1 John 4:8
God is LOVE
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Matthew 22:36-40
The Two Greatest Commandments
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
John 1:1-3
God and Jesus, in the Beginning
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
John 5:17-18
Our Father and Son are Always Working
17 In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working." 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
John 3:35
The Father LOVES the Son
35 The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands.
John 10:30
The Father and Son are One
30 I and the Father are one.
John 14:2
Jesus Lives in Heaven, In His Father's House
2 My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
John 14:9-14
The Father and Son are One
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
John 14:15-21
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
Mark 14:36
God is Jesus' Father
36 “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
John 13:3
Father and Son
3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God.
Matthew 11:27
Father and Son
27 All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Matthew 6:9-13
The LORD's Prayer
9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.'
1 John 3:7-10
The Father and Son are LOVE
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
Jesus was with God in the beginning...In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...So Jesus has been with God from the very beginning...Through Jesus all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made...
By reading a few of the above verses, one can see that Jesus and His Father have a unique relationship...Jesus and the Father are One...No one knows the Father except the Son, and no one knows the Son except the Father...They are a Duality...And if one believes Jesus' words, then Him and His Father move from "I AM" to WE ARE", yet we know that I AM is still the name of the Father...Jesus is in essence saying, "We are One"...Jesus is claiming to be Divine...He is claiming to be equal to His Father, which is God...He is calling not only God His Father, but His Personal Father...Which is why it makes sense, when He calls His Father Abba, or Daddy...Because Jesus talks so much about His Father, we see His Great LOVE for Him...So, if one believes what Jesus says, then He is telling us that He is, in fact, Divine, has a most unique Father-Son relationship with God, and is quite different from the other earthly prophets...
This discussion goes and gets deep...Because there is this idea that Jesus and the Father are One Entity or One Some Divine Power, they still seem to be Two Distinct Beings...A Duality, when we think of the Two, and the Trinity when we add the Holy Spirit...And in these brief sentences, the Great Theologians debate over the Divinity of the Son, and how They can be a Divine Trinity, yet still be Uniquely Distinct -and all that...All these things are a Great Mystery...
So, Jesus much of the time on earth went around telling people about His Father...And His Father is God...He did not hide that God was His Father...He did not do this in a corner...And Jesus even teaches us to pray in the name of His Father...The LORD's Prayer starts our "Our Father in heaven."...The use of Father shows that God is One who will take care of His children...By using Father, we get comfort and peace knowing that God, Jesus' Dad is also our Father...We are also children of God...Jesus came to earth to destroy the devil's work, and we know we are children of God, when we are righteous...
Jesus lives in heaven, in His Father's house...And in His Father's house there are many rooms...If this were not true, He would I have told us this, while He was on earth...He ascended to heaven to prepare a place for His Father's children...
Let us know that this great mystery surrounds both the Father and the Son...Let us also remember that great LOVE surrounds our Father...Let us know that everyone has the desire to be loved...When we look into what we believe, we see that people believe in LOVE, and also this desire to be a part of Something Greater than our own limited self and our self-knowledge...This desire toward Something Greater is often interrupted in our lives with jobs, busyness, and of course, sin...But knowing that the Two Greatest Commandments are Love God and Love neighbor makes perfect sense...What we share with God and neighbor brings us closer together and inspires us to love...