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The Word of God: Incarnate Today

The Word in flesh

 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1)

There is much that could be said about, and defined as – The Word of God. The most obvious, and the most revered and exalted in the speech and beliefs of Christians is the Word, as the Bible. Sadly, this often leaves the Logos Word, Jesus Christ, in a place He should never be – something less than pre-eminent.

More so than the Word of God – as the Bible, the Church and the world today are in desperate need of a greater understanding of The Word of God – in the Person of Jesus Christ.

This Word has always been. He Is. He put on flesh and became God incarnate into the earth, into humanity – in fact, revealing where humanity and divinity were always meant to collide into Oneness.

Yes, this Jesus died on a Roman Cross for all. He was buried, resurrected, ascended and seated at the right hand of Father’s throne. We know this well, and preach it as Gospel. And it is stunningly beautiful in it’s Mercy and Grace.

But where is Jesus today? Where is the throne? Father’s right hand? Father Himself?

In me. And you – for all who are in Christ. The real beauty of the Gospel is in the Divine Mystery, the paradox that the fullness of God – Father, Son and Spirit – take up residence in both the heavenlies, and in their Family, those who follow Them. The Great Intention is for Their Life to be expressed into the earth as a testimony of Their Divine Nature, Love and as a realization of Their Kingdom… come.

There is access, now, to a Life by which to Live. This Life was given in the Person of Christ, the Logos Word of God.

Saints who have crucified the Self, to Live by this indwelling Life, are the continued incarnation of Christ. The Word of God has Rule and Reign, alive and active, the sharpest of swords – having divided soul and spirit – that the fullness of Eternity is unveiled in the nakedness of now.

The Gospel cannot just be “Christ lives;” but that “Christ Lives… in you, through you.” That, it is not you who lives, but Christ Himself.

As the Word was One with God, those whom He is in, and they in Him – are, too, One with God. As the Word did nothing but what He saw His Father do, and said nothing but what He heard His Father say – from Oneness – so, too, are His branches who do and say out of the Source and Supply of Himself, the Vine. As you saw the face of God when looking upon Jesus – so too can God be seen, felt, touched, heard, real – as those in whom The Word resides and rules now.

The Word of God is more than words on a page. The Word of God, friend, is incarnate, still, today. Father’s desire has always been for His image bearers to be His likeness and nature, to have dominion and rule within His given Life. This has not changed from Eternity past. In the last days, God has “spoken,” giving His Word, through His Son, The Word. Now, His Children can Live by that same Life, the Word of God. To be His image. To express His nature. To exercise His Rule.

The Word of God is not just “up there” sitting. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. When did that stop? When did the Word become mostly a book?

The Word of God is among you, yes. More, He is in you. Even more, when submitted to Live by His Life, The Word of God is you!

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If you can see this, how will this Life change, when Lived as The Word of God into your relationships, atmospheres, etc.? Leave a Comment!

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  • kenneth dawson

    man Brandon that is strong stuff but oh so real–for Gods glory it has got to be him in us,thru us,as us–we become the conduint for divine life to flow–what a privilege.

  • Carol

    In the Eastern Church living by His Life is called theosis or deification.

    “God created man in order to have someone on whom to shower His love …. The glory of God is a human being who is fully alive, and the life of such a person consists in beholding God …. Christ, by reason of His measureless love, became what we are, in order that He might make us what He Himself is.”–Saint Irenaios of Lyons

    God is not the “judge” of men in the sense of a magistrate who passes sentence and imposes a punishment, testifying to the transgression. He is judge because of what He is: the possibility of life and true existence. When man voluntarily cuts himself off
    from this possibility of existence, he is automatically “judged”. It is not God’s sentence but His existence that judges him. God is nothing but an ontological fact of love and an outpouring of love: a fullness of good, an ecstasy of loving goodness …Man is judged according to the measure of the life and existence from which he excludes himself. Sin is a self-inflicted condemnation and punishment which man freely chooses when he refuses to be as a personal hypostasis of communion with God and prefers to “alter” and disorder his existence, fragmenting his nature into individual entities – when he prefers corruption and death …For the Church, sin is not a legal but an existential fact. It is not simply a transgression, but an active refusal on man’s part to be what he truly is: the image and “glory”, or manifestation, of God. ~ Christos Yannaras, The Freedom of Morality

    Our purpose is not to condemn evil, but to correct it. With condemnation people can get lost, with understanding and assistance they will be saved.
    Evil begins from bad thoughts.
    When you are bitter and indignant, even just with your thoughts, you spoil a spiritual atmosphere. You prevent the Holy Spirit from acting and allow the devil to increase the evil.
    You should always pray, love and forgive, driving out of yourself every evil thought. ~Elder Porphyrios of Kapsokalyva

    In Orthodox theology, the two words “image” and “likeness” are not used interchangeably as they are for Roman Catholics and Protestants. For Orthodox Christians, “image” denotes the powers and faculties with which every human being is endowed by God from the first moment of his existence. “Likeness” is the assimilation, the growth process to God through virtue* and grace. We call this growth process “theosis.”
    For Western theology, man was created perfect in the absolute sense and therefore, when he fell, he fell completely away from God. For Orthodox theology, man was created perfect in the potential sense. –Fr. George Nicozisin

    *Virtue is an inner quality of character. Rules and principles are external measures of
    human behavior. Has conformity to “Biblical Principles” rather than grace-infused Christian virtue become the collective popular measure of Christian faith in most contemporary Western Christian parishes? Is this a corruption of Patristic Moral Theology?

    • Thanks, Carol. Some really rich stuff in these quotes.

  • Sam

    Yes, Jesus is The Word. Sadly, we have made the group of writings we call Scripture or the Bible The Word, the very words breathed from the lips of God (a rather anthropomorphic way of thinking), somehow almost equal to God, part of his essence. We can always have that Word present with us.

    Jesus, on the other hand, left the scene a couple of thousand years ago. Wouldn’t it be great if he were around today? He could explain things to us, answer our questions and all that. Sadly, he isn’t, but we do have The Word, the written Word, right? That can answer all our questions and tell us everything we need to know. If you don’t understand what it says, hey, I’ll explain it to you. I doubt you really understand it, but I do, so I’ll explain to you exactly what it means.

    All of this manages to overlook “God with us”. That would be the Spirit, not a group of writings. Have we substituted a book for a relationship with “God with us”? Which is really our God?

    • Haha! I love you, Sam. You make me smile. And yes, I’ve said as much, here, and elsewhere. The Bible is great, in so much as it reveals Jesus to us. But it is not my God.

      • Sam

        “He walks with me and He talks with me, and He tell me I am His own.”

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