“HOW CAN A SON BE EQUAL TO THE FATHER?”
“HOW CAN A
SON BE EQUAL TO THE FATHER?”
The Bible
definition of what a son is, is not the
same as the world’s definition.
The world
describes a son with earthly
characteristics, while the Bible says it’s about place of origin.
When a man
has a son
there are many obvious differences - the son is very small, not
as
strong, hasn’t had a job, doesn’t have any money, hasn’t been to school
to
learn anything, and so on.
But the
Holy Scriptures
are NOT referring to any of that when it talks about
what a son
is.
In the
Bible, a son is simply
something that has come out of the father.
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).
Indeed
when a man dies
without having had any children, it is said that he died without an
issue
… this means he died without giving birth to any offspring.
An
everyday example is
the lava that issues out of a
volcano.
When you
turn on a tap,
the water issues out of
the pipe.
So to be
called a son simply
means you have been issued out of
your father, and has nothing to do
with height, weight, career, influence, intelligence or money and so
on.
To be
called a son is
simply about where you
came from – your
origin.
Now the
Bible principle is that everything produces its
offspring after its own kind.
The
elephant issues, that is produces, an elephant
not a tiger.
Apple
trees do not produce oranges.
The issue
of a cow is a cow. Like produces like.
As the
Holy Scriptures say “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).
Ever had
an expresso coffee from an expresso coffee
machine?
Hot water
is passed through the coffee powder and
the essence of the powder is expressed into a cup as a brown
liquid.
Now this
is very poor example, but Christ was ‘expressed
out of God’ when Jesus Christ left heaven.
Jesus
Christ is called “the express image”
of God. “Who being the brightness of his (God’s) glory,
and the
express image of his person …” (Hebrews 1:3).
The Holy
Scriptures say “God is a Spirit” (John
4:24) and as Jesus is the Son of God, he must also have been a
Spirit in
heaven at the beginning before he came to earth.
The Holy
Scriptures say of Jesus Christ, called the
Word in heaven, that he is God.
“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)
Furthermore,
the Holy
Scriptures say
“In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God… And the Word
was
made flesh, and dwelt
among
us …” (John
1:1, 14)
God
produces God. God issues out of himself God. Out of God
comes God.
Indeed,
that’s why God
the Father can say to God the Son, Jesus Christ “But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O
God, is for ever and ever: ...” (Hebrews 1:8).
Just as
Jesus is a man he
is called the Son of man.
Jesus was
a Spirit in
heaven (called the Word 1John 5:7) and he is also flesh as the Son of
man.
He is both
God and man at
the same time.
Just as
science has
proven that light is both particle form and wave form, Jesus Christ,
also
called the Light (John 1:9), and is God and man at the same time … that
is …
the Son of God and the Son of man.
As Jesus
was a man he can be called the Son of man.
God is
made up of the
Godhead (loosely called the trinity Acts 17:29; Romans 1:20; Colossians
2:9)
which is the three persons – God the Father, God the Son
and God
the Holy Ghost (1 John
5:7). 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 light, heat and invisible
actinic (invisible)
rays which
come out of it.
Three
parts but one sun.
Similarly, God has three parts but there is only one God.
“Now the
birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother
Mary was espoused to Joseph,
before they came together, she was
found with child of the Holy Ghost.”
(Matthew 1:18)
Can you
see that? Joseph
was not the father of Jesus but the Holy Ghost was.
In heaven
Jesus is called
the Word (1 John
5:7) and the Holy Ghost took the Word,
Jesus Christ, of out heaven and placed it in Mary’s womb, and when
born, the
Word was known as Jesus Christ.
“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 he was always God in the flesh … he came from the
Godhead.
Misunderstanding
what a
son is in the Bible gives men another example of not believing what the
holy
scriptures actually say.
People are
too ready to
put their own interpretation with “Oh, what
that means is this” before studying “what the scriptures say”.
The Jews
knew that Jesus,
to be called the Son of God, meant that he was God, come out of heaven,
to be
God in the flesh.
The holy
scriptures say “And without controversy great is
the mystery of godliness: God was man-ifest in the
flesh,
…” (1 Timothy 3:16).
“For unto
us a child is born, unto us a son is
given: … and his name shall be called …The
mighty God, The everlasting Father ...”
(Isaiah 9:6)
Harley
Hitchcock
February 2023
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