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Place your cursor over the
reference to see the passage.
I.
John 14:28
FIRST PROPOSITION:
God the Father is greater than Jesus Christ the Son.
II. Heb. 1:5, John 3:16
SECOND PROPOSITION:
God the Father begat Jesus Christ the Son.
Question:
Does this begetting refer to the origin of the Eternal Word or to the
origin of the incarnate Jesus?
Answer:
Ps. 2:7
III.
John 6:57,
ESV
THIRD PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ lives because of the Father.
IV.
John 5:19
FOURTH PROPOSITION:
The Son can do nothing independently of the Father.
V.
John 6:29, ,
John 8:29,
42
FIFTH PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ was sent by the Father.
VI.
John 10:18
SIXTH PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ received commandment from the Father, was under his
authority and directions.
VII.
John 13:3
SEVENTH PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ received His own authority from the Father.
VIII.
John 8:26,
40
EIGHTH PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ received His message from the Father.
IX.
John 5:36,
ESV, ,
John 14:10
NINTH PROPOSITION:
The Father gave to Jesus Christ His works to accomplish, and it was the
indwelling Father who did the works.
X.
Luke 22:29
TENTH PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ’s kingdom was appointed unto Him by the Father.
XI.
1 Cor. 15:24
ELEVENTH PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ shall ultimately deliver up the kingdom to the Father.
XII.
1 Cor. 15:27,
28,
ESV
TWELFTH PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ Himself shall be subjected unto the Father that God may be
all in all.
XIII.
1 Cor. 11:3
THIRTEENTH PROPOSITION:
God the Father is head of Christ as Christ is the head of every man, and
as the man is head of the woman.
XIV.
Heb. 7:25,
ESV
FOURTEENTH PROPOSITION:
Men draw near unto God through Christ. God, not Christ, is the ultimate
goal. He is the way unto the Father.
(John 14:6—“Jesus
saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto
the Father but by me”)
XV.
John 20:17
FIFTEENTH PROPOSITION:
God the Father is Jesus Christ’s God.
GENERAL PROPOSITION:
Jesus Christ is, and eternally shall be, subordinate to God the Father.
In God the Father we have the source of Deity; in Jesus Christ, Deity in
its outflow. But in the stream is all the perfection of the fountain.
(See
Col. 2:9).
God the Father is the source of glory; Jesus Christ the Son is the
effulgence (shining
forth or off-flash)
of His glory. (Heb.
1:3, ESV—“Who being
the effulgence of His glory.”)
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