Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 03.10.1999
Godīs logic
God is the God of order and peace. His creatures tell us something about Him. When He does something, He is logical and systematic. His logic is miraculous. Chaos is somewhere far beyond the back of God.
The dimensions of God
The one and only God is introduced in the Bible as three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. If we look at the creation we live in, it is completely sensible talk that 1 = 3 and 3 = 1.
The dimensions of space, material, man, sense and knowledge resemble the dimensions of God. Of course the Maker is seen in his deeds. Compare the following trinities.
God = Father, Jesus, the Holy Spirit
Space = height, length, width
Material = solid, liquid, gas
A human being = body, soul, spirit
Sense = sight, hearing and feeling (taste and smell are included in feeling)
Knowledge = act, word, thought
Sin = selfishness, greed, pride
Salvation = love, faith, hope
The one and only God is introduced in the Bible as three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. If we look at the creation we live in, it is completely sensible talk that 1 = 3 and 3 = 1.
The dimensions of space, material, man, sense and knowledge resemble the dimensions of God. Of course the Maker is seen in his deeds. Compare the following trinities.
God = Father, Jesus, the Holy Spirit
Space = height, length, width
Material = solid, liquid, gas
A human being = body, soul, spirit
Sense = sight, hearing and feeling (taste and smell are included in feeling)
Knowledge = act, word, thought
Sin = selfishness, greed, pride
Salvation = love, faith, hope
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
God, the Father is high up and sits permanently on the throne. The only valuable aim is to see his shape.
Jesus came a long way, when He being God became a human being, being the perfect man became a sinner on the cross for our sins. He came from Heaven to Hell and back to the Brightness. His soul was shed to the ground that we could be able to hear the voice of God.
The Holy Spirit is present all over the world, so widely that no thought can hide from God. He is invisible, but his touch can be felt. Only God is wise!
God, the Father is high up and sits permanently on the throne. The only valuable aim is to see his shape.
Jesus came a long way, when He being God became a human being, being the perfect man became a sinner on the cross for our sins. He came from Heaven to Hell and back to the Brightness. His soul was shed to the ground that we could be able to hear the voice of God.
The Holy Spirit is present all over the world, so widely that no thought can hide from God. He is invisible, but his touch can be felt. Only God is wise!
Truth table of the gospel
Let us define the boolean variables A and B in the next way:
A = false: I love injustice and sin and I hate justice and righteousness.
A = true: I love justice and righteousness and I hate injustice and sin.
B = false: God hates me and I am under His judgement.
B = true: God loves me and I am under His grace.
From these two variables can be made the truth table where all four possible states are:
The state 1: A = false and B = false, result = godless man
The state 2: A = true and B = false, result = man under the law
The state 3: A = false and B = true, result = man of lawlessness
The state 4: A = true and B = true, the result = man of God
Everybody can understand that only one of the four possible states is good. The state one gives the result that I love sin and I am under God's wrath. The state two gives the result that I love justice and I am under God's wrath. The state three gives the result that I love sin and I am under God's grace. The state four gives the result that I love justice and I am under God's grace.
The state one means that man is obviously godless. The state two means that man tries to get God's favour through his own deeds. He is a religious and good man, but he doesn't accept the atonement work of Jesus which God offers him. In the Bible he is called a man under the law. The state three means that man believes in Jesus, but yet he wants to live in sin. Many who are called Christians are this kind of people. In the Bible they are called men of lawlessness. The state four means that man is man of God. He has got the access under God's grace after receiving Jesus as the Saviour of his own sins. He has received Jesus also as his Lord and God. When looking at the glory of Jesus he has learnt to love justice and to hate injustice.
Let us define the boolean variables A and B in the next way:
A = false: I love injustice and sin and I hate justice and righteousness.
A = true: I love justice and righteousness and I hate injustice and sin.
B = false: God hates me and I am under His judgement.
B = true: God loves me and I am under His grace.
From these two variables can be made the truth table where all four possible states are:
The state 1: A = false and B = false, result = godless man
The state 2: A = true and B = false, result = man under the law
The state 3: A = false and B = true, result = man of lawlessness
The state 4: A = true and B = true, the result = man of God
Everybody can understand that only one of the four possible states is good. The state one gives the result that I love sin and I am under God's wrath. The state two gives the result that I love justice and I am under God's wrath. The state three gives the result that I love sin and I am under God's grace. The state four gives the result that I love justice and I am under God's grace.
The state one means that man is obviously godless. The state two means that man tries to get God's favour through his own deeds. He is a religious and good man, but he doesn't accept the atonement work of Jesus which God offers him. In the Bible he is called a man under the law. The state three means that man believes in Jesus, but yet he wants to live in sin. Many who are called Christians are this kind of people. In the Bible they are called men of lawlessness. The state four means that man is man of God. He has got the access under God's grace after receiving Jesus as the Saviour of his own sins. He has received Jesus also as his Lord and God. When looking at the glory of Jesus he has learnt to love justice and to hate injustice.
Logic of the gospel
Man who is struggling with his feelings of guilt considers it good news, if he hears that his injustices are forgiven. Man who is fighting against his bad lusts considers it good news, if he hears that he needs no more to sin.
The better man knows God, the more sensitively he feels his guilt after doing wrong. On the other hand, the closer to God he is, the more sensitively he also experiences all other things as God does. He doesn't remain prisoner of his guilt, but believes that God forgave him, because God experiences that the sacrifice of Jesus is enough to reconcile all sins to Him. He also doesn't remain prisoner of his bad lusts, because cleanliness and goodness which are coming from God teach him to love justice and hate injustice and give also power to live pure life.
How can we turn also the other variable to the value true in the case of the man who is under the law? The stressing of God's graciousness doesn't influence him, because he doesn't feel the need of any grace! Therefore it is better to appeal to the inadequacy of his own goodness compared to the perfectly good God. May his guilt wake up when he looks at the perfect goodness of God in Jesus Christ. Maybe he will humble himself to comply with the fact that also he needs Jesus for atoning his sins.
How can we turn also the other variable to the value true in the case of the man of lawlessness? The stressing of God's holiness doesn't influence him, because he is so happy in his faith. He doesn't feel any need to live holy life. Therefore it is better to appeal to the fact that Jesus must be Lord in his practical life. May he wake up to see the glory and power of Jesus. Maybe he will humble himself to confess that he has misused God's grace and he will receive Jesus as the Lord of his life.
How could we turn the both variables of the godless one to the values true? We pronounce him the crucified and resurrected Jesus Christ so that he would directly become a true believer.
Jesus exists, so that you would see in His light the truth of yourself and God.Jesus died for you, that you could be forgiven your sins.
Jesus was resurrected and lives, that you could have the Lord, who will give you a victory over all your temptations and over the power of evilness and will lead you to the friendship of God and the richer life than the variety of whole nature.
Man who is struggling with his feelings of guilt considers it good news, if he hears that his injustices are forgiven. Man who is fighting against his bad lusts considers it good news, if he hears that he needs no more to sin.
The better man knows God, the more sensitively he feels his guilt after doing wrong. On the other hand, the closer to God he is, the more sensitively he also experiences all other things as God does. He doesn't remain prisoner of his guilt, but believes that God forgave him, because God experiences that the sacrifice of Jesus is enough to reconcile all sins to Him. He also doesn't remain prisoner of his bad lusts, because cleanliness and goodness which are coming from God teach him to love justice and hate injustice and give also power to live pure life.
How can we turn also the other variable to the value true in the case of the man who is under the law? The stressing of God's graciousness doesn't influence him, because he doesn't feel the need of any grace! Therefore it is better to appeal to the inadequacy of his own goodness compared to the perfectly good God. May his guilt wake up when he looks at the perfect goodness of God in Jesus Christ. Maybe he will humble himself to comply with the fact that also he needs Jesus for atoning his sins.
How can we turn also the other variable to the value true in the case of the man of lawlessness? The stressing of God's holiness doesn't influence him, because he is so happy in his faith. He doesn't feel any need to live holy life. Therefore it is better to appeal to the fact that Jesus must be Lord in his practical life. May he wake up to see the glory and power of Jesus. Maybe he will humble himself to confess that he has misused God's grace and he will receive Jesus as the Lord of his life.
How could we turn the both variables of the godless one to the values true? We pronounce him the crucified and resurrected Jesus Christ so that he would directly become a true believer.
Jesus exists, so that you would see in His light the truth of yourself and God.Jesus died for you, that you could be forgiven your sins.
Jesus was resurrected and lives, that you could have the Lord, who will give you a victory over all your temptations and over the power of evilness and will lead you to the friendship of God and the richer life than the variety of whole nature.
Blessed division
In mathematics it is so that a number can be divided with a number that is less than one. However we cannot apply this division in our practical affairs. If you divide some number with the number that is less than one, you will be outside of your normal experiences, because quotient is greater than the dividend number. Or how do you divide a bread with the half?
One divided with half is two. 1 : 1/2 = 2
Jesus fed over five thousand men with some breads. He took a bread to his hand and divided it with the half and so from one bread it became two breads. We are able to divide a bread only with number one or greater. We divide it with two and give the half away and keep the other half ourselves. Often we divide a bread with one and keep the whole bread ourselves. In the fission of a cell it is also the same case, one is divided with half and the result is two cells. Life is blessed division.
"Taking the five loaves and the two fishes and looking up to heaven, He gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people." Matth.14:19 Because in His hands there is life, He can make a blessed division.
It is said about the congregation of the Bible: "All the believers were one in heart and mind. No-one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had." Acts 4:32 It was not like communism, because it said that what is yours is also mine. They had so good relationship with each others that they shared their needs. Their attitudes on ownership were changing when Jesus touched their practical life.
When Jesus set the Lord's Supper He took a bread, gave thanks and broke it and gave parts to His disciples and said: "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me." The blood of Jesus was shed for the forgiveness of our sins, but His body died so that we could get a share of God's life. Jesus distributed Himself to us.
Also I have something of the life of Jesus. My life and deeds cannot prove to you the whole Jesus, but all believers together will do it. Some believer can maybe give you all knowledge of Bible's Jesus, but one person cannot prove to you in practice the whole richness of life that is in Jesus.
He has dispensed His life to His owns. "Now you are the body of Christ and each one of you is a part of it." 1Cor.12:27 . A membership of a church is only to be a part of an earthly association, but to be a part of Jesus is a share in the blessed dividing that happened on Golgotha. He gave His body for you so that you would be able to eat God's word into your spirit and would get eternal life.
A follower of Jesus is a fraction. When all believers are added the sum will be one. They are "one in heart and mind". God says about husband and wife: "So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." Matth.19:6 Husband and wife are so halves. When they accept to be dependent of each other they represent that blessed dividing that receives with joy children and produces the happiness of home.
The modern man wants to be the one integer. Therefore they stress that it is a union of two independent and whole ones. When they accept to be independent of each other they represent the selfish dividing that produces a cold and unkind home for children, if they are wanted at all.
Jesus Himself is the fraction 1/3. He did not do anything alone, but always together with Father and the Holy Spirit. God is the One. Don't divide Him with three, but divide Him with 1/3 and you will get 3, in other words the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Although He is three, the three are in agreement.
In mathematics it is so that a number can be divided with a number that is less than one. However we cannot apply this division in our practical affairs. If you divide some number with the number that is less than one, you will be outside of your normal experiences, because quotient is greater than the dividend number. Or how do you divide a bread with the half?
One divided with half is two. 1 : 1/2 = 2
Jesus fed over five thousand men with some breads. He took a bread to his hand and divided it with the half and so from one bread it became two breads. We are able to divide a bread only with number one or greater. We divide it with two and give the half away and keep the other half ourselves. Often we divide a bread with one and keep the whole bread ourselves. In the fission of a cell it is also the same case, one is divided with half and the result is two cells. Life is blessed division.
"Taking the five loaves and the two fishes and looking up to heaven, He gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people." Matth.14:19 Because in His hands there is life, He can make a blessed division.
It is said about the congregation of the Bible: "All the believers were one in heart and mind. No-one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had." Acts 4:32 It was not like communism, because it said that what is yours is also mine. They had so good relationship with each others that they shared their needs. Their attitudes on ownership were changing when Jesus touched their practical life.
When Jesus set the Lord's Supper He took a bread, gave thanks and broke it and gave parts to His disciples and said: "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me." The blood of Jesus was shed for the forgiveness of our sins, but His body died so that we could get a share of God's life. Jesus distributed Himself to us.
Also I have something of the life of Jesus. My life and deeds cannot prove to you the whole Jesus, but all believers together will do it. Some believer can maybe give you all knowledge of Bible's Jesus, but one person cannot prove to you in practice the whole richness of life that is in Jesus.
He has dispensed His life to His owns. "Now you are the body of Christ and each one of you is a part of it." 1Cor.12:27 . A membership of a church is only to be a part of an earthly association, but to be a part of Jesus is a share in the blessed dividing that happened on Golgotha. He gave His body for you so that you would be able to eat God's word into your spirit and would get eternal life.
A follower of Jesus is a fraction. When all believers are added the sum will be one. They are "one in heart and mind". God says about husband and wife: "So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." Matth.19:6 Husband and wife are so halves. When they accept to be dependent of each other they represent that blessed dividing that receives with joy children and produces the happiness of home.
The modern man wants to be the one integer. Therefore they stress that it is a union of two independent and whole ones. When they accept to be independent of each other they represent the selfish dividing that produces a cold and unkind home for children, if they are wanted at all.
Jesus Himself is the fraction 1/3. He did not do anything alone, but always together with Father and the Holy Spirit. God is the One. Don't divide Him with three, but divide Him with 1/3 and you will get 3, in other words the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Although He is three, the three are in agreement.
The Bible version used in references is NIV