John 3:16-21
God So LOVES the World that He Sent His Son to Die for Us and Be our Savior
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
Jesus has a Unique Relationship with God His Father that He shared with His Disciples and followers as we read the gospels and are taught by Jesus...When we know His teachings we will know Him and the Truth and His Truths will set us free...During His time on earth, He was quite clear about His relationship with God and talked about it regularly...Jesus' relationship with His Father was the Source of His Authority, the Way He led His life, and is the center of His Life and His Unique Universal Divine Viewpoint...
Jesus says, "I and the Father are One."...Jesus says: "He who has seen Me has seen the Father"... And then He adds "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...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."...Jesus says, “For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have Eternal Life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”..."Now this is Eternal Life: that they know You, the Only True God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent."...
Jesus says that salvation comes by knowing the Father through the Son...Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved...Jesus's prayers are always in accordance with God's will...God seeks mercy not sacrifice...Jesus teaches that God's Presence can be experienced even in this world if people would live with mercy and compassion...Jesus has brought His Father Glory on earth by finishing the work He gave Him to do...And now, Father, Glorify Your Son in Your Presence with the Glory You Both had before the world began...
This relationship that Jesus has with the Father is not for Him Alone and has always been a DIVINE LOVING relationship....Even in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...Jesus was with God in the beginning...Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made...In Him is life, and that life is the Light of all mankind...The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it...Jesus wants us to have a similar relationship with His Father...When we follow Jesus' Teachings we are closer to His Father and closer in our relationship with God...As followers of Jesus, we are called into the same intimate relationship of the Father’s LOVE, through the help of our Savior...Jesus' Teachings rests on this belief that He is our Savior from our sins...This one belief should guide that God so LOVES the world that He gave His One and Only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have Eternal Life....Jesus brings us Eternal Life, even though we are sinners...For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him...Believing this helps in the development and maturing of our faith throughout our life...