The Lord Jesus Christ is here declared to be the Essential Word of God. What is God, the Westminster Shorter Catechism asks? The answer which the Confession gives; that which the Bible also declares in many passages, is this. “God is spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable in His Being, power, wisdom, holiness, goodness, and truth.” We must then ask ourselves: How does God who is spirit reveal Himself to us who are flesh and blood; men and women who are sitting in spiritual darkness, and actually called “darkness” in this text? The way that He has chosen to reveal Himself to you is through the Incarnation of His Essential Word. This Essential Word is the One whom God the Father sent into this dark and fallen world of sin to speak to us, to enlighten us, and to give us His very life. He is the One whom we now know to be, Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...