Father & Son

Why “Father” & “Son” ?

• Parental relationship• Same status of God• Different authority• Male• Best signifies authority• God’s invisible attributes seen in

creation• Only begotten

Matthew 11:27-30

• All things have been “delivered to the Son” by the Father

• Know one knows the Son except the Father

• No one know the Father except the Son • Unless the Son wills to reveal the

Father to them– Come to Me (Son), Take Yoke (of Son),

Follow Me (Son)

Matthew 16:27

• Son will come in the glory of His Father with the Angels

• He (Father or Son?) will reward each one according to his works

• Some of you standing here (men) who will see the Son coming in His Kingdom– Matthew, Mark, Luke record

Matthew 28:17

• All authority has been given to the Son on earth and in heaven– Therefore He commanded:

• Go make disciples of all nations• Baptize them (disciples) in the name of

the FATHER & SON & HOLY SPIRIT• Son is “with” until the end of the age

Mark 8:37

• Whoever is ashamed of the Son and His words in this adulterous generation

• The Son will be ashamed of him when the Son comes in the glory of His Father

Mark 13:32

• No one knows the day or the hour that heaven and earth will be destroyed, not even the Son, only the Father

Luke 1:30

• Angel told Mary that her son would be called “Son of the Highest”

• And He would receive the thrown of his father David to reign forever in a Kingdom with no end

Luke 2:47

• As a youth, the Son was about His Father’s business

Luke 10:21

• Son prayed to the Father• Son called the Father “Lord of

Heaven & Earth”• It seemed good to the Father to

reveal things to babes, hiding from wise

• All things delivered to the Son by the Father

Luke 11:7

• Earthly fathers know how to give gifts to earthly sons

• Heavenly Father gives exceedingly more to the Holy Spirit those (men) who ask the Father

Luke 12:49

• Son came to bring fire on the earth

• From now on there will be divisions in households– Father & son– Mother & daughter– Mother-in-law & Daughter-in-law

Luke 15:19

• Parable of the prodigal revolves around Father and son

John 1:14

• No one has seen God the Father at any time

• The Son has seen the Father• The Son is in the bosom of the

Father• The Son has declared the Father

John 3:35

• Father loves the Son• Father has given all things into

Son’s hand• He who believes in the Son has

everlasting life• He who does not believe shall not

see life and the wrath of the Father abides on him.

John 5:19-20

• Son can do nothing of Himself• What the Father does, the Son

does in like manner• Father loves the Son • Father shows the Son all thing

that He does• Father will show greater works

than those shown

John 5:21-22

• Father raises the dead and gives life to them

• Son gives life to who He will• Father judges no one• Father has committed all

judgment to the Son

John 5:23-24

• All men should honor the Son, as they honor the Father

• Father sent the Son• All who do not honor the Son do not

honor the Father• All who hear and believe the Son

and His words, believes in the Father

• They will not come into judgment, and have passed from death to life

John 5:25-27

• The hour now is when the dead hear the voice of the Son and live

• The Father has Life in Himself• Father granted the Son to have life

in Himself • Father gave the Son authority to

execute judgment, because He is the Son

John 5:30

• Son can do nothing of Himself• Son hears the Father• As the Son hears, He judges• Son’s judgment is righteous

because He seeks the will of the Father

John 5:31-37

• Son cannot bear witness of Himself• John Baptizer bears witness of the Son• Son does not accept the witness of men• The works the Father gave the Son to

finish bears witness that the Father sent the Son

• Father testified of the Son• Father’s witness is greater than John’s

John 5:43

• Son came in the Father’s name

John 6:27

• Labor for food which the Son gives, which endures to everlasting life, because the Father has set His “seal” upon the Son

John 6:42-45

• Jews said Jesus was the son of Joseph• They did not understand how Jesus

could say, “I have come down from heaven”

• No one can come to the Son unless the Father draws him

• Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father come to the Son

John 6:46

• No one has seen the Father but the Son

• Son came forth from the Father

John 6:57

• The “Living” Father sent the Son • The Son lives because of the

Father• He who feeds on the Son will live

John 6:62-65

• Son “will ascend” to Father• No one comes to the Son unless

the Father has granted him to come

John 7:17

• Son’s doctrine is the Fathers• Son seeks the Glory of the Father• Son speaks from the Father• He who speaks from himself seeks

his own glory

John 8:21-26

• Son is going away• Son is from above• Son is not from this world• Father who sent the Son is true• Son speaks to the world the things

heard from the Father

John 8:27-29

• When men lift up the Son they will know who He is

• And know that the Son does nothing of Himself, but only as the Father taught the Son

• Father who sent Son is “with” the Son

• Father has not left Son alone because the Son always does what pleases the Father

John 8:38-47

• Son speaks what he has seen of the Father

• Son heard truth from Father• If God is our Father, we would

love the Son• He who is of the Father hears the

Fathers word

John 8:43-44

• There is a “father” who is the devil• He is a liar and the father of lies• When he speaks a lie he speaks

from his own resources• He was a murderer from the

beginning• He does not stand in the truth• He has “sons”• Sons do the desire of their father

John 10:17-18

• Son has power to lay down His life• Son has power to take up His life

again• This command was received from

the Father• Therefore the Father loves the Son,

because the Son lays down His life to take it up again

John 10:36

• Father sanctified the Son and sent Him into the world

• Jesus said, “I am the Son of God”• If Son does not do works of the

Father, do not believe the Son• If Son does the works of the

Father, believe• Father is in the Son• Son is in the Father

John 14:6-13

• No one comes to the Father except through the Son

• If you know the Son, you know the Father• He who has seen the Son has seen the Father• Father dwells in the Son and does the works• Son will pray the Father to send a Helper• Father & Son will be with disciples by Spirit• Father is glorified in the Son by works

John 14:19-20

• The world will not see the Son, but the disciples will

• Then disciples will know the Son is in the Father

• He who keeps the Son’s commandments loves the Son

• He who loves the Son will be loved by the Father

• Son will manifest Himself to those who are loved by the Father

John 14:23

• If anyone loves the Son, he will keep His word

• Father will love one who loves the Son

• Father & Son will come and make home with ones they love

John 14:26-31

• Father will send the Holy Spirit in the Son’s name

• Son is going to Father• Father is greater than the Son• Son loves the Father• Father gave the Son a

commandment

John 17:1-5

• Son asked Father to Glorify Son so that the Son could Glorify the Father

• Eternal life is to know the “Only True God & Jesus Christ whom He sent”

• Son finished the work the Father gave Him to do on the earth

• Son asked the Father to glorify Son “With” Him, with the glory before the world was.

John 17:6-12

• Father gave the Son some disciples out of the world

• Son manifest Father’s name to them• Disciples were the Fathers, now are the

Son’s• Disciples kept the Father’s words• Disciples knew Son came from the

Father• Son Kept the disciples in Father’s name

John 17:17

• Word of Father will Sanctify disciples as word sanctified the Son

• As the Father sent the Son into the world, the Son sent the disciples into the world– Consider this in the Great commission

• Son prayed the Father that those who hear the disciples words will be sanctified also by these words

• Son desires to be with the Father & Disciples in the Fathers glory

Galatians 4:4-7

• God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” 7Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Hebrews 1:1-4

• 1God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

Hebrews 1:5

• 5For 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”?

Hebrews 12:7-10

• 7If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.

II Peter 1:17

• 17For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

I John 1:1-3

• 1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life— 2the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us— 3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

I John 2:22-23

• 22Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. 23Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

I John 2:24-25

• 24Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.

II John 9

• 9Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.

How does the Father Give & Draw to Jesus those

who come to Him?

John 6:37, 44

Question

FATHER

SON

SCRIPTURES

CHURCH GOSPEL

WORLD

Father gave the Son:

• All Authority• All Judgment• Life, everlasting• Honor• Glory• Disciples• Doctrine

How does the Father Draw the world to

Himself?• NOT by circumventing the Son• True hearts identify true doctrine

– John 7:17• Men are drawn to the Cross of Christ

– John 12:32• God’s providence of putting people in

your life that are lost– See Acts

• One hears God’s words– John 8:47

• Father draws upward through the chain of authority “To Himself”

FATHER

SON

SCRIPTURES

CHURCH GOSPEL

WORLD

Do you belong to God’s Family?

• “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 14:23