The
Drum Major, Ernie Barnes
Today,
reply is on Christ presenting both authentic humanity and complete
divinity; and for many, this is a National day of memorial in America.
Sunday morning, I listened to the last sermon Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. preached before his assassination, “The Drum Major Instinct”
(February 4, 1968; Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA). Jesus
Christ demonstrated that all men have opportunity and are called to
serve their Creator in ministry on the earth by displaying the image
of GOD in their lifestyles and daily routines. As we acknowledge and
remember Citizen King, who was the son of a preacher, we can see the
same truth was manifest within Marvin Gaye, also the son of a
preacher. Sinners who turn to GOD through Jesus as their redeemer
and savior all are to resemble, reflect, and reveal the character and
likeness of the Lord. It is written: Colossians 2: 6-10, King
James Version (KJV): 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and
stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein
with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth
all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in
him, which is the head of all principality and power: The writer at
the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion & Spirituality
who uses the ID “Princess” (Level 3 with 3,698 points) posted the
following:
Christians
claim Jesus was fully god and fully man. Isn't that like saying a
person is fully male and fully female?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding
cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field,
Go and sit down to meat? And will not rather say unto him, Make
ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I
have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? Doth
he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded
him? I trow not. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those
things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants:
we have done that which was our duty to do. (Luke 17: 7-10, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Twenty, 20-20 (01/17/2020); The Light Of Life
(12/04/2019); Godly Exercise of Authority (12/16/2018); Life And
Divine Purpose (05/04/2018); George Washington Owned Slaves
(08/17/2017); Divine Presence and Spirit (01/18/2017); What the
Preacher Said…? (03/24/2015); About Good Sermons? (08/26/2014)
“Princess”,
you use fully male/fully female, a contrast (showing differences
between 2 things), where Christian believers use fully God/fully man,
a comparison (showing likeness between 2 things). Through Jesus
Christ mankind receives opportunity and possibilities to experience
authentic humanity, and to exist on the earth as the children of GOD,
heirs of divinity, and the new creation. The operations of
divinity to draw sinners into a saving relationship are more
correctly understood beginning at forgiveness, going on to
acknowledge divine fullness appearing on earth using human form and
flesh and blood as Jesus Christ, then, receiving into oneself a fresh
endowment of spirit content from the makeup of GOD. Inseparable
aspects of divinity will be imparted that include balance, faith,
forbearance, longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without sameness,
wisdom, and wrath against sin.
GOD
is a spirit, and the properties of spirit do not include measurable
dimension (e.g., color; form; height; size; weight) and the regular
excitement of sensory receptors within the living (e.g., ears, eyes,
hands, noses). Through revelation that includes appearing in human
form, divinity makes themselves knowable, known, accessible and
approachable using sacred operations and material objects such as
birth, sequential change, commitment, covenant relationships,
emotions, death, discovery, gradual growth, humility, integrity,
judgment, personhood, eternal purpose, sacred law, divine order, and
discursive thought.
Divine
fullness (we also say, divinity; the Godhead; the Father, the Son,
the Holy Spirit) may be described as the summation of all spirit
substance who is characterized by completeness, finality, perfection,
and permanence. Divinity is immortal, incorruptible, and invisible.
Spirit appears and is “visible” through human attitudes,
behavior, and expressions of self-will that display awareness,
direction, effect, existence, life essence, movement that is
self-regulated (in its initiation, direction, tempo, and termination
is modulated and self-controlled), meaning, quality, presence, and
value. Consider again the following that uses language from the
Bible, and a selection from the music ministry archives by Marvin
Gaye:
(1.)
Colossians 1: 12-20, King James Version (KJV): 12 Giving thanks
unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from
the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom
of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of sins: 15 Who is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 For by him were
all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth,
visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by
him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all
things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who
is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things
he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father
that in him should all fulness dwell; 20 And, having made peace
through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto
himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or
things in heaven.
(2.)
2nd Corinthians 5: 17-21, KJV: 17 Therefore if any man
be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things
are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ,
and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that
God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing
their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though
God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s
stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be
sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (3.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDxomUk52H4.)
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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