A son in the Bible is simply
something that has come out of the father (an issue) with the
woman as the
vessel into which the seed (sperm) is placed. When the prophet Isaiah
talks to
King Hezekiah, he calls the king’s sons by the term “issue”. “And of thy sons
that shall issue from thee, which
thou shalt beget, shall they take
away; …” (2 Kings 20:18).
Now the Bible principle is
that everything produces its offspring after its own kind. The elephant produces (issues or
what comes out of) the elephant not a tiger. No-one expects an apple
tree to
produce oranges. The issue of a cow is a cow. Like produces like. As
the Bible
says “And God made the beast of the earth
after his kind, and cattle after
their kind, and every thing that
creepeth upon the earth after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.”
(Genesis 1:25).
We know that “God is a
Spirit” (John 4:24) and
so to call Jesus the Son of God, he must also be a Spirit in heaven, as
like
produces like. So
the
male offspring out of God is God. This is the reason Jesus could say “I and my
Father are
one.” (John 10:30) and this is why “… the Jews
sought the more
to kill him (Jesus), because he … said also that God was his Father,
making himself equal with God.” (John
5:18).
God produces God. God
issues out of himself God. Out of God comes God. This is why God the
Father can say to God the Son “But unto the
Son he saith, Thy throne, O God,
is for ever and ever: ...” (Hebrews
1:8).
Just as Jesus was born of
a woman, he is called the Son of man. Jesus was also in the same
form as
God (Philippians 2:6) as a Spirit in heaven (called the Word 1John
5:7). He is
both God and man at the same time. And yes, the Bible says, it is a
mystery (something
hard to understand by the human mind) - “… great is the mystery of
godliness: God was manifest in the flesh …” (1 Timothy
3:16).
God is also called the
Godhead who consists of three persons – God the Father, God the
Son
and God the Holy Ghost. The Bible says these three are one “For there are three that
bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word,
and the Holy Ghost: and these three are
one.” (1 John 5:7). Some Bibles
leave this verse out.
One God but three
persons. Like an apple with three parts – the core is the apple, the
flesh is
the apple and the skin is the apple. Three parts but one apple.
Another example is the
sun in the sky which has three parts – the sun we can see, the light
and the
heat. Three parts but one sun.
Similarly, God has three
parts (persons) but there is only one God. It’s like God has three
aspects or
three ‘personalities’.
Some people think the
Holy Ghost is just a Spirit, but when we get saved, God’s Holy Spirit
comes to
live in us permanently and is then called the Holy Ghost. The Holy
Ghost thinks
like God, convicts us of sin and does not come to speak of himself
(John 16:13)
but points us to Jesus. You can now see the Holy Ghost is also a
person. When a
person is filled with the Holy Ghost they love to read the Bible, they
cannot
continue to live in sin and they speak only of Jesus and what he has
done for
them.
“Now the birth of Jesus
Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was
espoused to Joseph,
before they came together (physically
as husband and wife), she was found with child
of the Holy Ghost.” (Matthew 1:18). Can you see that? Joseph was not the father
of Jesus? In heaven Jesus is called the Word and what happened was the
Holy
Ghost took the Word out of heaven and placed it in Mary’s womb, and
when born,
he became known as Jesus.
“And Jesus increased in
wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and
man.” (Luke 2:52). Of course he did. He
learnt many things – how to be a carpenter, how to
earn a living and so on but this was the end product of growing
up to be
a man. But he was always God. He came out from the Godhead.
His
source was God. He was issued out of God. “In the
beginning was the Word … and the Word
was God.” (John 1:1).
By Harley Hitchcock.
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