“How have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength? How have you counseled one who has no wisdom? And how have you declared sound advice to many? To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you?” (Job 26:2-4). Who have we helped and who can we help, if the help is not from God? To answer truly, we cannot even help our self except God is our help. “You have wearied Me with your iniquities. I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins. Put Me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case, that you may be acquitted”(Isaiah 23:24b-26). The Lord God is our help. It is God who forgives our sins; it has always been God and it always will be God. God forgives and forgets; but we continually bring our iniquities before Him, as people who do not understand Christ Jesus bleed out for us.

Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: “I am the First and I am the Last; besides Me there is no God” (Isaiah 24:6). There is no disagreement between the Lord, King of Israel and the Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts. “I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring” (Isaiah 44:3b). From whom does the Spirit come; from God both Father and Son. The Son did not steal fire from the Father to give to mankind; both the Father and the Son sent the fire to us. The Redeemer of Israel is the King of Israel, the Lord of Hosts. He is the Redeemer and the promise of a seed, made to Eve (in Seth), and to Abraham (to all the children of Eve). He is the altar of unhewn Stone; the Rock that was struck and out of Him pours the water of eternal cleansing. The Father has appointed the Son the Lord of Hosts, anointed Him the King of Israel, and sent Him to be our Redeemer. “Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock; I know not one” (Isaiah 44:8b).

“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works” (John 14:10). The Redeemer is in the Father and the Father is in Him, and the words spoken by the redeemer came from the Father. The Redeemer did the work of the Father. The Word who became flesh, for our salvation, is in the Father and the Father is in Him. There is no disagreement between them on the salvation of mankind. The Father is not against us and the Son for us; they are from the same tree; they bare the same fruit. It is with that desire Jesus prayed that we could be one as they are one; we should be of the same tree and bare the same fruit.

Church, we should know our self as the body of Christ; He in us and us in Him; the same tree baring the same fruit. The fruit He has asked us to bare is love for one another. How can we help him who is without power? By being of the same tree and baring the fruit of love; by presenting him with the love of God. How have you saved? By showing the love of God and presenting the One who saves to the one without strength. How can we counsel or give sound advice? By the Word who became flesh to bleed out for us. Our own words cannot utter the words the world needs to hear; our spirit cannot produce in the world what it needs. If the Son of God needed the Father’s words to speak; from whom do the words we speak need to come from? From where does the fruit we bare come from? Isn’t it the promised seed, the Word who became flesh for us? Jesus Christ is a word of love from our Father in heaven. Jesus is a message from the Father saying, “You are forgiven,” and the Way of our salvation.

© 2010, Tim D. Coulter Sr.