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"If God be for us....."

" Go ask those Hebrews Boys if He'll stay by your side...they will identify—My God is in the room!" The sentence above is a line from a well-known song. Romans 8:31(KJV)- "what shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Daniel 3 King Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image, commanding all the people to fall down and worship this golden image that he had set up. Attaching a penalty for disobeying this command —a furnace of blazing fire was made ready to welcome anyone who went against the command.  After accusations of disobedience and disregard to the king was brought against the three Hebrew men{Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego}, by certain Chaldeans....the king in a furious rage commanded these three Men to worship the golden image he had set up, reminding them of the punishment that came with the 'package'.  – Verse 15b; " But if you do not worship, you shall be thrown at once into the midst of a furnace of blazing f...

EMMANUEL.

 God in the flesh.  Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23. A little throwback to my pre-teen days....my favorite bible verse was one of the scriptures above. Matthew 1:23(NLT); "Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call Him "Immanuel " which means "God is with us ". How aware are you? Of God all around you? This is a "self-awareness" question, that no one can answer for you! Back to the topic before us, Emmanuel simply means "God in the flesh". This is to tell us that, there is God-transcendent{God the Father}, God-in the flesh{ Jesus Christ} and God-in the Spirit{ The Holy Ghost}. This is the trio that makes up ONE, that introduces to us " The Trinity" or as we call it, The Holy Trinity.   Jesus Christ has always been existent. He didn't come into existence when He was birthed by Virgin Mary. Instead, He came from heaven as a mediator, to reconcile us back to God. 1TIMOTHY 2:5 says " Fo...