Day 7:Living Daily in Reality: Made Inside His Son
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We’re talking about living daily in reality and we’ve spent the past six
videos sharing why we think the man known as Jesus of Nazareth is best
able to tell us what reality is. This doesn’t mean that we have to be
critical or disrespectful of other great prophets like Mohammed and
Buddha: it simply means that history seems to show that this man is the
one that died, had the ability to come back to life, and spoke about the
Creator as his own personal father.

If you question the historicity or superhuman nature of this Jesus
Christ, please do look at the first six videos which deal specifically
with this intellectual undergirding of what we’re about to talk about now.

The first startling fact we have to face is that this Jesus said that he
existed with the Creator before the universe was created. The Jews then
said to him,”You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham
?” His reply is “before Abraham was, I am”. He makes his pre-existence
explicit when he says “Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my
day; he saw it and was glad”. In this same conversation he says, “it is
my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is your God. But you
have not known him: I know him.” This natural, unaffected consciousness
of his prior existence is expressed again in his prayer “now, Father,
glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the
world began”. All of these statements were put in writing within 10 years
of a manuscript dated about 110 A.D. while some people were still alive
who had actually seen this man called Jesus.

Believing that this human being knew life before he ever came to the
earth would seem utterly impossible if his ability to come back to life
after crucifixion were not so widely and analytically documented. But,
given the sane and prudent influence that his followers and eye-witnesses
have exercised in our world, this person’s pre-existence with our Creator
seems a more credible explanation for his wisdom than anything else. It
is in keeping with his power over death and disease that his apostle Paul
wrote in a letter to the people in Colossae “He is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things
were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were
created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all
things hold together.”

And it is these facts that make his own words believable when he says:
“Before long, the world will not see me any more, but you will see me.
Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realise that I
am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you”. What then is
reality? Reality is that you are actually part of the only son of our
Creator! Far from being the chance accident of a blind evolutionary

process, you are a carefully and uniquely designed development of God’s
only Son. Evolved? Probably, but by a process consciously and lovingly
designed and cared for by a loving father’s concern for his only son.

Reality was stated simply by this man Jesus’ scholarly apostle when he
wrote to the people at Ephesus about 60 A.D. “we are God’s workmanship
created in Christ Jesus for good works that he has prepared beforehand
that we should walk in them”. Why would our creator make us inside his
only Son? Let’s talk again about this.