I was at camp a few weeks ago and we’re singing “Feed us, Jesus” a song about going to Jesus for food, when I turn to bishop Sam Grey and say hey do you think they mean let’s go to Jesus and get something to eat, or lets go have some Jesus and potatoes? He laughed and then in perfect timing we overhear a kid right in front of us go hey, maybe they mean fetus Jesus, like before he was born. I was overwhelmed and just darn amused with the shenanigans of the night when I started thinking; I wonder if Jesus did anything cool as a fetus. He was still God, I wonder if Mary was like, “Joseph… get me some peanut butter and waffles” and then Boom! there it was and she was like “Jesus!” and he was like “I know” But then after the first wave of ridiculousness was over I was thinking about what Jesus did do before he was in the womb. Believe it or not Fetus Jesus (this is what I’ll refer to the pre-incarnate Jesus as) Was the redeemer in the old testament. I’ll show you one example.
Hebrews 11:26 talks about Moses choosing discrase for the sake of Christ, but that was a long time before Jesus,… wasn’t it? Well lets explore. In Exodus chapter 3 God comes to Moses as a burning bush, but if you read the verses carefully it says,
2″There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”
5 ”Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.”
OK scripture says the Angel of the lord came to moses, then the Angel refers to himself as the Lord. You guessed it, Fetus Jesus! Jesus being a redeemer isn’t something new, Jesus was there in the beginning and he’s been redeeming people as long as people have been redeemed. Jesus isn’t just a part of God, Jesus IS GOD! The entire old testament points to Jesus, he’s always been there. As a matter of fact John 14:6 says Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
That means no one, anytime anyone spoke to God in the old testament, Fetus Jesus! Think about it. I love you all, remember you’re strangers in a strange land, Divorce the World!
