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JUNE ESTELLE CASH
A Message from Wm. Henry Cash, Jr 1927 - 2012
JESUS CHRIST - THE ETERNAL SON OF GOD
JOHN Chapter 1. 1 - 5
1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2. The same was in the beginning with God.
3. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.
4. In Him was life and the life was the light of men.
5. And the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
The proposition is that Jesus came into the world to make an incomprehensible God understandable.
In the search of religious people of all times and from all places, false gods worshipped only points out the need for us to know and UNDERSTAND WHO GOD IS.
John in his Gospel writes of the "Anointed One" the Messiah, the Christ, who comes from the Father to show us the Father and to display His Words, His Will, His Life as he ministered, lived and as he died even as he proclaimed He had come to do.
V. 1 - 2. declares that He was in the beginning with God.
Colossians 2.2-3 tells us that "the mystery of God and of the Father, and of Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Jesus himself said to his disciples, John ch. 14, verse 6-11 - "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have know my Father also, and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen Him. Phillip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth (is enough) us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father, and how sayest thou, "Show me the Father?" Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
1 John 5.20 tells us "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ, This is the true God, and eternal life."
Colossians 2.6 - 10 declares that as we have received Christ Jesus the Lord, we are to walk in Him...that our source and root and growth comes from abiding in the One in whom "all the fulness of the Godhead dwells bodily"
Colossians 2.6-10
(6.) As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him, (7.) rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
(8.) Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, and not after Christ, (9.) for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (10.) And you are complete in Him which is the head of all principalities and powers.
In the relation of God to men before Christ came, God still at times "came in visible form" to Adam, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Daniel and Jacob, whom they called "The Angel"
In verse 3 Christ's creative work with God is declared.
Genesis 1.1 and 1.26-27 tells us Christ was there in the beginning.
Ephesians 3.8,9 that "unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ"
In the relation of The Word to mankind itself, Jesus has made it possible for us to know the very Source of Life itself.
Hebrews 1.9,10 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bring many sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings."
John 3.14 - 18 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him and cried, saying, This was he of who I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for he was before me. And of His fullness have we received, and grace for grace. For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Christ came to reveal God to us by Himself to lost humanity.
John 3.36 John the Baptist told us that He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.
It is necessary first that we need to know we are lost.
Romans 3.23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
It is necessary to repent and acknowledge that our sins need forgiveness, and that our very sin nature needs A CHANGE FROM WITHIN Jesus said "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." (John 3.3)
John 3.14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3.14 - 16
Jesus declared He was the One in whom we see the Father.
He declared that whoever believed in Him would have Life everlasting. He declared that without Him we are lost.
John 1.12 "As many as received Him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God"
Simple faith in believing God is all God asks.
You cannot know the True God until you have been willing to first
1. be aware you are a S I N N E R
A fruit tree produces the fruit of the tree.
Apples produce apples. Pears produce pears.
A Sinner produces sin.
2. confess to God and admit only He can change that.
Ask Christ to be your Savior and to change you
into the Child of the Father. Be Born by asking
for that second birth - We all were born sinners
Not everyone has the second birth. Ye must be born again, Jesus said.
For Christians, we should WALK BY FAITH EVEN AS WE RECEIVED CHRIST BY FAITH ...
By Grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, lest any man should boast
Being confident of this very thing
That he who hath begun a good work
in you, shall perform it until the day of
Jesus Christ. Philippians 1.6
