Understanding:
The Father
Son
Holy Spirit

Index

• Introduction
• The Holy Spirit
• Jesus the Messiah
• The New cannot contradict the Old
• God sends Jesus the Messiah
• How did Jesus become God?
• Who benefits from Jesus becoming God?
• Questions to ponder
• But what about these proof texts?

God sends Jesus the Messiah

Jesus is not God in the flesh. Numbers 23: 19 states:

"God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should change his mind. "

1 John 4: 12:

"No one has ever seen God"

2 John vv. 7 says:

"Many deceivers who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. "

Jesus, is Jesus in the flesh. It does not say God, Jehovah, The Father, or The Most High God as coming in the flesh. It says Jesus Christ. When Jesus asks Peter, "But who do you say I am? " Peter answers,

"You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."

Then, Jesus says to Peter, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father " (Matthew 16: 15 - 17). Notice that Peter says "Son of the living God." He could just as simply have said, " You are God," but he doesn’t. Jesus then tells Peter that the Father has blessed him by revealing to him who he is. Jesus is the Son OF God, not God.

God and Jesus are two separate beings, but God dwells in Jesus spiritually. Jesus was a man like all men of that time, except that he was anointed with God’s Holy Spirit. This is the meaning of "Messiah."Acts 10:38 says:

"How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil because God was with him."

It is God working through Jesus. God revealed everything to Jesus, who he was, what his mission was, what would happen to him, and the resources available to him through God’s Holy Spirit. God told Jesus what to do and what to say a lot of the times if not most of the times as Jesus himself testifies in John 12:49:

"For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it."

Because God dwells in Jesus, Jesus was in the form of God (KJV Philippians 2: 6). But the key words are "in the form of." It does not say Jesus was God, but in the form of God. In Greek, the words "form" and "image" are interchangeable. The phrases imply a close relationship with, rather than identity. This is confirmed by the subjection of Christ to God in 1 Corinthians 15:25. If you saw Jesus performing miracles or teaching about the Kingdom of God like only he knew about, you were actually witnessing God performing miracles and God teaching about His Kingdom through His Holy Spirit in Jesus. This is why Jesus told Philip in John 14:9-10:

"Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, "Show us the Father." Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father living in me, who is doing His work."

Jesus is not God, but God is in him. He was one with God in spirit (mind, purpose). We are born with a veil through which we cannot see. When we receive God’s Holy Spirit through Jesus, God starts revealing things to us through whatever means he wishes, His word, visions, dreams, or other people. But He does this at His own pace, when He knows you are ready. But Jesus did not have a veil, he could see clearly because he is God’s only begotten Son, His Chosen One. He had a specific mission to complete for God’s plan to reconcile us to Him. God’s Spirit revealed everything about the Kingdom of God to Jesus. Just think how much less you would have sinned if you had known when you were ten years old what you know now about God and Jesus. A big difference surely!

Here are some verses that help to show the relationship between God and Jesus.

Acts 2: 22

"Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. This man was handed over to you with God’s set purpose and foreknowledge."

Romans 1: 3

"Regarding His Son, who as to his human nature was a descendant of David, and who through the Spirit of Holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God."

John 8: 28 - 29

"So Jesus said, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am the one I claim to be and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. The one who sent me is with me; He has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases Him."

John 12: 49

"For I do not speak of my own accord but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it."

Hebrews 2: 17

"For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for sins of the people."

John 10: 38

"But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe in the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."

1 Corinthians 15: 21

"For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man."

Revelation 12:10

"Now have salvation and power come, and the kingdom of God and the authority of his Anointed."

Romans 5: 15

"How much more did God’s grace and the gift that comes by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!"

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