Introduction
You may have heard some say God is the Father of us all. In a sense He is. 1 Corinth 6:6, Mal 2:10
God is our Father in that sense. Today there is this plurality that we all worship the same God.
The Father does not allow worship except through His son. Nor does He enter into relationship. 1 John 2:23, 2 John 1:9.
In the Trinitarian relationship we find the Father. Jesus is the eternal / natural son of the eternal Father. He alone has it.
Hebrews 1:5 (NKJV) For to which of the angels did He ever say: “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”? And again: “I will be to Him a Father, And He shall be to Me a Son”?
God who is one who exists in 3 distinct persons. Mat 3:17
Matthew 3:17 (NKJV) And suddenly a voice [came] from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Matthew 17:5 (NKJV) While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!”
Different persons, relationship between the two, the Father says listen to Him. One God, one essence.
It’s through the Son we enter into relationship.
John 14:21 (NKJV) “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
John 14:23 (NKJV) Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
John 1:1 (NKJV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
We can only know the Father through the Son.
John 1:18 (NKJV) No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared [Him.]
Matthew 11:27 (NKJV) “All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and [the one] to whom the Son wills to reveal [Him.]
John 14:7 (NKJV) “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
John 17:1-3 (NKJV) 1 Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 “as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.