The
relationship between God
the Father
and Jesus the Son of God,
has been repeatedly declared by Jesus while on earth, as the Son
Of Man. Jesus was Spirit-filled and walked in the power of the Holy
Spirit, the Spirit of God.
Let us read His words on His divine relationship with God
and learn from Him the right way of knowing God.
What did Jesus say about God?
How we may relate to God?
John 1:18 “No one has seen God
at any time. The
only begotten Son, who is
in the bosom of the Father,
He
has declared Him.”
Jesus
declared His status (and relationship with God) clearly in the
temple, 7:28-29 “You both know Me, and you know where I am from;
and I have not come of myself, but He who sent Me is true, Whom you
do not know. But I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
John
the baptist testified for Jesus, “And I have seen
and testified that this is the Son of God.”
1:34 He testified Jesus' relationship with God.
“ He who comes from above is above all...and what He has seen and
heard, that He testifies...For He Whom God
has sent speaks the words of God,
for God
does not give the Spirit by measure. The Father
loves the Son, and has given all things
into His hand. He who believes in the Son
has everlasting life;” 3:31, 32, 34-36
Jesus
spoke of God
as His Father,
and He declared the true purpose of the temple of God.
“Take these things away! Do not make My
Father's
house a house of merchandise!” 2:16
He
told off His earthly parents, “Why do you seek Me? Did you not know
that I must be about My Father's
business?” Luke 2:49
At
Jerusalem, Jesus went into the temple and drove out those who bought
and sold in the temple...and would not allow anyone to carry wares
through the temple. hen He taught, saying to them, “Is it not
written, 'My house shall
be called a house of prayer for all
nations? But you have made it a den of thieves'?”
Mark 11:15-17
He
testified that His mission on earth was
the mission of God
for mankind. “For God
so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God
did not send His Son into the world to
condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”
John 3:16-17
Jesus
spoke of Himself as the gift of God
and that He gives living water; a 'fountain of water springing up
into everlasting life.” (the Holy Spirit who gives the rebirth).
3:10, 14
He
spoke of how a believer relates to God
by his action. “But he who does the truth comes to the
light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done
in God.'
3:21
Jesus
declared that God
is Spirit and looks for those who worship in spirit
and in truth. 4:23-24
Jesus
declared how God
works pertaining to human. “My Father
has been working until now, and I have been working.” 5:17 God
works. God
is always working.
What
work God
works and Jesus also does? Jesus explained further on this subject in
5:19-21 “...the Son can do nothing of
Himself, but what He sees the Father
do; for whatever He does the Son also
does in like manner. For the Father
loves the Son , and shows Him all things
that He himself does; and He will show Him greater works than
these, that you may marvel. For the Father
raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the
Son gives life to whom He will.” 37 “And the
Father
Himself, who sent Me, has testified of Me.” 43 “I have come in My
Father's
name,”
God
works through Jesus. “This is the work
of God,
that you believe in Him Whom He sent.” 6:29
6:27
God
the Father
has set his seal on Him. Therefore Jesus can give us the food which
endures to everlasting life.
6:32
“My Father
gives you the true bread from heaven.” 37 “All that My Father
give Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no
means cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own
will, but the will of Him who sent Me.”
Jesus
clearly declared what the will of God
regarding salvation through Jesus
is. 6:39 This is the will of the Father
who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but
should raise it up at the last day.” 40 “And this is the will of
Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son
and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him
up at the last day.”
God
draws us to Jesus. God
teaches us to go to Jesus. “Everyone who has heard and learned from
the Father
comes to Me.” 6:45
There
is a connection of life between Jesus and the Father. It is in the
Holy Spirit
(the Spirit of God
and the Spirit of Christ) and
the words of God. 6:57 “As the living Father
sent Me, and I live because of the Father,
so He who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 63 “It is the
Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I
speak to you are spirit and they are life.”
“unless
one is born of water and the Spirit, He cannot enter the kingdom of
God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that
which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” 3:5-6 “He who believes in
Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of
living water.” 7:
Concerning
the words Jesus spoke: 7:16-17 “My
doctrine is not mine, but his who sent Me.
If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the
doctrine, whether it is from God
or whether I speak on My own authority.” 8:26 “but
I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”
8:28-29 “that I do nothing of myself; but as My Father taught Me, I
speak these things. And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father does
not leave Me alone, for I always do those
things that please Him.”
31-32
“If you abide in My word, you are My
disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free.”
38
“I speak
what I have seen with My Father,”
47 “He who is of God hears God's
words;” 51 “If anyone keeps My word
He shall never see death.” 55 “I do
know Him and keep His word.”
Jesus
spoke of the love relationship between Him and the Father in chapter
10:
10:15
“As the Father knows Me, even so I know
the Father; and I lay down My
life for the sheep.”
17-18
“Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I
may take it again...and I have power to take
it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
25 “The works that I do in My Father's
name.”
29
“My Father, who has given them to Me, is
greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of
My father's hand.'
30
“I and My Father are one.” 32
“Many good works I have shown you from My Father.” 36 “I
am the Son of God.” 31 “If I do not do
the works of My Father, do not believe Me.” 38 “that
you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.”
(This study is
based mainly on the gospel according to John, chapters 1-10, unless
otherwise specified. Some of the verses are quoted in excerpts.
Readers are urged to refer to the Bible yourself so that you would
not miss out the original full texts.)
