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The Subordination
 

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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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