God's Love Is Expressed Through The Incarnation: The Word Was Made Flesh/God Became Man -John
Jesus Christ is the love of the Father (Yahweh) expressed, not another "Person" that was beside Him in the beginning. Jesus is the Father's very Person (essence) incarnate as our Saviour. John 1:18 states that no man hath seen God at any time and this is because He is an omnipresent, invisible Spirit. So as to His essence (person/hypostasis) He can't be seen. But Jesus declared (made known/revealed) Him because He is the Father's essence (Person) incarnate as our Saviour. Colossians 1:15 says that Jesus is the visible image (expression/representation) of the one singular invisible God. In other words, He is God's essence (Person) made visible to man in human form.
Hebrews 1:1-3 establishes that Jesus Christ is the brightness (effulgence/reflected brightness) of the Father's glory and the express image (exact copy or expression) of the Father's Person (essence/hypostasis). Jesus is the means by which the light/glory of the Father can be seen. The visible expression of God's invisible essence. The only way God could be seen is through the face of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Word (Logos - divine expression) of John 1:1 expressed and it's all referring to the incarnation when the Word was made flesh and His foreordained plan was put into action.
So Jesus Christ is God Himself (His very Person/essence) manifest to us in human form (a genuine human being). This is why Jesus could say that whoever had seen Him had seen the Father (John 12:45; 14:9). Apart from Jesus Christ we could never see God, but in Christ (through the incarnation) we can see Him through His human existence. We should now be able to see that the Son was not a different Person beside the Father in the beginning. Rather, the Son was hid (concealed, kept secret) in God (in His heart/plan) as the divine expression of love and God spoke all things into existence through the Son in this manner (the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world). But on a particular day, in the fulness of time, God was manifest in the flesh (the Father's divine expression of love was expressed/revealed) - the Word was made flesh!
Ephesians 2:4-7 helps us to see how the incarnation reveals the Father's great love through which He loved us. Jesus is Yahweh's (the Father's) love and kindness toward us (revealed to us). Titus 3:4 talks about after the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared. In other words, after the Word was made flesh (the divine expression of love was expressed by God manifesting in the flesh). This verse is not referring to another Person beside God in the beginning that appeared, because we've already learned that Yahweh (the Father) is the only Saviour (Isaiah 43:3,11; 45:21-25). Jesus is Yahweh the Saviour incarnate. The name Jesus means Yahweh is salvation!
1 John 3:1-5 establishes that the Father was manifested to take away our sins and in Him is no sin. Verse 16 then says that He laid down His life for us (all possible through the incarnation, not through another Person's life that was with Him in the beginning). Jesus is the love of the Father manifested/His eternal life revealed. By understanding that Jesus Christ is the one singular Person (essence/hypostasis) of God incarnate, we can then understand how God purchased the church with His own blood as in Acts 20:28. We can learn so much about the love of God by understanding the incarnation. 1 John 4:8-10 helps us to see that the incarnation is God the Father's love expressed/revealed. John 3:16 can then be seen through the light of Scripture instead of through tradition. Yahweh laid down His life which only became possible through the incarnation. Romans 8:38-39 helps us to see that the love of God is expressed perfectly in Jesus Christ (all that God did in and through the incarnation - death, burial, and resurrection). Romans 5:7-11 confirms that God expresses or shows His love toward us through Jesus Christ (the incarnation) and we are justified by His blood. God as a Spirit hath not flesh and bones, but through the incarnation God took upon Himself the form of a servant for the suffering of death, experiencing a new manner of existence as a man. The appearing of our Saviour is Yahweh Himself incarnate since we know there is only one Saviour. Isaiah 48:11 says that Yahweh (the Father) is the first and the last, the Creator. While in Revelation 1:8 & 22:13 calls Jesus the Almighty, the first and the last. In Revelation 22:16 Jesus is called the root and the offspring of David. Jesus can be called the Root of David because He is God Almighty, but He is also the offspring of David because of the incarnation when human nature was joined to His Person (essence). There are distinctions between Father and Son, but the distinctions aren't between different Persons. The distinctions are due to the incarnation. The one singular God now exists in two different manners as both Father and Son (a genuine man) at the same time. More to come...
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