When Moses saw God, for instance, he was really seeing God the Son because the Son’s the REVEALER. He’s the Word. He’s the one who communicates to us from the godhead.
John 1:18 states, “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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“Someone has said the Lord Jesus Christ is ‘the one who brings God out from behind the curtain; that’s what that word ‘exegesis’ means,” explains Jordan. “It means you take out from obscurity and put up on the stage, under the light. That’s what the Lord Jesus Christ does.
“There’s not any religion on the face of the earth that does or ever has had anybody like that. There’s not a philosophy, or a religion, or a system of economics, or politics, or academia that has anything like Him.
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“Who was it on the Cross shedding His blood? The Lord Jesus Christ. But whose blood was that? Who really was that on the Cross? It was God.
“God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself. And it was God’s blood that flowed through Emmanuel’s veins ‘and sinners plunged beneath the flood lose all their guilty stain.’
“Christ is the one who brings God into every aspect and facet and experience of our life.
“By the way, He does it because of the Cross. I John 4:7 is a fascinating verse of Scripture: ‘Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.’
“If you’re going to love people, you’re going to have to know God. And if you don’t know God, you’re not going to know how to love people.
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“Paul begins Philippians 2, ‘If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.’
“Life starts out of, as Jesus Christ says, ‘the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.’ (Luke 6:45). Proverbs 4:23 says, ‘Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.’
“Your life proceeds forth out of something inside of you. The outward activities are just the expression of something that’s inside, and this passage is talking about what’s inside that is to be working in and through you.
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“Bowels and mercies. People say, ‘What’s that? Paul writes, ‘For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.’ Obviously, he’s using a figure of speech or a metaphor.
“The bowels of something is the innermost recesses. Bowels of the cave; bowels of a ship.
“Isaiah 16:11 says, ‘Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.’
“He’s talking about, ‘I’m going to have some groaning way down in the depths of my inner man; my inward parts,’ and he’s not just talking about his physical anatomy; he’s talking about his soul.
“I John 3:17 is another place that helps you: ‘But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?’
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“He’s talking about the innermost part of a person’s soul. By the way, the issue about the bowels of compassion—that’s where compassion comes from.
“If there’s something that can go right down into the depths of your soul, where life really comes from . . . is there any of that? It’s all in Christ. Now, he says, ‘If all this identity, and these things you have in Christ are true, here’s the mindset it’s going to produce.’
“He encourages in Philippians 2:2, ‘Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.’ He’s saying, ‘Here’s the thing I’m trying to get done in the ministry.
“Paul goes on, ‘Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. [4] Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. [5] Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.’
“ ‘In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves’—that’s the whole key!
“By the way, verse 4 is a great verse to remind you you have to be careful when you read the Bible. If you take that verse out of its context, and take it literally, you can see how that verse will get you into trouble!”
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