The Root and Fruit of All Faith: The Deeper Truths and Understandings of the Bible

By Michael J Hnatowicz

With so many religions in the world today and the different denominations and doctrines of the Bible many have been left confused and divided by religion. There are so many different views on subjects in the Bible.

    The truth is in His word and through the knowledge of God comes wisdom and understanding. Differ

• Language: English
• Publisher: Meek Music and Publishing LLC
• Release date: Apr 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781737681021

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Chapter 1

The Father Son and Holy Spirit

Who is the Father? Who is the Son? Who is the Holy Spirit? And how are these three made One?

Is God all three in one making up One God? Or is there One God alone that has three distinct persons that are equal? Is there a hierarchy or an order to their persons?

I want to look deeper into this discussion because there are many different perspectives that slightly differ from one denomination to the other.

Things like is God Jesus and is Jesus God? Is the Son literally taking place of the Father?

Did Jesus see himself as greater or equal to God the Father, or do they share a relationship with each other?

Did God the Father come down from heaven, or did He send His Son down for us?

I believe there is God the Father, the one and only true God. He has His one and only begotten Son, who is the Son of God.

There is the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of God, and proceeds from the Father and is shared with His Son.

They are three distinct persons that are One in likeness and Holiness, equal in Power, Honor, and Glory in the order of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

I will go into each of these persons and their position to clearly see the mystery and relationship between the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit.

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God the Father, Almighty God, Our Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth, The Most High, the One and Only True God who Created all things. These are some the titles of God the Father.

God is a Spirit, He is Eternal and Self-existent, having no beginning or no end. He is Holy, Righteous, and True. God is One and He alone is God. He is the source of all life and creation.

He is Father over all creation and Father of His one and only begotten Son. Why is He called Father? Let us think about it, what do we know about an earthly father?

The father is the head of the house, a father is a giver of life, bearing a seed. The father sets the rules or gives the law. The father loves and corrects his children.

In the same way we understand a father’s love for his children, we can understand how God the Father loves us and His Son.

God the Father loves his Son, He would want to give all that He has to His Son, He would want His Son to be honored. He gives His Son for us so that we may be reconciled to God as His Children.

John 3:35 The Father love the Son and have given all things into his hand.

John 5:23 That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honor not the Son honor not the Father which have sent Him.

Therefore, we call God Father because He is Life and He is Father over all creation. We all come from Our Father for we were created by God.

Malachi 2:10 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us?

1 Corinthians 8:6 Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Ephesians 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

The Father is sovereign over all things for He is the source of all Creation. He is through all things for all things were Created through His Son, the Word of God. He is in all things by Creation and through His Holy Spirit.

He is Father of His only begotten Son, begotten not made, in which, the Son not being created by God but coming directly from God.

The Father works through His Son, and the Son being just like His Father does the will of His Father.

Like the saying goes Like Father like Son.

John 5:19-20 Then Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily, Verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do, for what things so ever He do, these also the Son do likewise."

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The Son of God, the Word of God, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. The only begotten Son of the Father, who was in the beginning with God, who all things created were created through Him by Him and for Him.

John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made.

The Word became flesh coming down from Heaven to reconcile us back to the Father. The Son is Holy, Eternal, Righteous, and True. He is honored and glorified by the Father, that in Him the Father is glorified.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the Only Son from the Father, full of Grace and Truth.

The Son is perfectly just like his Father, bearing the image of His Father, and being one with the Father. But does that make him the Father?

Let us think of it this way. You have an earthly father and you are the son. You come from your father, but you are not your daddy.

The Father and the Son are two distinct persons but are alike and are one because the Son comes from his Father. The son looks just like his father, acts like his father, loves and honors his father, is exactly like his father but does not take the place of his father.

In the same manner, God is the Father and Christ is His Son. The Son is just like His Father doing the will of the Father. Aiming to please his Father and to be obedient to the Father. This is bearing His image and being one with the Father.

The Son loves and honors His Father and is exactly like His Father but does not take the place of the Father. The Father also loves and honors His Son and is pleased with His Son.

John 5:30 I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge and my judgment is Just; because I seek not my own will, but the Will of the Father which have sent me.

John 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the Will of Him that sent me.

John 14:31 But the world may know that I Love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.

The Father is well pleased with His Son and like a Good Father wants to give all to His Son. For this reason, God gives His Son Glory by having all life renewed through Him. The Father loves the Son and gives Him all things.

John 1:4 In him was Life, and the life was the light of men.

John 5:26 For as the Father have life in himself, so have he given to the Son to have Life in himself.

John 12:28 Father glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

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How did the Son view his relationship with the Father? Was he saying that He is God the Father in the flesh? Or that when you see the Son you have seen the Father because the Father is in Him? Did God come down from heaven or did He send His Son down for us?

The bible says that God is a Spirit and His throne is in the Highest Heavens. That He sent His one and only Son, the Word of God, who was in the beginning with God, the Son of God who came down from heaven, born in the flesh, to die for our sins so that we may be reconciled through His death and resurrection.

After His death and resurrection, He ascended back into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

Hebrews 1:3 He is the radiance of the Glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High,

So, let us examine this further.

The Father and Son must be two persons. First, because the Father sends the Son and that Jesus constantly emphasizes, He was sent by God saying, it is He who sent me

John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Second, the Father was in Heaven when the Son prayed to Him on earth. He could not be praying to himself but instead was praying to His Father and Our Father.

Third, to be seated at the right hand of the Father signifies that there are two positions, one being God the Father and one being the Son who is seated at His right hand.

Not only that but just having the distinct roles of Father and Son shows that there are two positions and a relationship shared between the two.

Let us look at some scriptures where the Son explains his relationship with the Father and how he is one with his Father.

John 8:29 And He that sent me is with me; the Father have not left me alone; for I do always those things that Please him.

John 10:30 I and my Father are one.

John 12:49 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.

John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand.

John 12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believe on me, believe not on me, but on him that sent me.

John 13:20 Verily, Verily I say unto you, He that receive whomsoever I send receive me, and he that receive me receive him that sent me.

We see here that the Father is with Jesus through the Holy Spirit. He says the Father has not left me alone and that I and my Father are one. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God and Christ having the Holy Spirit makes him one with God.

With Gods presence he was not alone and by being on one accord with the Father through the Spirit, He spoke the things God would speak and does the Will of His Father.

He also says, He that believes on me believes in the One who sent me, which explains how the Son viewed his relationship with the Father. He gives the Father Glory, Honor, and Praise, and tells us to worship the Father, who is greater than all.

One Scripture reads, I and the Father are One which describes their divine nature and essence. Another reads The Father is Greater than I which describes their position and headship.

To understand this relationship, we must take both scriptures into context. Jesus is the one and only Son of the one and only True God.

Christ says, I and the Father are One but he does not say I am the Father. We do not say The Son is the Father but we can say The Son and the Father are One, in relation to the Holy Spirit. There is an order of authority, hierarchy, and headship.

1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God."

The Father is the Head, yet this does not take away from the divinity of the Son and Holy Spirit. The Son constantly receives His glory, power, throne, and honor from the Father and lives to glorify the Father.

As well the Spirit lives to glorify the Father and the Son. God is One but it does not say Three in One. The One true God is the Father and His only begotten Son is the Son of God. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, whereby, these three are One in likeness and Holiness in fullness.

Colossians 2:9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one.

These three are One in the Father and are One in likeness to the Father. Through His Holy Spirit, Christ is One with God and through the Holy Spirit we are made One in Christ, who is One with God. This is how we become Children of the Most High through His Son and His Spirit by becoming like Christ and more like our Father.

Galatians 3:26-29 "So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Romans 8:10-16 However, if Christ lives in you, your bodies are dead because of sin, but your spirits are alive because you have God’s approval. Does the Spirit of the one who brought Jesus back to life live in you? Then the one who brought Christ back to life will also make your mortal bodies alive by his Spirit who