Transcribed excerpt from an audio message by Bro Ron Knight...
This
is the most famous verse in Scripture:
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.
What
does that mean? Is it like what the
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe? That Jesus was created by God in a moment of
time? His flesh was, but not his deity. He was preexistent. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given. The child was born through Mary;
but the Son of God existed from everlasting.
So
do the Jehovah’s Witnesses have it right?
Matthew
22:29
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err,
not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God
The
answer is, No! They’ll take something and run with it without looking at
the context.
He
is God. God is his title. He is eternal and everlasting.
Micah 5:2
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou
be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come
forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have
been from of old, from everlasting.
Then
what does ‘begotten’ mean? Notice what
it says in the second psalm where God is talking about setting up the Kingdom. In context, it is dealing with the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Psalm 2:7-8
I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me [Jesus the Messiah], Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for
thy possession.
Now
let me show you something. The focus of
that Messianic Psalm is the ministry of the Lord all the way through to the
Kingdom. But how do we know it’s talking
about the resurrection of Christ?
Because the Spirit of God tells us through Paul in the book of Acts:
Acts 13:33
God hath fulfilled the same unto us their
children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written
in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now
no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure
mercies of David.
Notice
that when Paul talks about a begotten being, he says, “And as concerning that he raised him up from
the dead.” The issue is the
resurrection. When you think about
‘begotten’, it can be true that it has to do with a father conceiving a son.
Matthew
1:2
Abraham begat
Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and
Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
But when it’s talking about the Lord
Jesus the eternal Son of God, he was begotten by the Father when he was raised
from the dead at the resurrection.
Revelation
1:5
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful
witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of
the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in
his own blood,
Transcribed
excerpt from a message by Bro Ron Knight…
Hopefully this helps!
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