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In the Beginning |
Dear Brethren,
There is a growing heresy within God's Church in which
the pre-existence of Jesus Christ, is denied. We hold that
Jesus Christ, the Word of God, existed with the Father from the
beginning, and that the Father brought about all creation through Him
(John 1:1). It is not our intention in this brief statement to argue
whether or not God was "The Father" prior to the birth of the "Son of
God." "By the word of the LORD were the heavens
made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth."
(Psalms 33:6) It is evident from the Scriptures that Jesus Christ,
prior to His birth, was LORD of the Old Testament. Paul establishes that
point in 1Corinthians 10:1-4.
"Brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our
fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all
baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same
spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of
that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was
Christ."
The beloved apostle, John, established that the creation was performed by
Jesus Christ: "All things [the universe] were
made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was
made." (John 1:3)
Those who deny that Jesus died
for our sins, contend that Jesus Christ and the Father are either, one and the
same, or that Jesus is a created being like other men. If Jesus and
the Father are one and the same, He was not actually dead - or He would still be
dead, and we would still be in our sins. If Jesus were a created being
- He could not have paid for the sins of the world; only His own (John 1:29). Jesus is worth more than all the world by nature of the fact that
He is Creator.
It is only by the fact that God the Father raised Jesus from death back to
Spiritual life that He became the firstborn. "[Jesus] is the
image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For
by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that
are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or
principalities, or powers: all things [universes] were created by him,
and for him: And He is before all things, and by Him all
things consist." (Colossians 1:15-17)
Paul wrote to the Ephesians about how God the Father is the
ultimate Creator through Jesus Christ: "Unto me, who am less
than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among
the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is
the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been
hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ."
(Ephesians 3:8-9)
Brethren, do not be confused about the unified
approach to creation by the Father and the Son. Jesus said that they were
in perfect harmony - in everything. "Believe me that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me." (John 14:11) Let's look at one
last Scripture that proves that God the Father created the entire universe
through Jesus Christ: "God, who at sundry times and in divers
manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, has in these last
days spoken unto us by His Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by
whom also He made the worlds." (Hebrews 1:1-2)
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