MYSTERY OF THE GODHEAD by Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D.
The Holy Bible is the Book of
God. It is filled with great truths which are
above and beyond our understanding. Jesus quoted from it and demonstrated its
message by fulfilling many of the Old Testament prophecies through His words,
ministry, miracles and wonders. He purchased our eternal salvation through His
vicarious death on the cross and His glorious resurrection from the dead.
“In the beginning God (Elohim) created
the heaven and the earth… Elohim
is a pluralized form of God which nevertheless retains a mysteriously singular
meaning! In Genesis 1: 1, 26 we have the verbs ‘created’ and
‘said’ in the singular, the Name of God in its plural form ‘Elohim’ and the
plural pronoun ‘us’.
In the Hebrew language the
noun, its verb and its adjective must all agree in number and gender. But, in
the Genesis Record God announces Himself as Elohim totally pulverizing these
grammatical rules!
WHY IS THIS?
No
human language can adequately contain or express God Almighty! God’s
announcement of His Person shows the uniqueness of the Divine unity of the
Eternal. God said to Abraham, “Take now thy son, thine
only son. (Gen. 22:2). He used the word (yahid). When Adam and Eve
became one flesh, the word (ehad) is used to denote a compound unity.
In Deut. 6:4, the Word of God states, “Hear O
Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord (compound unity, Ehad). Hebrew
scholars have recently translated the (Shema) of Adam - the blood of God, from the dust of the
earth. Dust (minute particles) ground (adamah – the
totality of all that God is!) And breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life.
Deut. 6:4 say: “Hear O Israel, the Lord is
our God, the Lord Alone”, instead of “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God,
the Lord is one.” The Ugaric Tablets recently unearthed by archaeologists in
the ancient Masoretic Text changes the meaning of this text from God’s oneness
(a theological point) to God’s
exclusivity, at a time there were many pagan gods being
worshipped!
GOD CREATED MAN FROM DUST
“And God said, Let Us (Elohim) make man
(Adahm, Adam, the Blood of God) in Our image, after Our likeness (damos,
an exact duplication in kind)…So God created man in His own image, in the
image of God created He him; male and female created He them.” (Gen. 1:26,27)
“And the Lord God formed man (breath of
life) and man became a living soul.” (nephish, spirit). (Gen, 2:7). In the Hebrew the word man, is called Adahm, Adam, the
blood of God.
God took of Himself to make the earth and when He
made Adam he used the dust (afar- minute particles) of the ground (adhama
– the totality of all God is). God made Adam from the ground which
He had made.
ONE & ONLY ONE TRUE GOD
One and Only God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In
the Divine Economy of God there is no room for counterfeits or manufactured
gods. The very first of the Ten Commandments, Almighty God wrote with His own finger on two tablets of stone these awesome
words: “Thou shalt have NO gods before ME.”
THE TRIUNE GOD: God the Father (Ps. 46:1;
Jer. 2:13. God the Son: Zech 13:6,7; John 4: 10. God the Holy Spirit: Gen
6:3; Acts 2: 1-17; John 7:37, 38)
The Father is made of None,
neither created or begotten. The Son is of the Father Alone; not made, nor
created but Begotten. The Holy Spirit is of the Son, neither made nor created
but proceeding. - ATHANASES CREED
(Confession of Faith).
What does this all mean? Everything that
God did came from Himself alone. When God created the earth He took of
Himself. When He made Adam He used the ground into which He had given life. In
this great Creation we find the Hebrew words bara to create, asah to
make, yatsar to formed used interchangeably.
In Genesis 1: 12 we read: "And the earth
brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree
yielding fruit, whose seed is in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it
was good." Here, the Latin word is ex nihilo meaning, 'out of
nothing".
To wrap it all up we discover
that in the beginning, Almighty God took of Himself to create, make and fashion
all things out of Nothing!
TESTIMONY OF JESUS: THE SPIRIT
OF PROPHECY
“And he saith unto me; Write, blessed are they which
are called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto
me: These are the true sayings of God. And I fell at his feet to worship
him.
"And he saith unto me,
See thou do it not. I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the
testimony of Jesus: worship God: for
the Testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” (Rev. 19: 9.
10)
Every prophecy given in the Holy Scriptures or
through the Old Testament prophets in the Synagogue or in the New Testament
Church had ONE goal in the final analysis – that was to declare the Testimony
of Jesus, which is the Record that Almighty God gave of His
Son:
The Redemption of the human race and the
glorification of the Father through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth and His glorious resurrection from the dead, three days later!
THE GREATEST SIN
The greatest sin anyone could commit is to reject
the Testimony that God the Father gave of Him: He is the only begotten Son, Jesus Christ! The Testimony that Jesus
gave of Himself. (John 14: 11-14) And the testimony that His Heavenly Father
gave about Jesus Christ His Son: If we receive the witness of men, the witness
of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which He hath testified of
His Son.
“He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness
in himself: he that believeth not hath made Him a liar; because he believeth
not the Record that God gave of His Son. And this is the Record that God hath
given to us Eternal Life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son
hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” (1 John 5: 10-12)
If
Jesus is the Subject, then Jesus is the Source. If Jesus is the Object, then
the Testimony concerning Him is the Source. The Holy Spirit is the Source of
all prophecy and the primary focus of the revelation He provides concerning
Jesus of Nazareth
Every prophecy given
ultimately pointed to and must continually point to Jesus Christ, the Saviour,
Redeemer, and Liberator of mankind. He fulfills all prophecies; past, present,
and future!
True prophecy is that Jesus
Christ who created the world and all things in it, died vicariously on the
Cross at Golgotha for the sins of His creation to bring us to God the Father,
and to reign with Him throughout eternity!
JESUS CHRIST IS THE WAY
After the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus of
Nazareth, His followers were identified as following The Way. “And
Saul yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the
Lord, went unto the high priest. And desired of him letters to Damascus to
the synagogues, that if he found any of this Way, whether
they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.” (Acts 9:1,2)
Jesus said, "I am the Way, the
Truth and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” (John
14:6). There is only one way to God the Father, Eternal Life and Heaven. Jesus
Christ alone is that way.
Through His vicarious death for us on Golgotha and
His resurrection from the dead on the third day, He met the righteous demands
of divine Justice in the courts of Heaven!
Jesus Christ is the Truth. In Him there are
no falsehoods or lies. You can trust Him completely because He is
the same yesterday, today and forever. He has not lied, He will not lie, and He
cannot lie because Jesus Himself is the Truth!
He said, “Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth
shall make you true. If the SON therefore shall make you free, ye shall free
indeed.” (John 8: 32,36). Jesus is the Word of God and is
the Truth. He alone can be trusted, for He is God!
Jesus Christ is the Life
The Bible says: “The next day John seeth Jesus
coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away
the sins of the world. This is He of whom I said; After me cometh
a Man which is preferred before me: for He was before me. And I knew Him not: but
that He should be made manifest to Israel therefore am I come baptizing with
water.
“And John bare record saying, I saw the Spirit
descending from Heaven like a dove, and it abode upon Him. And I knew Him not,
but He that sent me baptize with water, the same said unto me,
"Upon whom thou shalt see
the Spirit descending and remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizeth with
the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God, he
saith, Behold the Lamb of God.” (John
1:29)
HE THAT HATH THE SON HATH LIFE
St. John stated: “And this is the record that God
hath given to us eternal Life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the
Son hath LIFE, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life. These things
have I written unto you that believe on the Name of the Son of God.” (1 John
5:11-13)
My precious friend, call upon
the Name of the LORD in faith, asking Him to wash away your sins and He will
become your Saviour, Lord and Master! In faith ask Him to heal you. By His
stripes we are made whole! 1 Peter 2:24. Amen.
Max Solbrekken World Mission Box 44220 RPO Garside
Edmonton, AB T5V 1N6; MSWM; [email protected]; comehometojesus.ca;
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