A Note by Norman P. Grubb
So, the Universal, Unknowable, Invisible, Unapproachable
Father can be known by a knowable, visible, approachable form of Himself, which
is His Son, the Only begotten Son of God which we speak of as the manifested
form of the Deity. It always was His purpose, through His Son to bring into
being a vast family of sons. God in reproduction, in manifestation, is God the
Spirit. From the Father, through the Son, God the Spirit comes into being so
that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. All creation came
into expression from the Spirit. The final form of creation was the bringing
into being of the Son—family in His own image. We then follow through from
other scriptures and we find that His ultimate purpose which has been a fixed
fact from Eternity is that His Son should both bring into being this Universe,
then God turns this Universe over to His Son as His inheritance.
Therefore, the Son is the One Who will be the agent by which
the Father will fulfill whatever His eternal purposes are through eternity in
the whole universe. That is told to us in other scriptures, other than Romans.
One particular one is Heb. 1:2 (speaking of His own Whom He appointed heir of
all things, by Whom He has made the whole world.
Then later on we are told in other scriptures which link up
to Him through Grace, that we are co-sons, co-brothers, and co-heirs. What He
inherits, we inherit. Therefore, His eternal purpose always had been that the
Invisible One should manifest Himself through His visible form, expressing
Himself as Love in visible form. That the One and the ones joined to Him should
be the eternal Love expressions of the Father in fulfilling whatever His
ultimate purposes are in the Universe. Being Love, all His purposes are
perfection and completion, that all should be what it is meant to be in
harmony, the give and take of love, love relationships; this is to be fulfilled
through eternity by His Son-family