Whole Gospel Ministries
August 5, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
PERSON: THE VERY INMOST NATURE
“Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person.”
Heb. 1:3, A.V.
“The Greek Word ‘hupostasis,’ translated to English ‘person’ is the same word rendered ‘substance’ in Heb. 11:1 [‘Faith is the substance of things hoped for’]; whereas in 1 Cor. 11:17 and Heb. 3:14 it is translated ‘confidence.’”
August 4, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
THE ‘EXPRESS IMAGE OF THE PERSON’ OF GOD THE FATHER
“Who being the. . . . express image of His person.”
Heb. 1: 3, A.V.
For a Biblical reference on the glory of God being the sum total of His divine attributes, see Exo. 33: 18; 34: 6,7.
“Man was created [never evolved] in the image of God, but Christ [‘the only-begotten of the Father’] is the EXPRESS image of the Father. As a seal impresses an exact image of itself upon the wax, so Christ is the EXACT counterpart of God.”
Friday Morning Manna July 5, 2019
Nathaniel Fajardo
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The Humanity That Will Forever Share with Divinity the Throne of the Universe
“Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest [most holy of the heavenly sanctuary] by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh.”
Heb. 10: 19, 20, N.K.J.V.
From Desire of Ages, pp. 23, 24:
“Nearly two thousand years ago, a voice of mysterious import was heard in heaven, from the throne of God, ‘Lo, I come.’ ‘Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared Me. . . . Lo, I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of Me,) to do Thy will, O God.’ Heb. 10: 5-7. In these words is announced the fulfillment of the purpose that had been hidden from eternal ages.
FRIDAY MORNING MANNA
Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE- Part XLX
The ThIrd Person of the Godhead
One of the deadliest deceptions of the last days designed to “deceive, if possible, the elect” (Matt. 24: 24) is that the Holy Spirit is merely a divine “power,” “breath,” or “essence,” not a Person as much as the Father and Christ are distinct persons making up the heavenly Council of the Godhead. I avoid using the word “Trinity” as it has caused or has been made to be an unwarranted cause for false accusations of worshipping a “triune god.” The Authorized Version uses “Godhead,” meaning, “that which is divine,” not angelic much less human. And only the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are divine. Notice the three instances the Godhead is mentioned in the Bible: