WHO'S YOUR DADDY?

As believers our true identity and power is from GOD the Father through our saving faith in Jesus Christ, and in this spiritual relationship we realize that our true source of purpose and identity is revealed when we to think and behave like our elder brother and Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Three-Fold Witness of Jesus’s Equality with God the Father

EQUAL IN NATURE, POWER AND AUTHORITY!

I. Equality with God in Nature 5:17–18

A. Love and Honor

1. The Father & Sons Love for one another

2/ The Father & Son’s Honor for one another.

II. Equality with God in Power 5:19–21

A. He and the Father are the source of life Natural and Eternal (5:21, 24, 26).

B. He will raise the dead (5:25, 28–29).

1. Some to everlasting joy (5:25, 28–29a)

2. Some to everlasting punishment (5:29b)

III. Equality with God in Authority 5:22–30[1]

He gives life to whom he wills and he judges all men (5:22, 27).[1]

Jesus Christ is the express image of the invisible God and is the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

IV. We have the Nature of God as evidence by our Love of God, his Creation and most of all his people and the Nature

“No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.” (, ESV)

V. As Gods Children we too have the Power of God dwelling in us

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”” (, ESV)

“Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” (, ESV)

VI. We have the Authority of God to declare righteousness in this falling World

“Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”” (, ESV)

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[1] The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.

[1] Wilkinson, B., & Boa, K. (1983). Talk thru the Bible (p. 341). Nashville: T. Nelson.

[1] Willmington, H. L. (1999). The Outline Bible (). Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.

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