Let's Go Back To The Beginning

Let’s Go Back to the Beginning

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - Most people in the world today reduce Jesus to just a historical religious figure or some prophet of long ago. Some say he is a spiritual force, a wise teacher, or some kind of god among many other gods. Others have limited him to a Christmas story and a nativity scene of a little baby wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger surrounded by farm animals, Mary, Joseph, and 3 Wise men bearing gifts, then everybody goes to sleep and some fat white guy in a red suit, leaves everybody presents, and you wake up in the morning you eat ham and hot rolls.

They say stuff like he is a good morale guide and that he represents a nice standard of living but utterly reject and mock any morality today. They say ridiculous concepts and blindly follow these superficial commercials that make Jesus nothing more than a marketing gimmick and say stuff like Jesus was rejected, and Jesus was a rebel, and Jesus was fed up with politics too, Jesus was a refugee, Jesus had disdain for hypocrisy, and was also unfairly judged like other marginalized members of modern society and say absolutely nothing about how Jesus breaks us and shapes us into His image and likeness, how He picks us up out of the muck and mire, cleans us up, places our feet on solid ground, how He keeps watch over our coming and our going, how He loves me despite of my nature, how he saves me, how He heals us, how He gives us hope, how he transforms our lives, but say he gets us.

It is my desire today to go back to the beginning back before the creation of the world, before the foundations of the earth were laid, before the sons of God shouted for joy, before there was light or the moon or the stars, before there was a heartbeat, man, animal, or an angel and bring out something very powerful. Something that no doubt you have read many many times before as I have and possibly never looked at it quite this way before or maybe you have. I want to go back to the beginning and understand the power and the authority wrapped up in the name above all names to understand that Jesus is not just some historical figure or prophet from a long time ago, he is definitely not a marketing gimmick that makes you comfortable for being a rebel or a misfit of society, nor is he just the incarnation of a person called “God the Son”, but in fact is the fullness of God incarnate.

So today let’s go back to the beginning.

PRAYER

SCRIPTURE: - John 1:1,3, 14 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 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”. I will say probably 3 of the most powerful verses of the entire Bible because they are packed with so much truth, power, and authority. These 3 verse explain the who what when how where questions. The who of course is answered – God, the what is answered – Word, the when is answered – the beginning, the how is answered – with God and the where is answered – with God in the beginning.

Kent Hovind an American Christian fundamentalist apologist. answered the questions years ago where did God come from like this:- All right, your question, “Where did God come from?” assumes that you’re thinking of the wrong, obviously displays that you’re thinking of the wrong God. Because the God of the Bible is not affected by time, space or matter. If He’s affected by time, space or matter, He’s not God. Time, space and matter is what we call a continuum. All of them have to come into existence at the same instant. Because if there were matter but no space, where would you put it? If there were matter and space but no time, when would you put it? You cannot have time, space or matter independently. They have to come into existence simultaneously.

The Bible answers that in 10 words. “In the beginning”, there’s time, “God created the heaven”, there’s space, “and the earth”, there’s matter. So you have time, space, matter created, a trinity of trinities there. Time is past, present, future, space has length, width, height, matter has solid, liquid, gas. You have a trinity of trinities created instantaneously, and the God who created them has to be outside of them. If He’s limited by time, He’s not God.