Romans 125

Questions and Answers concerning the Godhead

June 29, 2003

Brian Kocourek

 

Question: How can brother Branham say Jesus was a dual person when Jesus Himself said “I and My Father are One”, and “when you see me you see the Father”?

 

Answer: This is probably the most asked question by those with the Oneness mindset in our midst. First of all, most people do not read the entire encounter between Jesus and Philip. If you read the entire scripture reference Jesus explains how He is one with His Father. But most people will not read the scripture in context. No, they read only what will suit their doctrine, whether it be Jesus Only or Trinity.

 

In John 14:8 we read,  Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 10   Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11   Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

 

When reading the entire conversation between Jesus and Philip,  it is very apparent that Jesus is telling him and the others that were listening,  that when you see Him, you see the Father, because the Father was in Him, doing the works and telling him what to say. Therefore what you saw Jesus do, the Father also was doing, thus manifesting Himself to the World through the speech and actions of His Son, who was 100% yielded to the Father in all things.

 

Notice in JOHN 5:17 Jesus is being accused by the Jews for working on the Sabbath because He healed on the Sabbath. His answer to them is found in verse 17.    But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Now, this was not a very satisfactory answer to them, and it only made them much more angry, because instead of cow-towing to their Oneness understanding, He was letting them know that it was the Father that was doing the works. 18  Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

 

Now, it is very apparent here that Jesus is telling the Jews that he is helpless unless the Father shows him what to do. He says, the Son can do NOTHING. Then the son cannot save, he cannot heal, he cannot redeem, he can do nothing, unless shown by the Father what to do. These are not the words of One who is Sovereign. But God is Sovereign. One who is sovereign answers to no one. One who is sovereign reigns supreme above all. One who is sovereign is fully independent of all others. Therefore, the Son of God is not and was not Sovereign, for He was completely dependent upon the Father to act and to speak.

 

JOHN 5:20  For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. Notice again that Jesus is speaking of this unique relationship He had with the Father. He says, the Father shows Him all that he is to do, for the Father Himself is first doing those things, and then shows them to the Son for Him to perform. . This is exactly what William Branham also had to do. He was completely helpless until the Father first showed Him in Vision what he had to do. Then in the role as another obedient son, he did what was shown Him to do, having seen the Father already performing it in Vision before he then acted out the role to make that vision come from that dimension to this one, bringing flesh to the Spoken Word.. 

 

In the next verse we find Jesus again explaining how it works. JOHN 5:21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he (The Father) wills. Now, in your own thinking you may have read that Jesus was saying that He (Jesus) raised up whomsoever he the son of God wills, but that is not what He has been saying for the past few verses. He has already been saying that he can do nothing but what He sees the Father doing, and then why would he turn and say, For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he himself wills.  You see how far off the Scriptures everyone reads them. To read it that way you will have to completely throw out everything Jesus the Son of God had just been saying about how His relationship with the Father works.

 

Now, let’s continue reading what Jesus says concerning this unique relationship he has with His Father. JOHN 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:  Now, the word here that is used for committed is the Greek word didomi which means to grant. And Paul uses the same word when he says in ROMANS 15:5   Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: Notice Paul uses this word in speaking of God giving us an ability to be likeminded, and he adds, according to Christ Jesus. Therefore,  he is telling us as Jesus was likeminded with the Father in all things, so too Go has given us the same ability to become likeminded with Himself. So when God is committing all judgment to the Son, Jesus is saying, that God has given Him an ability to Judge as the Father Judges. He is not saying that His judgment is Sovereign, nor is he saying that His judgment would somehow be different from the Father’s Judgment. But what He has been telling us is that He can do nothing except what He has first learned from the Father to do. And if you read it any other way, you are making Jesus a Hypocrite. How could He be speaking in one context for several examples and then suddenly change his course. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. And if we do not believe that we might as well hang it up.

 

JOHN 12:44    Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. Notice he is telling us here that the things we hear and thus believe, are not his words, but the Father that sent him, thus by Believing the Son we are believing the father. For they are the Words the Father gave the son to declare. 45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: The Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. And Who is the Word? In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was God! Notice how, Jesus again tells us that the words He spoke were not even His own Words to speak, but were the very Words His Father told Him to say. 49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

 

So how can we refuse Him that speaketh when He is only speaking the words of the Father. Now, let’s get back to JOHN 5:23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Now, first we want to point out that Jesus tells us if we do not give Him honor then we cannot honor the Father that sent Him. That again ought to tell you that He is saying, since everything the Son doeth, the Father has shown Him first to do, then we should honor Him even as we honor the Father.

 

In honoring the Son we are honoring the Father, because the Son is only doing what the Father has instructed Him to do. Thus what we see being done is the Father working and the son working hitherto. Thus in giving honor to the son we are acknowledging the Father’s preeminent role, and the son’s role of complete obedience to the Father.

 

Now, in reading the next verse, we must remember that the Words Jesus is speaking He had first learned from the Father to say. JOHN 5:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. We find Jesus clarifying this in JOHN 14:10b The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Notice he is saying, these are my Fathers words, not mine. This is identical to what we had read in various other Scriptures so far, and should need no further elucidation. 

 

JOHN 5:25  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. And why is He saying this? Because He has already established that His Words, and thus His Voice is nothing short of an echo of God’s own Words and thus God’s own Voice. And He explains that in the next verse.  26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; Notice then that the very Life that Jesus had was given to Him by one greater than Himself. His Life came from the Father. And thus the Father who is the giver of Life.

 

Now, in moving forward we find Jesus say in verse 27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. Remember, we had read earlier in verse 22 that the Father had committed all judgment unto the Son to execute, and we had stated that this was an ability to be likeminded with the Father. Notice in this verse Jesus tells us the authority to do so was also given Him by the Father, because He is His Son. John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. 30    I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; Why? because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. There you have it. Jesus can judge because God, His Father knows that he will only judge what God has already judged. He said, I have not come to do my own will but the will of the father which sent me. Then he says, 31    If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

 

In verse 56 we find out Who the witness is, Jesus is speaking about. And if Jesus is consistent in what he has been telling them, then it has to be His Father that He is speaking about as we see in JOHN 5:36 But I have greater witness than [that] of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. 37  And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. 38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

 

Now, let’s stop for  a moment and look at another scripture that Jesus is speaking of this Judging. Let’s turn to JOHN 8:16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. 17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. 18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me. 19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

Notice the words of Jesus, he says, I am not alone. Now, that speaks of another, meaning more than one is involved here. And he tells us immediately who that other is… I and the Father that sent me. Then he says, 17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.  Then notice who those TWO MEN are that he uses for his witness. I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me. Now if Jesus considered Himself to be One with God in that way, why would he speak these words? But they could not see His Father because they did not understand what He was talking about. And so they looked for one that can not be seen, and missed seeing that He was living in His Son.

 

Now, in getting back to John 14:8 we read,  Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 10   Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11   Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

 

Obviously from what we have seen so far, Jesus is not saying here that He and His Father are one like your finger is one. But what He is saying is that the same Word that is in the Father, is abiding in Him and that makes Him one with the Father. Brother Branham further clarified this in the sermon,  

SHOW US THE FATHER IT'LL SATISFY  56-0422  E-36 Now, it's many times it's been said that no man can see God at anytime, the Bible said so. But the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. Philip, here was very inquisitive; he wanted to see the Father. Says here He said, "I've been so long with you, Philip, and you don't know Me?" Said, "When you see Me you see My Father." In other words, you see the Father express Hisself through the Son. Him and the Father were one in the sense that His Father was dwelling in Him, not Him doing the works; He was a Son, Himself, the mortal, virgin born, Son of God. And then in Him was dwelling the God, the Father, expressing Hisself to the world, His attitude towards the people. See? Well, that's how Christ and God were one. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Now, He said, "When you see Me, you see the Father, and why do you say, 'Show us the Father?'"

 

And again in the sermon, HE SWORE BY HIMSELF  54-1212  we can find William Branham clarifying that this is what was meant by Jesus when he spoke to Philip. He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father is in Me." Said, "Show us now the Father." Philip said, "Showeth me the Father and it'll satisfy me." Said, "Philip, I been so long with you, and you don't know Me?" He said, "When you see Me, you see the Father. And why say, 'Show me the Father.' I and the Father are One. My Father's living in Me now. It's not Me that doeth the works; it's Him that dwells in me, that does the works." Oh, my.  How could I tell a man what was wrong with him? How could I tell him what his future will be ten years, or what he was forty years ago? It isn't me. Hallelujah. It's Him that lives in me, that come down, that through His Blood brought me in fellowship with Him. Hallelujah. How could my hands do anything by healing the sick? It hasn't got a bit of power. It's not me. But it's Him that dwells in here that does it.

 

And since three is a witness, let me share one more quote with you where William Branham further elucidates my point that Jesus and God were one by reason of the Father abiding in Him, directing Him by His Word.  CONFERENCE 60-1125   E-73    When He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works. It's My Father. He dwelleth in Me. Me and My Father are One. I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me." And He did the same works that He did when He dwelt in that Body standing there before Abraham.

 

AS I WAS WITH MOSES  51-0503  E-15    When Jesus of Nazareth... I believe that the Father was in Him, that all the great things that was the Father's was given unto His Son, all the great blessings and gifts; for He was just expressed image of the Father. And in Him dwelled all the richness of God dwelling in Him here, looking up. And I... He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me." Just as Jehovah... Just what Jehovah was, Jesus was. He was the expressed image of Him. He was God shaped out here, and all the powers of God formed into, and put in a human body. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works."

 

GIFTS  56-1207  E-29   Now, in Christ dwelt the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. He had all the Spirit of God in Him. "I and My Father are One," said Jesus. That's the reason the people couldn't understand Him. Sometimes He'd say something, might look like He turn around and say something different. It was Him speaking, then the Father speaking. See? They were... And even the disciples could not understand Him. And right at the last, they said, "Lo, now speakest Thou plainly. Now, we believe by this if you know all things; no man needs to teach you." Jesus said, "Do you now believe?" After all that time, they couldn't get the... Why? That sometimes He'd say this and then say that. It was Him and the Father speaking.

 

GIFTS 56-1207 E-30 Now, notice closely. Now, God dwelling in Christ used His voice to speak by. Jesus said in His miracle, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Is that right? Saint John 5:19. Then He did not do nothing within Himself. No prophet ever did anything within himself, until first God showed what to do. What a mistake Moses made when he went out without the vision of God and smote down the Egyptian, thought he'd liberate them with his hands, because he thought he had a lot of faith and could do it, because he was called for the job. No matter how much you're called for the job, God has to do the leading. See? He failed of all of his schooling and his military mind and his training as a great Egyptian leader. But yet it failed, 'cause God had a program and we've got to work according to God's program. No matter what we do, how smart we are, we've got to humble ourselves and work according to God's program. Amen. So he failed and God had to keep him another forty years to educate him. So what it was, that he must forget himself, and it's not him, but it was God.

 

SUPER SIGN 59-1227M  86    When He was here on the earth, He proved that He was God, proved that God was in Him, because the signs of God followed Him. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But if I do the works of My Father, if you don't believe Me, believe the works, the sign": Immanuel. "I and My Father are One. My Father has sent Me. And as He sends Me, so send I you. The Father that sent Me is with Me; He's in Me and doing the works of Himself. It's God in flesh."

 

SHOW US THE FATHER AND IT WILL SATISFY 60-0731  E-15    "The works that I do, shall you also." And seeing the same results by human beings so submitted to God, until the Holy Spirit can work through those human beings just like the Holy Spirit worked through Jesus, Who just has confessed that, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works. It's not My words; it's His words."... See? He was so submitted to God, …

 

REVELATION CHAPTER ONE 60-1204  198    He was the true and faithful Witness to God's eternal Word. He was the Word, was God's Word; and being the Word, He was a Prophet. For the Word of God flowed through Him; He'd say only the things. "I can do nothing within Myself, but what the Father shows Me to do. Not Me that doeth the works, but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. I and My Father are One. My Father's in Me," said Jesus, the Man, the Tabernacle.

 

SIRS WE WOULD SEE JESUS 61-1224 21-3 Well, they could said, "Our men are educated. We're smart; we know that Bible from generation to generation." "Why then, why don't God make it live again in them men if it's God's Word? I and My Father are One," not three, "We are One." God is in Him. God speaks through Him. He's no more His own, but He's God's voice through human lips. Hallelujah.

 

SIRS WE WOULD SEE JESUS 61-1224 24-1    Jesus said so. Argue with Him, not me; I'm just saying what He said. "I and My Father are One. It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father; He dwells in Me. If you don't believe Me, believe the Word, 'cause He is the Word. And the Word was made flesh and I am. In the beginning was the Word."

 

QA IMAGE OF THE BEAST 54-0515 194-282    And God came down and dwelt in His Son, Christ Jesus, making Him God on earth. When Thomas said, "Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us." He said, "I've been so long with you and you don't know Me?" He said, "Why sayest thou, 'Show us the Father'?" Why, He said, "When you see Me you see the Father. I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me."

 

HE SWORE BY HIMSELF  54-1212 156    And God Himself living in this, making a tabernacle, and He dwelt in Christ. There's God walking around. He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father is in Me." Said, "Show us now the Father." Philip said, "Showeth me the Father and it'll satisfy me." Said, "Philip, I been so long with you, and you don't know Me?" He said, "When you see Me, you see the Father. And why say, 'Show me the Father.' I and the Father are One. My Father's living in Me now. It's not Me that doeth the works; it's Him that dwells in me, that does the works." Oh, my.

 

HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 57-0821  25-158    Thomas said, "Lord, show us the Father and it'll satisfy us. Said, "I've been so long with you and you don't know Me?" Said, "When you see Me, you see the Father. And why say, 'show us, Thou the Father'? I and the Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me. I'm just a Tabernacle called the Son. The Father dwells in Me. Not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works, not Me."

 

SHOW US THE FATHER 0722  E-64    God in His Son, do you believe He was? He looked like God; He acted like God; He said He was God. He cried like God; He healed like God; He died like a man; and He rose like God. He was God manifested in the flesh. God was in His Son. Do you believe it? God was in His universe. You believe it? God is in His Word. You believe it? God is in His Son. You believe it? Could you see Him in Christ? Jesus said, "When you see Me you see the Father. Why sayest thou, Show Me the Father?" God was in the Son, reconciling the world to Himself. Now, God in His universe, you believe it? God in His Word, you believe it? God in His Son, you believe it?

 

UNVEILING OF GOD 64-0614M 257    Jesus once said, "When you see Me, you see the Father." See? God and His Word is One. Now you understand? When the Word is manifested, what is It? Right. See?  260    Jesus said, "Search the Scriptures, you think you have... You believe in God, believe also in Me. If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do do the works, I and My Father are One. When you see Me, you have seen the Father." And when you see the Word made manifest, you see the Father God, because the Word is the Father; the Word is God. And the Word made manifest is God Himself taking His Own Word and manifesting It among believers. Nothing can make It live but believers, just believers.

 

Masterpiece The 64-0705  69 There in His own image reflecting God, for He said in St. John 14, "When you see Me, you see the Father."...  And then, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God; and the Word was hewed out and reflected what the Word was at the beginning: Him, the Word, reflected in the Masterpiece in His own likeness, God back again in His own likeness, the Word form being reflected in the image of a man: the Masterpiece. All the prophets had flaws. All the ones was a portion. But here at last coming up through that finally comes the Masterpiece, the perfect One, no fault in Him at all, so perfect, reflected of the Builder Himself. His own image was reflected in His Work. God and Christ were One, insomuch until He put His own Spirit into Him; and then even the Image and the Builder became One: God and His sculpture Work, His Masterpiece... Where Moses was in the work of Michelangelo, was a sculpture work that was dead, because it'd been made out of stone. But here the Master Builder, when He got His Handiwork perfected, He stepped into It.

 

Question number 2)  what then do we do with the quote where brother Branham said that Jesus and God were one, but not in the same way as a husband and wife are one. How does that fit then with what you are saying?  Notice how brother Branham used the same quote twice, but the second time he elucidated his point much more clearly than the first. And yet if you understand the doctrine, you won’t have trouble with the first quote, because you will know what he is saying.

 

QA HEBREWS PART 2 57-1002 281-Q-63    63. Please explain the Trinity. How can the Son set at the right hand of the Father, interceding to the Father, if they are not two persons? Well, beloved friend, that's a... That's a revelation. If Jesus said, "I and My Father are One," then how can they be two? See? Now, they're not two. A woman once said to me, and I was explaining that, said, "You and your wife are two, yet you're one." I said, "But God and the Son is different from that. See?" I said, You see me?" "Yes." "Do you see my wife?" "No." I said, "Then Father and Son's different; Jesus said, 'When you see Me, you've seen the Father.'" See? The Father and the Son... The Father was Almighty Jehovah God dwelling in a Tabernacle called Jesus Christ, which was the anointed Son of God. Jesus was a Man; God is a Spirit. And no man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. He was... He... His Personality, His Being, His Deity, whatever He was, He was God. He was nothing less or nothing more than God. Yet, He was a man. He was a man, a house that God dwelt in. That's right. He was God's dwelling place.

 

Notice that brother Branham pointed out that we are not talking about two physical being like a man and wife are two physical beings. But he explained that there is one that was a man, and we know to be a man you must have body, soul and spirit. But in that man that was fully man, indwelt the God, the Father, who is Spirit. Thus making them one by the indwelling. But notice in this next quote how brother Branham is more specific and shows that the oneness of God and His Son is not like Husband and wife and He is more clear as to why it is different.

 

Baptism Of the Holy Spirit 58-0928M   94  Jesus, He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me." No one could read that any plainer. They said, "Why don't You show us the Father, and it'll satisfy us." John 14:8. He said, "I've been so long with you and you don't know Me?" He said, "When you see Me, you see My Father." As a lady once jumped up, she said, "Why, Brother Branham," she said, "the Father and the Son are one, just like you and your wife are one." I said, "Oh, no they're not." I said, "Do you see me?" She said, "Yes." I said, "You see my wife?" Said, "No." I said, "Then they're not the same kind of one. Jesus said, 'When you've see Me, you have seen the Father. The Father dwelleth in Me.' My wife don't dwell in me." See? They are One; in every way they are One.

 

Palmerworm Locust Caterpillar 59-0823  140  God Almighty, the Father, dwelt in Him. At the day of the baptism, when He received the Holy Ghost on the day when John baptized Him, John said, "I beheld and saw the Spirit of God like a Dove descending from heaven, and a Voice saying, 'This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in.” Jesus said that God was with Him, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwells in Me.” Not Jesus, and being one with God; but God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. 143 And you Oneness brethren, many of you get off the wrong track when you try to think that God is one like your finger is one. He can't be His Own Father. He can't be.

 

I want to show you the hypocritical nature of those who preach against what we stand for in one simple prayer that Jesus preached. In JOHN 17:11    And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. And how is it that we might be One even as which means in the same manner as Jesus and His Father were One? Jesus said, JOHN 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.  Jesus tells us we become One with God through the same Word that He became One With God. JOHN 17:20  Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

 

Therefore it is very apparent that we are one by receiving the same Word which bring us into the same Glory or same mind as the Father. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

 

HARVEST TIME PHOENIX AZ 64-1212 87   034   Jesus said, "That they might be one, Father, as You and I are one." Not for some man to be over something, it never will work; one denomination wants to take over the other, and one man over the other. But that you might be one with God, like Christ and God was one; that's what the prayer is. That... He was the Word, and Jesus prayed that we might be the Word, reflecting Him. That's His prayer to be answered. See how Satan scruples it up in the carnal mind? But that wasn't Jesus' prayer, at all, that we might all congregate together and all have a certain creed and so forth. Every time they do it, they go further and further from God. He wants us to be one with God, and God is the Word. Each individual in his heart must be that one with God.

 

I hope these questions and answers to these questions has helped you to better understand. Next week, we will continue to look at this Oneness with God and His Word. And we will also look to explain some of the other arguments that are being thrown our way concerning their wrong understanding of the Oneness of God, such as Isaiah 9:6, and how Jehovah could be born over a manure pile, and several other lame arguments that are being bantered about with pomp and arrogance. But for now, Let’s just bow our hearts in prayer.

 

Dear Beloved Father, full of Mercy and Grace. We acknowledge that we were born in sin and shaped in iniquity but through the instrument of your Word you have caused us to be over-comers and have transformed us by the renewing of our minds that we might be conformed to the image of your son that He might be the eldest in a vast family of brothers. Grant to us also Father that we be likeminded even as Your son Jesus was likeminded with you, that You might be in Him and he in us, and we in you, for you are the Word, and we ask this in the wonderful name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen!