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  • Prasanth Konde on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    Dear Sir,

    My question is one thing Gensis 5:1 refers word of God came to Abram, who is word of God , Is word of God is father ,son or holyspirit
  • Chris - In Reply on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    Hello Prasanth. In Genesis 15:1, Abram received a vision from God & in it God spoke to Him. As declared to us in the Bible, the Essence of God's Being revealed to us is His Word & His Spirit: not three gods, but One God manifested in the fulness of His Being. So when God speaks, as here, & many other places in the Bible, He is sending out His Word to inform or alert man.

    But when God planned at a specific time that One should lay down His Life for the sins of mankind, instead of giving another animal for sacrifice or creating another man for this purpose, God sent forth His Word (from within Himself), clothed it with flesh, so that the Word of God could now be seen & heard by His people ( John 1:1-14; Hebrews 1:1-6) & ultimately lay down His Life for us all ( John 10:14-18; 1 John 3:16). So the Word of God came into the world formed as a human babe & was called the Son of God ( Luke 1:35).
  • GiGi - In Reply on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    yes, yes, yes!
  • GiGi - In Reply on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    I have been taught that the Father is completely Spirit and cannot be seen by beings he created. But I was taught that Jesus had a form before His incarnation and the Father resides in Him, as Jesus stated this in John 14:7, 9-11. Even though the Father is completely Spirit, it does not mean that He is not personal. But we experience Him through Jesus Christ. The Spirit is also obviously completely Spirit. He is able to reside in us, therefore bringing Jesus and the Father to also reside in each believer. It is such a mystery.

    Many years ago I wrote a song and the first stanza said,

    Father, Son, and Holy Spirit'

    Three in One; yet One in Three;

    Holy God, the One the Only;

    Oh, to grasp Your Mystery!
  • Chris - In Reply on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    Yes indeed GiGi, the LORD God is & can only be Spirit in both His Essence & Form. And through His Being, He is able to send out His Spirit to accomplish His purposes & also His Word to embody it in whatever Form He wishes. For our sakes, His Word became flesh & dwelt among us.

    We are generally told that Jesus came down from Heaven for the sake of suffering & death, taking on humanity. I think this is spoken of in such manner as the deeper theological aspect of it is being 'spared' us; i.e. it's easier to say & comprehend that Jesus came down instead of God's Word changed in composition for the sake of sinners. I liken this to asking Jesus into one's heart when invited to repent & believe. Theologically speaking, we are repenting, believing, being born again, with the Holy Spirit (Christ's Spirit) coming to indwell us. Yes, Jesus does come in, but does so by His Spirit - and I support this by the fact that Jesus, as God in the flesh, is ascended & seated at His Father's right Hand ( Colossians 3:1 & others). At least that's the only way I can understand & apply the Scriptures that speak of this matter.

    And that's a wonderful stanza of your song - very pointed - very apt. Did you put those words into music? I can almost hear it being sung in Heaven with music written from above.
  • GiGi - In Reply on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    Thanks Chris,

    here is the second stanza, and I did put it to music although i am not a musician, more of a poet or lyricist.

    Oh, to see you in Your Glory;

    and behold Your majesty;

    Oh, to be captured by Your beauty

    In Your holiness and power

    I'll have to find my folder that has my lyrics in it. It is in the shed in a box. haven't written any songs for some time.
  • Chris - In Reply on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    That is lovely, sister. Keep writing - for the Glory of God & blessing of the saints.
  • Prasanth Konde - In Reply on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    Dear Chris,

    holysprit reval this answer through you brother ,God bless you



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