04-14-2011, 12:00 AM
Did Jesus know who he was from the beginning of his life here on earth?
Probably. But his life as shown in scripture shows a pattern.
He was already learning from the Father as shown by his questions and answers to the learned men when he was just twelve years old. Then, the next thing we see, he is being baptized by John in the river Jordan.
Now the Jordan is the border between following our own inclinations and the land "flowing with milk and honey."
So what was the pattern there for? It was for us who were to follow him. If the bible was just a historical story of the life of Jesus, it would not be of much use to us. No, it is a pattern of our spiritual awakening that we use to see where we are, spiritually.
Until the Bible begins to speak to us it is little more than a history book.
It begins to speak to us when we "find ourselves" in the stories of the Old Testament and the life of Jesus. A map at the mall is of little use without an arrow that says "You Are Here."
Paul was not merely being poetic when he called the OT scriptures the "Oracles of God." He meant it exactly as he said it. Oracles speak directly to the person seeking guidance from the oracle.
When Jesus was baptised he went immediately into the wilderness to be tempted.
As soon as he came out the very first thing he did was to "Find Himself" in the scriptures of Isaiah. He stood up in the synagog and read it and sat back down and said, "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."
Heb 8:5 "..as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount."
When Jesus said "follow me" he was not making a request. He was commanding a thing that would be accomplished whether we are aware of it or not. Our lives follow the life of Jesus. The pattern of his life is the pattern of ours when we begin our spiritual journey.
"On the mount", (a high place in consciousness) where the pattern is shown to us, is the moment we see,... that moment we become aware that we are "in the book", so to speak.
The bible was not just written for us, it was written about us.
As we can see that the bible chronicles the life of the Son of God, so does it chronicle our lives as Sons of God.
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
1jo 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1jo 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
To be fellow heirs is to be "equal."
To be "as he is" in this world is to be "equal."
In the Hebrew culture of those days to be a son is to be "equal" with the father.
Bob
Probably. But his life as shown in scripture shows a pattern.
He was already learning from the Father as shown by his questions and answers to the learned men when he was just twelve years old. Then, the next thing we see, he is being baptized by John in the river Jordan.
Now the Jordan is the border between following our own inclinations and the land "flowing with milk and honey."
So what was the pattern there for? It was for us who were to follow him. If the bible was just a historical story of the life of Jesus, it would not be of much use to us. No, it is a pattern of our spiritual awakening that we use to see where we are, spiritually.
Until the Bible begins to speak to us it is little more than a history book.
It begins to speak to us when we "find ourselves" in the stories of the Old Testament and the life of Jesus. A map at the mall is of little use without an arrow that says "You Are Here."
Paul was not merely being poetic when he called the OT scriptures the "Oracles of God." He meant it exactly as he said it. Oracles speak directly to the person seeking guidance from the oracle.
When Jesus was baptised he went immediately into the wilderness to be tempted.
As soon as he came out the very first thing he did was to "Find Himself" in the scriptures of Isaiah. He stood up in the synagog and read it and sat back down and said, "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."
Heb 8:5 "..as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount."
When Jesus said "follow me" he was not making a request. He was commanding a thing that would be accomplished whether we are aware of it or not. Our lives follow the life of Jesus. The pattern of his life is the pattern of ours when we begin our spiritual journey.
"On the mount", (a high place in consciousness) where the pattern is shown to us, is the moment we see,... that moment we become aware that we are "in the book", so to speak.
The bible was not just written for us, it was written about us.
As we can see that the bible chronicles the life of the Son of God, so does it chronicle our lives as Sons of God.
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
1jo 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1jo 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
To be fellow heirs is to be "equal."
To be "as he is" in this world is to be "equal."
In the Hebrew culture of those days to be a son is to be "equal" with the father.
Bob