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The moral to such expressions Jesus makes about His relationship to the Father is summed up in His

application of these teachings to His followers whom He is leaving behind on earth. Why did Jesus

stress throughout His teachings His relationship to the Father? The answer lies in verses like these

which also permeate the Gospel of John: “IT IS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE
THAT I GO AWAY; FOR IF I
“DO YOU BELIEVE THAT I AM IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER DO NOT GO AWAY, THE
IN ME? THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK TO YOU I DO NOT SPEAK ON HELPER WILL NOT COME TO
MY OWN AUTHORITY; BUT THE FATHER WHO DWELLS IN ME
DOES THE WORKS. MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, HE WHO YOU; BUT IF I DEPART, I WILL
BELIEVES IN ME, THE WORKS THAT I DO HE WILL DO ALSO; AND SENT HIM TO YOU…HE WILL
GREATER WORKS THAN THESE WILL HE DO, BECAUSE I GO TO GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH;
MY FATHER. AND WHATEVER YOU ASK IN MY NAME, THAT I FOR HE WILL NOT SPEAK ON
WILL DO, THAT THE FATHER MAY BE GLORIFIED IN THE SON. IF HIS OWN AUTHORITY, BUT
YOU ASK ANYTHING IN MY NAME, I WILL DO IT. IF YOU LOVE WHATEVER HE HEARS HE WILL
ME KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER,
AND HE WILL GIVE YOU ANOTHER HELPER, THAT HE MAY ABIDE SPEAK; AND HE WILL TELL
WITH YOU FOREVER, EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH…” YOU OF THINGS TO COME.
Jn. 14:10-17 HE WILL GLORIFY ME, FOR HE
WILL TAKE WHAT IS MINE
“BUT THE HELPER, “BUT WHEN THE HELPER AND DECLARE IT TO YOU.
THE HOLY SPIRIT,
WHOM THE FATHER WILL SEND IN COMES, WHOM I SHALL SEND ALL THINGS THAT THE
MY NAME, HE WILL TEACH YOU TO YOU FROM THE FATHER, FATHER HAS ARE MINE.
ALL THINGS, AND BRING TO THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH WHO THEREFORE I SAID THAT HE
YOUR REMEMBRANCE ALL THINGS PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER, WILL TAKE OF MINE AND
THAT I HAVE SAID TO YOU.” HE WILL TESTIFY OF ME.” DECLARE IT TO YOU.”
Jn. 14:26 Jn. 15:26
Jn. 16:7-15

“I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE VINEDRESSER…ABIDE IN ME AND I IN YOU. AS THE
BRANCH CANNOT BEAR FRUIT OF ITSELF, UNLESS IT ABIDES IN THE VINE, NEITHER CAN YOU, UNLESS
YOU ABIDE IN ME. I AM THE VINE, AND YOU ARE THE BRANCHES. HE WHO ABIDES IN ME AND IN HIM,
BEARS MUCH FRUIT; FOR WITHOUT ME YOU CAN DO NOTHING….IF YOU ABIDE IN ME, AND MY WORDS

ABIDE IN YOU YOU WILL ASK WHAT YOU DESIRE, AND IT SHALL BE DONE FOR YOU. BY THIS IS MY
FATHER GLORIFIED, THAT YOU BEAR MUCH FRUIT; SO YOU WILL BE MY DISCIPLES. AS THE FATHER
LOVED ME, I ALSO HAVE LOVED YOU; ABIDE IN MY LOVE. IF YOU KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, YOU
WILL ABIDE IN MY LOVE, JUST AS I KEPT MY FATHER’S COMMANDMENTS AND ABIDE IN HIS LOVE...
I CHOSE YOU AND APPOINTED YOU THAT YOU SHOULD GO AND BEAR FRUIT, AND THAT YOUR FRUIT

SHOULD REMAIN, THAT WHATEVER YOU ASK THE FATHER IN MY NAME HE MAY GIVE YOU.”
Jn. 15:1-16 excerpts

“I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ORPHANS; I WILL COME TO YOU.
A LITTLE WHILE LONGER AND THE WORLD WILL SEE ME NO MORE, BUT YOU WILL SEE ME,

BECAUSE I LIVE, YOU WILL LIVE ALSO.
AT THAT DAY YOU WILL KNOW THAT

I AM IN THE FATHER; AND YOU IN ME, AND I IN YOU…

IF ANYONE LOVES ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORD; AND MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM,

AND WE WILL COME TO HIM AND MAKE OUR HOME WITH HIM.”

Jn. 14:18-23

One cannot help but see how the triune Godhead is laced throughout such passages as above.
References to the believer’s relationship to the Father, to His Son, and to the Holy Spirit, mark these
passages as well as many others. Likewise one must note the supremacy that Jesus teaches of the
Father. We must grasp the needful relationship of the believer to the Son in order to bring forth fruit that
will glorify the Father. Then also we must take notice of Jesus’ emphasis upon the Holy Spirit sent forth
as “another Helper” to the believer. Take time to digest the emphasis Jesus places on the Holy Spirit
being submissive to, and under the authority of, Jesus the Son. Like Jesus Himself was totally
submissive to the authority of the Father, the Holy Spirit “…will not speak on His own authority…He will
glorify Me” (Jn. 16:13). Jesus was submitted to the authority of the Father and the Holy Spirit was
submitted to the authority of Jesus. The believer is to place himself under this same pattern of authority
found in the triune Godhead. Why is that needful? Because it is the pathway to Father:

“FOR THROUGH HIM (JESUS) WE…
HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT TO THE FATHER.” Eph. 2:18

This is not a saying limited to just how we are to pray. It includes how we must live out our lives in
harmony with God. It requires an intimacy with the three persons of the Godhead.