Jesus as
the Logos Word
John 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Greek:
In the beginning was the logos, and the logos was in fellowship and communion
with God, and God was the logos.
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The word of
God is comprised of the logos and the rhema word. Both are absolutely essential in furnishing us with the fullness
of God’s knowledge and will, both as individual believers and corporately in
our churches. The logos word defines God
in general concepts and ideas to give us the “big picture” of who God is.
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The rhema
word is a moment-to-moment portion of the logos word uttered by the voice of God’s
Spirit and “tailored made” to equip us with God’s commands, guidance, and the fulfillment
of our needs in accordance to our specific circumstances.
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With
God: Not that Jesus was with God as one who was
next or alongside Him, but as one that is with God because He lives in
continual fellowship and communion with Him.
· The word was God. More correctly, “God was the logos”. Jesus, as God the Son, is first found in an eternal and continual communion with God the Father, so He can then come to mankind as the logos word, which translated and interpreted to us the conceptuality of the Father.
· In that God was the logos, we are shown that God was not just devoted to being interpreted to humanity through the coming of “Jesus Christ as the logos word.” While Jesus was on earth 2000 years ago, God was still very much operating the affairs of the universe through the power of His rhema word.
Hebrews 1:3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by the word of his power ( the rhema words put out by His dunamis power), when
he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on
high;
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Greek paraphrase: Who being the perfect
reflection of God’s glory (Jesus is)
and the perfect expression of the character and integrity of God’s substance, He also bears all things by
the rhema word, which when He speaks releases His acts of dunamis power,
through which acts, He bears all…..
Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
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Greek paraphrase: Through faith we understand that the worlds
and periods of times that span eternity are made, furnished and equipped,
framed, and then hung (as
completed paintings along the walls of God’s eternal plans) through His rhema word, so that what we
see today was made out of things which are invisible to the naked eye.
John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
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This one
was from all eternity is in constant communion and fellowship with God. (John repeats the theme of verse one to
emphasize the complete sufficiency of Jesus to assume the role of “God, the logos word” to
humanity.
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All
things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
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Greek
paraphrase: all things through Jesus
became a reality, and apart from His doing, not even one thing that has any
eternal impact became a reality.
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Herein we
see the grave importance of continually walking in the Spirit and accomplishing
everything through the rhema word of God.
Only what Jesus does through us by the vehicle of “the dunamis power
of His rhema word” will have an everlasting impact. Church programs, and
fleshly methods and strategies of serving God only carry a temporary
influence. This is what the Bible calls
“dead works”.
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In
him was life; and the life was the light of men.
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His life
is the light of people.
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¶
And the light shineth
in darkness; and the darkness comprehended
it not.
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And this
light continually shines in the darkness.
Please note that it does not say that the light produced
by the life of Jesus illuminate the darkness of this world. It says that the light continues to
shine in this darkness.
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“To shine
is” the natural function of light. When the darkness of rebellious humanity is
so thick, the life of Jesus will not always illuminate it, but it will never
stop it from shining. This is what it
means that the darkness comprehend it not. “To
comprehend” is a faulty translation. The Greek tells us that the darkness of
man is unable to stop the shining of the life of Jesus because it is powerless
to take a hold of it, so that it can possess it, and then stop it from shining.
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There
was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
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There was
a man sent from God with an apostolic mission, whose name was John. The “sent from God” is the Greek perfect tense. As we have learned before, the Greek perfect
tense describes an accomplished event with everlasting results. Because God sent John, His mission had an
eternal impact. If God had not sent
John his mission and ministry would have fizzled out. What a sobering thought for us today! We must be sure that we are sent of God!
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The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all
men through him might believe.
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The
same came for a witness The literal Greek says “ He came into a witness” Or we can say that the purpose of John’s
ministry was to produce a witness.
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When we pour motor oil into a
car engine, the “pouring into” has a purpose and a function. The oil lubricates the engine and prevents
it from breaking down. The mission of all believers is to have their lives “poured
into and producing a functioning witness of the Light” which is none
other than the life of Jesus.
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A witness, or the bearer of testimony in the
court of law, produces sufficient evidence for a jury to reach an adequate
verdict of innocence or guilt. The
ministries of all believers should operate to produce sufficient witness of the
life of Jesus so that the jury of the world can accept or reject Him.
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The “bulk of judicial testimony for His
acceptance or rejection” can only come through a combinatory evidence of the
word of God, the signs of wonders produced by miracles, and the gifts of the
Holy Spirits, such as prophecy, and physical healing (really the gifts of
instantaneous cures), all done in love.
Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
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Greek
paraphrase: The only thing that has strength to prevail and bring forth the
kingdom of God is faith (our uncompromising trust and obedience to God’s rhema word) as we carry it out in love.
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Heb
2:4 God also bearing them witness, both
with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost,
according to his own will?
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Greek
paraphrase: God adding His evidence (to that of those that were ministering for Him) both
by signs and wonders, and different types of displays of His dunamis power, and
distributions of His Holy Spirit in accordance to His will.
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The word for
witness in the Greek is the word martyr. Only believers, who are spiritual martyrs, in
that their self-life is put to the cross, will allow Jesus to be formed and
displayed through them, and produce sufficient evidence for the world to accept
or reject Him.
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I would like
to discuss with you a few more significant scriptural instances of the word “in
or into”
John 6:28 ¶ Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
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Jesus
answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him (Into Him) whom he hath sent.
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In verse
twenty-eight of John six, the disciples ask the Lord for the keys to working
the works of God. Jesus tells them that
the keys to performing the works of God are for the disciples to believe Into
Jesus himself.
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We must
first understand that scriptural believing is never a mental ascent of faith,
or an endless barrage of positive confessions. “To believe” comes from the word for faith. The faith that the believer must operate in is
the faith of God.
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We have
learned that the faith of God is an attribute of the rhema word, in that every
rhema word has the faith of God resident in it to make it come to pass.
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“To believe
in Jesus” is to be continually conducting our Christian walks in accordance to
the rhema word.
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As the
famous expressions of the sixties “ Man, I’m really into this, or I’m into
this music.” is the same thing as being into Jesus, so
that He consumes us.
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Our being
into Jesus, just as motor oil is poured into an engine, produces the revelation
of Jesus and His works in us. First we are in Jesus, and then Jesus becomes
produced in us. Please look at the order of John 14:20.
John 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Ephesians 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward ( Into us) who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
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The same
thread is seen in Ephesians one and nineteen.
The “exceeding greatness” of God’s power is defined as power with the magnitude
as of a homerun hit over our heads. The dunamis power of God as with the magnitude
of a homerun (above what we request or think) is funneled into to
become outwardly operational through believers who live in continual
and unwavering obedience to God.
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My wife Mary
recently had a tremendous vision from the Lord that illustrates the principle
of believing into Jesus. The
Lord showed her a picture of a whale plumbing the depths of the oceans and only
on occasions coming up for air. The whale does not live to get air. It lives
for the depths of the seas. The air is only an inferior necessity. Christians
that believes into Jesus, lives in the depths of the Spirit of
God. Food, the world, and sleep are the
occasional breaths that they must come up to get, and then go back to sound out
the deep things of God once again.
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John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He
that cometh after me is
preferred before me: for he was before me.
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Is
preferred This is not
an accurate translation. In reality is preferred should be He
became.
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The “He
became” is in the Greek perfect tense. Jesus became already and is forevermore. Though
Jesus came after John, the fact that He has eternally become puts John after
Him.
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The
importance of this revelation for us is as follows. Jesus has eternally become in us. We do not ask Jesus to give us
this blessing or this other thing. He
has eternally become in us! What we
need is a spirit of wisdom and revelation to experientially day-to-day know
this Jesus who has eternally become in us.
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And
of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
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Verse sixteen
is the product of verse fifteen.
Because Jesus has eternally become in us, we have received of His
fullness.
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The fullness
of something is the substance, ingredients and qualities that make something to
be what it is, exclusively and independently of anything else in this
world. The fullness of Coca Cola is the
liquid inside the bottle of Coca Cola.
Colossians
2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness
of the Godhead bodily.
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The
fullness, or the ingredients, and substance, which makes the Godhead, or the Trinity,
to be what it is, exclusive of anything else in this world, lives in Jesus. Because Jesus has become in us, we have
received of this fullness.
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John
1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
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The fullness
of God within us produces a constant exchange of a newer grace in us for the
one that was already new, in an unceasing flow of grace for grace that operates
to manifest this fullness in proportion to our obedience.
Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is
the head of all principality and power:
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To be
complete In Christ is defined as being fulfilled in Him. The fulfillment in us is the manifested
fullness of God as it continually furnishes us both with what we need to be
conformed to the image of His Son, as well as with all that we are deficient for
the accomplishment of His work. This occurs through the unremitting flow of
grace for grace as it is exerted by His manifested fullness in us.
Eph 1:23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
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The
manifestation God’s fullness comes about as believers are filled in every part
of their lives with the fullness of God, and that, through their obedience.
Col
1:19 For it pleased the Father that in
him should all fulness dwell;
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And,
having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things
unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in
heaven.
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Because the
fullness of God dwells within the Lord Jesus, He is able to reconcile all
things unto Himself. To reconcile
is defined as the exchange of one thing for another.
2
Cor 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors
for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead,
be ye reconciled to God.
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be
made the righteousness of God in him.
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Eph
1:7 In whom we have redemption through
his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us( INTO US) in all
wisdom and prudence;
2
Cor 5:17 Therefore if any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things
are become new.
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The end
result of this process of reconciliation is found in 2 Corinthians five and
seventeen. We are new creatures. The old has passed by and faded away. All
things have become new in us with freshness of the quality and smell of a brand
new car.
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“To become new”, is in the Greek perfect
tense. Once again, through the
exchange, or the reconciliation of Christ, in which He became sin and we became
a righteousness of God, the old has permanently passed away and the freshness
of all things in our lives as brand new is now an eternal reality.
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John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the
bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
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Finally the Greek tells us this in John 1:18;
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Paraphrase: The only born Son which is INTO the bosom of the Father (allowing
Him to assume the role of the logos word) has related in full,
translated, and interpreted the Father to humanity.
God Bless You,
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