God Had a Son Before Mary Did
27 videos • 207 views • by The Spirit is the Witness Three truths serve as the foundation for everything revealed about God in the New Testament. When understood, they reshape our perception of the Divine. The first truth is that from the beginning, God kept His Son a secret from all creatures, both in heaven and on earth (Col. 1:26), and so, no one knew that God was a Father until the Son was revealed. The second truth is that God hid all true wisdom and knowledge within His Son (Col. 2:3), so that no one could truly know God before He revealed His Son. The third truth is that the Son was not revealed to mankind while he walked on earth in the person of Jesus; he was revealed only after God sent back the Spirit, for the Spirit alone reveals the Son to man’s heart, and through the Son alone is the Father truly revealed (Jn. 16:13). The revelation of the Son was the revelation of God as He really is. It revealed, first of all, that God is a God of relationships, for in the beginning, out of all the possibilities available to Him, God chose to create Someone to love, and He loved that Someone, His Son, so dearly that He gave him all power in heaven and earth. The Son was God’s first and only creation, the beginning and the end of His creative work (Rev. 3:14 22:13). Everything else was then created by the Son that He loved (Jn. 1:3). The revelation of the Son’s existence also teaches us that the Son was created with God’s kind of life, the holy Spirit, and that only with that kind of life can anyone ever know either God or His Son. The revelation of the Son compels us to consider difficult questions such as this: If all wisdom and knowledge was hidden in the Son until the Spirit came, then what did the righteous who lived before Pentecost, including Jesus’ disciples, know about God before they received the Spirit? Or this: If the Son was hidden even from heavenly beings, then who did Satan think Jesus was when he met him in the wilderness Temptation? These questions, and many others like them, we will answer. My hope is that you will experience the power and light with which my congregation and I were blessed as we pursued the knowledge of God contained in this fundamental New Testament revelation: God had a Son with Him in heaven long before Mary had a son born to her in Bethlehem.