The Daily Word of Righteousness

Two Beginnings, #11

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. (Isaiah 53:2)

There was no beauty that we should desire Him. He was just Jesus the son of Joseph, the rabbi from Nazareth.

God often works in humble circumstances so the rich and proud of the earth will be blind to what He is doing; so His Kingdom may come to the poor and lowly of heart.

No, there is no comparable event in history. The Logos, the Creator of all, became a human being. God became a man that men may return to God.

Jesus taught us something we did not learn during Old Testament days. Jesus taught us to call God, Father. Jesus many times spoke to His Father in Heaven, and taught us that we are to be born of the Father in Heaven and to know God as our Father.

Think about the following passage and you will understand the Kingdom of God.

Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. (John 20:17)

"My brothers." "My Father." "Your Father." "My God." "Your God."

Not only earth but the heavens also witnessed the revelation of God through the Lord Jesus Christ.

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (I Timothy 3:16)

Theologians have used this verse to prove that Jesus and the Father are the same Person. However, in arriving at any such conclusion we must consider the entire Scriptures, Old and New Testament. The Scriptures do not support the concept that Jesus and the Father are the same Person.

What does it mean, then, that God was seen of angels? It means the Logos, being from the Father and filled with the Fullness of the Father, reveals in Himself all that God is and does.

Notice the words of Paul:

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)

"I am not living," Paul exclaims, "it is Christ who is living in me." If Paul keeps on growing in Christ and being filled with Christ the hour will arrive when the Apostle Paul will be able to say, "He who has seen me has seen Christ." Paul will be the image of Christ, the representation of Christ. But the Apostle Paul will never be Christ—not for the untold eons of eternity.

Every true saint is called into the Oneness that is the Godhead.

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe thou hast sent me. (John 17:21)

We are called to be one in the Lord Jesus as He and the Father are One. None of us will ever be the Father or the Son. But we certainly are called to be filled with all the Fullness of God and to reveal in ourselves the Person, ways, and will of the Father.

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Ephesians 3:19)

We are called to be "filled with all the fulness of God."

To be continued.