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Debrecen Messages #4 – The Fellowship of the Godhead: Christ Before Creation
This profound teaching, given in Debrecen, Hungary, opens a window into realities before the foundation of the world—realities that define the Christian life far more deeply than methods, formulas, or religious effort. Gene Edwards explores what Scripture reveals about the fellowship of the Godhead: the life, love, speaking, beholding, and oneness shared between the Father and the Son before creation ever existed.
At the heart of this message are two of the most important words in all of Scripture: “in” and “one.” Before there was a universe, angels, or man, the Father was in the Son, the Son was in the Father, and they were one by the Holy Spirit. This divine fellowship did not originate in time—it flows from eternity and continues into the present life of every believer.
The message unfolds how all things flow from the Father: divine life, divine love, divine revelation, and divine fellowship. The Son lives entirely by the Father’s life, declaring, “Of Myself I can do nothing.” This same divine life is now given to believers. The Christian life cannot be lived by human strength, intellect, discipline, or effort—it can only be lived by divine life.
Gene Edwards explains that Christ came to earth not to introduce religious activity, but to bring believers into the same relationship He has always had with the Father. What the Father is to the Son, the Son is to us. The life that flowed into Christ before creation now flows into believers, calling them to live by Christ just as Christ lives by the Father.
A central emphasis of this teaching is beholding—a spiritual seeing that takes place not in the mind, but in the spirit. The Father beholds the Son, and the Son beholds the Father. This mutual beholding is the secret of divine fellowship and the foundation of true prayer. Prayer is not performance or formula; it is a return to fellowship with God in the spirit.
This message also confronts the dominance of intellect and religious knowledge, calling believers back to a life lived in spirit, where revelation replaces reasoning and apprehension replaces analysis. God is spirit, and all divine realities—including fellowship, oneness, love, and life—can only be experienced in spirit.
Practical guidance is given for learning to turn inward to Christ, to behold Him, love Him, and fellowship with Him in simplicity. This is not mystical abstraction but the normal Christian life as revealed in Scripture.
If you long to move beyond religious striving into living fellowship with Christ, this message offers a doorway back to the eternal realities from which the Christian life flows.
What the Father is to the Son, the Son is to you.
What the Father is to the Son, what the Father is to Jesus Christ, the Son is to you.
Now I’m only speaking here, I’m not speaking theologically, I’m speaking of a flowing, I’m speaking of the flowing.
Now where did the Father flow to? He flowed to the Son. And where did the Son flow to? Back to the Father.
I have invented a word to describe this. Here we go.
You take a magnet, and put a piece of metal by it, and this metal will become a magnet, and can magnetize something else. But that’s not all. If you have a magnet, and it magnetizes this, that magnetism flows back here too.
But I want to go a little bit further. I want you to imagine something that is radiation. You know what I mean? Nuclear. Nuclear radiation—that which will kill you if you mess with it. Okay. This thing is radioactive, and something is placed beside it and becomes radioactive. So, this has radiated out to this, and this is now radioactive. And this now radiates out. And it radiates. The second one radiates back to that which radiated it, and radiates out to that which is not radiated. I’m calling this, then, radiation and re-radiation. I had to invent that term in order to explain to you what I’m saying.
The Father radiates the Son. The Son re-radiates the Father. The Son radiates us, and we are radiated. And then what do we do? We do what the Son did and does—because we re-radiate to the Son. He takes our radiation and re-radiates it to the Father. And we take our radiation and we re-radiate it to the Son. And then we also re-radiate it to who? Only one place: to other members of the body of Christ.
Don’t make it individual. We have to make this the ecclesia. We must not get outside Scripture. We must understand that in the first century, everybody knew it was within the body of Christ. It was in the community of the believers. It was in the church. It was not something to be wasted outside of the glorification of Christ. And the church is the glorification of Christ.
Okay. Here we go. I would like for you to know that everything I’ve said to this point is what should have been the ministry of the last 1700 years. When it comes to spiritual matters, this is what we should have heard. This is what we should have known. This is what we should have been led into. Now, it is time. Brother, brother, sister, brother, brother, brother, brother, saints listening, holy ones listening to this video—it is time we start it over again.
Alright. I have come so that you might have…say it: Life. I want you to go back into eternity and hear the Father saying to the Son, “I have come that you might have life.” “I have flown out, flowed out, that you might have life, my Son.” Now, the instincts of divinity, the instincts of the Godhead—the Son flows out.
As the Father flowed out, the Son flows out. And the Son now announces to you, “That which I have known and been and lived, which I am for all eternity, I have come to earth to give you what my Father gave me.” “I flow out my life to you. And it is divine life. And as I live by the Father, I live by the life of the Father.” “And without the Father, I can do nothing. And I live by the life of the Father.” Even so shall you—say it: “Live by me.” Flowing out.
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