Hi Roy,
This is from the 2006 Mobile Bible Conference, part 2
HOW DID JESUS DO “THE FATHER’S WILL” Hope this helps
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1Cor 8:6 but there is to us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we by Him.
Is Jesus Christ something? Yes. What is He? He’s of God.
All is of Him, of the One God. All is of Him, Jesus Christ is of Him. It interesting that Jesus Christ is called the Firstfruit in 1 Cor --
1Cor 15:20 But now Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the Firstfruit of those who slept.
In Gene. 1:1 it says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
But that’s not the way that word (beginning) is translated in most places in the Bible. Let’s step back a second, lets decide who created the heaven and the earth, ok.
In John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
A guy argued with me for 3 months, back and forth, telling me that was the Father,
“In the beginning was the Word.”
The right order of the words in the linear is, ‘and God was the word.’
“ and the Word was WITH God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning WITH God.”
Now it’s pretty hard for something that is something, to be with itself, see what I’m saying, that don’t quite work grammatically, does it.
In John 1:3 “All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made.”
So whatever this Word was, He made everything, everything was made by Him.
v. 4 “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.”
What is light? This light that shines in darkness, what was this light? It was the Word.
What did the Word do? It made all things and nothing was made that He didn’t make.
v. 6 “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.”
v. 7 “He came as a witness, to bear witness about the Light, that all might believe through Him.”
v. 8 “He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the Light.”
v. 9 “That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world.”
v. 10 “He was in the world and the world was made by Him.”
We just read that He was in the world and the world was made by Him.
It repeats it (verse 3 and 10). And the world knew Him not.
v. 11 “He came to His own, and His own received Him not.”
v. 12 “But as many as received Him, He gave to them power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on His name,”
v. 13 “which are born(begotten) not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God.”
v.14 “And the Word made flesh, and dwelt among us with the glory of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and of truth.”
v.15 “John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, This was He of whom I spoke:
He who comes after me has been before me, for He was preceding me.”
v.16 “And out of His fullness we all have received, and grace for grace.”
v.17 “For the Law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”
Who is this Word, who is as with the Father, who was with God, who made all things,
who was the light of men, who was made flesh, who dwelt among men,
who was the only begotten of the Father? JESUS CHRIST !
v. 18 “No one has seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father,
He has declared Him.”
In the bosom of the Father, That means a close intimate relationship,
He(Jesus Christ) has declared Him(the Father).
Nobody has ever known anything about God the Father, except through Jesus Christ. Before the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, nobody on the face of the earth, ever knew anything about God the Father.
But didn’t they know about God(in the OT)? That was Jesus Christ.
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mercy, peace and love
Kat