Jesus Foretold: The Son Of God (MP 62)

God came to earth as His only begotten* Son;
During that time, as Father, God remained;
Though two, He was ev’ry bit God, each One;
E’en Three, at times, when the Spirit constrained**!
Let not the mystery of God-in-Three
Obstruct your belief in Jesus as Lord,
For each new babe***, in time, knows all that be;
God will explain it, of His own accord!
Whether you know Him as God or the Son—
This Jesus, who died for us on the cross,
And did all those things the Book says were done—
Be saved: Believe that Jesus paid the cost!
There is no other name given to men
By which man can be saved from His sin!****

*begotten = fathered; **constrained = convicted of sin;
***babe = untaught believer; ****Acts 4:12

Scripture Quoted (NIV) [Brackets added]
Prophecy Made: Psalm 2:7—“I [Jesus, the Son of God] will proclaim the day of the Lord: He [God] said to me [Jesus], ‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’ “ (Written in the 10th century B.C.)

Prophecy Fulfilled: Luke 3:21-22—“When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized, too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: ‘You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.’ “ (Written in the 1st century A.D.; also Matthew 3:17; Mark 1:11)

Commentary On: “Jesus Foretold: The Son Of God”
God’s Master Plan required for him to come to earth and remain continuously in the body of a man for a period of 33+ years, in order to justly nullify the condemnations of some. He would not be considered just in carrying out His own laws if He failed to meet some particular conditions: He had to exist as a man, with no supernatural help in resisting sin; He had to be sinless, including the sin of Adam, under which all other men were considered sinful and condemned because Adam imputed his disobedience to them; and having lived a sinless life, He had to be rejected by Israel as the Messiah, or Christ, the promised One of God, and slain by them, as Israel had annually slain a lamb and sprinkled its blood on the ark in the Holy of Holies as atonement for all their sins.

But how could God vacate His throne where He was actively engaged in managing the affairs of the universe for such a long period of time? It was easy for God, because for Him, nothing is impossible, as He told Abraham, and proved to the Israelites when He brought them out of Egypt and settled them in Canaan. He “cloned” Himself, or divided Himself into Three beings; God stayed in heaven on the throne as the Father; God came to earth as His own Son, born miraculously of a virgin as a baby in Bethlehem, and lived 33+ years as Jesus of Nazareth; and God continued His work as the Holy Spirit, entering the hearts of lost men and women, convicting them of sin. Bible scholars have named this the Trinity, God-in-Three beings. In this way men and women can more easily understand how God could do all these things simultaneously, as illustrated at the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist in the Jordan. When Jesus emerged from immersion in the water and prayed to His Father in heaven, a dove landed on His shoulder, which was God, the Holy Spirit; and a voice spoke from heaven, from God the Father. Many Israelites saw and heard this divine depiction of the Trinity. Islam refuses to accept that Christians worship one God only, saying that these are three Gods.

While Jesus lived on earth as the Son of God, He taught men and women how to escape the condemnation brought upon them by Adam. He said that if any man or woman believes that God sent Him from heaven, he or she would be saved. He chose 12 men to be His apostles and taught them to spread the good news of their salvation from condemnation to all corners of the earth. All these men, except Judas Iscariot that betrayed Jesus, remained faithful and, with the help of many new believers, these apostles spread the word that Jesus taught everywhere. Christianity was started by Jesus of Nazareth! God is especially adamant about a person’s believing in Jesus to be saved. The modern cultural pressure of postmodernism is keeping most people from “putting all their eggs in one basket”, insisting that there are many ways to be admitted to heaven. This is contrary to the truth of the Bible, which holds there is only ONE road to heaven. Jesus Himself said in John 14:6: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Dear reader, you will not have eternal life if you do not believe Jesus came from heaven.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him will not die, but have everlasting life,” (John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Roman 10:9)