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 Genesis 1:1,2
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. In the beginning was God within the vast depth of the deepness and the Holy Spirit hung just above the face of the water. We ask ourselves where did God come from and the Holy Word of God tells us:
Revelation 1:8
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." We ask “Who is the Holy Spirit of God?” Why did the Holy Spirit float over the water... well what does oil do when it touches water? It hovers on top never mixing yet full contact is made. The Holy Spirit is our helper, our teacher, our ability to remember Jesus Christ and all that the Word has said, has done and requires. The Holy Spirit is the peace within Jesus Christ and the peace within all who are filled with His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives us the strength and faith of God to live in this world and not be afraid. The Holy Spirit is He who came back to all who love Him in all His completeness, glory and truth. The Holy Spirit is the hand which opens the door which we use to see God... to know God. We are to rejoice in Christ’s living as flesh and blood. We are also to rejoice in His leaving this world for through His returning to the Father, He was changed by God’s Power and was glorified beyond flesh and blood. All He was an is has come back to us in the Holy Spirit to live within us until God’s plan on earth is done. The Holy Word tells us:
John 14:26-28
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. Then we ask, “What is the darkness of the deep?” God is mystery and no one knows the Father except the Son. For the Son is God unto God: through the fulfillment of all that is God. God was and darkness was. God was in darkness and the darkness is the unknowing of God and the opposite of the light: which is the knowing. The darkness is deep because the mystery of God is vast. As vast and as the darkness is deep; the glow of the light has to be brighter. For the light to expose the vastness of God’s mystery, light will have to go beyond the darkness so that the darkness will be no more. God has purposed the darkness to fade slowly so that not all of God’s plan should be revealed before its time: when Christ returns, when God’s Light returns, the Word will bring God’s kingdom and then darkness will be no more.
God was and He was alone. No one was so no one knew God but God Himself… until the water burst forth and creation knew God. Through the waters the Word of God burst forth and Light (the knowing) was created. Then a flesh and blood man was created with the ability to see God and finally God was known… and God was loved. The darkness is not evil it is just the unknown. Jesus Christ is the mystery of God. The Holy Word tells us many times… God’s mystery is Christ:
Colossians 2:1-3
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. The Holy Word tells us the darkness is the unknowing of Christ:
2 Corinthians 4:5-10
For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. Then we pause and take note that water “was” just as God was, as the darkness was, and as the Holy Spirit was. No where do we read that darkness or water were created so where did the water come from or better still why "was" the water? Water was to bring forth life. Through the water the Word was born and the Word brought the Light to the world. We know that life of the Word is the Light of man. Water covers 70% of the earth and 96% of the Earth’s water is sea (salt) water. The rest of the water is fresh water with 1.7% in the ground, 1.7% in ice, .001% in our air, and .4 of it being on the surface. About .003% of the Earth’s water flows in a cycle of being used by and then flowing back to the Earth through living things and industry. But what is water to God and to us through God? Water is the very essence of God - God's Will. Water is the Holy substance which was so that all could be. Water is the baptism of the body into Christ. The Word created life through water. Water is the means which the sinner is healed, saved, nourished, and is given the ability to see the Light of God Jesus Christ – the Word made flesh. Through the water the Word and the Light of God burst forth just as a human child bursts forth from the body of its mother. The Holy water is within the womb where the Word continues to birth forth into the world today. God, which is the Word, draws people near so that they may hear so that God and man will be in darkness no more. The Holy Word tells us:
John 1:4
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. The Holy Word tells us:
John 4:14
… whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The Holy Word tells us:
John 1:26-31
John answered them, "I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know, even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie." These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing. The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because He was before me.' I myself did not know Him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that He might be revealed to Israel." If the word "womb" frightens you and causes you to raise a finger and form the shout of heresy or blasphemy let me have a few more sentences. Logic or wisdom comes to us through the fear of God and grace also demands us to think without fear: the word father demands a consciousness of mother because to be a father there must also be a mother or a living womb. ABBA is Aramaic and means "father mother" but not in a maculine feminine way but in a "completeness" of an uniquely sufficient parent. Jesus calls God father many times in the Holy Word but never once does He call His earthly mother Mary... “mother”. We do however; we call Mary the mother of Jesus and so did everyone during the days of Jesus life and ministry. The virgin Mary was truly blessed among women and we honor her life and suffering for the sake of all of mankind. But once you realize that God and Jesus Christ are one and the same… we realize why Jesus could not call Mary mother... God has no mother. The Holy Word tells us:
Matthew 12:48-50
But he replied to the man who told him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother." The Holy Word tells us water is:
Ephesians 5:25-27
Husbands love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word, so that he might present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. The Holy Word tells us water is:
2 Peter 3:4-6
They will say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation." For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the Word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.
 You might be thinking that my thoughts have wondered off and I have rambled on but I have not; well not much. I remember quite well I was speaking of the fish – the ichthys ΙΧΘΥΣ. What many people don’t realize the fish was the first symbol of the Christ follower. The cross came much later, two hundred years later. The ichthys was started as a signal or sign of believers in fellowship. During the times of persecution if fellowship was to happen men would meet in public and one man would draw a half circle in the dust of the ground. As the men gathered in this public place, one man would then draw the other half circle in the dust to finish the fish and then scratch it out. That man who finished the fish would host the secret meeting at his home or meeting place. The men would slowly leave one by one so that they would not draw attention from the world around them and all would join up in secret fellowship due to those two half circles drawn into the dust of the earth. Many Christ followers would also display a wooden plaque or carving of a fish on their door or lintel to separate themselves as Christ followers. The word Christian was given to the Christ followers by the Romans as a general title or name for those who were a threat to the Roman Empire: a name by which Christ followers were identified as those to be destroyed. Christian became a title or tag during the beginnings of the age of persecution about 50ad through 400ad... and still lives beyond.
If you are a Christian you know that the ruler of this world is the satan or adversary of Christ. We also know that Jesus Christ is not of this world and we too as Christians should not be conformed to this world. The Holy Word tells us:
John 18:36
Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world." The Holy Word tells us:
Romans 12:1, 2
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Now here is a question many Christians forget to ask themselves: what "world" does a Christian belong and where should they live? We Christians should live in the water: fully submersed and breathing His life giving water like the fish. Remember the Holy Water gave birth to the Word of God and the Word of God was made flesh and blood as Jesus Christ. Our world is in the Holy Water… the living water of God: the water that was when God was. The water of creation of all the seen and unseen, of salvation, promise, protection, comfort, strength, and everything we need to live with God as we did before the creation of the world and before God’s plan put our souls in Earthly bodies. Christ, the Word made flesh, came from the water and the blood – Son of God and Son of Man. The Holy Word tells us:
1 John 5:4-8
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. The Holy Word tells us:
Ephesians 1:3, 6
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved. So let us gather together all our thoughts before we end; we were souls living within the water that "was" before the foundations of the Earth. The Holy Spirit hovered above the water, then God spoke and His Word burst forth and Light was created from the Word. Light separated the darkness (the unknowing) from the Light (the knowing). John the Baptizer baptized with water so that Israel might see and the gentile is baptized in the Word so the Christian might see. The Word was born from the water and Christ is the Word that we should immerse ourselves into while we are living in this world in the dry, inhospitable land. However we fish do not exist solely in the water. We were forced by His plan and our sinful bodies to walk upon the this dry world – but we will never be of this world. We are fish out of water yet by the grace of God and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit we should be swimming daily in the Holy Water of His Word. Those that foresake the right way, the unbelievers, and those who are unclean spirits; they seek the dryness of this world and the dryness of the unbelieving souls. They seek for waterless places and a life in Christ. The Holy Word tells us:
Luke 11:24
"When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.'
The Holy Word tells us:
2Peter 2:17
These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.
All Christians are called forth from His Water by His Word and put on dry land but we are preserved with salt: the covenant of loyalty. And we appear odd or dead to the world around us – to some it appears we even stink like fish and are unbearable to be around. But to those who God draws close; we are like food for hungry bellies. Those drawn to God are fed by the salty fish and grow thirsty and search to find drink from His Water of Life. They are fed too by the broken bread: by the hand of God who broke Himself for all the world. Those He draws near, those who eat the salt of life, their hunger and thirst are satisfided and quenched by the Holy Word and the Water of Life. We Christians will naturally become parched when we live too long without water. And we will die away if we do not continuously return to the water to refresh our water dependent souls. The Holy Word tells us:
Matthew 15:34-37
And Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish." And directing the crowd to sit down on the ground, he took the seven loaves and the fish, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left over.
The Holy Word tells us:
Matthew 5:13
"You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
We Christians should always be immersed and drink deeply from the Holy Water (Bible – the womb of the Word). The elect will swim in the water until called out: then they swim against the currents of this world to be used as a faithful and loyal tool, salted and preserved to be used up as food for thought: thoughts which make men look and stare at us silly fish swimming against the currents. And when God places His fish in someones path and they draw near and smell or taste the saltiness of the fish; their thirst will rage up so that they will search for more on their own. I am just a little fish who was caught by God and thrown onto dry land. Through Him and His Holy Word I have learned to not only to swim in water but I have learned to walk on water and on dry land. And I have swum deeply, earnestly and joyfully. I have been made a part of the salt covenant with the Lord and I am salted through and through and ready to make men thirst. Selah
Ah... the fish.
The fish and the bread is the Christian and the Christ.
Amen.
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