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10) "For precept must be (accurately coordinated with, and) upon precept, (and each adjoining) precept upon (properly and scripturally interacting) precept; (and, similarly,) line upon line, line upon line; here a little (contributory bit of truth), and there a little (more, that a total truth may be known to the avid and astute son of the Most High God, Jehovah, our heavenly Father)."

Matthew 1:18: God, the Word, is given a flesh body because God declared that it would be so.
18) "Now the birth of Jesus Christ (the only begotten Son of God): When as His mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together (in marriage), she was found with Child of (God,) the Holy Ghost."

Isaiah 9:6: The prophecy of the birth of Jesus Christ:
6) "For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder (Deuteronomy 18:18) and His name shall be called ‘Wonderful’, ‘Counsellor’, ‘The Mighty God’, ‘The Everlasting Father’, ‘The Prince of Peace’.

Galatians 4:4-5: Here is a very specific principle of Christ’s birth into the world:
4) "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law (according to Deuteronomy 18:18-19)."
5) "To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons (be born again’, ‘created in Christ Jesus’ ‘a new man’, (Jews and Gentiles into) ‘one new man’)."

 It was prophesied by all the prophets (mostly in Isaiah and in the Psalms) that Jesus would come into the world, and would do the work which the Father sent Him to do, that the Father, through Christ, and His finished work, would, and will, save the souls of all who would believe in Him. Here’s what God said to Moses about Christ Jesus coming into the world: (Acts 10:43)

Deuteronomy 18:18-19:
18) "I will raise them (the Jews, Israel, the ‘Circumcision’, the ‘people of God’) up a Prophet from among (not ‘of’, as of the same flesh of Adam, which flesh is sinful, whereas Jesus’ flesh is pure, and without the sinful nature of Adam, which all other flesh of man has, being of the same flesh of Adam) their brethren, like unto thee (Moses), and will put My words in His mouth; and He shall speak unto them all that I shall command Him.
19) "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which He shall speak in My name, I will require it of him (who does not hearken)."

And this is the declaration Jesus made to His apostles regarding those words which God, the Father put in Jesus’ mouth:

John 14:21-24: Of the commandments of Christ ‘that Prophet’, from God the Father:
21) " ‘He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him.’
22) "Judas saith unto Him, not Iscariot, ‘Lord, how is it that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us, and not unto the world?’
23) "Jesus answered and said unto him, ‘If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.
24) " ‘He that loveth Me not keepeth not My sayings: and the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father’s which sent Me.’." (Deuteronomy 18:18-19)

In the following passage, we find that God, the Word, preceded Jesus Christ, the man:

Hebrews 10:5: Prophetic fulfilment regarding ‘that Prophet’, Whom God sent into the world:
5) "Wherefore when He (God, the Word, Who came into the body of the Son, Christ Jesus) cometh into the world, He saith (to God, the Father), ‘Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not (accept for the remission of the sins of men), but a body hast Thou prepared Me:’."

Is the word of truth therefore saying that the sacrifices of animals did not atone for the sins of those who offered them to God? Yes. That is precisely what God, the Word, said to God, the Father. And here is the brief explanation of the purpose of those sacrifices, and God’s reason for sending God, the Word, into the sinless and pure body, for the only sacrifice which would bring

to the lost souls of all individuals in the world who will believe on Him for salvation:

Hebrews 10:1-4:
1) "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereto perfect (free from their past sins).
2) "For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshipper once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3) "But in those sacrifices there is (but) a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4) "For (according to the true principles of God,) it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins."

Therefore, our Lord, Jesus Christ, in the body which was pure, and without sin, kept all of the commandments in the law of Moses, without error (‘for sin is the transgression of the law’:
I John 3:4-5), and because that is God’s principle of salvation by and through Christ Jesus, it is therefore God’s principle that there is no Savior but One: Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh.

Acts 4:12:
12) "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

John 14:6: Jesus states clearly and concisely the He is the only way to the Father:
6) "Jesus saith unto him (Thomas), ‘( am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me."

John 3:16-18: Christ, the Son of God Himself, declares this message of the gospel:
16) "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten (physical born) Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish (as a sinner, condemned), but have everlasting life.
17) "For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn (anyone in) the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18) "He that believeth on Him is not condemned (any longer, for all his/her past sins which he/she has committed have been taken away upon believing in Jesus); but he/she that believeth not is condemned already (still), because he/she hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."

Now, did you know that the pre-incarnate Christ, God, the Word, created all things? He was with God in the beginning (and before: John 17:5), for He was also God (the Word):

Hebrews 11:3: The first four words define the principle of understanding God’s spiritual truths:
3) "Through faith we understand that the worlds (elements in space) were framed by the Word of God, so that the things which are seen (detectible by natural senses, science, or other means) were not made from things which do appear (things from Infinity, spiritual things of the sphere of Infinite Science)."

Hebrews 1:1-4: How God speaks:
1) "God, Who at sundry (God’s specified and appointed) times and in divers manners (types, symbols, shadows, prophecies, psalms and proverbs, etc.) spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2) "Hath in these last days sspoken unto us by His Son (Jesus Christ, the Man),Whom He hath appointed Heir of all things (Matthew 28:18), by Whom (God, the Word) He made the worlds;
3) "Who being the brightness of His glory (John 1:14), and the express image of His Person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself (Christ the Man, the only begotten Son of God) purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
4) "Being made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance (from the Father) obtained a more excellent name than they (the angels)."

John 1:1-3, 10-14: God, the Word, the Creator, was in Jesus Christ, the Man:

1) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2) "The Same was in the beginning with God (,the Father, and God, the Holy Ghost).
3) "All things were made by Him (God, the Father, and God, the Word, and God, the Holy Ghost)."

10) "He (God: the Godhead, in Christ’s body) was in the world, and the world was made by Him (God), and the world knew Him not.
11) "He came unto His own (Israel, the ‘circumcision’, the Jews, God’s ‘chosen people’,the descendants of Abraham, who was the first Jew, who was formerly a Hebrew Gentile, before he was ‘circumcised’), and His own received Him not.
12) "But as many as received Him (in the Person of Christ), to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name:
13) "Which were born (again, of the Spirit), not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14) "And (God,) the Word became flesh (came into the flesh of the Man, Christ Jesus, the only begotten Son of God: Hebrews 10:5), and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only Begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

John 1:17: John the Baptist declares that Jesus brought with Him grace and truth:
17) "For the law was given to Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."

Abraham received the gift of righteousness without the works of the law, and the promise of God, that he, Abraham, would be the ‘father of many nations’, and that was the promise that God would send the blessing of salvation to all nations, both Jews and Gentiles through Christ.
(Read Romans 3:20-31, and Romans chapter four, and Genesis 17:1-14, for a more generous understanding of the covenant between God and Abraham. We shall define this in more specific detail in other writings.)

So the fulfilment of the promise of faith is through God’s Son, Jesus Christ, therefore the promise was through Abraham, but in Jesus Christ, the ‘Seed’ of Abraham:

Galatians 3:16:
16) "Now to Abraham and his ‘Seed’ were the promises made. He (God) saith not, ‘And to thy ‘seeds’, as of many; but as of One, ‘And to thy ‘Seed’, which is Christ."

God, the Word, never stopped being God, while in the body of flesh of Christ Jesus. And at times, He would speak as God, the Word, and not the Man, Christ Jesus, while at other times, The Lord Jesus would speak as the Man, Christ Jesus, the Son of God.

Colossians 2:9:
9) "For in Him (Jesus Christ, the Man, the Son of God by birth in the flesh) dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily (within Christ’s flesh)

Therefore, we must learn to divide the spirit and the spiritual from the flesh and the natural:

I Corinthians 2:14: Paul distinguishes between the natural man and the spiritual man:
14) "But the natural (carnal, flesh) man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness (not according to man’s natural reasoning): neither can he (the natural man, with only natural wisdom of carnal man) know them, for they are spiritually discerned."

There are yet many things more of which we shall write of this topic, and this writing will, from time to time, be edited for addition of other material, and for clarification in a few areas which I have only touched briefly.

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They are intended specificallly to bring believers together in fellowship around the gospel of Jesus Christ, to salvation, which is the prime directive of the Church, in humility and charity toward all sisters and brothers (Romans chapter fourteen), and in keeping the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ (John 13:34-35; Matthew 22:37-40; Romans 13:8-10; John 13:14-16;
John 14:21-24; Deuteronomy 18:18-19; I Corinthians 1:10; I Corinthians 2:2;
Corinthians 3:1-3; Philippians 1:15-18; I Corinthians 12:27, for starters).

John 13:34-35: Remember this, Church, sisters and brothers in Christ, the saved, the born again:
34) "A new commanment I give unto you, 'That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35) "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples (even the apostles were 'disciples'), if ye have love one to another."

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