Andrew Wommack Devotional 20 March 2023 – Jesus Shared His Father’s Glory
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Topic: Jesus Shared His Father’s Glory
John 5:18, “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.”
Text: John 5:16-27
When the Jewish authorities heard Jesus call God “my (own) Father”, they immediately understood that Jesus claimed for Himself deity in the highest possible sense of that term. That claim was either blasphemy, to be punished by death, or else Jesus was who He claimed to be.
Jesus never associated Himself with His disciples by using the plural pronoun “our” Father. Rather, He always used the singular “my” Father, since His relationship was unique and eternal, whereas theirs was by grace and regeneration.
We should ponder carefully our Lord’s own conception of who He was. He said “I am from…
