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Wednesday 12 June 2024

The Word became flesh

  The Logos, the Word, was divine and existed with the Most High God, destined to become the Christ. The Word was divine in the sense of being a pure spirit, free from the limitations and weaknesses of human flesh, and immune to the pain of temptation. The Word did not possess human weaknesses or failures before becoming flesh. Then, the Most High God sent out the Word, endowing the Word with a body; a body of flesh that the Word willingly took on, entering the realm of flesh, known for its susceptibility to failure due to weakness. "The flesh is weak." Distinct from the Most High God, the Word became the only-begotten offspring of the Most High God at the moment of conception, on receiving a body of flesh from God. The Word, in flesh, became the man named Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the Most High God, and was truly human with the potential for failure. Nevertheless, he lived a perfect life, surpassing even his human ancestor King David, who had been flawless in obeying God's commands except in the matter of Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah. Jesus excelled beyond David. He was human, yet exemplified the highest potential of humanity, remaining closest to his original divine purity. 


This makes him the ideal mediator between a perfectly holy God and weak, failing humanity. He became a sacrifice for humanity, purifying his disciples from their sins by dying on the cross in perfect obedience, despite being the perfect human. He lived in a way his disciples could emulate by believing in him, internalizing his teachings, and receiving knowledge of the truth from Jesus the Christ. His unity with both the Most High God and his disciples was due to the spiritual words of the Most High God that he taught to his disciples, continued through the Holy Spirit during and after Pentecost. The disciples could and must live this way to be children of God. The words, teachings, and spirit are like an inner gyroscope constantly working within each person who embraces them, continually correcting and keeping them upright in their lives, maintaining a heavenly uprightness that pleases God and is acceptable to humanity, thus creating an inner unity of spirit shared by all. Living this way, they have Jesus' promise of eternal life. God raised His Son from the dead a few days after the crucifixion, and He can also raise the disciples who are worthy.


Now alive from the dead, Jesus possesses more of his former glorious Godlikeness, no longer constrained by the weaknesses he had before his death. This transformation will also occur for those he raises to eternal life. The Lord Jesus will then sit upon his Father’s throne until all enemies, along with all others, all except the Father Himself, are made subject to him. The Father, the Most High God, his God, ensures this. After everything is subjected to him, he will, in turn, be subject forever to God his Father. God will be all in all. This is why Jesus calls his Father, his God, the only true God.