Jesus dying on the cross said, “…Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do…” Luke 23:34 God wanted to say these words to Adam and Eve, ‘I forgive you for you know not what you do‘, but He could not in His eternal Spirit body. For God to give His forgiveness He had to have the eternal answer for the eternal price paid for the sin debt mankind had received. The sin debt required sinless blood and death.
God wanted, ‘I forgive you‘. God standing there in His Spirit body looking at Adam and Eve in their fleshly bodies after they had sinned, eating the fruit of the knowledge of evil, now corrupted with the sentence of death, God wanted to say, ‘I forgive you‘, but He could not. God gave them a promise of day that a son would be born of the flesh to do and say the things God Wanted to Say then.
God never, strong emphasis on ‘NEVER‘, wanted to stop fellowshipping with us. We are His children made in the image and likeness of His Spirit body. When God speaks it has that Is. 55:11 “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” God’s words have that power, presence, and intelligence behind it.
God said, “Let there be light“. Light to us would be a light bulb in the house, a candle, or a flashlight, but God’s light in His mind was the sun we see everyday beaming it’s power of light and warmth millions of miles away in space. That was the Light God was talking about. The earth, the water, and all the creatures is what God wanted to say at the beginning of creation.
The thing God could not say at the time of Adam and Eve’s sin was ‘I forgive you‘ because God’s forgiveness needed the power, presence, and intelligence to take away sin from them. He was of Spirit form and you cannot Kill His Spirit. The sin debt had to be paid for them with sinless blood and death. You cannot kill God, the eternal Spirit body, the Father of Creation, or the Godhead of His All Power, All Knowledge, and All Presence.
The son that God could speak about was a seed of mankind to be born in the future with the power to separate, defeat, and bring the freedom of life back to mankind. God speaking to the devil said, Gen. 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel“. This is what ‘God Wanted to Say‘ speaking into existence a fleshly vessel that could say and do more for mankind the things from God’s heart to us.
Many generations later, God created a son inside a virgin girl called Mary. This baby was born as the fleshly vessel God would say and do what He wanted for mankind, His children. Heb. 2:14 “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;” Jesus the man was the fulfilling of 1 Tim. 3″16 “…God was manifest in the flesh…” with Col. 2:9 “…all the fulness of the Godhead..” dwelling in him bodily. Jesus the man was speaking what ‘God Wanted to Say‘ and do.
GOD WANTED TO SAY
A religious man named Nicodemus visited Jesus by night and ‘God Wanted to Say‘ to Nicodemus and us that we all must be born again or we cannot see the kingdom of God (Jn. 3). God wanted us to clearly understand that it is not another birth of the flesh. He spoke through Jesus to tell us it is His gift of a second chance to life by being born of His water and of His Spirit or we Jn. 3:5 “…cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” God passed onto us through Jesus to be born again to return to Him.
God passed onto Jesus, the man, the power and authority to provide the way, the truth, and the life Jn. 14:6 to return to God. God had Jesus to pass on the keys to salvation to Peter by saying this to Peter, Mtt. 16:18 “…That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” v19 “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.“
God spoke for Himself through Jesus the man providing salvation. Now, God had Jesus to pass on the steps and explanation of being born again of His water and of His Spirit to Peter. Acts 2:38 “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” v39 “For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” Just like God told Adam and Eve of the promise seed to come God tells us this promise of salvation is to all generations.
This is what ‘God Wanted to Say‘. Every time Jesus spoke this is what ‘God Wanted to Say‘ and do. Jesus the man always had the mindset of Jn. 5:30 “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.” Jesus the man wanted God to say exactly what He wanted to say and do. Peter spoke the plan of salvation as God wanted focusing all in Jesus.
GOD WANTED TO SAY – I FORGIVE YOU
When I looked at the woman caught in the act of adultery brought before Jesus with the Old Testament law requiring her to be stoned to death and the men standing there with rocks in their hands. I see what ‘God Wanted to Say‘. God being inside of Jesus brought the Old Testament law into a pure sinless fleshly body fulfilling the law God wanted to originally say to Adam and Eve, but could not in His eternal Spirit body. God had Jesus stoop down and start writing something on the ground before them.
The men ignoring what he was writing on the ground became impatient continually asking him about stoning her. God had those awkward moments to slow them down for about what ‘God Wanted to Say‘ to them. Jn. 8:7 “…He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” Jesus stooped down to the ground and began to write again.
God wanted everyone including us today to hear “…He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone…” The only “He” there that was there without sin was Jesus. Judgment is with God alone and God was saying and doing what He wanted in Jesus. The woman is there in a state of mind she is going to die. This is what ‘God Wanted to Say‘ to her.
Jesus stood up seeing only the woman and said, v10 “…Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?” God could not say this in His Spirit body, but He could say it with a body free from sin. God not only said this to her through Jesus, but He is saying it to you, I, and all others that will hear Him. God wants to say this to us and through Jesus God has all power and authority to save us from our sins.
What did she say to Jesus? v11 “She said, No man, Lord…” with Jesus looking at her with the eyes of God behind them ‘God Wanted to Say‘ to her “…Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.” Adam and Eve you sinned at a time I could not say those words to you, but the day will come those words can be spoken. This is what God wants to say to all of us, the forgiving words of “…Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.“
Now, I cannot, but help when reading about Jesus saying and doing things hearing God say to me ‘this is what I wanted to say and do‘. I wanted to forgive. I wanted to heal. I wanted to teach. I wanted to sit with you. I wanted to talk with you. I wanted share with you. I wanted to set you free. You are my sons and daughters.
2 Cor. 5:18 “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.“
God in His Spirit body form was the Father of all creation, but He could not provide the forgiveness we needed to pay the sin debt in blood and death. You can’t kill a Spirit. So, God came to us inside the man Jesus as a son among us of mankind providing the blood and the ability to die in our place for sins. God through Jesus could give us His Spirit once again transforming our once sin sick soul into a new creature in Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. 5:17 What does God want to say to us today?
This is why God had Jesus to pass on to Peter what He wanted said about salvation. The second birth of the water and of the Spirit is completed in Acts 2:38 “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” God is speaking, but who is listening and obeying like Jesus and Peter?
Jesus has the name that contains pure sinless blood of forgiveness, the death of a body debt payment, and a new body to contain the infilling pure Spirit of God. Baptism in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost does not apply the blood, death, burial, and resurrection like the name of Jesus does. God has all things in the name of Jesus because the fulness of God was in him bodily saying and doing all the things God wanted to provide for our salvation. What is God saying directly trying to say to us. Who will hear and who will listen?
May you hear what God wants to say to you in reading, listening, and praying in His word.