The Life-Giving Force

Part 2 of God: The Word

Lesson #1 in Studying The Bible – Part 3

If we think outside of the normal words used in describing the three parts of God, what would one call the second part, known as The Son?   I must emphasize this over again. People outside the church community don’t understand this ‘son’ part. However, they have heard that Jesus is the Son of God. There are two challenges here. One, to understand the Son of God, a person must know what or who God is, wouldn’t you think? Secondly, why does God need a son, have one son, or have only one son? That second question requires “next level” thinking that not even most people in the church community have. Allow me to explain without going into the details behind it. 

Simply put, this son we’re talking about is the One who brings Heaven and Earth into alignment or together. ^[1] In other words, this Son is The One who unites Earthly with Heavenly and human beings with The Unlimited-being. ^[1] We will get into this a little more later. 

Limited to the Son
Limiting our understanding of Jesus to only the Son of God as we traditionally know Him is a perspective that must be replaced. That type of thinking is incomplete, and when I say incomplete, it is so incomplete that it barely hits the target when defining the second piece of God. The term “son of God” should rarely be used because He is much more than that. Therefore, we must dispel the notion, idea, and concept of our limited version of even “Jesus.”

We must eliminate the thought that the second part or piece of God is actually the Son but rather something far greater, the Word. While that sounds weird, it very well should because we are speaking of the God-being and not a human being. It should be challenging to comprehend what, who, and even how God is/does what God does. If God were understandable by a limited mind like mine, God would not be God, right? 

What I mean by that is that when we think about the Son, we think about Jesus coming to earth via the immaculate birth through Mary. Even in that thinking, we should have considered what it implies: Jesus entered the world through Mary. That also means that Jesus’ existence started with Mary or at His birth. Herein lies a fundamental problem that limits our idea of this second piece to God. Listen to this. It says that in the beginning, the Word already existed. ^[2] In other words, this word piece of God already existed.

Let’s continue. “This Word was with God, and this Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through Him, this Word. And nothing was created except through Him, this Word.” ^[2]   

This part is the most important. This Word gave life to everything that was created. Therefore, the life-giving force of God is this thing called the Word. It created Heaven and Earth. When God spoke and said, “Let there be…” ^[3] , what was happening was that the Word (this life-giving force) was producing everything that God said. ^[3]

When He said, let there be plants, the Word produced the plant. So the Word was, at the beginning, creating everything that came from the Father. “His life brought life to everyone.” ^[2]  Look at that.

Jesus, The Word in Human Form
So this thing called the Word came from Heaven, from God, into Mary, creating a physical being that we refer to as Jesus, the Son, the only begotten Son. But the Son, in this case, as we know, is simply the Word. It was the Word that became human. ^[4]

The Bible tells us clearly that the Word, the second piece of the Trinity, became human. Let’s review the pieces once more. We have the Father, the first piece of the Trinity, and the second piece of the Trinity, which we can no longer refer solely to as the Son but as the Word. This second piece of the God-being is the Word. This Word not only created everything but also became a human being that we know as Jesus, who invaded the very thing He created to be among the created. That’s what the God-being can do. 

I can stop right there. Get it out of your mind that it’s Father, Son, Holy Ghost, but Father, the Word, and Holy Ghost. You’ll look at your Bible differently when you understand that the Word is the second piece of the Trinity. You’ll begin to interact with it differently because it’s the force that created everything you see and cannot see. In your hands, you hold the life-giving force that created the universe. This is the starting point for taking your study of the Bible, the Word, to the next level.

Question: What limitations have you been placing on “Jesus, the Son of God?”

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[1] Ephesians 1:9-10 NLT, Bible.com, accessed October 8, 2024, https://www.bible.com/bible/116/EPH.1.9-10.NLT
[2] John 1:1-4 NLT, Bible.com, accessed October 14, 2024, https://www.bible.com/bible/116/JHN.1.1-4.NLT
[3] Genesis 1:3-31 NLT, Bible.com, accessed October 14, 2024, https://www.bible.com/bible/116/GEN.1.3-31.NLT
[4] John 1:14 NLT, Bible.com, accessed October 14, 2024, https://www.bible.com/bible/116/JHN.1.14.NLT

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