Father and Son Relationship and Divine Pattern

Father is the source of all things.

Ephesian 4:6 – One God, and father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

John 17:3 – And this is life eternal, that thee might know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 

2 Corinthian 1:3 – Blessed be God, even the father our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies , and the God of all comfort.

2 John 1:3 – Grace be with you, mercy and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the father, in truth and love.

1Timothy 6:16 – Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen, nor can see, to whom be honoured and power everlasting. Amen.

Son is the channel of all the father gives him. 

John 5.26 – For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the son to hath life in himself.

• The eternal, everlasting, immortal life.

1 John 5:11 – God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his son.

• God is the source of all life, because he has given this life to his son Jesus Christ, he can give life to others whenever he wants.

John 5:21 – For as the father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

John 5: 25 –When the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God and they that hear shall live. 

Not only immortal life, but all things had given to Jesus Christ. 

Matthew 11:27 – All things are delivered unto me of my father.

John 3:35 – The Father loveth his son, and hath given all things into his hands.

Philippians  2:9 – Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name.

10 – That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth and things under the earth.

11—That every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Matthew 28:18 – All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 

1 Corinthians 15:27 – For he hath put all things under his feet.

Hebrews 1:2 – Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.

He is a channel by whom and through whom all things from the father flow to his creations. 

This is the patterns, from the beginning. 

Genesis 1:26 – God said, let us make man in our image and after our likeness.

Ephesian 3:9 – God who created all things by Jesus Christ.

Then God made man in his own image.

1 Timothy 2:13 -- Adam was first formed.

Genesis 2:18 -- But God see that it is not good that the man should be alone.

So the woman came forth out of man as part of his very own body.

Eve was not created from nothing but was taken out from Adam’s side, his bosom, she was essentially existed in Adam, a part of him, before she was taken out.

She became the express image of Adam.

So also the word, Jesus is the unique son of God, begotten of the father, taken from his bosom.

Genesis 3:20 – Adam named his wife, Eve because she was the mother of all living.

Adam was the source, Eve was the channel, by whom, through whom Adam became the father of our race. 

Eve was the same substance as Adam, both equal in nature, she was just as human as he was, but Eve was begotten in a different manner than all other human births.

So too the Son of God, begotten of this Father, they both have the same divine substance, both equal in nature, Christ is just as divine as his father. But the son was begotten in a different manner, back in eternity. 

Christ gave us his spirit, just as Adam gave Eve his rib, we are part of Christ, we partake of his divine nature, we are born again, Christ in us, we have his character. As Adam and Eve was one flesh, so also the Father and Son are one spirit. 

John 1:1 – In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word as God.

Word = God?

Word+ God?

Pros ton theon, kai theos hen ho logos.

With the God, and God was the Word

John speaks the same way in his first epistle.

1 John 1:1—That which was from the beginning, the word of life, that eternal life which was with the father. (Pros ton Patera)

The word was with the God, the only true God of whom are all things, John did not say, the word was the God. Now we use the same grammatical structure but with different subjects. 

In the beginning was the women, and the women was with the human, and the woman was human.

Adam= Name Human= Adam and Eve

# The woman Eve was human in nature, not the man in indentity, Eve was not Adam, they were 2 separate persons. 2 individual identities.

The same divine, Godly nature are possessed by both the father and son. The son was not the God, but he has God’s divine nature by inheritance.

Illustrations:

1. Father is the root, Jesus is the branch, we cannot see the root, but we can see the branch and the fruits beared the branch has the same nature, substance, quality as the root, the root is the source, the branch is the expression and channel from which comes more branches. 

2. The mountain and the stone ( Zechariah 4:7) Zerubbabel and Joshua the Father is the mountain, Jesus is a stone from the mountain. The stone is just as old as the mountain, they have the same substance, nature, character. It is as hard and enduring as the mountain because it came out of the mountain.