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The one God coming in genuine humanity: the Word made flesh and God manifested in the flesh.
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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.
The mystery of godliness is God manifested in flesh and vindicated by the Spirit.
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.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Christ is the visible image and revelation of the God who is invisible.
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
All the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily in Christ, not a fraction or one-third of deity.
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, The Prince of Peace.
The born child and given Son bears divine titles including the Mighty God and Everlasting Father.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The Word eternally belongs to God’s own identity and is fully God.
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.
God’s own Word became flesh in Jesus Christ; the incarnation is the Word’s arrival in genuine humanity.
I and my Father are one.
Jesus states that He and the Father are one, not merely aligned strangers.
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.
Jesus explains the revelation: the Father dwells in Him and performs the works.
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 then, Shew us the Father?
Jesus answers Philip’s request to see the Father by pointing to His own visible revelation.
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
Thomas directly confesses the risen Jesus as ‘my Lord and my God.’
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Jesus takes the divine ‘I AM’ language before Abraham’s birth.
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Sonship is tied to the holy child conceived and born through the Holy Ghost.
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
The commanded name Jesus announces the LORD’s own saving work for His people.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
The First and Last is the One who died and is alive forever, joining divine identity to Jesus’ saving death.
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
God sent forth His Son as one made of a woman and born under the law.
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
God’s climactic speech in the Son reveals the exact expression of His being and the radiance of His glory.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
The Word is God’s creative self-expression through which all things came into being.
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Matthew applies Immanuel to Jesus: God has come to be with 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.
The Son reveals the true God, and Jesus Christ is identified as the true God and eternal life.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
God purchased the church with His own blood, language possible because God truly came in flesh.
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
All divine fullness was pleased to dwell in Christ.
These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
John says Isaiah saw Jesus’ glory when Isaiah’s vision was of the LORD enthroned.
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
The heavens were made by the LORD’s word and their host by the breath of His mouth.
