Episode 8: Are You My Mother Part 2

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Jacob Dunbar continues this series by diving deeper into the mystery of the Trinity. God is most definitely three, but God is also one. This is a mystery we will enjoy unpacking for all of eternity. In this message we dive deeper into this mystery. It is important to note that we are made in God’s image, not the other way around. Every tribe and every culture in some way reflects the image of God. Men and women are both made in the image of God. God is described as the Father, the Son, but also the Spirit.

The bible is very clear in describing the Holy Spirit as the Mother of the Household of God. The trinity is described as the household or family of God that believers are brought into when we become born again, or born of the Spirt. Family’s consists of fathers, mothers and children. The Spirit is described as giving us new birth, and as nursing her children. Mothers give birth and nurse, not Fathers.

It is revealed to us in Genesis one that men and women both are made in the image of God,

So God created man (mankind) in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)

It is important to note that the word used for man often should be all of humanity in both the Greek and the Hebrew.

God is one person, but not like a human. God knows every thought going on right now. God knows every hair on every head of every person that has ever walked the face of the earth. God holds the universe in the palm of His /Her hand.

We can see that the family is under attack in the world. We believe that this starts with the body of Christ as we have made the Trinity into our image, the image of a man. We have pushed a theology that would have either a Father nursing and giving birth or having three men in the trinity with one of them nursing and giving birth. We have created a homo-sex God. We have made God in the image of a mortal man and thus mankind has fallen into gender confusion and homosexuality. This is evident when reading Romans 1…

Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. (Romans 1:22-25)

We have made God in our image, the image of a man. We largely miss what is in the scriptures and what God has spoken because our traditions make the word of God of no effect. We have many denominations and many church doctrines built on man’s intellect.

Why is this so important?

God has given us all free-will to choose what we believe. We decide what we let into our heart, which is the seat of our beliefs.

The bible says that we have no need that any man should teach us, but the anointing teaches us all things. The Holy Spirit leads us into all truth. So search this out for your self. “They will all be taught by God.”

We are now in the household of God. God is a perfect beautiful family of which we are now a part. In the body of Christ, the Father is preached, worshipped and honored as well He should be for He is like no Father the world could ever see or imagine. Likewise, the Son is honored worshipped and admired as well He should be for He is love and truth and everything beautiful! But where is the Mother in this family? Is the household of God a single parent household without a mother. The scriptures and many throughout history would say OF COURSE NOT! So who do they describe as being our mother?

Here are just a few quotes from Count Zinzendorf who was instrumental in the Moravian Revival a catalyst for the first great awakening:

"a family must be complete. We must have a Father, Mother, & Husband."

"I could not speak about it [the Holy Spirit], since I did not know how I should define it. I simply believed that she is the third person of the Godhead, but I could not say how this was properly so. Instead I thought of her abstractly. ... The Holy Spirit had known me well, but I did not know her before the year 1738. That is why I carefully avoided entering in the matter until the Mother Office of the Holy Spirit had been so clearly opened up for me.”

"God [Christ] is even our dear husband, his Father is our dear Father, & the Holy Spirit is our dear Mother, with that we are finished, with that the family-idea, the oldest, the simplest, the most respectable, the most endearing idea among all human ideas, the true biblical idea, is established with us in the application of the holy Trinity, for no one is nearer to one than Father, Mother, & Husband.

Paul in Galatians 4 gives us an allegory to help understand the old and new covenant. Paul telIs us that the Jerusalem above is free and she is our mother; he then goes on to tell us that those born according to the flesh still persecute those born according to the Spirit, and that we are now children of the free woman, that being the Holy Spirit.

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written,

“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.” (Galatians 4:26-27)

“But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now…So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.” (Galatians 4:29, 31)

Many other places in the scriptures including Romans 8 and 2 Corinthians 3 juxtapose walking in and being led by the Spirit as opposed to being led by the law or the flesh. So why does Galatians 4 call the Spirit the barren woman. Jesus told his disciples that no one had known the Spirit until He came and revealed her. He is described as being the firstborn of many brothers and the firstborn of the dead. Jesus is the Firstborn of the Dead, it is the Spirit who raised Him from the dead. Please read this blog for more on being born again and raised to new life

https://www.wellspringsofrest.com/post/firstborn-of-the-dead-firstborn-of-the-new-creation

Many other places in scripture describe the Holy Spirt as She. Proverbs 1-Wisdom is described as She. Early church Fathers taught that Wisdom is the Holy Spirit. Throughout the Proverbs the Seven Spirits of God are revealed. The Seven Spirits of God are 7 ways in which the Holy Spirit manifests Herself.

Wisdom cries aloud in the street,

in the markets she raises her voice;

at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;

at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?

How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing

and fools hate knowledge?

If you turn at my reproof

behold, I will pour out my spirit on you;

I will make my words known to you. (Proverbs 1:20-23)

Count Zinzendorf linked Isaiah 66 to the comforter in John 14,

"When the dear Savior at the end of his life wanted to comfort his disciples (at that time the language was not as rich as ours is); by that time the Savior, who was a very great bible student, had doubtlessly read the verse in the Bible "I will comfort you as a mother comforts one." Then the dear Savior thought, "If I should say to my disciples that I am going away, then I must give them some comfort. I must say to them that they will receive someone who will comfort them over my departure. It will not be strange to them, for they have already read it in the Bible. ...There it reads, they shall have a Mother: "I will leave you my Spirit.”

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. (Isaiah 66:13)

The following is a hymn from the Moravian revival,

The Church's Prayer to the Holy Spirit (1759)

1. Thou, who from the Father hast

‘Fore all Time proceeded,

Spirit, by whom the Virgin Blest

The Son here conceived!

2. Since the Lamb of God, so red,

Is his People’s Brother,

And Christ’s God their Father’s made,

Thou’rt the Church’s Mother.

3. Of thy Name, O God, & Breath

Grant us still the Nearness!

That the Word of Jesu’s

Shine to Souls with Clearness.

4. Whom from Death-Sleep of the Fall

Our dear Lord doth quicken,

Fetch into thy Church-Ark all;

Help their Abba speaking.

5. As in greatest Things thy Will

Meets with Execution:

So in small shall it fulfil

His Church-Constitution.

6. Of the Righteousness of God

Thro’ the Blood-Effusion,

Of that daily Bread & Food

Thou mak’st Distribution.

7. MOTHER! all the Church’s Life

Is the Father’s Kindness,

Our Lord’s Patience with his Wife,

And thy rich Forgiveness.

8. We would fain not tempted be,

With none thus distressed;

Yet if one’s chastis’d by Thee,

It to him be blessed.

9. And till once the wicked Fiend

Is at God’s Feet lying, (Ps. cx.1. Heb. ii.8.)

Sleeps within thy Cradle screen’d

The Church from his Trying.

10. Amen, Ruach Elohim!

Come in th’ Name of Jesus,

Thy Children’s whole Sanhedrim

God from the beginning explained that his image is reflected as both male and female. Clearly, the Father is an archetypal male, as is the Son, so who is the female? Unquestionably, the Holy Spirit is the proverbial mother who births us into new life. To believe otherwise is to embrace a theology with a homo-sex God or a transgender God rather than the beautiful image of a FAMILY.

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