The Son obeys the Father.
The Son obeys the Father.
During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered. (Hebrews 5:7,8)
The Father is the God of the Son.
Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God." (John 20:17)
We are being made one with the Son just as the Son is One with the Father.
That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity [into one]. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. (John 17:21-23)
The Father offered the Son as a blood sacrifice to reconcile the world to Himself. The blood of atonement is made for the purpose of satisfying the Father's sense of righteousness and judgment.
He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. (I John 2:2)
The Son prays to and worships the Father.
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you." (John 17:1)
There are facts only the Father knows, such as the day and the hours of the passing away of the heavens and the earth.
"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. (Mark 13:32)
The Father appoints who will sit on the right and left hand of Christ in Christ's Kingdom.
Jesus said to them, "You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father." (Matthew 20:23)
The Father gave to Christ who in turn gave to John the Book of Revelation. Obviously the contents of the Book of Revelation were given to Christ by One who is different from and greater than Christ.
The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John. (Revelation 21:2)
The Father through Christ brought into existence the things of the natural creation.
In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. (Hebrews 1:1,2)
It was the Father who proclaimed Christ as God and Lord.
Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom. (Psalms 45:6)
It was the Father who commanded Christ to sit on His right hand until He (the Father) made Christ's enemies His (Christ's) footstool.
The Lord says to my lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." (Psalms 110:1)
Notice in the above what the Father said to Christ, who is David's Lord.
It was the Father who made Christ a Priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek." (Psalms 110:4)
It was the Father who said to Christ, and to all who are coheirs with Christ: "Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them to pieces like pottery." (Psalms 2:8,9)
"Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is One."
So it is true that there is but one God, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the Firstborn of the one true God.
It does not subtract from the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ to say He is not the Father.
What it does do, I believe, is to help us relate to Christ as His younger brothers, realizing that Christ is far greater than we are, yet worships and serves the same God.
The Father may have brothers somewhere. Who knows? We do not even know where God came from, if He actually came from somewhere.
This is why our Lord, the Word of God from eternity, came to earth and told us about the Father.
I do not think He particularly wanted to come. I believe He came in obedience to the Father.
I think Jesus may have been surprised at the love He felt for His faithful followers, and understood for the first time the value of the nations as His inheritance.
It is so with us, isn't it? God commands us to do something we do not particularly look forward to.
When we are obedient, then we realize that God has brought us to righteousness, love, joy, and peace.
Isn't it so?