Question #2 - Part 2 of 5
BY:HOWARD MARTIN
WHO IS THE FATHER?
The name "FATHER" does not mean that the Father created Jesus to be His Son or even the Holy Spirit. The word "Father" is just a way to explain His Agape Selfless Love towards Jesus, who is another self existing, immortal being like himself. The love "God", (all three of them), have for each other, is almost beyond our understanding.
Through this word "Father", Agape Selfless Love is shown and demonstrated, through the Father's relationship with Jesus and the created universe.
The term Father also shows what His duties are as one of the three self-existing beigns, that run the Universe. Understanding this point is very important.
These three eternal beings share Agape selfless love, and it can give the appearance that one of them is greater than the other. From the perspective of a outsider looking into the realtionship "God" has with each other, it can seem like these beings may have created each other, because of the way they talk to each other with Agape Love.
It can also seem like one is greater than the other, or that one of them has more power and authority than the other. It can appear that one of them is not equal to the Godness of the other, but the bible does not say that.
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Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
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Jesus Being Fully God in Every Way Possible, Demonstrated His Agape Love to the Earth
5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. 6 Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.
7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, 8 he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
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We know that Jesus was not created by the Father to be His son, beause the very definition of God states, that you can not be created. You must have always existed and will always exist by yourself. You must have always had immortality.
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The Eternal Beings Choose The Follow The Father and Become One. One in Agape Love, Leadership, Creation, Purpose, Character, and in Obedience to the Law of God.
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Luke 11:2 - The Father Leads The Way
And Jesus said to them, when you pray, say, our Father who lives in heaven, Holy is your name. May you continue to rule over everything. Let your will continue to be done in Heaven and Earth.
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It has always been throughout the eternity of time, and even before anything was created, that the Father would be the one to lead out in work of the universe, as one of the three self-existing eternal beigns.
Even though all three of these eternal beigns has a role to play in creating and sustaining the endless universe, the Father leads the way. These Bible Texts Below, Show the Father as the Leader.
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The Father Takes the Lead to Demonstrate Agape Love to the Universe By Lovingly Asking Jesus to Create All Things. So the Father Created All Things Through Jesus.
16 for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him.
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John 5:17
Jesus Always Follows As The Father Leads The Way In All Things.
17 But Jesus answered them, My Father is working right up to the present time, and I am working too.
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Father Leads By Giving
The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand to control.
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Father Leads By Planning
32 “However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.
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John 5:19
Father Leads By Demonstrating
19 So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
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Father Leads By Loving First
21 Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”.
Father Leads By Obeying His Own Moral Law
10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
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John 5:20
Father Leads By Showing and Explaing Things
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing. In fact, the Father will show him how to do even greater works than healing this man. Then you will truly be astonished.
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John 5:21
Father Leads By Giving Life To Dead Things
21 For just as the Father gives life to those he raises from the dead, so the Son gives life to anyone he wants.
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John 5:22, 23
Father Leads By Sharing Responsibility
22 In addition, the Father judges no one. Instead, he has given the Son absolute authority to judge, 23 so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly not honoring the Father who sent him.
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Father Leads By Sharing Immortality
26 The Father has life in himself, and he has granted that same life-giving power to his Son.
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Father Leads By Telling Others What To Do
30 I can do nothing on my own. I judge as God tells me. Therefore, my judgment is just, because I carry out the will of the one who sent me, not my own will.
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Father Leads By Delegating Certain Tasks
36 But I have a greater witness than John—my teachings and my miracles. The Father gave me these works to accomplish, and they prove that he sent me.
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Father Leads By Sending Out His Representatives
43 For I have come to you in my Father’s name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them.
Father Leads By Choosing and Calling Individuals
Labour not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him(Jesus) hath God the Father sealed(chosen).
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Father Leads By Feeding Everyone / Everything
32 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, Moses didn’t give you bread from heaven. My Father did. And now he offers you the true bread from heaven.
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Father Leads By Satisfying Needs, Wants, Desires
37 However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them. 38 For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will.
39 And this is the will of God, that I should not lose even one of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them up at the last day.
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The Relationship Between the Father and Jesus Can Only be Understood, When You Look Through The Lens of Their Agape Love for Each Other, by the Power of the Holy Spirit. Without This, it is Hidden from Your Sight.
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Father Leads By Hiding And Revealing Things
21 At that same time Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit, and he said, “O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike. Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way.
22 “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.”
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Father Leads By Requesting Personal Time With Us, In Worship And Bible Study.
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The Father Looks for and Desires Worship From Everyone. Through Worship we Can See "God" for who They Really are, Love..
23 But the time is coming indeed it’s here now when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way.
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