1. BELIEVE
THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE BELOVED SON OF GOD
The
first important thing concerning Jesus Christ one ought to believe is that
Jesus Christ is the Beloved Son of God, Who proceeded and came forth from the
Father, and that the Father Himself loves us because we have loved Jesus Christ
and have believed that He came from God.
Jesus
said, “I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world
and going back to the Father. In His prayer to the Father He said, “And now,
Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the
foundation of the world” (John
16:28; 17:5).
To
believe that Jesus is the Beloved Son of God is to believe that He is the Word
of God, Who was in the beginning with God, and that all things were created by
Him and without Him was not anything made that was made. It is to believe that,
He is the express image of the invisible God, and in Him all thing in heaven
and earth were created, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominion or
principalities or authorities; all things were created through Him and for Him,
and that He is before all things and in Him all things exists and so it is in
Him we lie, in Him we move and in Him we all have our existence.
Therefore,
to believe in Jesus Christ as the Beloved Son of God is to believe that He is
the One who from the beginning gave the following instructions:-
·
"Let there be light"; and
there was light.
·
"Let there be a firmament in
the midst of the waters, and Let it divide the waters from the waters."
·
"Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit
according to its kind, whose seed is in itself on the earth."
·
"Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the
firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth."
·
"Let the waters abound with an
abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the
face of the firmament of the heavens."
·
"Be fruitful and multiply, and
fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
·
"Let the earth bring forth the
living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of
the earth, each according to its kind";
·
"Let Us make man in Our image,
according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
·
"Be fruitful and multiply; fill
the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds
of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
·
"See, I have given you every
herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree
whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.
·
“Also, to every beast of the earth,
to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which
there is life, I have given every green herb for food";
I
made mention of all these simply to impress on our minds who exactly are we
dealing with, when we referring to Jesus Christ, and professing to believe in
Him.
Now
at the end of it all we are told; “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the
host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He
had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested
from all His work which God had created and made” (Genesis
2:1-3).
To be continued
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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