The Nature of God: Spirituality of God

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B. Spirituality of God.

1. . He is a Spiritual Being (“God is a Spirit” — ), (“Who is the image of the invisible God” — ). What is a spirit? A spirit is a being . “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have” (). A spirit has a body, a spirit-body; but it has no natural body, . God ; God, in His , has never been seen. “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him” ().

2. . While God, in His , has never been seen, yet He hath shown Himself, to man in different forms. The Scriptures ask, “To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One” (). Man cannot know God but in the way . Are we not glad that God has revealed Himself in His Son? Where Christ is the , the Anti-christ shall be an imitation.

There seems to be in the Word; in some places it says that : “The LORD spake unto Moses face to face” (); “Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: and they saw the God of Israel…” (). In other places the Word says that it is : “He said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live” (). The truth is, man has never looked upon the face of God in His true essence, but has looked upon His face and spoken mouth to mouth with God when in some form . “With him will I speak mouth to mouth…” ().

We do know this, that the Spirit (Holy Spirit) can . “John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him” (John 1:32). It was at the Lord Jesus’ baptism that John saw the , but not the ; yet the Spirit was manifested.


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