1 John 1:1 ends with the identification of “that which was from the beginning.” He is the Word of life. This title given to Jesus Christ tells us that He is the full, and the most full, expression of God. If I want to know what is unseen to me, in your mind and heart, you will need to tell me. You must utter a word. God did this when “the Word became flesh.” And Jesus was fully qualified to declare to us the true nature and heart and mind of God.
No one has seen
God as any time. The only begotten Son,
who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. John 1:18.
God,
who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by
the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has
appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being
the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding
all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat
down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Heb. 1:1-3.
God sent His Son. By definition, a Son is the same essence or
nature as the Father. Therefore …
For it pleased the
Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell. Col. 1:19.
For
in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. 2:9.
Everything that it means to be God was true of
Jesus. God did not only send us Someone
who could tell us about God, and Jesus was truly a Prophet, THE Prophet the
people of Israel were to look for as their Messiah; He sent us the visible
expression of His person. The Word who
makes known what was otherwise invisible.
The prophets spoke for God; Jesus spoke as God.
If you knew the
gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have
asked Him and He would have given you living water. John 4:10.
“Do you believe in
the Son of God?” He (the man born blind)
answered and said, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?” And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen
Him an it is He who is talking with you.”
John 9:5-7.
Then
they all said, “Are You then the Son of God?”
So He said to them, “You rightly say that I am.” Luke 22:70.
Don’t you wonder about Abraham, taking his
beloved son to Mount Moriah? How much
did Abraham know? He certainly knew that
what he did that day was saying something fundamental to the salvation promised
in Gen. 3:15. We know that God was foreshadowing what He was going to do,
sending His Son as the sacrifice for sin.
This never ceases to amaze me, and perhaps you as well. That God had such love to humble Himself and
come in the Person of His Son to bring life to humanity, dead in sin. God has spoken in His Son!
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