But Jesus is not God. In Rev 3:12 he referenced his God 4 times in that one verse. Odd thing for a God to do, refer to his God over and over again, isn't it?
Should we not seek Him, and listen to what He says?
John listened to Him and wrote:
Jn 1:1,2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. He was in the beginning with God
Which explains the issue clearly, but if you don't believe John those who wrote the Bible how are you going to hear His words?????
Jesus, that child who told on flesh is named "The Word of God" (Rev 19:13) because He has the words of God (Jn 16) and the Holy Spirit takes those words from Him and speaks them to your spirit. So when you hear God you hear "The Word of God" who is the One we call Jesus Christ and our Lord, which indeed He is but only if we get our instructions from Him - meaning hearing Him who is the Word that was with God and is God.
So if you find a referencing
his God, He it ties in with Jn 1:1,2 where He was in the beginning with God, but He is also God as read in the very same verse. Yet understanding is not achieved by leaning on your understanding but by listening to His voice, which comes via the Holy Spirit who He sends to us who actually do believe in Him. Any can let Him in by simply seeking Jesus and what He has to say (Rev 3:20) but nobody will get true understanding unless they starting seeking Him and what He has to personally say to them, becuase again, that comes from His voice.
Prov 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom;
From His mouth
come knowledge and understanding.
So from what we can clearly see is that someone doesn't understand How Jesus Christ is the Word of God and thus how He was with God in the beginning and is God. And we also see that they don't understand about how His words, which are the words of God spoken to us, come through the Holy Spirit who always glorifies Jesus Christ as Lord, the One who gives us instructions. And since His sheep do hear His voice we know why they don't understand - it's because they don't seek Jesus Christ!!! His sheep hear His voice, but not everyone does!
Because we listen to the Holy Spirit of God, who does not speak on His own initiative, we know Jesus Christ and know He is God!
Because we know Jesus Christ, who does and says only what the Father tells Him; when we hear from Jesus Christ (God) we hear from the Father!
And so, because we hear we understand that God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirt) is one God. So when someone tries to tells us that God is not three persons in One God, we instantly understand that they don't listen to God - which is to say they don't hear the words or God spoke to them via the Holy Spirit who got them from the Son (Jesus Christ) because He owns them, because the Father gave His words to the Son. We know they don't know Jesus Christ, so don't hear the words of the Father which came down through the Son and the Holy Spirit to us personally! We know Jesus Christ, but they don't. We know that He is the Word of God, because we listen to Him, but they don't. It is extremely obvious to us, because we His sheep do know Jesus Christ as the Son of God, the Word of God, and as our Lord God who has the words of God for us, but they don't understand because they lean on their understanding instead of actually seeking Jesus Christ and His words for us!
So we preach Jesus Christ as the Word of God and God, just like John did, but they can't understand because they won't accept our testimony, and 'our' includes the testimony of those like and including John and all others who wrote the Scriptures. That failure to listen and get to personally know Jesus Christ is going to mean hell for them! We don't want that so we take time to try and lead them to Jesus Chrsit our saviour, for their sakes not ours!!
I have a business to run. These longs posts which explain it all take my time when I could be making money for me and my family. Yet if I could get someone to actually start seeking Him, I know God (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) will give them the free gift of salvation! Jesus means God's salvation! I mean the name Jesus actually means Gods salvation, which is why we call the Christ, Jesus. But He has a name, and His name is called the Word of God - that very One who came down out of heaven and took on flesh. The One who suffered death on the cross at the hands of men who claimed they believed in God. But being God He defeated death and rose again back to His place on the throne as King of kings, and Lord or lord.
So who can defeat death except for God? And who is it that own the words of God except for God? And who sits on the throne of God except God? Note: it is not the throne of God if God is not sitting on it!! It is God sitting their that makes it the throne of God! And all things created were created through the Word of God, Jesus Christ. This is all explained in the Bible, and so the person rejecting all these things has also rejected Jesus Christ. You don't believe in someone if you don't believe He is who He is - and He is the Word who was with God in the beginning and who is God - just like it is written!!
So is it a believer who can't understand how the One who was with God in the beginning and is God might reference His Father as God, and yet stll be God? That simply points to the fact that the Son and the Father are One God, and listening to the Holy Spirit bring you His words will complete the understanding of what we in Christianity refer to as the Trinity. Failure to do so results in not understanding the words your read in the Bible, and the Bible explains this to you!
Prov 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
Is 30:1 Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD,
“Who execute a plan, but not Mine,
And make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,
Is 30: 9 For this is a rebellious people, false sons,
Sons who refuse to listen
To the instruction of the LORD;
In order to add sin to sin;
Rev 3:19-21‘Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.
‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
‘He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
So, if they don't listen they cannot understand how all believers sit on the throne of the Father! That is to say when we listen and do what God tells us we are under the full authority of God and become one with Him!! Which is what Jesus prayed for!
Jn 17: 22 “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;
It is all perfectly clear to me, because I listen to Him. When I listen to Him and do what He says I become part of what God is doing (the body of Christ) and that makes me one with God, just like the Holy Spirit who does not speak on His own initiative, like the Christ who only says and does what the Father tells Him. So the body of Christ is the Body of God, but only if we listen and do what He says - and frankly we Christians also know that too often we don't just do what He says!!
For example - I wrote this because He told me to write. He has gone over all this with me many times, but I didn't get it down word for word, like Jesus would have done. But I did ask Him and hear from Him many times during writing this, so I am getting better but I am still a work in progress. That is a phrase real Christians really understand. We are learning, and so are willing to learn. Which is a reason we seek Him. The false sons refuse to listen. That is the difference!!