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THE MYSTERY OF THE GODHEAD
God, all throughout the Old Testament did
not have a body, but appeared to the people in different forms, such as the Burning Bush
to Moses, the Cloud by day, and the Pillar of Fire by night, to the children of Israel.
Though He sent His angels to many who appeared as men, but no one ever saw God in physical
form until Jesus Christ was born. John 1:18 says, "No man hath seen God at any time;
the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him".
GOD IS A SPIRIT
The Scripture states that, "God is a Spirit; and they that worship Him, must worship
Him in Spirit and in Truth" (John 4:24). God hath, before the foundation of the
world, already foreseen the fall of man by the transgression of Adam and Eve, and He
required a Perfect Atonement, a sacrificial Lamb, to redeem men from their fallen estate.
Hebrews 9:22 states that, "Almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and
without the shedding of blood is no remission".
Therefore, it takes blood to pay the penalty for sin. Yet no man, no angel, no priest, nor
animal, is ever worthy to redeem mans fallen estate. So God Himself alone must do
it. He had to do it in order to show that He alone is both Saviour and Redeemer. In Isaiah
45:22, God said, "Look unto Me, and be ye saved, for I AM God, and there is none
else." In Hosea 13:4 He also said that, "Thou shalt know no God but Me; for
there is NO SAVIOUR BESIDE ME" - the One and only eternal God.
But God knew that He, as God, could not die and bleed in the Spirit, for a Spirit has no
flesh and bones. His own law required blood for an atonement. So in order for God to
fulfill His redeeming grace, He had to put on a veil of flesh, in order to taste death and
pay the penalty for His own law, to justify the ungodly; and to fulfill Romans 3:28,
"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the
law." "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it
is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast" (Eph.2:8,9).
GOD MANIFESTED IN FLESH
And thus, God fulfilled His plan of salvation, the fulfillment of 1 Timothy 3:16 which
states that: "And without controversy, great is the mystery of Godliness, God was
manifest in the flesh." When was God manifested in flesh? It was when Jesus Christ
was born through a woman; without any sexual act - God Himself taking the form of a man.
Jesus Christ was the FLESH of God, none other than God Himself creating a body of His own.
That fleshly body was called the "SON", while the Spirit indwelling that body
was the "FATHER". Thats the reason why He was called "Emmanuel",
meaning "God WITH us", God dwelling with men. "Who being in the form of
God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. He took upon Him the form of a servant,
and was made in the likeness of Man" (Phil. 2:6).
Philip, the apostle, one time said unto Jesus (John 14:8-9), "Lord, shew us the
Father, and it sufficeth us." And Jesus answered him saying, " Have I been with
you so long and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? He that hath SEEN ME hath seen the
Father." "I and MY Father are ONE" (John 10:30).
Apostle Paul says this about Jesus (Collosians 2:9-10), "For in Him all the FULLNESS
of the Godhead dwells BODILY, and ye are complete in Him, which is the Head of all
principality and power"..."In Whom we have redemption through His BLOOD, even
the forgiveness of sins : Who is the IMAGE of the INVISIBLE GOD... And He is before all
things, and by Him all things consists" (Collosians 1:14,15,17). JESUS, therefore, is
the express image of the unseen God. And man could have never seen God except through
Jesus Christ.
THREE DISPENSATION OF THE ONE GOD
In the Old Testament, God was called "God ABOVE Us" - in the Fatherhood
dispensation. God dwelling in the heavenlies, where no man could ever touch Him.
When the the time for the Sonship dispensation came, fulfilling the prophesy of Isaiah 9:6
which says, "For to us a child is born, for to us a SON is given: the government
shall be upon His shoulder; and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty GOD,
and everlasting FATHER, Prince of Peace." These all pertains to the FLESH of God -
JESUS, being God Himself becoming Emmanuel, which being interpreted "God WITH
us" - the God Who can now be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. It was God
also fulfilling Isaiah 53:5, "But He (God) was wounded for our transgressions, He was
bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him: and by His stripes
we are healed" - all fulfilled and completed at the Cross of Calvary.
In these last days, after Jesus has been resurrected and glorified, God has sent us back
His Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to indwell every believer. Thus, we are now living in the
HOLY GHOST Dispensation.
As 1 Cor. 6:19-20 states, "What? Know ye not that your body is the TEMPLE of the Holy
Ghost which is IN YOU, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought
with a price: therefore glorify GOD IN YOUR BODY, and in your spirit which are
Gods."
JESUS is that self-same Holy Spirit; as He has attested in John 14:18, saying, "I
will not leave you comfortless, "I " (Personal Pronoun) WILL COME TO YOU."
"I will be with you, even IN YOU until the end of the world."
Galatians 4:6 states, "And because ye are sons, God has sent forth the SPIRIT of His
SON into your hearts, crying Abba, Father." Jesus own Spirit is now "God
IN Us", the "Hope of Glory" (Colossians 1:27). It is the SELF-SAME GOD all
the time, never changing His power, just changed His form from the heavenly to the
earthly, and back again as the Great Spirit, after having fulfilled His great redemptive
story.
He was "GOD ABOVE US" in His Fatherhood dispensation; "GOD WITH US" in
His Sonship dispensation; and now "GOD IN US" in the Holy Spirit dispensation.
Jesus said, " I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, the Beginning and the Ending, saith the Lord,
Which IS, WHICH WAS, and WHICH IS TO COME, THE ALMIGHTY" (Rev.1:8) - ONE GOD in three
dispensations.
JESUS IS BOTH MAN AND GOD
Jesus, talking to the Jews, said, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he
was glad." Then said the Jews unto Him, thou art not yet fifty years old and
hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you,
before Abraham was, I AM" (John 8:56-58). Who was the great "I AM"?
Remember the burning fire that talked with Moses on the holy mountain? That was the
"I AM", the self-same Jesus speaking to the Jews. They could not see that Jesus
was their own God VEILED IN FLESH.
"The Jews answered him saying, "For a good work we stone thee not; but for
blasphemy; and because that Thou, being man, makest Thyself God" (John 10:33). They
failed to see that He was the Emmanuel - both MAN and GOD. He also is the WORD that became
FLESH and dwelt amongst us (John 1:1,14).
JESUS certainly was a man weeping at the grave of Lazarus. But when He shouted,
"Lazarus, come forth!", and a dead man, four days and stinking, arose and lived
again - that was more than a MAN! Who can raise the dead but God alone.
He was a man hungry that night looking on a tree for something to eat. But when He took
five bread and two fishes and feed five thousand - that was more than a man. That was the
creator, JEHOVAH!
He was a man laying on the ship that night, tired and asleep, while the waves come up. But
once he arose and rebuked the winds and the waves and said, "Peace be still!".
That was more than a man. That was God Who can control all nature.
It was a man crying for mercy at the cross, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken
Me?" But on Easter morning, when He broke the seals of death, hell and grave, and
rose up again and said, "I AM HE that was dead, and behold, I AM ALIVE
FOREVERMORE!" Who was that? That was the same God Who also said, " I have power
to lay my life down, and raise it up again" (John 10:18).
"I CAME FROM GOD, I GO BACK TO GOD"
Remember that after His death, burial and resurrection, Jesus ascended up into the
heavens. And when SAUL of Tarsus was on His road to Damascus to persecute the Christians
(Read Acts 9:1-5), a BIG LIGHT, a PILLAR of FIRE struck him, and he asked, "LORD, who
are You?" SAUL knew that It was the same Pillar of FIRE that appeared to Moses, but
that Pillar of FIRE answered him, saying, "I AM JESUS, whom thou persecutest."
See, He had TURNED BACK, exactly back to THE SAME FORM before He took on a tabernacle of
FLESH - the Pillar of FIRE that met Moses in the wilderness.
Remember, It was the SAME Pillar of Fire that came to PETER that night and loosed him out
of the prison cell (Read Acts 12:5-7). That SAME Pillar of Fire (Cloven Tongues of Fire)
appeared on the Day of PENTECOST and set on each of those at the upper room, dividing
Himself, giving part of His Spirit among His church (Acts 2).
Peter declared in Acts 2:36, "Let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God
hath made that SAME JESUS, whom ye have crucified, BOTH LORD AND CHRIST". There He is
- LORD (Fatherhood), JESUS (Sonship), CHRIST (Anointed Holy Ghost) - The LORD JESUS
CHRIST, the complete manifestation of the ONE TRUE GOD.
Finally, consider this: Who was the FATHER of Jesus? Matthew 1:18 says, "She (Mary)
was found with child of the HOLY GHOST." But Jesus Himself claimed that GOD was His
FATHER. Therefore, God the Father and God the Holy Ghost make the Father and the Spirit
ONE, OR ELSE JESUS HAD TWO FATHERS. But notice also that Jesus said that "I and My
FATHER ARE ONE", NOT TWO. That makes ONE GOD, NOT THREE.
The entire Bible does not say a thing about a First or Second or Third Person in a ONE
GOD. The mystery is found in 1 Timothy 3:16: "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". The ONE TRUE GOD was manifest in the FLESH. Thats how SIMPLE it is. GOD
CAME IN A HUMAN FORM. That didnt make Him another God. He was GOD, THE SAME GOD.
If you cannot understand this TRUTH of the Godhead, but refute it, Jesus said that you are
still living in SIN; for He said in John 8:24, "For if ye believe NOT that I AM HE
(God), ye shall die in your sins". "He that believeth not the SON shall not see
life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" (John 3:36).
JESUS IS JEHOVAH MADE FLESH
JEHOVAH of the Old Testament is JESUS of the New Testament. That is the great MYSTERY of
the Godhead. NOT THREE GODS, but THREE DISPENSATIONS and three OFFICES of the same ONE
GOD. Never can we find any Scripture that declares that there are THREE GODS in the Holy
Writ. For GOD Himself declared in Isaiah 45:21 that, "There is NO GOD BESIDE ME; a
just God and Saviour, THERE IS NONE BESIDE ME." JESUS confirmed this in Mark 12:29
saying, "The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is
ONE LORD". It was JEHOVAH GOD condescending Himself from His heavenly estate to an
earthly body He called JESUS, fulfilling His sovereign purpose of becoming Saviour,
Redeemer and Healer by shedding His OWN BLOOD as the Lamb of God who shall take away the
sins of the world.
"Of Whom as concerning the FLESH, CHRIST came, Who is OVER ALL, GOD Blessed
Forever" (Romans 9:5). AMEN.
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