24/12/2020
Our Lord before He came in the flesh; He eternally existed as " God-and-Word," notice: He was not only the Word of God, ( Logos)but also the very God, just as His beloved apostle said, " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God." Here our Lord is declared to be both God and the Word. We must also notice that God did not become flesh and God was manifested in that flesh. So to say " God incarnate" is not right; for God cannot be begotten, nor can He be born of a woman, but to say the Word incarnate and God was in that personified Word reconciling the world unto Himself in His glorious and omnipresent Being, is scriptural teaching.
Hence , Jesus Christ was not only that limited human personality, He was all that as the Son, (the Word) but infinitely more, He was the mighty God and the Everlasting Father also. Isaiah 9:6, John 1:1. Herein lies the great mystery of Godliness. " God was manifested ( not by the flesh ) but in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into Glory.
