God fully loved us that he gave us his only begotten Son that existed with him since the beginning. Jesus said that he is older than Abraham. Likewise this is so, for the Word did not become God but He was God. Being a God before creation, he has a place in the throne of his Father, he being the first born of all creatures.
Jesus is manifested before creation, yet God manifested Jesus by His works. Jesus was God being the Word (John 1:1) of which the Father used Jesus as His mouthpiece as this God said, “Let there be light!” He is our Lord, our Creator and is one with the Father though the Father sent him, that even each is different, both abides with each other constituting the One God.
Jesus became the helpmate of the Father in figuring out the things to come. Though the Father has also the power to do things in his own, it became easier for Him to form the world with Jesus becoming the Word since the beginning. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1). Hence, in the beginning was Jesus, and Jesus were with God, and Jesus was God. The Word of God is one but is of that of the three distinct persons.
We use Jesus were with God, because in the Old Testament, God revealed Himself not as a ‘person’ meaning one, but ‘persons’, of which in Hebrew is identified as plural or the word ‘Elohim’. As different from ‘El’, which is singular noun, ‘Elohim’ which really meant Divine Persons is plural noun with a singular form. Elohim that is plural occurs 2700 times in the Bible. In the magazine KNOW THE TRUTH, Fr. Paul Kaiparambadan explains that Elohim has a plural morphological form in Hebrew (Ref: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
Together with the Spirit, the Father and the Son agree as one, though they function differently, they being distinct from each other, but they are in one accord (John 10:30). The Father is not the Son, nor the Holy Spirit. But the name “Jesus” applies to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit because the Godhead is in Jesus who is eternal as it pleased the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell. Hence, Jesus is the name of the triune God.
The Trinity is distinguishable but indivisible. Trinity is of one Divinity; though composed of the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit. They can be distinguished from each other with either one among the three being distinct from each, but they cannot be divided for they are One God. We use knowledge to know Jesus through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. You cannot twist the works of the Holy Spirit if actually your life is in conflict with the Scriptures.
If your life does not agree with what the Bible teaches, then you don’t live with truth, and you end up deceiving yourself. Holiness teaches us what is the truth as stated in the Bible for the Holy Spirit will guide us then to the truth. It was the spirit of God that moved in the wilderness freeing Abraham from the worship of idols and the Israelites from the bondage of Egypt.
Without Jesus it would not have been in exact accordance for the Father to function in the creation for Jesus being the figure of the things to come become his voice that is one with him, and through Jesus as the Word, light was opened, mountains had shape, trees and plants did grow, animals were created, and man was formed according to the image and likeness of this God giving man God’s own breath. Likewise in the fullness of time the Son was also manifested in human form.
With the love of the Father and the Son, goodness reigned in heaven being the manifestation of the Mighty Power of the Spirit of God, and it move upon the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2). As explained in the magazine ‘Know the Truth’, the original word used in the Bible here for the Spirit of God is “ruah” which always comes in the scripture to denote Holy Spirit (Ref: Jerome Biblical Commentary, PG.11).
The Holy Spirit existed eternally since the creation of heaven. Eternal Existence of the Holy Spirit shows he is God, for only God exists eternally. And in the time right for God, the Spirit that is hovering in the face of the waters came into being. It was manifested in flesh as Christ.
It is Jesus himself who said that all power is given unto him in heaven and in earth. He further said, “Go therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” It follows that the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is “Jesus”. Hence, Peter said unto the disciples: Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38).
Through baptism, we are made whole, and from sins we are revived to health of mind and body healing these, as the Lord builds the temple of his body in three days. Therefore, it is the Eucharist being his own body and blood that becomes our spiritual food, which before many know not. In addition to, with the Eucharist, eyes are opened to the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of our Lord Jesus Christ. For in Jesus, we live, and move, and have our being as his offspring (Acts 17:28).
For this truth, it is the Spirit that guides us, for he shall not speak of himself: but whatsoever he shall hear, that he shall speak: and he will show you things to come. It is Jesus himself speaking to his people who said: “All things that the Father hath are mine (of Jesus): therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you (John 16:15).” Of course the Father did choose the body of Jesus to offer unto us, which we now receive through the Eucharist. And with the word of God, we are sanctified being this as source of truth (John 17:17).
The scripture says, in the day destined, a root of Jessie stands as the ensign of the people: to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations... and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth (Isaiah 11:10-12).
And he did came, Jesus! Likewise, in mercy his throne is established: and once more in the day appointed he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness. Likewise in that day did the Lord of host shall call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth (Isaiah 22:12).
