Pastor John,
On Wednesday, I was working in the night shift, so I only had the opportunity to watch the meeting the next day, on Thursday afternoon. I have a comment and a question about the meeting and the things that were said there.
First, I was very, very blessed by seeing Allison’s happiness in Jesus during Bro Gary’s song. It touched me deeply and made me ask Jesus to please let me feel what she feels!
The second is a question about the discussion y’all had on why Jesus’ birth had to be a virgin birth. Back in the early to middle 2000’s, when I was regularly attending church, I heard a theory about that topic that, I guess, I just accepted as truth, but now it resurfaced in my mind during the Father and Son reading. The theory states that Jesus had to be born of a virgin because the sinful nature of the human race is inherited through the blood of the father, not the mother. And since Jesus had to be a “spotless lamb”, he had to be born with a sinless nature, that is, without an actual earthly father.
Some weeks ago, you shared the story of you asking your father whether Jesus was sinless BEFORE his new birth, and your father said: “It doesn’t matter” because by being born of the Spirit “old things are passed away”. I loved that; it felt so right, and it already made me question whether that whole theory about Jesus’ need to be born without a sinful nature was valid. I still would like to hear your thoughts about this.
Thank you!
Zoli
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Hi Zoli.
The apostles used the term “blood of Christ” to refer to the holy Spirit because it is the Spirit that gives life to the body of Christ and, as God said, “the life is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11). That blood, Jesus said, we must drink (Jn. 6:53), explaining later that he was speaking figuratively of the Spirit (Jn. 6:63). Because many believers are ignorant of that simple truth, they think that when Peter said that the blood of Christ is incorruptible (1Pet. 1:18–19), he was talking about the physical blood of Jesus’ fleshly body. Then they have to invent novel doctrines to justify that view, such as that a sinful nature comes through the blood of the father.
The sinful nature of man is in his flesh, not in his blood, and Jesus’ entire fleshly body, including his blood, came from his mother, Mary, and everything about that body was human: his hair, his fingernails, his eyelids, and his blood. God just got the process of Mary’s pregnancy started, but that is all. And God doing that does not mean that Jesus had a divine nature instead of a human nature.
The truth about the blood of Christ being the holy Spirit is fully explained in my gospel tract here: https://goingtojesus.com/gtj_tracts.html?tname=tract-095-bloodofchrist.
If we hold on to the truth we know, it will lead us to more truth still.
Thank you for the letter. I am glad to hear that you understood what I was saying.
Pastor John
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