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Lesson 5

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Jesus asked the question whom say ye that I am? Simon Peter answered you are the Christ, and Jesus responded you’re a blessed man because you didn’t learn this by flesh and blood buy you have had a divine revelation. We all need a revelation of who Jesus is. Not just knowing the facts, not just having the scriptures down, but we need for the Spirit of God to touch us and enlighten our minds and grant us a revelation form God.

We want to declare that truth must triumph over tradition. We must come to a place to agree that the truth is more important than the majority of church, or doctrine. If we are faced with a choice between what the word of God says, and what we have heard, we’ve got to take the scripture as the truth. Paul said this is . Let God be true but every man a liar. If every man says something different from what God says, understand this, God’s true. God is the one that’s true. So it’s not a matter of going around church to church and taking a vote and finding out what the majority believes, God is the majority. He supercedes every majority and what He says is important. Let God be true and every man a liar.

One of the traditions that has been handed down through the years is that the Godhead is so complicated that people cannot understand it. The Godhead can be understood and it should be understood. The apostle Paul said that we clearly see these things. That we understand these things to the point that they are without excuse. And the things of which he spoke were His eternal power and Godhead. The reason men have trouble understanding it and explaining it is because modern theologians have stepped in. The Bible says that God’s Word and God’s will is so simple that a wayfaring man, thou a fool, should not err therein. God didn’t make this thing complicated, men make it complicated. God made it simple. We’re the ones that complicate matters. So modern theologians have come along through the years and they’ve defined GOd. They have defined Him as three separate and distinct persons who are coequal, coeternal, and coexistent. They say that all three persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost are all omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. That is confusing…you can’t understand that.

But that’s not the way the scripture defines God. f there’s anyone who could identify God it would be Jesus Christ. Jesus never said God is three persons He never identifies Him as a person. In God is a Spirit. Any time you read about God you are not reading about a person. You’re not reading about some old man with long hair and flowing white hair setting on a throne. We’re reading about a Spirit when we read about God. And He’s a Spirit that cannot be contained in one location. He’s a Spirit that fills the universe. He’s everywhere at the same time. He’s all knowing, all seeing, all powerful. God is a Spirit. One Spirit. That’s who God is. He’s not three persons. He’s not two person, He’s not even one person. He is a Spirit.

Jesus called this Spirit the Father. When we talk about God we’re talking about the Spirit, we’re talking about the Father. That’s who God is. So when we talk about the Father we’re talking about a Spirit, not a person. The Father is not a person. The Father is a Spirit.

We must understand that Jesus Christ had a dual nature. He was fully human and yet He was fully divine. He wasn’t half man, He was all God and all man. The only individual ever to live that could make that claim. But that’s who Jesus was. We saw His humanity…He was born of a woman. He grew physically, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. He got hungry, weary, He slept, He wept. He called Himself a man. He called Himself the Son of man, and He suffered, and He died. All of that showing His humanity. And yet that’s not all of Him. There’s not only one side of Him. He was not only human, but He was GOd. And because He had two natures He could act and speak from two different standpoints. He could talk as a man or He could talk as GOd. He could act as a man, or he could act as GOd. This is not two different persons, it’s two different natures. It’s humanity and it’s deity fused together.

When He assumed a human nature He did not cease to be God, but now in addition to being what He always was, Jehovah God assumed humanity. We have one God that’s always been. He is a Spirit that fills the universe. That one God is called the Father, but the Father knew that the only way mankind could be redeemed was through the shedding of blood. That was His plan. That was what He devised. The plan called for the shedding of blood, but as a Spirit the Father had no blood. And the only way that we could be redeemed was through the shedding of blood, and so the Father took upon Himself a human nature that had flesh and bones and blood. And that Holy Thing which was born of Marry says was the Son of God. That which was born of Mary was the Son of God. This is not two separate persons, it’s two separate natures. A divine nature, and a human nature. We’re not talking about the Father setting in Heaven and turning to another person and saying you go down and die for them. That’s the way it’s taught in a lot of churches, but that’s not what the Bible tells us. The Bible does not teach us that one person said to another, you go die. Or that one person said to another I will go die so that you don’t have to. That didn’t happen. That conversation never took place.

What did happen was the only God that exists said they’ve got to be redeemed and the only way to redeem them is through the shedding of blood. It’s not going to be the shedding of the blood through bulls and goats, and there’s no human being alive who’s blood is pure enough to do this job, and so the Father took on human form and we call that form the Son. And the son bled and died for us. Shed His blood so that we could be redeemed.

Do not misunderstand what I’m saying. I’m not telling you that Jesus the man was His own Father. What we are saying is there’s a clear distinction between the Father and the Son. The Father is a Spirit. The Son is flesh. Now you’ve got flesh and you’ve got spirit, but you’re not two different people. You’re flesh is not your spirit and your spirit’s not your flesh. But you’re not two different people. The man Christ Jesus had flesh, we call that flesh, the Son of God. But dwelling in that flesh was the Spirit that we call the Father. Not two separate persons. And yet the Father and the Son, there’s clear distinction. Humanity and Divinity. The Father is the eternal, invisible spirit. The Son is the fleshly robe the Father took on. The Son was the holy thing which was born of Mary. This is the dual nature: Jesus was the Son, the flesh, and yet Jesus was the Father, the Spirit.

We went through teaching dealing with the fact that Jesus is the second person in the GodHead. That’s not what the Bible says. The Bible doesn’t say that Je