![]() He was set up from everlasting his goings forth in the covenant were of old the elect were chosen in him before the foundation of the world and had grace given them in him, before that began - all of which suppose his eternal existence. Therefore, as the apostle Paul argues, he must be before all things ( Colossians 1:15-17). Christ was not only before Abraham, but before Adam, and before any creature was in being, for he is the beginning, the first Cause of the creation of God, ( Revelation 3:14) the first born, or rather, the first parent and producer of every creature.Īs the word prwtotokov, by the removal of the accent, may be rendered, which best agrees with the apostle's reasoning in the next verse where all things are said to be created by him. Jesus Christ Is EternalĮternity is a perfection of God. It is not derived from another he is over all, God blessed for ever. But, as God, he owes his life and being to none. As man and mediator, he has a life given him for himself and others, and lives by the Father. So it is with Christ - he is autoyeov, God of himself. God is necessarily self-existent and independent of any. Otherwise it could not be said that all the fullness of Deity was in him. "Rest in the Lord, ans wait patiently for Him." (Psalm 37.The Deity of Christ may be proved from the divine perfections He possesses - "for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead" ( Colossians 2:9) - not one perfection of the divine nature excepted. ![]() Our attitude must be a quiet, restful faith, a humble, lowly dependence on the word. ![]() And as surely as He is the unchangeable One, His presence - the power of an endless life - will be with each of His servants who trust Him. The omnipotent Christ is the omnipresent Christ the ever-present is the everlasting, unchangeable One. It does not depend on what we do, but on what He does. And "all the days" implies also, "all the day." There need not be a moment without that presence. When Christ says "always" (literally "all the days"), He means to assure us that we need not have a day of our life without that blessed presence with us. everything depends on faith - accepting Christ's word as a divine reality and trusting the Holy Spirit to make it true to us from moment to moment. Here, as elsewhere in the spiritual life. Yet many a servant of Christ finds it difficult to understand all that is implied in this promise and how it can become his daily, practical experience. It also makes the grace that enables us to claim the presence as our strength and our joy something inexpressibly blessed. The revelation of God's omnipresence in the man Christ Jesus makes the mystery still deeper. The writer of Psalm 139 speaks of God's omnipresence as something beyond comprehension.: "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me it is high, I cannot attain it." He immediately followed with the promise, "I am with you always." The Omnipotent One is surely the Omnipresent One. When Christ said to His disciples, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and earth" (Matth. To His "I am with you," the faith responds, "You are with me." God promises His servants that His unseen presence is with them. The second thought in Scripture is His omnipresence. And the first thought about the true God is His omnipotence: "I am God Almighty" (Gen. The first thing that comes to the human's mind when thinking of a god is power, however limited. ![]() "I will certainly be with you." (Exodus 3.12)
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