(1Timothy 3:16) And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Christ is the perfect *revelation* of God. He is the Expressed Image of the eternal Spirit .God does not receive anointing. He rather anoints. He is the Anointing.
Jesus is Humanity and Christ is Divinity.In all it was not a separate spirit from one. It was the one Spirit manifesting himself in the flesh. In Jesus Christ dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead.(Colossians 2:9) for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
The body of Jesus didn’t pre-exist.
(Hebrew 10:5) wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me
God prepared a foetus in the womb of Mary. It was a Word body. None of Mary’s blood has anything doing with Jesus Christ. It is a blasphemy to teach that Mary’s blood has a connection to the birth of Jesus Christ. Jesus blood was a sinless and pure blood.
There is a clear difference between a *Child* being born and a *Son* given Baby Jesus when he was born grew as a child and have to receive a Son ship spirit.
(Isaiah 9:6) for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, and The Prince of Peace.
(John 3:6) that which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
The Word was made flesh only when God incarnated Himself in the Man Jesus at His baptism in River Jordan before multitude of people fulfilling the prophecy of Malachi 3:1
(John 1:1-2) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.
The body of Jesus didn’t *pre-exist* in the old testament before the virgin birth but rather the *Word* (word body). The Word was with God.
(Isaiah 55:11) So shall my Word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
The Word has expressed itself in diverse manifestations. This same Word manifested itself to Moses in the burning bush as *I Am That I Am.* *He was the Rock that followed the children of Israel.*
(1 Corinthians 10:4) and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that *Rock was Christ*. Take notice, that Rock was Christ. (Not the body of Jesus).
God has chosen one body to reconcile the world back to himself through our Lord Jesus .
(2 Corinthians 5:19) To wit, *that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself*, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Jesus Christ was not just a man but He is the CHRIST.
(Acts 2:36)Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
There is no other person who is another Christ. All prophets in the Bible were part of the word but He Jesus Christ was the full Word of God.
Is it not only Jesus Christ who came to express this fullness of God and in whom was written the volume of the Book?
(Hebrews 10:7) Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. (Psalm 40:7).
He is the logos in the written form.
(John 5:39) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
No other book bear this record apart from the Sacred Scriptures. He is the revealed Word of God. Though many good books, tapes, sermons could testify to this fact but can only point to it.
Notice that the prophecy of Isaiah 9:6 calls for a SON, not a child, to be given as a sacrifice for sin (cf. John.3:16-18). Hence, the Anointed Man, Jesus, is called the last Adam or the second Man in contrast to the first Adam or first man who was created and made a man, a son of God, and not a child. Also, God never once appeared in Theophany as a baby, a child or even a youth because the Word Body always appeared as a mature person.
(John 1:14) 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..
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord” (Lk.4:18-19, cf. Isa.42:6-7; 61:1. Read also John 1:32; 3:34).
With the WORD incarnated in Him, Jesus was able to lay down His life to bring forth fruits.
(John 11:25-26)“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die…” .
(1 Cor 15:45) Jesus was no longer just a living soul, He “was made a quickening spirit”, a life-giving spirit
That the fullness of the Godhead had dwelt in Christ Jesus bodily did not imply that the whole heaven was drained of the Almighty Spirit completely. God, who is a SPIRIT being, is always OMNIPRESENT (because He is omnipotent and omniscient). So, not all of God was in Christ Jesus, but all that God was was in Christ Jesus. The body of Jesus was merely the dwelling place (the temple) and the full representation (glory) of God. In other words, God put His Spirit without measure in the Son. Jesus was, therefore, the full expression of God’s attributes.
A very important statement made by Jesus is found in His prayer in John 17:3. He said,
“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
This statement clearly supports the truth of One True God and that Jesus Christ was sent as the direct manifestation. Jesus Christ is the Life of God. He is THE WORD of Life.
(1 Corinthians 15:28) and when all things shall be *subdued* unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that *God may be all in all*.
Shalom.
Bro Stephen Awittor, Cape Coast Ghana.
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