A Good Word
 
      Is there still a good word for man in his lost condition? Is there an answer for man in whom there is that instinctive groping and craving for the lost image and the knowledge of the Eternal Being?
      Yes, there is a positive answer found in the Word of God, and it teaches the sinner-man that it is still possible for him to know God. The Bible teaches us that God has not abandoned the human race as He abandoned the angels who sinned and gave up their first estate.
      Studying the Word of God, we must come to the conclusion that God abandoned the sinning angels because they had not been created in the image of God. They were moral creatures, capable of moral and spiritual perception, but they were not made in God’s image.
      And why has God given sinful man another opportunity in salvation through the merits of a Redeemer? Only because he was made in the image of God, and God has expressed His own everlasting love for man through the giving of His Son.
      Now, the Bible has a great deal to say about the manner in which sinful man may come into the fellowship and the presence of God, and it all has to do with forgiveness and grace and regeneration and justification in Jesus Christ! It all boils down to the teaching that Jesus Christ is everything that the Godhead is! The image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15), the brightness of His glory, the express image of His person (Hebrews 1:3)—all of these we find in and through Jesus Christ!
      We believe with rejoicing that Jesus Christ was the begotten of the Father (John 1:14), before all ages (John 1:1), that He is God of God, Light of light, very God of very God, begotten and not made, of one substance with the Father, and it is by Him that all things were made! (see Colossians 1:16).