In this writing we describe step by step the fundamental truth about the DEITY, which is actually composed of two Divine Beings: God the Father and Jesus his Divine Son, as the Scriptures reveal to us in a simple and literal way.
Unlike the official version of traditional Christianity, if we study the Holy Scriptures prayerfully and in context, we will then discover a beautiful and profound Father-Son relationship between the Most High God and his Divine Only Son, Jesus the Messiah.
As we read on, we will surprisingly discover who or what the Holy Spirit really is.
Jesus once said:
“O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think they are wise and intelligent and revealing them to those who are like children. Yes, Father, it was your good pleasure to do so.
My Father has entrusted everything to me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
(Luke 10:21-22)
Jesus is truly the Divine Son and the Heir of God the Father
According to the Scriptures, Jesus is truly and literally the Divine Son and the Heir of God his true Father, whom He loves and serves from the beginning of his existence.
(See Psalm 2:7-12; Proverbs 30:4; Matthew 16:13-17; 26:63-64; 27:42-43, 54; Mark 1:1-3; 14:61-62; Luke 1:31-33; John 1:14; 3:14-18; 11:4, 25-27; 19:7; 20:30-31.)
This was clearly recorded in the book of Acts and in the letters of the Apostles addressed to believers, after Jesus ascended back to Heaven, in the place of honor at the right hand of his Heavenly Father (Acts 2:32-35).
(See Acts 7:55-56; 9:18-20; Romans 1:1-5; 5:8-11; 8:3, 16-17, 29-34; 1Corinthians 1:9; 2Corinthians 1:3, 18-20; 11:31; Galatians 1:15-16; 2:20; 4:4-7; Ephesians 1:3, 17; 4:11-13; Philippians 2:15-20; Colossians 1:3-4, 12-14, 18-20; 1Thessalonians 1:9-10; Hebrews 1:1-9; 3:1-6; 4:14-16; 5:5-10; 6:4-6; 7:1-4, 20-28; 10:26-31; 2Peter 1:16-18; 1John 1:1-3; 2:22-25; 3:7-8, 21-24; 4:7-16; 5:4-5, 9-13, 20; 2Jean 1:3; Revelation 1:5-6; 14:1.)
Jesus is truly the Messiah, the Holy Servant and the Prophet of God the Father
According to the Scriptures, Jesus is truly and literally the Messiah (the Christ or Anointed One), the Holy Servant and the Prophet of God the Father. Jesus was appointed, anointed, and sent into the world by God his Father.
(See Psalm 2:1-6; Micah 5:2-4; Matthew 12:15-21; 13:57; 16:13-17; 21:10-11; Mark 1:1-3; 14:61-62; Luke 4:23-24; 7:15-17; 13:31-33; 24:13-21; 26:63-64; John 4:16-26, 43-45; 6:14-15; 7:40-42; 11:25-27; 20:30-31.)
This was clearly recorded in the book of Acts and in the letters of the Apostles addressed to believers, after Jesus ascended back to Heaven, in the place of honor at the right hand of his Heavenly Father (Acts 2:32-35).
(See Acts 2:36; 3:13-15, 22-23, 26; 4:23-31; 5:41-42; 7:37-38; 9:22; 17:1-4; 18:4-6, 27-28; Romans 3:24; 1Corinthians 1:4; 2Corinthians 2:14; Galatians 2:4; Ephesians 1:1; 5:5; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:4, 28; 1Thessalonians 2:14; 1Timothy 1:2, 12, 14-15; 2Timothy 1:1, 9, 13; Philemon 1:6, 23; 1John 2:22; 5:1; Hebrews 5:4-6; Revelation 11:15; 12:10.)
One God in position and one God in nature
“In the beginning the Word (“LOGOS”) already existed. The Word was with God (“THEOS”), and the Word was God (“THEOS”). He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him.”
Note that “the WORD” in Greek is “LOGOS,” and it means “the Living Word or Spokesperson.” “GOD” in Greek is “THEOS,” and it means “God in position (Supreme God)”; it also means “a being with divine nature”; and it also means “any pagan god.”
And what the apostle really wanted to express in John 1:1-3, is that Jesus—the Living Word or Spokesperson of God—was God in nature (Divine Being) who was at the side of his Father, the God in position (Supreme God), creating the world together. Jesus was the first and only divine Being who was begotten (generated) directly from the Father, already from the beginning before Creation (Colossians 1:15-17).
So John 1:1-3 is actually saying that Jesus, who is the Living Word or Spokesperson, already existed in the beginning before Creation, and was with His Father, who is God in nature (Divine Being) and God in position (Supreme God), and is above all. Jesus Himself was also God in nature (Divine Being) like His Father. Jesus, the Divine Son, already existed in the beginning and was with His Divine Father, and together they created the Heavens and the Earth.
(See John 3:31-35; 17:1-5; 1Peter 1:23; 2Peter 3:5; 1John 1:1-4; 1Corinthians 8:6.)
Jesus said once, in John 10:34-38, that He was indeed the Son of God, that is, God in nature like God his Father. He added that the Scriptures (in Psalm 82) tell how the Supreme God was once exhorting certain angels, whom He called “Gods” and Sons of the Most High.
Jesus is the Light of the Supreme God full of Glory
Jesus is the LIGHT that comes from the Father of Lights, the Supreme God, who is surrounded by immense eternal GLORY.
Jesus is the Light—the Day—that the Father provided and appointed to destroy the Darkness—the Night (or the kingdom of the devil). Jesus, the Divine Son, was sent into the world by the Father to illuminate our hearts and to proclaim the Truth of the Father.
Of his own will, God made us to be born again through the Living Word of Truth He gave us—his own Son Jesus—, so that, of all creation, we would become his most valuable possession.
(See Genesis 1:3-5; Psalm 118:22-24; John 1:4-9, 14, 18; 3:16-21; 8:12; 9:4-5; 11:9-10; 12:35-36, 46; 17:1-5; Ephesians 1:17; 2Corinthians 4:6; 1Thessalonians 5:1-11; 1Timothy 6:15-16; James 1:17-18; 1John 3:8; Revelation 21:22-23.)
God the Father has always existed, but Jesus had a beginning of existence
God the Father is the Eternal God and has always existed (Genesis 21:33; 33:27; Psalm 45:6; Isaiah 40:28; Jeremiah 10:10).
His Divine Son Jesus, who is his Living Word (Mouthpiece), is also Eternal since He was begotten (generated) by God his literal Father at some point in eternity. In other words, God the Father has no origin, but Jesus did have one at some point before Creation. God begot (generated) him so that together they could create this world in which we live.
In Proverbs 8:22-31, God's Word says:
“The LORD FORMED me from the beginning, before He created anything else. I was named from everlasting, from the very beginning, before the earth existed. I was born before the oceans were created, before water gushed forth from the springs. Before the mountains were formed, before the hills, I was born, before the LORD made the earth and the fields and the first handfuls of soil.
I was there when He established the heavens, when He drew the horizon over the oceans. I was there when He placed the clouds above, when He established the springs deep in the earth. I was there when He set bounds for the seas, so that they would not extend beyond their bounds. And also when He marked out the foundations of the earth, I was the ARCHITECT at its side. I was his constant delight, and I rejoiced always in his presence. How happy I was with the world he created, how glad I was with the human family!”
Note that in this passage Wisdom appears, whom the Lord God formed from the beginning before the creation of the Heavens and the Earth. It also says that Wisdom was the Architect creating everything alongside God. Who is this Wisdom? If we read 1 Corinthians 1:24 and 30, we see that Jesus is indeed the Wisdom and the Power of God the Father: “But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the POWER of God and the WISDOM of God. God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be WISDOM itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.” Jesus (the Living Word) is, in fact, the One whom God the Father appointed from the beginning to speak his wise words and perform his mighty works.
Jesus claimed that He was Divine and Eternal because He had come from God his Father On one occasion, some of those living in Jerusalem questioned Jesus about whether He was truly the Messiah, for they knew where He came from. But He claimed that He was not there on His own, for He knew very well God his Father who had sent Him, because He CAME FROM Him—implying that He had come directly from God the Father and was therefore also Divine (John 7:25-29). Jesus declared in prayer his desire to return to the Father, the One True God, to share the same divine glory that He had had with Him before the world began, for He had come directly from God His Father (John 17:1-8). God begot or generated (sometime in eternity before the creation of the world) his Son Jesus, thereby acquiring the same glorious and divine nature of his Heavenly Father. (See Genesis 1:3-5; John 1:1-3; Proverbs 30:4; Colossians 1:15-17; Hebrews 1:10-12.)
Since Jesus came from God his Father, in a certain way He is also Eternal like his Father because his seed was already active within the Spirit of the Eternal Father, up until the moment He was begotten or generated by God to be his Divine Son. We can see a similarity of this in the Scriptures when it says in Hebrews 7:1-10 that in a certain way Levi also gave the tithe to Melchizedek because his seed was already within his father Abraham when he gave the tithe of the spoils of battle to Melchizedek, the Priest of the Most High God.
God the Father is the origin of Jesus, and man is the origin of woman
Jesus is the only begotten (generated) Son of God the Father, and therefore He is also God in Nature (Divine Being) because He CAME directly from His Divine Father.
Jesus Himself said on several occasions that He CAME directly from God, who was in fact His own Father, thus making Himself equal to God in Nature as His Father. That is, Jesus had inherited the same authority and power from His own Heavenly Father (John 13:3).
(See John 5:17-18; 7:29; 8:42; 16:27; 17:6-8.)
The FATHER and the SON created man in Their own image and likeness: MAN and WOMAN They created them. And just as Jesus was Divine like the Father because he CAME directly from his Father, so also the woman was human like the man because she CAME directly from her husband.
That is why the Scriptures say that man is the head or origin of his wife, and God the Father is the head or origin of his Son Jesus. In other words, the woman is the wife and servant of her husband, and Jesus is the Son and Servant of his Father.
(See Genesis 1:26-27; 2:18-24; 1 Corinthians 11:3, 7-10.)
Just as the woman is human because she comes directly from the rib of the man, who is also human, so also Jesus is God in Nature (Divine Being) because He comes directly from the bosom of the Father, who is also God in Nature (Divine Being) (John 1:18).
We conclude, then, that as man and woman are two humans in nature—but at the same time one in the unity that surrounds them by the Divine Spirit—so also the Father and the Son are two Gods in Nature (Divine Beings) —but at the same time One in the unity that surrounds them by the Divine Spirit (John 17:20-26).
The Father is the Invisible Source and Jesus is the Visible Channel
God the Father is the Supreme God in Position—the Sovereign Lord, Eternal King, Invisible and Immortal—who is above all and is the Invisible SOURCE of all existence, including that of Jesus, his only Divine Begotten Son. (See Matthew 11:25; Luke 10:21; Acts 4:24; Ephesians 3:14-15; 1Timothy 1:17; 6:15-16.)
However, Jesus had all the glorious and eternal nature of God his Father from the beginning of his existence, which also makes him God in Nature (Divine Being) as the Father of him. In fact, Jesus is the Visible CHANNEL and FILTER that expresses the very character of God the Father. He is the Visible Image of an Invisible God that no human being has ever seen (except Jesus Himself), who has never died, and who raised Jesus from the dead. (See John 1:18; 3:31-35; 5:37; 6:45-46; 8:38; Acts 2:32; 4:10; 2 Corinthians 4:3-6; Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:1-5; 1John 4:12.)
God the Father sent Jesus his Divine Son into the world and made him a Human Being
Jesus—the “LOGOS” or SPOKESPERSON of God—was originally a Divine Spiritual Being like God the Father. But He was made a Human Being like us humans when His Father sent Him into the world born of a woman (John 1:14; Romans 8:3; Galatians 4:4-5; Hebrews 2:14-18; 10:5-7). However, Jesus said that His Father—the Supreme God—is Spirit, that is, a Divine Spiritual Being, and that therefore He must be worshiped in spirit and in truth, and at all times and in all places (John 4:23-24).
Jesus himself repeatedly said that He was also the SON of MAN—that is, Human Being—who will come at the end of time with His glorified human body to judge and restore the entire world (Matthew 26:64; Mark 14:62; Luke 22:69).
(See Matthew 8:20; 9:6; 10:23; 11:19; 12:8, 32, 40; 13:41; 16:13, 27-28; 17:9, 12, 22; 18:11; 19:28; 20:18, 28; 24:27, 30, 37, 39, 44; 25:13, 31; 26:2, 24, 45, 64.)
In fact Jesus was quoting in Matthew 26:64 what the prophet Daniel had seen in vision about a Son of Man (the Messiah) approaching and receiving authority from the Ancient One (God the Father):
“While my vision continued that night, I saw someone like a Son of Man coming down with the clouds of heaven. He came to the Ancient One, and they brought him before him. Authority, honor and sovereignty were given to him over all the nations of the world, to be obeyed by every race, nation and language. His government is eternal, it will have no end. His kingdom will never be destroyed.”
(Daniel 7:13-14)
After his death, Jesus’ body was made alive and glorified by the power of his Father’s Spirit (Romans 8:11). And God exalted his Son for his faithful obedience and great sacrifice, making Him Lord of all (Philippians 2:5-11). So Jesus is currently the SON of GOD as a powerful Divine Being, but He is also the SON of MAN as a glorified Human Being (Acts 7:56; 17:30-31; Romans 5:15; 1 Corinthians 15:45-47; 1 Timothy 2:5).
Jesus was sent by God the Father to do his will and finish his work
Jesus—the Divine and Human Son—said on several occasions that He was SENT by His Father to the world to proclaim His Truth, and also to suffer and give His life for us, in order to save us from the sinful nature that we all inherited (because of the disobedience and fall of the first man), and also from the consequent curse of sin.
(See John 3:16-17, 34; 4:34-38; 5:23-24, 30, 37-38; 6:37-40, 44, 57; 7:15-18, 28-29, 33; 8:16, 18, 26, 28-29, 42; 9:4; 10:36; 12:44-45, 49; 13:20; 14:24; 16:5; 20:21; Hebrews 10:5-7; 1John 4:9-10, 14.)
On one occasion, Jesus told the crowd that He was the Bread of Life that God the Father had sent from Heaven to give us eternal life (John 6:35-40). He also said that His Father was greater than Him, because the one who is sent is not greater than the one who sends him (John 10:27-29; 13:16; 14:28).
Jesus also said that only His Father—who is greater and more powerful than Him—is the one who decides who will be at the right and left of Jesus on the throne. He also said that He did not know anything, but that only His Father knows the day and the hour that He will return in the authority of His God and Father (Matthew 20:23; Mark 13:11-32).
Jesus once told the crowd that He would be with them a little longer, and then He would return to the one who sent Him (God the Father) (John 7:33-34). Just before He was handed over and martyred, Jesus prayed to His Heavenly Father saying that He had given Him glory here on Earth, by finishing the work He had entrusted to Him; and asked Him to take him to the glory that he had shared with Him (God the Father) before the world began (John 17:4-5).
The Father was with Jesus on Earth through his own Holy Spirit
Jesus on Earth had the sinless nature of God the Father at birth, and then received the fullness of the Father's Spirit upon Him at baptism. The presence of God was with Jesus from then on so that He could work miracles and announce the Good News of the Heavenly Kingdom and Salvation, and so that He could give his life for all of us. The apostle Peter made mention of this in Acts 10:37-38: “You know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after John began to preach his message of baptism. And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Afterward Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.” (See Matthew 12:18; Luke 1:35; 3:21-22; 4:14-20; John 14:8-21; 17:20-26; Colossians 1:19-22.) Who or what is the Holy Spirit really? In fact, the Divine Holy Spirit, who is also Sevenfold, is in itself the glorious nature, the holy presence and the miraculous power of God the Father and also of Jesus, for He inherited it from his Father. It is the spiritual substance of the inner being of God the Father and of Jesus his divine Son. It is the same Spirit of the Father who raised Jesus from the dead and who was also sent throughout the Earth and poured out upon us, the born-again believers. (See Genesis 1:1-2; Isaiah 11:1-2; Matthew 10:19-20; Luke 1:35; 4:16-21; John 4:23-24; 14:16-21; 17:20-26; 20:19-22; Acts 1:8; 2:16-21, 32-33, 38-39; 8:36-39; 10:36-38; 11:20-21; 16:6-8; Romans 8:9-17; 1Corinthians 1:24; 2:10-12; 5:3-4; 2Corinthians 1:21-22; 3:16-18; Galatians 4:4-7; Ephesians 1:3-14; Philippians 1:18-19; 1Thessalonians 4:7-8; 1John 3:24; Revelation 4:5; 5:6.)
In 1 Corinthians 2:10-12, we read:
“But it was to us that God [the Father] revealed these things through His Spirit. For His Spirit searches everything and shows us the deep secrets of God. No one can know a person's thoughts except the person's own spirit, and no one can know God's thoughts except the Spirit of God. And we have received the Spirit of God (not the spirit of the world), so that we can know the wonderful things that God has given us.”
And in 2 Corinthians 3:16-18, we read:
“But whenever someone turns to the Lord [Jesus], the veil is taken away. For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.”
The Divine Holy Spirit is the spiritual channel through which God and Jesus speak to us and strengthen us, teach us and reveal to us the truth of the Divine Word, guide us and show us what to say and do—and even what will happen—, fill us with his Love and empower us to do healings, miracles and wonders, and much more.
(See Matthew 10:19-20; Mark 13:11; 16:17-20; John 7:37-39; 14:12, 15-26; 16:13-15; Acts 4:29-31; 8:26-29; 16:6-10; Romans 5:5; 1Corinthians 14:1-4; 1John 2:26-27; 4:13; Jude 1:20-21.)
The Relationship of Jesus and his Disciples with the Holy Spirit
We must note that Jesus and his disciples never worshiped or asked the Holy Spirit for anything in prayer, but only from the Father and Supreme God (Matthew 6:7-15; John 4:23-24; 16:23-24; chapter 17; Acts 4:23-31; Ephesians 5:15-20; Philippians 3:3; Colossians 3:16-17).Why did Jesus and his disciples not worship or ask the Holy Spirit for anything in prayer? Because the Holy Spirit is simply not another divine person, but the very essence of the inner spiritual part of God and Jesus, which was poured out on all of his followers (Acts 2:1-18; 1Corinthians 2:10-12).
Jesus told his disciples that the Holy Spirit that He would send to them would not speak on his own, but would speak only what Jesus himself said, for Jesus transmits the Words of God his Father (John 16:13-15).
The Father and Jesus were One in the unity of the Spirit, and they always worked together to proclaim the truth about the Heavenly Kingdom and to perform miraculous works. In fact, Jesus said that He spoke and performed miracles in the name of His Heavenly Father, and that without Him He could do nothing. Thus, God the Father was constantly in and with Jesus, through His own Divine Spirit, proclaiming the Kingdom message and performing miraculous works (John 3:31-35; 5:17-20, 43-44; 7:16-18; 8:27-29; 10:25-26, 30-38; 12:49-50).
The religious Pharisees once accused Jesus that the testimony that He was the Light of the world and that He had been sent by God the Father came only from Him and was therefore invalid. But He answered them that his testimony was valid, because He was not alone but that the Father was with Him, through the Spirit of His Father in Him. He said that the Law states that if two people agree on something, their testimony is accepted as a fact. He went on to say that He was one of the witnesses, and that His Heavenly Father who sent Him was the other (John 8:12-19).
Jesus also said that just as He was in the Father and the Father in Him, so we would also be in Him and He in us, so that we would all be One in the unity that God's Holy Spirit brings (John 14:6-26; 17:20-26).
God the Father also testified at least a couple of times, loudly and from Heaven to the crowd and the disciples, that Jesus was His beloved Son who brings Him great joy.
(See Matthew 3:16-17; 17:5-6; 2 Peter 1:16-18; 1 John 5:9-12.)
Greetings from Paul in the name of God the Father and the Lord Jesus
Why does the apostle Paul not acknowledge or mention the Holy Spirit in each of his greetings in his letters to brothers and sisters in the faith? As for example in Philippians 1:2: "May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace." And why in 1 Timothy 5:21 does Paul only acknowledge and mention God and Jesus, and then instead of acknowledging the Holy Spirit he mentions the highest angels? "I solemnly command you, in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the highest angels, to obey these instructions without taking sides or showing favoritism to anyone." And why again in 2 Timothy 4:1 does Paul only mention God and Jesus? “I earnestly appeal to you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will one day judge the living and the dead when he comes to establish his kingdom...” The logical answer is that the Holy Spirit is not another divine person, but the same Spirit of God the Father and of Jesus the Messiah. Jesus received it from the Father, just as we have received it as well.
The Father is the True God, and the Son is Eternal Life
Jesus declared praying to his Father in John 17:2-3, that the way to have ETERNAL LIFE is to personally know God his Father, the ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus the Messiah and Savior, whom He had sent:
“You have given your Son authority over all people. He gives eternal life to everyone you have given him. And the way to have eternal life is to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent to earth.”
The apostle John writes in 1 John 1:1-3, that Jesus, who has existed from the beginning, is the Word of Life and is ETERNAL LIFE itself. He was with God the Father and was then revealed to us so that we can have fellowship with Them both:
“We proclaim to you Him who has existed from the beginning, whom we have seen and heard. We have seen Him with our own eyes and touched Him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. He who is life itself has been revealed to us, and we have seen Him; and now we testify and proclaim to you that He is eternal life.
He was with the Father and was then revealed to us. We proclaim to you what we ourselves have seen and heard, so that you may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.”
The apostle John writes in 1 John 5:11-12 and 20, that God the Father gave us ETERNAL LIFE, and that Life is in his Son. He who has the Son has eternal life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. And we know that the Son of God came and gave us understanding, so that we can know the Supreme and True God—the Heavenly Father. And now we live in fellowship with the True God because we live in fellowship with his Son Jesus the Messiah. The Father is the ONLY TRUE GOD, and the Son is ETERNAL LIFE.
(See 1Corinthians 1:9; 1John 2:24-25.)
God gave Jesus authority as Judge to give life and judge God the Father who is the JUDGE of all (Hebrews 12:23) gave Jesus, his Divine and Human Son, the authority to give life to the dead and also to judge, so that He would also be honored by all just as all honor God the Father. In fact, Jesus is the JUDGE that God has appointed to resurrect and judge, on the day of final judgment, the living and the dead in the name of His Father. (See Matthew 16:27; Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26; John 5:19-30; Acts 10:42; 17:30-31; 2Corinthians 5:10; 2Timothy 4:1, 8; James 5:8-9; 1Peter 4:4-5; Revelation 2:11, 26-29; 3:5; 11:15-18; 20:11-15.)
God resurrected his Son and seated Him at his right hand, and gave Him Authority above every name Jesus was willing to come into the world to fulfill his Father’s will. In fact, He set aside the divine privileges He had with his Father and became human like us to give his life as a ransom for many (Philippians 2:5-8). Jesus lived a life of total surrender as a human being to the point of dying on the cross and being buried, in order to break the power of sin over us and free us from the fear of death, so that we can be reconciled to his Father (Hebrews 2:5-18). After suffering and dying, God's Son was resurrected from the dead on the third day by the Spirit of his Father (Romans 8:11; 1Corinthians 15:3-4; Hebrews 5:7-10). (See Acts 2:22-32; 3:14-15; 4:10; 5:30; 10:39-42; 13:29-31; Romans 8:34; 2Corinthians 4:14; Galatians 1:1; Hebrews 13:12, 20; 1Peter 1:3; 3:21.) Because of the great sacrifice and suffering Jesus endured on the cross to save us from sin and damnation, God the Father elevated Him and made Him sit in the highest place of honor, at his right hand, and gave Him AUTHORITY above every name that exists in Heaven and on Earth. (See Psalm 110:1; Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14; Matthew 28:18; Acts 5:31; 7:54-56; Romans 8:34; 1Corinthians 1:24; Ephesians 1:19-23; Philippians 2:9-11; Colossians 2:9-10; 3:1; Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:9-10; 8:1-2; 10:11-14; 12:1-4; 1Peter 3:22.)
In Acts 5:54-56, Stephen, the disciple of Jesus and deacon of the church who was full of faith and the Holy Spirit, gave public testimony just before his martyrdom that the heavens had opened and that he could therefore see God the Father and his Son Jesus in the place of honor, just at the right hand of God: «The Jewish leaders were furious at Stephen's accusation and shook their fists at him in rage. But Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God. And he saw Jesus standing in the place of honor at the right hand of God. And he said to them, 'Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing in the place of honor at the right hand of God! '»
God the Father seated Jesus in the highest place of honor, at his right hand, and gave him the authority to be LORD and KING, and also GOD in Delegated Office, until the Father humbles all his enemies and puts them under his Son's feet (Psalm 110:1; 1Corinthians 15:24-28). (See Psalms 2, 45 and 72; Isaiah 9:6; John 20:26-29; Acts 2:33-36; 1Corinthians 12:3; 2Corinthians 4:5; Philippians 2:9-11; Hebrews 1:8-9; 2Peter 1:1; Revelation 2:26-28; 3:21; 20:4-6.)
Both the Father and his Son are "Lord of lords and King of kings"
In Matthew 11:25 and Luke 10:21, Jesus prayed to his Father, calling him “Lord and Possessor of Heaven and Earth.”
In Acts 4:24-30, after the apostles Peter and John were released from questioning by the Jewish leaders, they then gathered with the rest of the believers and prayed directly to God the Father, calling him “Sovereign Lord, Creator of Heaven and Earth.”
And in 1 Timothy 6:13-16, the apostle Paul writes that God the Father is “Lord of all lords and King of all kings.”
(See Psalm 5:2; 10:16; 44:4; 47.)
Because of the total obedience and great suffering that Jesus endured, the Father made Him Lord, King, and Heir of all things.
Precisely in Revelation 17:13-14 and 19:15-16 we read that Jesus is also “Lord of all lords and King of all kings” like his Father.
(See John 18:36-37; Acts 2:36; 10:36; Hebrews 1:1-3; Jude 1:4.)
God is the very God and Father of Jesus the Messiah We must clarify that although Jesus is Lord and God in Delegated Office above all, however He is NOT above God the Father, who is literally his own God and Father and Source of all existence with authority over his own Son. (See Psalm 22:9-10; Micah 5:3; John 20:17; Romans 15:5-6; 2Corinthians 1:3; 11:31; Ephesians 1:3, 17; Hebrews 1:8-9; 10:5-7; 1Peter 1:3; 1John 1:3; 2John 1:3; Revelation 1:5-6; 2:26-27; 3:5, 12, 21; 14:1.) Jesus made it clear in these next two passages: “Don’t cling to me,” Jesus said (to Mary Magdalene), “for I haven’t yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” (John 20:17) “All who are victorious will become pillars in the Temple of my God, and they will never have to leave it. And I will write on them the name of my God, and they will be citizens in the city of my God—the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God. And I will also write on them my new name.” (Revelation 3:12) The apostle Paul described it this way in this verse: “But for us there is one GOD, the Father, by whom all things were created and for whom we live; and there is one LORD, Jesus Christ, through whom all things were created and through whom we live.” (1Corinthians 8:6) In Hebrews 1:8-9 (which refers to Psalm 45:6-7), we clearly see that God the Father here recognizes his Son as God in Delegated Office, but at the same time affirms that He is his God in Position: “But [God] says to the Son, ‘Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. You rule with a scepter of righteousness. You love justice and hate wickedness. Therefore, O God, your God has anointed you by pouring upon you the oil of gladness above all others.’” God the Father gave Jesus authority to be Lord and God in Delegated Office over all things, and to reign until all enemies are humbled under his feet (Psalm 110; Luke 1:31-33). Jesus will triumph over all his enemies at the end of his thousand-year reign on Earth (Revelation chapter 20). Then He will hand the Kingdom back to his Father so that This One may be the Only Supreme God over all things everywhere.
See 1 Corinthians 15:24-28:
“After that will come the end, when the Messiah will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having destroyed every ruler and power and authority. For Christ must reign until he humbles all his enemies beneath his feet. And the last enemy to be destroyed is death.
For the Scriptures say, “God has put all things under his authority.” (Of course, when it says “all things are under his authority,” it does not include God himself, who gave Christ his authority.) Then, when all things are under his authority, the Son will put himself under God’s authority, so that God, who gave his Son authority over all things, will be completely supreme over all things everywhere.”
Jesus is the First in everything and reconciled us with his Father
Jesus is the FIRSTBORN of everything that has been created by God. He is the beginning of everything, the first to exist and the first to be raised from the dead with a glorious body by the Father. So He is the FIRST in everything. God the Father not only made Jesus the creator of the Heavens and the Earth, but He also made Him the head of his church—us born again believers (Colossians 1:15-18). In fact, God, in all his fullness and through his own Spirit, was pleased to live in his Son; and through Him, God RECONCILED all things to Himself. He made peace with everything in Heaven and on Earth through the blood of his Son Jesus shed on the cross (Colossians 1:19-23).
The apostle Paul writes in Romans 5:1-2:
“Therefore, since we have been made righteous in God’s sight through faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has accomplished for us.
Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we look forward with confidence and joy to sharing God’s glory.”
Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 5:17-19: “For God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against him. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.” (See Acts 10:34-43; Romans 5:1-11; 2Corinthians 5:14-21; Revelation 1:5-6; 5:6-10.) Therefore, if we want to have access to God the Father to love, worship and serve Him, we must first repent towards God, and also submit and follow his Son Jesus, who gave his life for us so that we could receive the Spirit of God, and therefore have direct access to God his Father. (See John 1:12; 14:6; 16:23-24; Mark 8:34-38; Acts 2:38-39; Ephesians 2:14-18; 1Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 1:8-9; 7 :23-25.)
Jesus is the Lamb and High Priest of God the Father
Jesus is the perfect LAMB of God the Father—the Lord God Almighty. He sent Him as an offering to take away the sin of the world (John 1:29, 36; Revelation 5:7-10; 21:22-23).
God made him HIGH PRIEST by shedding his blood for us on the cross, so that He could be the Eternal Mediator who constantly intercedes before God for us born-again believers (1Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 4:14—5:10; 7:11-28; 8:1-13; 9:11-28; 12:22-24).
We must emphasize that Jesus on Earth was lower than the angels, for it was necessary for Him to be fully human like us, in order to become our merciful and faithful High Priest before God the Father (Hebrews 2:9-18).
(See Romans 8:26-39; Galatians 4:1-7; Ephesians 2:13-22; 1John 2:1-2.)
Both the Father and His Son are both our Saviors
According to the Scriptures, God the Father is our Savior, because out of love for us, He sent his Son Jesus to suffer and die on the cross to save us from the power of sin and death. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” (John 3:16-17) In the letters of the Apostles we can see that God the Father is our Savior through the Lord Jesus, the Savior and Messiah whom He sent to pay the debt we owed Him: “This is good and well-pleasing to God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator who is able to reconcile mankind to God, and that is the man Christ Jesus. He gave his life to buy freedom for all.” (1 Timothy 2:3-6) “All glory to him who is the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Jude 1:25) (See 2Samuel 22:3; Psalm 68:19; 140:7; Isaiah 43:3; 49:26; 60:16; Luke 1:47; 1Timothy 1:1; 4:10; Titus 1:3; 2:10; 3:4.) Of course, Jesus is our Great Savior by offering Himself as an atoning sacrifice to suffer for us. Without Him, the Father could not have saved us from the curse of sin and death that we have all inherited because of the disobedience of the first human being. (See Zechariah 9:9; Matthew 1:20-21; Luke 1:69; 2:11; John 4:42; Acts 5:31; 13:22-23; 2Peter 1:1, 11; 2:20; 3:2, 18; 1John 4:14.)
The Spirit of Love of the Father towards his Only Son and towards us
The basic nature of the Spirit of God is genuine, selfless LOVE. In Psalm 86:15 we can perceive the five attributes of God's Love: "But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and abounding in unfailing love and faithfulness." We can see the immense LOVE that God the Father has for his only Son Jesus, whom He begot and gave the same divine attributes as Himself. The Father, through his Spirit, was in Jesus during his ministry on Earth, and both enjoyed an intimate and loving communion. We can also see the immense LOVE of God the Father for us by sending us and giving us his Divine Son as a sacrifice, for the redemption of our sins and our reconciliation to God, so that He could pour upon us his own SPIRIT full of heavenly and inexhaustible LOVE, and thus have intimate communion with Him and with his Son Jesus. (See John 1:12-14; 3:16-17; chapters 14 to 17; 1Corinthians 1:9; chapter 13; 2Corinthians 13:14; Ephesians chapter 1; 3:14-19; Hebrews 9:14-15; 1John 1:3; 4:7-17.) We pray that you too can deeply understand and receive the immense Love of our Heavenly Father that He pours into our hearts selflessly, through faith and obedience to his only Divine Son Jesus, and through the power of his glorious Holy Spirit (his own spiritual presence). (See also Acts 2:4, 17-18, 33, 38; 10:44-47; 16:6-8; Romans 5:1-5; 8:26-27; 15:30; 1Corinthians 2:12-14; 2Corinthians 5:5; Galatians 4:6; 5:5-6, 22-23; Ephesians 2:17-18; 4:30; 5:9, 18; 6:18; Philippians 1:19; Colossians 1:7-8; 1Thessalonians 1:6-7; 4:7-8; 5:16-22; 2Thessalonians 2:13-14; 2Timothy 1:13-14; Titus 3:4-7; 1Peter 1:2, 22; 4:14; 1John 3:24; Jude 1:20-21.)
The Roots, the Tree, the Branches and the Sap
Here is a good illustration to help us better understand the place and function of the Father, the Son, us believers, and the Holy Spirit:
• God the Father is like the deep ROOTS hidden from view of a great tree.
• The Lord Jesus is like the TREE, strong and beautiful for everyone to see.
• We believers are like the visible BRANCHES united to the visible Tree (the Lord Jesus).
• And the Holy Spirit is like the inner SAP or living substance that comes and emanates from the invisible Roots (God the Father) to the visible Tree (the Lord Jesus) and the visible Branches (we believers).
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