Paul Equates God the Father with God the Son (TMF:915)

Friday, June 22, 2018
Peace to Live By: Paul Equates God the Father with God the Son (TMF:915) - Daniel Litton
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       It is important to note also that Paul equated God the Father and God the Son here, by using the word “and” to combine them as one in his first sentence to the church. This brings to mind the scene of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemene right before his crucifixion, which is recorded in John 17. Remember, he said to God the Father concerning his disciples, “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth” (John 17:17, ESV). The Word of God, the Truth of the Word, is what makes the church become sanctified, that is, more and more like Jesus himself. The same fellowship that was shared between God the Father and God the Son was to be shared between God and believers in God, for Jesus said: “The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me” (John 17:22, 23, ESV).