There is only one God and He is the only God and Savior. He existed before anything and He created everything. He has always been and there is no God besides Him.
He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. John 1:2,3
God became a human and lived amongst us. He existed from all eternity and He entered time and space that we might know Him and that He might bring us to Himself.
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’” John 1:14,15
Jesus Christ came, He lived, He died and He rose again to bring us to Himself.
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, I Peter 3:18a
We know God, the Father, through Jesus Christ. They are one and the same.
No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. John 1:18
Jesus is the only begotten Son of God who the Father sent to be the Savior of the world. Jesus Christ died for the world that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16
They are equal and everything that Jesus did on earth it was in submission to the Father. Jesus Christ did nothing on His own. He became a man and although He was still God, He laid aside all of His rights, privileges and power of being God and totally relied on the Father. He emptied Himself and lived a life of trust and obedience to the Father.
Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Philippians 2:5b-8
Jesus Christ had to learn the Word of God and He had to learn obedience. He had to learn how to live by faith. He does not ask us to do anything that He did not have to learn to do.
Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. Hebrews 5:8
Jesus Christ was made in the likeness of sinful flesh. He was made like Adam after Adam sinned and yet Jesus Christ never sinned. He always did the will of His Father in heaven. The only way that He could do this was to surrender His will completely to the Father. The only way He could surrender His will completely to the Father is if He trusted the Father completely. He had to trust in the Father’s love, His knowledge, His power, His Word, His righteousness, His justice and His faithfulness. Jesus had to first become a disciple of the Father before He could make disciples.
He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.Isaiah 50:4b
The only way that it was possible for Jesus Christ to trust the Father completely was that Jesus Christ had to know the Father and the only way that He could know the Father was through the Word of God. Jesus Christ had to learn the Word of God just as we have to learn it also. Jesus learned and became knowledgeable of God’s Word in the Old Testament and He obeyed it. Jesus Christ lived in the love of the Father. He abided in the Father and in His love. He did the Father’s will.
saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.” Luke 22:42
If we want to be a Christian and if we say that we are a Christian then we must live as the Lord lived. A life of trust in the Lord and obedience to Him. This is what He taught His disciples and this is what He teaches us who want to be called by His name, who want to belong to Him and be His disciple.
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. John 14:15
This is the only way that you can learn to trust Him. If you will keep His commandments then you will live in His love just as He kept His Father’s commandments and lived in the Father’s love.
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. John 15:10
We become His child and we receive His love by receiving Him as our Lord and Savior. We live in His love by obeying His commandments.
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, John 1:12
We can experience His great love for us every second of every day by being His child and keeping and abiding in His Word. Jesus Christ did not leave His disciples and followers to do this on their own. He said that after He rose from the dead that the Father would send them His Holy Spirit to be their Helper. The Holy Spirit helps us learn and obey His commandments so that we can live in His love and truth. When we receive Christ into our lives at that time we receive the Holy Spirit and begin that wonderful relationship of being a child of God and living in His great love.
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. I John 3:1
Jesus was full of grace and truth. We know God’s truth through His Word and we receive His grace through the knowledge of Him.
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; II Peter 1:2
We will become more like Jesus Christ as we grow in our relationship with Him. We grow in our relationship with Him through trusting in His promises. As we see His faithfulness then we trust Him more. The Christian life is growing in the grace and knowledge of the Lord.
seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. II Peter 1:3,4
The Lord has given us everything that we need to trust Him. He has given us Jesus Christ and in giving us His Son, He has given us everything else that we need.
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Romans 8:32
There is nothing that can separate us from His love.
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37-39
It is by faith that we live and it is His faithfulness that keeps us. He says in His Word, “that He who began a good work in us will complete it to the end.” He also said that “it is good to declare His lovingkindness in the morning and His faithfulness by night”. When we, by faith declare His lovingkindness at the beginning of our lives, our struggles, our dreams, our relationships and anything else then we will “see” His faithfulness and declare it with great joy. Just as it was the Father who raised Jesus Christ from the dead, He will also raise us up. Not just after we pass out of this life but as we go through each day. It is His desire that we live in His love and experience His faithfulness every minute of each day. This is what it means to know a loving God.
that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘You are My Son; today I have begotten You.’ Acts 13:33
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