Father And Son

Jesus played a subordinate and supporting role to God the Father. Jesus is the Son and heir of the Highest, His Father.

Here are some of the Supporting verses:

1) Jesus was the Word of God, the spokesman.

John 1:14 (NKJV)
And the Word became flesh (Jesus) and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

2) The Father is greater than Jesus.

John 14:28 (NKJV)
You have heard Me (Jesus) say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.

3) Jesus could do nothing of His own.

John 5:30 (NKJV)
I (Jesus) can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

4) What Jesus sees the Father do He does.

John 5:20 (NKJV)
For the Father loves the Son (Jesus), and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

These first four points apply equally well with the Word as a spirit being who created with the Father during the week of creation as they did to Jesus while He was on earth as a man.

5) Jesus learned and was perfected through suffering, the Father was teaching Him.

Hebrews 5:9 (NKJV)
And having been perfected, He (Jesus) became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,

Hebrews 2:10 (NKJV)
For it was fitting for Him (Jesus), for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

6) The Father sent Jesus to do a work, clearly the Father has and had authority over Jesus.

John 5:36 (NKJV)
But I (Jesus) have a greater witness than John’s; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish—the very works that I do—bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.

7) The Father put or is putting all things under Jesus' feet.

Matthew 22:44 (NKJV)
‘The LORD (the Father) said to my Lord (Jesus), “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’?

8) The Father is going to give Jesus the Kingdom.

Matthew 11:27 (NKJV)
All things have been delivered to Me (Jesus) by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

9) Creation is for Christ.

Ephesians 1:22 (GNB)
God put all things under Christ’s feet and gave him to the church as supreme Lord over all things.

Colossians 1:19–20 (NKJV)
For it pleased the Father that in Him (Jesus) all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

10) The greatest act of love that a Creator Father can show to His Son is to give Him all His creation and all power and majesty over it.

Jude 25 (NKJV)
To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen.

Matthew 28:18 (NKJV)
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

John 3:35 (NKJV)
The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.

John 13:3 (NKJV)
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,

11) Inheritance.

Luke 1:32 (NKJV)
He (Jesus) will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.

Here we clearly see that Jesus will be called the Son of the Highest. Jesus called himself the Son of God while He was on earth. It is not much of a stretch bearing in mind that as Hebrews 13:8 (NKJV) says, 'Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.' That the Word who was with the Highest during the week of creation was the Son of God the Father.

12) It is His pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Luke 12:32 (NKJV)
Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

13) The Father has authority.

Matthew 20:23 (NKJV)
So He said to them, “You will indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared by My Father.”

14) Jesus kept His Father's commandments.

John 15:10 (NKJV)
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

15) The anti-Christ is described as:

1 John 2:22–23 (NKJV)
Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

Conclusion

Jesus made many efforts, if not great efforts, to show that He was a humble, obedient messenger sent by His Father, our God.

Hebrews 13:8 (NKJV)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

While keeping in mind the contents of this composition, this verse indicates that Jesus was always the lesser and His Father was always the greater.

James 1:16–17 (NKJV)
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

Matthew 10:28 (NKJV)
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

John 5:21 (NKJV)
For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.

Galatians 1:1 (NKJV)
Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him (Jesus) from the dead),

The Father is the one who resurrected or, in essence, recreated Jesus in His former glory. The Bible goes to significant measures to show that the Father was the greater God, was, is and will always be.

Mark 14:36 (NKJV)
And He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. ... ”

There is great evidence that Jesus, the Word, was always the Son of God the Father. The plan of the Father for His Son is vast imposing evidence.

2019 Jacques Gauvin

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