Word Made Flesh

We know that the Word was in the beginning with God and that the Word is God. (John 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.) Therefore it cannot be a black book filled with letters and words.

Jesus Himself said that we search the Scriptures trying to find life, but cannot. We must come to the One who is the Life, the truth and the way (John 5:39  Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me).

That black book which we call the Bible is filled with symbols and allegories which lead us to the Word Itself, which is God. One of those symbols is that of the seed.

The Word is a seed: Mark 4:14  The sower soweth the word.

Christ is a seed:

Galatians 3:16  Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

That seed is invisible —until it generates and becomes flesh.

Now there is flesh which is not generated of God, but rather of the serpent, the Adam man who believes he is a separate being from God. Both Jesus and John the Baptist referred to that flesh as the generation of vipers (see Declaring His Generation).

It is also referred to by Paul as sinful flesh.

Romans 8:3  For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Sin in the flesh is that mistaken identity (believing that our origin is in man rather than in God) which Jesus condemned, and indeed destroyed, on the cross.

Romans 6:6

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

Hebrews 2:14

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

Both James and John tell us that in our true identity we are generated out of God, that we are not the generation of the serpent man which was destroyed on the cross.

James 1:18

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

John 1:12-13

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Though this is the truth of who we are, we have to recognize it. It is only through recognition (or realization) that the sinful flesh becomes the Word made flesh. Even Jesus Himself had to increase in wisdom and stature (Luke 2:52), had to grow into the understanding that he was not born of flesh and blood, but that His Father was God. It was not until then that

John 1:14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

The Word which was in the beginning with God had now become visible; the Christ (the seed) which was generated of God became observable to all those who came in contact with the man Jesus.

Not everyone discerned what they were observing. But Peter did. He knew that the Son of man and the Christ, the Son of the living God were one and the same.

Matthew 16:13-16  When Jesus … asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Like Jesus, we come into this world believing that we are generated of sperm and egg until we get the revelation of Jesus’ words:

Matthew 23:9  And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

We come into the recognition (as Jesus did) that we were generated out of God, not man. This is what we call re-generation or

1Peter 1:23  Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

We have followed Jesus in the regeneration (Matthew 19:28). Now the invisible Word (the seed, the Christ) can also be made flesh in us and become visible to those around us.

For God has AGAIN become our Father as He was in the beginning.

Hebrews 1:5  For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

We have submitted ourselves to the original creation:

John 3:5 (MESSAGE) Jesus said, You’re not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation —the wind hovering over the water creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life— it’s not possible to enter God’s kingdom.

The stronger the recognition of I and my Father are one (John 10:30), the more we transcend this material sense of being so that we can do the works of Jesus, and even greater works —because He has ascended to my Father and your Father (John 14:12; 20:17), again becoming invisible to the people in this world.

It is ONLY when the Word is made flesh in you and in me that the people around us are able to see God (the invisible Word).

John 14:9  … he that hath seen me hath seen the Father …

They will not see the Father just because we’ve received Jesus as our personal Savior and called ourselves born-again Christians. They will see the Father only when the invisible Word becomes flesh in us —when we, first of all, become aware of our origin and then make them aware of theirs (see Declaring His Generation).

And the whole creation will groan and travail no longer; for the sons of God will have been manifested in the earth. We will have been delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Romans 8:18-19  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. Romans 8:21-22  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.).

The glory which Jesus referred to in John 17 will have been revealed in us.

John 17:22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.