“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
~ Matthew 12:27
Hi James and Ellen,
How well do you know Jesus as God as God the Son? How well do you know God as God the Father? Do you think that you can know Jesus as God as God the Son without knowing God as God the Father? Do you think that you can know God as God the Father without knowing Jesus as God as God the Son? Matthew was a tax collector until Jesus told him to join Him to be one of his twelve disciples. Matthew wrote down words that Jesus spoke and things that Jesus did when Jesus was on planet Earth. Matthew wrote down in Matthew 11 – in verse 27, what Jesus said about how Who knows Who between God as God the Father and God as God the Son: “‘All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” Your grandpaa believes that before God as God the Father placed planet Earth where it is in His ever expanding universe, God as God the Father created souls – some who He implants into guys, gals and kids to be His adopted kids through what Jesus as God as God the Son did for His Father on planet Earth. Your grandpaa believes that God as God the Father had Jesus as God as God the Son suffer and die for the souls – the guys, gals and kids, who He specially elected for Himself before He created planet Earth to be His adopted kids. Your grandpaa also believes that there are guys, gals and kids who have lived and are living on planet Earth right now who have Lucifer – the devil, as their spirit father. The guys, gals and kids who have made and will make a decision of faith to believe in what Jesus as God as God the Son did specifically for them when He had to inhumanely suffer and die on a cross happened or will happen because God as God the Father in the plan that He scripted before He created planet Earth implanted in His plan the exact salvation moment for when each guy, gal and kids who He specially elected before He created planet Earth has or will become one of His adopted kids. It does and will not happen because a guy, gal or kid made or makes it happen through his or her doing good deeds.
Your grandpaa grew up in a church – a Christian Reformed Church, which promotes a Christ-follower faith that can be remembered by the word ‘tulip’. The T in tulip means that your grandpaa is totally depraved. To be totally depraved means that when your grandpaa was born, your grandpaa had disobedience embedded in him that needed to be atoned for in order for your grandpaa to have a different kind of life – a life that is filled with hope. The U in tulip means that your grandpaa was unconditionally accepted by God as God the Father when your grandpaa through the prompting of God as God the Spirit had your grandpaa in the exact moment in the unfolding plan that God as God the Father had for your grandpaa to make a decision of faith to believe what happened on a cross when Jesus as God as God the Son shed His blood for your grandpaa sins. The blood of Jesus as God as God the Son that was shed on a cross washed away all your grandpaa’s sins. The L in tulip means that there is limited atonement. Limited atonement means that your grandpaa is one of a limited number of guys, gals and kids who were especially elected by God as God the Father before He created planet Earth to become His adopted kids. Through His brutal death on a cross, Jesus as God as God the Son atoned for God as God the Father the guys, gals and kids who He specially elected before He created planet Earth to become His adopted kids. The I in tulip means that your grandpaa has been given the gifts of hope and eternal life because of the irresistible grace that God as God the Father has for His specially elected guys, gals and kids because of what Jesus as God as God the Son did when He suffered and died on a cross and not because of anything else. Your grandpaa knows that no matter what he might do to try to please and/or bless God as God the Father that he will never be able to do enough to have God as God the Father reward your grandpaa outside of what He has already scripted for your grandpaa to do and be like. Your grandpaa knows that the hope that he has today of having eternal life is a very special gift that God as God the Father has given him through Jesus as God as God the Son and not something which your grandpaa has earned himself. The P in tulip means that your grandpaa will persevere as a saint in the eyes of God as God the Father because he now has God as God the Spirit directing and prompting him to follow in the footsteps of Jesus as God as God the Son.
‘Tulip’ to your grandpaa means that he believes that Jesus as God as God the Son alongside the anointing and sanctifying work of God as God the Spirit is always helping your grandpaa through all the life lessons that are in the predestined plan that God as God the Father costumed designed for your grandpaa to learn from during his tenure on planet Earth. Only little kids seem to get it what Jesus as God as God the Son was teaching. Guys and gals who lived in Korazin and Bethsaida – who Jesus as God as God the Son performed miracles in front of as a way to show them Who he was, ignored Him by continuing to live lifestyles which made these guys and gals worse than the guys and gals who lived in Sodom and in Gomorrah over 2000 years earlier. Your grandpaa believes God as God the Father specially elected you – and your dad and ma, before He created planet Earth to be His adopted kids. Your grandpaa also believes that God as God the Father is allowing Lucifer be the spirit father of a massive mob of kids – and guys and gals, who will never be given the eternal life gift that your grandpaa believes that God as God the Father has in His plans to give to you if you have not already asked for and have been given the eternal life gift. Your grandpaa knows that he will never begin to comprehend his God as being a Triune God but that is precisely Who his God is.
Matthew 11 (410)