JESUS EXEGETED GOD

JESUS EXEGETED GOD

John 1:18

“No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son, which

is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.”

The word of God is replete with information about God. This verse is no exception. It is striking in its last words. “he hath declared him.” The word declared is from a Greek word that means exegeted. Just what does that mean? I will explain with an illustration from my university experience.We were assigned to do an exegesis on one of the letters to the churches in The Revelation chapter 2 & 3. What then were we to do. We were to take every word in the Greek Passage and tell its case, number, and gender or its tense, mode, and voice. We were to find the derivation of the word. Then we were to translate the passage. After all this we were to write and exposition of the passage. Doing all this, we exegeted the passage. That is what Jesus did. He delved into all the mysteries of God and explained them to us. He told us all there was for us to know of God.  

He is the revelation of God. "All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him," Matt. 11:27. People seem to think they can learn a few verses of scripture about God, and they will know all about Him. It is not so. He is infinite. We are finite. We do not have the ability in ourselves to learn and know God. The only way we can know God is through Jesus Christ. He must reveal Him to us. He has done so. John 1:1, 2, 14 tells us about the Word, Who is God. It says, "In the beginning was the word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

Jesus is God's Communication with us. Words are for communication. Hebrews 1:1, 2 tell us, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds." God is a God of communication. He did so in Old Testament times through the prophets. The New Testament has opened up a completely new communication, as God spoke to us through

His Son, Jesus. Jesus has revealed and communicated God to us.

Jesus is the Manifestation of God to us. John 2:11 says, "This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Dana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory: and his disciples believed on him." Jesus did not perform His miracles for the entertainment of those who heard him. He perform that first one and all those that followed to manifest the glory of God or the presence of God in our midst.

Jesus is the Light of God. He dispels the darkness all about us. He throws light on the understanding so that we can perceive Who God is. He is the Sacrifice of God. He is the fulfillment of all the Old Testament Sacrifices which made atonement for our sins.

Jesus is the Fullness of God. He is not just a picture of God; He is His fulness manifested. Heb. 1:3 says of Him, "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high." Paul in Colossians goes on to say of Him, "For in him dewlleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." In other words, when we have seen the Lord, we have seen God. 

Jesus is the Revelation, Communication, Manifestation, Sacrifice, and all the Fullness of God.