DOES THE HEAVENLY FATHER HAVE EQUALS?

DOES THE HEAVENLY FATHER HAVE EQUALS? 

 Every serious Christian who desires to know God better, make Him known, and walk in obedience to the revealed Word of God sooner or later grapples with the relationship between God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

 Many young people even try to understand it through the relationship between the Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary. 

Others say that when God, in Genesis, said, “Let us make man in our image,” He was referring to His equals—Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 

 But do all these explanations represent the truth that God wants humanity to know? 

 The answer may not be a fully satisfying yes or no. In most countries, there are local leaders who represent the President. In the Kenyan context, for example, let us say a young man has no proper respect for a local chief. The chief confronts him, and the man answers, “Who do you think you are? Are you the President?!” The elders around may tell the man that, yes, the chief is the President. But does that make two presidents? No. It shows that the chief has the authority of the President delegated to him to legally demand compliance from the locals. 

 The Word of God does not present God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit as three beings who are equally God in seniority and origins.

   The idea that all are eternal, without a beginning, and each 100% God confuses believers on matters of seniority and distinction in origin. God the Creator is the originator of everything else, himself without origin.

 1 Corinthians 15:27 [27] For He “has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under Him, it is clear that this does not include God Himself, who put everything under Christ.

 Acts 2:33

 [33] Exalted to the right hand of God, He has received FROM THE FATHER the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. ( Capitals added).

While Jesus operates with the full authority of the Father, in terms of seniority God remains the only God—the Creator whose origin our minds cannot fully comprehend. The Holy Spirit is the power of that one God, working mightily in Jesus, in believers, and in creation. 

 ELIJAH MUTUA KIRIMA. 

 PASTOR 

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE WILL OF GOD.