Hello brethrens, I hope you are doing great and you are in good health. It's always a great opportunity for me to join the Bible studies session to learn and discover more from God's Word. I really thank God for MCGI and also the leadership for the chance and for the support. Today, I share with you what I learned from the Friday's Bible studies session with Brother Eli Soriano:
Hebrews 4:12 According to apostle Paul the word of God is living. The word of God was with God and it's the personalization in the person of Christ. It is wrong for people to believe Christ does not exist for he was and still he is. He is alive.
1 Corinthians 4:16 made us understand that in him are all things created. So it means that the heavens were created by him(Christ). In John 17:24 We learned that paradise is the place where we will also dwell with the father.
Jeremiah 23:30 The lord says here that he is against the prophets because they hide God's truth. They do not reveal the truth about God's word and so the truth don't reach the intended recipient of the word. According the scripture, the prophets steal the words of God.
John 3:6 That which is born of the spirit is spirit and that which is born of the flesh is flesh. The lord. Christ wasn't just a man but a spirit becuase he was born of the spirit which is God. If God is a spirit and he begots a son, then is of no doubt that the son is a spirit. Jesus Christ was the manifestation of the son in the flesh.
There are many denominations who believe Jesus to be a man, born by a man, grew as man, lived as a man, died as a man and resurrected as man.This cannot be a true doctrine since it's contrary to God's word. Jesus existed as spirit but came to dwell in a body prepared for him on earth according to Hebrews 10:5.
1 Corinthians 15:45, we read that the first Adam became a living soul but the last Adam in the person of Jesus became a life giving spirit. This therefore means that Jesus wasn't an ordinary man but spirit that gives lives. When going to heaven he had a glories body and not that of the earthly blood a d body Philippians 3:20-21
Jesus Christ had a body like ours when he was on earth but transfigured and had a different body. We shall also bear the image of Christ body according to 1 Corinthians 15:40, there are two bodies according the Scriptures which is the heavenly and the earthly bodies. Before ascending to heaven Christ had this glorious body and we shall also have this kind of body too.
According to Philippians 2:7, God was manifest in the flesh in the person of Christ and Christ though in the form of God thought not it equal with God but humble himself till death. This shows us that He and God are of the same. Though the Jews did not believe him to be a son of God or God but he was.
In John 8:58 Jesus tells the jews that before Abraham was, he was, indicating that he has been around before Abraham. The jews tried to kill christ but that was the flesh and not the spirit.The divinity of Christ was in the spirit and not the body.
The teachings about Christ divinity has been taught by many preachers wrongly with some mistaken the identity of the Christ. Through the teaching session, more was shared about the divinity of Christ given me more clarity about Christ the son of God who wasn't just a mere man like the first Adam but was a life given spirit.
As Christians we are not to be afraid of what can kill our body but that which can kill our spirit. The second Adam in the person of Christ gives life and that is why we can have confidence in the salvation that christ gives. Knowing this scriptural truth will help us have hope in the salvation by Christ. We know that Christ can give life and this gives us an assurance of salvation to live for Christ each day.