“And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.” (1John 4:14)
The Father is the first person of the divine Trinity. The Trinity is three distinct persons, the Father, the Son Whom we know as Jesus and the Holy Spirit. They are one, a concept we don’t understand here on earth. They agree on everything. One does nothing which the other is not fully in agreement, the Godhead, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
When Jesus walked on this earth, He said many times that He only did what the Father wanted. “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.” (John 5:19) What Jesus was saying is that He and the Father work in unity and in agreement. The same is true of the Holy Spirit. Nothing is done without total agreement and working together. We see this in the creation of the earth. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-2) The Holy Spirit was present and working creation. John writes how the Son, Jesus, Who is the Word also worked in creation. “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 any thing made that was made.” (John 1:1-3) The Godhead, Father, Son and Holy Spirit created the earth.
The same is true of the salvation of man. Jesus didn’t act on His own. He came from unity with the Father and took on the lowly position of man to be the perfect sacrifice man needed for salvation, to completely satisfy the payment for the sin of the world. Jesus was all man, birthed like man through a woman. “Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” (Luke 1:34-35) He is also all God. John declared it. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1)
In our Scripture, 1John 4:14, John states, “we have seen and do testify...” He walked with Jesus and was present with Peter and James his brother at the transfiguration of Jesus when Jesus talked to Moses and Elijah. All the things he wrote were things he witnessed and wants us to know that by all things he witnessed, Jesus is God, Who came from the Father, was in unity with the Father at all times, doing the Father’s Will to redeem man, to be the spotless innocent sacrifice that would not merely cover sin for one person for one year, but would redeem forever, eternally, man, all men, past, present and future and give them forgiveness.
Jesus was all man and all God. As a man with a human body, he suffered all the temptations, but was sinless. He suffered all the pains of the crucifixion, more than any man could have borne, died, was buried, but arose from the dead as promised to Him by the Father. Jesus said, “Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of My Father.” (John 10:17-18) Paul in Hebrews, in teaching that Jesus will complete the work He began in us, says that He went to the cross looking forward to the joy that would come from doing what He was born to do. “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrew 12:2)
John writes that the Father sent the Son. Yes, and the Son, Jesus our Lord came willingly to lay down His life for man, to take death for man, so man could live eternally. All the while, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit were in complete unity and agreement.
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