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He Opened the Way

"In the beginning [before all time] was the Word [Christ], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself....And the Word [Christ] became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled---fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile--among us....."

(John 1:1-14 The Amplified Bible)

The deity of the Lord Jesus Christ is something that can never be brought into question by any born again believer.  Our very salvation rests on the fact that Jesus Christ is divine, the second person of the Godhead, God--the Son.

The beloved disciple and apostle, John, forever puts to rest any doubt about that in John 1:1-14.  Anyone who doubts what those verses say could not possibly have been born of the kingdom of God.  For the deity of Jesus forms the very foundation of our faith in Him.

Yet, if you'll search the Gospels, you'll see that Jesus didn't go around proclaiming Himself as God during His 33 years on earth.  He acknowledged that He was the Son of God, the Messiah.  He referred to God as His Father (which enraged the Pharisees), but He never made the assertion that he was the most high God.  In fact, He told His disciples that the Father God was greater and mightier than He (John 14:28).

The reason is simple.  He hadn't come to earth just as God.  He'd come also as man.  The Word says He set aside His divine power and took the form of a human being....with all its limitations.  Since God was His Father, He was not born with the sin nature that had been passed along to the sons of Adam.  But by being born of a woman, in all other respects He became a man and called Himself the Son of Man or, literally, the Son of Adam.

How, then, did He do all those mighty works?  The same way He expects us to do them today...by the anointing and the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:38).  He said that you, as a believer, would be able to do the works that He did! (John 14:12).

It means that you, as a reborn child of God, filled with the same Holy Spirit as Jesus was, have the opportunity to live as He lived when He was on earth.

In fact, that is exactly what He intends.  He went before you, as a man, and opened the way.  If you believe you will receive!  Don't just admire Him for it.  Follow Him in it today!

This week's reading Scripture:  John 14:1-15

8-13-04

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