Pastor John,
I like the new section on “Because He Wanted a Child”. I had a thought, God is not a loner–He wants to share his thoughts and feelings and life.
Billy M
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Right, Billy. In other words, God is a God of relationships.
jdc
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John,
This new section of the Father and Son book (below) is really good.
I like the way you have explained that the Father creates only what he wants to create therefore He created a son because He wanted to.
I’ve been thinking lately on how precious each person is who accepts the invitation of the Father to come to Jesus and remain in the truth. The Father creates the invitation in us simply because He wants to.
I can hardly take that thought in, but I am very grateful that He wanted each of us.
Whew!
Tom
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Because He Wanted a Child
Many ancient prophecies had a dual meaning, one for that time and another for the future. For example, in Isaiah 28:11-12, God was telling the righteous among His people that foreign invaders would bring them rest from their oppressive Jewish rulers. But Paul also quoted those verses in 1Corinthians 14:21–22, claiming that God was speaking through Isaiah of the New Testament experience of “speaking in tongues”.
Malachi 2:15 may provide us with another word from God with a dual meaning. It is a mysterious verse, difficult to translate, as a survey of various translations will show, but its meaning for Malachi’s time was obviously to provide God’s reason for insisting on Israelite men being faithful to their Israelite wives:
Malachi 2
15a. But did He not make one? And the rest of the spirit was His. And why one? He was seeking a godly seed.
But this portion of scripture also appears to have been a not-so-obvious revelation concerning God’s reason for creating His Son, and it may also be translated thus:
Malachi 2
15a. Did He not create one in whom is the fullness of the Spirit? And why him? Because He wanted a divine child.
If God created whatever He created only because He wanted to create it (Ps. 135:6), then it is only reasonable to believe that God created a Son simply because He wanted one, as Malachi said here.