Rev Autrey
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"... and the Word was God"
I am writing this post to the Christian Church to point to us Jesus as our long awaited God who came to save his people from their sins. After all, we get our name from him.
See, we have always known that Jesus is the God of the Bible, but we just didn't know how to say it. And now we do. But even today hardly anyone believes it, a sad commentary on the human race, the ones he love. And an even sadder commentary on the Christian Church.
God said it like this in Zechariah 13:10-11, knowing that he would fulfill this promise as Jesus Christ our Savior: "Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on all people of Jerusalem, and they will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for me as for an only son." And then he says, "They will grieve bitterly for me as for a firstborn son who has died. ..."
And this proves beyond any doubt that what I am saying is true, that the God the prophets knew as YHWH God in the Old Testament is the New Testament Jesus.
Paul knew this to be true too when he said in Romans 10:9 that Jesus is Lord, translated, Jesus is God. And that we must call on his name to be saved.
See back in the 30's, 40"s, 50's, when times were hard, many of us called on his name to save us. But now as times have changed for the better we seem not to think of him anymore, and try to put someone in his place. And that's even sadder.
What I am saying is, God didn't send us a substitute to die for us, as many think. He came himself, and called himself the Son of God to let us know he was now one of us. "Because God's children are human beings, made of flesh and blood," Hebrews 2 tells us. "Jesus also became flesh and blood by being born in human form." And here are the key words, "For only as a human could he die. ..."
This means that the term "Son of God" is just a metaphoric expression to describe the activities of God as he walked on earth as a man. Let's say it like this. With God it's not the dividing of himself into two or three parts. It's the way he speaks of himself.
And how I wish everyone knew this.
It's like this. God is a single person like us (Deut. 6), i.e., "... the Lord our God is one person." He has to be because we are made in him image, and we are single persons. Jesus affirmed this when he said in Mark 12 that this is the most important commandment in the Law of Moses. The mystery is in the way he speak of himself; that is to say, in trinitarian form.
So when he says "the Father sent me" or "I go to he Father", he is speaking of himself by his other name. The same is true when he says "only the Father knows." Why he chose to speak to us this way I do not know. But he does. What he is doing is revealing his other name to us so we can get to know him better, and to show us the full extent of his love for us. This is what most people do when they want to have a more personal relationship with you. And so it is with God as he seeks a more personal relationship with us.
And there is a third name of God, the Holy Spirit. It's by this name he inspires us to believe in him as Jesus.
The first disciples knew this to be true, too. That's why Thomas called Jesus God in the upper room. And just because we have forgotten what he said over the years, does not mean that we can't think of it again.
So to summarize, we use the name Jesus when we talk to God because Jesus is the name he wants us to use; meaning Jesus is the name he used for himself in the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And the name by which he saves us. So as the angel said to Joseph right before his birth, "And she shall have a son, and you are to call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins."
And it will be this way even when we get to heaven.
Jesus loves you,
Rev. Autrey
I am writing this post to the Christian Church to point to us Jesus as our long awaited God who came to save his people from their sins. After all, we get our name from him.
See, we have always known that Jesus is the God of the Bible, but we just didn't know how to say it. And now we do. But even today hardly anyone believes it, a sad commentary on the human race, the ones he love. And an even sadder commentary on the Christian Church.
God said it like this in Zechariah 13:10-11, knowing that he would fulfill this promise as Jesus Christ our Savior: "Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on all people of Jerusalem, and they will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for me as for an only son." And then he says, "They will grieve bitterly for me as for a firstborn son who has died. ..."
And this proves beyond any doubt that what I am saying is true, that the God the prophets knew as YHWH God in the Old Testament is the New Testament Jesus.
Paul knew this to be true too when he said in Romans 10:9 that Jesus is Lord, translated, Jesus is God. And that we must call on his name to be saved.
See back in the 30's, 40"s, 50's, when times were hard, many of us called on his name to save us. But now as times have changed for the better we seem not to think of him anymore, and try to put someone in his place. And that's even sadder.
What I am saying is, God didn't send us a substitute to die for us, as many think. He came himself, and called himself the Son of God to let us know he was now one of us. "Because God's children are human beings, made of flesh and blood," Hebrews 2 tells us. "Jesus also became flesh and blood by being born in human form." And here are the key words, "For only as a human could he die. ..."
This means that the term "Son of God" is just a metaphoric expression to describe the activities of God as he walked on earth as a man. Let's say it like this. With God it's not the dividing of himself into two or three parts. It's the way he speaks of himself.
And how I wish everyone knew this.
It's like this. God is a single person like us (Deut. 6), i.e., "... the Lord our God is one person." He has to be because we are made in him image, and we are single persons. Jesus affirmed this when he said in Mark 12 that this is the most important commandment in the Law of Moses. The mystery is in the way he speak of himself; that is to say, in trinitarian form.
So when he says "the Father sent me" or "I go to he Father", he is speaking of himself by his other name. The same is true when he says "only the Father knows." Why he chose to speak to us this way I do not know. But he does. What he is doing is revealing his other name to us so we can get to know him better, and to show us the full extent of his love for us. This is what most people do when they want to have a more personal relationship with you. And so it is with God as he seeks a more personal relationship with us.
And there is a third name of God, the Holy Spirit. It's by this name he inspires us to believe in him as Jesus.
The first disciples knew this to be true, too. That's why Thomas called Jesus God in the upper room. And just because we have forgotten what he said over the years, does not mean that we can't think of it again.
So to summarize, we use the name Jesus when we talk to God because Jesus is the name he wants us to use; meaning Jesus is the name he used for himself in the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And the name by which he saves us. So as the angel said to Joseph right before his birth, "And she shall have a son, and you are to call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins."
And it will be this way even when we get to heaven.
Jesus loves you,
Rev. Autrey
