Did Jesus accept worship?

Why have the nations been in tumult And the national groups themselves kept muttering an empty thing? The kings of earth take their stand And high officials themselves have massed together as one Against Jehovah and against His anointed one, [Saying:] "Let us tear their bands apart And cast their cords away from us!" The very One sitting in the heavens will laugh; Jehovah himself will hold them in derision. At that time he will speak to them in his anger And in his hot displeasure he will disturb them, [Saying:] "I, even I, have installed my king Upon Zion, my holy mountain." Let me refer to the decree of Jehovah; He has said to me: "You are my son; I, today, I have become your Father. Ask of me, that I may give nations as your inheritance And the ends of the earth as your own possession. You will break them with an iron scepter, As though a potter’s vessel you will dash them to pieces." And now, O kings, exercise insight; Let yourselves be corrected, O judges of the earth. Serve Jehovah with fear And be joyful with trembling. Kiss the son, that He may not become incensed And YOU may not perish [from] the way, For his anger flares up easily. Happy are all those taking refuge in him. Psalms 2:1-12. For this very reason also God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other] name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father. Consequently, my beloved ones, in the way that YOU have always obeyed, not during my presence only, but now much more readily during my absence, keep working out YOUR own salvation with fear and trembling; for God is the one that, for the sake of [his] good pleasure, is acting within YOU in order for YOU both to will and to act. Keep doing all things free from murmurings and arguments, that YOU may come to be blameless and innocent, children of God without a blemish in among a crooked and twisted generation, among whom YOU are shining as illuminators in the world, Philippians 2:9-15

Gather us back, O God of our Salvation, And break off your vexation with us. Is it to time indefinite that you will be incensed at us? Will you draw out your anger to generation after generation? Will you yourself not enliven us again, That your people themselves may rejoice in you? Show us, O Jehovah, your loving-kindness, And your Salvation may you give to us. I will hear what the [true] God Jehovah will speak, For he will speak Peace as he is King of Righteousness to his people and to his loyal ones, But let them not return to self-confidence. Surely his Salvation is near to those fearing him, For glory to reside in our land. As for loving-kindness and trueness, they have met each other; Righteousness and peace—they have kissed each other. Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool (The Earth) for He is Holy Exalt the LORD our God, and Worship at His Holy hill; Zion for the LORD our God is Holy. Psalms 85:4-10; 99:5,9

In the Old Testament, texts like Proverbs 3:13-20 and especially all of Proverbs 8 we find a personification of God's wisdom, the giving of a son his attributes to and —the wisdom of God. Here wisdom, personified as a Jesus is the Logos John 1:1-3, His Father's Word, called a woman (because the Hebrew word hokmah like the Greek word Sophia is a female noun) is said to be present and to have helped God create as God's master worker. This is of course a way of saying that God's creating involved a Divine plan that entailed Wisdom. But there is more, for in Proverbs 8 Wisdom is calling God's people back to God, back to God's wise teaching about how to live a good and Godly life through Jesus' teachings of his Father's Kingdom come his Father's Will be done. Wisdom came down from heaven and urged God's people to repent, but they rejected Wisdom and so he returned to heaven to be with God. All of this needs to be borne in mind when we look carefully at the teachings of Jesus, because in fact, it is especially apparent in both Matthew's and John's Gospel that Jesus is being portrayed as God's wisdom come to earth in the flesh in the form not of a book like Torah, but as a person—Jesus and not as God made flesh, God can't be seen and God can't die. Jesus is seen as the human embodiment of the spirit of God in truth of his Father, and God's living revelation come in person. For example consider Matthew 11:19-20, (NIV). We have here a parallel construction, "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners." But wisdom is vindicated by her actions." It is quite clear in this case that the one called Wisdom is the Son of Man. Jesus is revealing his divine qualities given him by his Father, and origins. The Divine Wisdom Of God given him, but Jesus worshiped God in Spirit and Truth as he told other's to as God is Spirit and His Spirit is Holy.. Proverbs 8:22-31. The woman said to him: "Sir, I perceive you are a prophet. Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain; but YOU people say that in Jerusalem is the place where persons ought to worship." Jesus said to her: "Believe me, woman, The hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will YOU people worship the Father. YOU worship what YOU do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation originates with the Jews. Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him. God is a Spirit, and those worshiping him Must worship with spirit and truth." The woman said to him: "I know that Mes·si´ah is coming, who is called Christ. Whenever that one arrives, he will declare all things to us openly." Jesus said to her: "I who am speaking to you am he." John 4:19-26

Just as Wisdom is portrayed as a woman who would protect and nurture her spiritual offspring in Proverbs 8 and elsewhere, so Jesus portrays Himself as like a mother bird who would gather her chicks, in this case the residents of Jerusalem, under her wings, but they would not come (see Luke 13:34). But it is not only in the Synoptic Gospels that Jesus is portrayed and depicts himself as the Wisdom of God come in the flesh, this is also a prominent theme in the Gospel of John. The truth is that Jesus never once referred to himself as the Creator or God—not once! Isn't that interesting? Wouldn't you think that, as the personification of the truth, if Jesus were really God Almighty that he would have just plainly said so when he walked among men? Would it be unreasonable of us to expect that of him? However, Jesus often referred to himself as God's Son. There are many daughters that have shown capableness, but you—you have ascended above them all. Charm may be false, and prettiness may be vain; [but] the woman that fears Jehovah is the one that procures praise for herself. GIVE her of the fruitage of her hands, and let her works praise her even in the gates. Proverbs 31:29-31

Zion heard and began to rejoice, And the dependent towns of Judah began to be joyful By reason of your judicial decisions, O Jehovah. For you, O Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth; You are very High in your ascent over all gods and all kings of the earth. O YOU lovers of Jehovah, hate what is bad. He is guarding the souls of his loyal ones; Out of the hand of the wicked ones he delivers them. Light itself has flashed up for the righteous one, And rejoicing even for the ones upright in heart. Rejoice in Jehovah, O YOU righteous ones, And give thanks to his holy memorial. 97:8-12

And cursed is the one acting cunningly when there exists in his drove a male animal, and he is making a vow and sacrificing a ruined one to Jehovah. For I am a Great King," Jehovah of armies has said, "and my name will be fear-inspiring among the nations." "Look! I am sending to YOU people E·li´jah the prophet before the coming of the great and fear-inspiring day of Jehovah. And he must turn the heart of fathers back toward sons, and the heart of sons back toward fathers; in order that I may not come and actually strike the earth with a devoting [of it] to destruction." Malachi 1:14 4:5,6

Lamb of God, Lion of Judah: Jehovah spoke"it" Holy Spirit of His Son Jesus unto the prophets: This is a prophecy in the OT that has not occurred Yet as there are many, another at Daniel 7:13,14 and 12:1. But did Jesus accept worship? Where in the Bible did Jesus claim to be God or accept worship? Never! He told people to worship God not him. Jesus' apostles were not under any Trinitarian delusion back then, they knew Jesus is the Son of the Living God.

A good example of that is John 8:58. That's where most translations record Jesus as saying that "before Abraham was born, I am." That is literally what the Greek text says and the translators merely transferred that expression into English. Trinitarians, of course, have seized upon this verse in a hackneyed attempt to prove that Jesus was claiming to be Jehovah. But transliterating the Greek expression into English, as most popular versions have done, produces a grammatically incorrect and nonsensical statement. If "I am" is another name for Jehovah, as Trinitarians insist, then "I am" and Jehovah ought to be interchangeable. So, insert the name Jehovah for "I am" in that verse and you can begin to grasp the point about transliteration. As another example of the difficulties facing translators, take Matthew 27:46, where Jesus said: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" The Greek transliteration says: "The God of me, the God of me, with what left you down in me?" Does that expression make any sense? Obviously the translator had to forget about using a word for word rendering and instead translate the thought that Jesus was expressing to God so that the reader might be able to understand as easily as if he understood the nuances of the original language. Here is the way one version translated John 1:4. Here is the way the verse was translated in the Contemporary English Version.

The book of the history of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham: Abraham became father to Isaac; Matthew 1:1,2. Abram, or Abraham as he was afterwards called, was not born in Canaan; God brought him from his own land to live there. Abraham loved and trusted God and had faith. The Holy Scriptures tells us that "he was called the Friend of God." God promised him that from his family a saviour was to come. This was the great promise of God, and through it the greatest of all blessings was to be given to sinful man. Holy Scriptures: The Power of God unto Our Salvation. It is said in the New Testament that Abraham saw, or foresaw, the day of Jesus, and was glad. He was glad there was a Saviour for his own soul, who would be a Saviour for all those who would believe in Him, in every age. He knew that God is His Salvation in sending His Lamb Jesus. Abraham's willingness to give up his son Issac led to a precusor of Jesus' death a gift Yahweh Jehovah God gave to the world in His Lamb and Only begotten Son Y'shua Jesus.

Habakkuk 1:12 reads: "Are you not from long ago, O Jehovah? O my God, my Holy One, you do not die. O Jehovah, for a judgment you have set it; and, O Rock, for a reproving you have founded it." BINGO = BE IN NOW GOD ONLY THROUGH HIS SON JESUS! SO how can Jesus be God if God does not die and God can't be seen? Is that such a hard thought to ponder? Jesus was seen by many, Jesus did die for the world.

"For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life. For God sent forth his Son into the world, not for him to judge the world, but for the world to be saved through him. He that exercises faith in him is not to be judged. He that does not exercise faith has been judged already, because he has not exercised faith in the name of the only-begotten Son of God. John 3:16-18

The destiny of these civilizations, as recorded in scripture, is a witness to all the world: if we don't have the word of God or don't cling to and heed the word of God, we will wander off in strange paths and be lost as individuals, as children of God. As with voices from the dust, the prophets of the LORD cry out to us on earth today: take hold of the scriptures! Cling to God rely on him, to them who spoke of him, His words, walk by them, live by them, rejoice in them, feast on them. Don't nibble. They are "the power of God unto salvation" that lead us back to our Savior Jesus Christ.

If the Savior were among us in the flesh today, He would teach us from the scriptures as He taught when He walked upon the earth. In the synagogue at Nazareth, And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. Later when the Sadducees and Pharisees posed a difficult question, "Jesus answered and said unto them, "YOU are searching the Scriptures, because YOU think that by means of them YOU will have everlasting life; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me. And yet YOU do not want to come to me that YOU may have life. I do not accept glory from men, but I well know that YOU do not have the love of God in YOU. I have come in the name of my Father, but YOU do not receive me; if someone else arrived in his own name, YOU would receive that one. How can YOU believe, when YOU are accepting glory from one another and YOU are not seeking the glory that is from the only God? Do not think that I will accuse YOU to the Father; there is one that accuses YOU, Moses, in whom YOU have put YOUR hope. In fact, if YOU believed Moses YOU would believe me, for that one wrote about me. But if YOU do not believe the writings of that one, how will YOU believe my sayings?" John 5:39-47 see Deuteronomy 19:15. As God was and is with Jesus..AND THE TRUE BELIEVER'S IN FATHER AND SON AS ONE! Again I truly say to YOU, If two of YOU on earth agree concerning anything of importance that they should request, it will take place for them due to my Father in heaven. For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.” Matthew 18:19,20...Does Not! have to be in any earthly church for God nor His Son are there.

that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God, and that, because of believing, YOU may have life by means of his name. John 20:28-31. I will reflect on the word OBEISANCE below as well as whom we are to worship. Jesus prostrated himself to the One whom he called "the only true God," his God and his Father. In the account in the Garden of Gethsemane, it says of Jesus: And going a little way forward, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me. Yet, not as I will, but as you will." Matthew 26:39

The act of falling upon one's face is the Hebrew way of saying that a person prostrates themselves flat out in an act worship, or obeisance is to bow down. Only someone intent on deceiving themselves would argue that Jesus was not doing an act of worship before the Living God Jehovah.

Then Jesus said to him: "Go away, Satan! For it is written, ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service." You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy." But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you, No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another. Matthew 4:10; 5:43,44; 6:24

For this very reason also God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other] name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. 2:9-11

and after he had been made perfect he became responsible for everlasting salvation to all those obeying him, because he has been specifically called by God a high priest according to the manner of Mel·chiz´e·dek. Concerning him we have much to say and hard to be explained, since YOU have become dull in YOUR hearing. For, indeed, although YOU ought to be teachers in view of the time, YOU again need someone to teach YOU from the beginning the elementary things of the sacred pronouncements of God; and YOU have become such as need milk, not solid food. For everyone that partakes of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to mature people, to those who through use have their perceptive powers trained to distinguish both right and wrong. 5:9-14

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator. Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away, and every one bearing fruit he cleans, that it may bear more fruit. YOU are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to YOU. Remain in union with me, and I in union with YOU. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, in the same way neither can YOU, unless YOU remain in union with me. I am the vine, YOU are the branches. He that remains in union with me, and I in union with him, this one bears much fruit; because apart from me YOU can do nothing at all. If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is cast out as a branch and is dried up; and men gather those branches up and pitch them into the fire and they are burned. If YOU remain in union with me and my sayings remain in YOU, ask whatever YOU wish and it will take place for YOU. My Father is glorified in this, that YOU keep bearing much fruit and prove yourselves my disciples. Just as the Father has loved me and I have loved YOU, remain in my love. If YOU observe my commandments, YOU will remain in my love, just as I have observed the commandments of the Father and remain in his love.

"These things I have spoken to YOU, that my joy may be in YOU and YOUR joy may be made full. This is my commandment, that YOU love one another just as I have loved YOU. No one has love greater than this, that someone should surrender his soul in behalf of his friends. YOU are my friends if YOU do what I am commanding YOU. I no longer call YOU slaves, because a slave does not know what his master does. But I have called YOU friends, because all the things I have heard from my Father I have made known to YOU. YOU did not choose me, but I chose YOU, and I appointed YOU to go on and keep bearing fruit and that YOUR fruit should remain; in order that no matter what YOU ask the Father in my name he might give it to YOU.

"These things I command YOU, that YOU love one another. If the world hates YOU, YOU know that it has hated me before it hated YOU. If YOU were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because YOU are no part of the world, but I have chosen YOU out of the world, on this account the world hates YOU. Bear in mind the word I said to YOU, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute YOU also; if they have observed my word, they will observe YOURS also. But they will do all these things against YOU on account of my name, because they do not know him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He that hates me hates also my Father. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have both seen and hated me as well as my Father. But it is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’ When the helper arrives that I will send YOU from the Father, the spirit of the truth, which proceeds from the Father, that one will bear witness about me; and YOU, in turn, are to bear witness, because YOU have been with me from when I began. John 15:1-27

Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more. The foolish shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all doers of iniquity. Have mercy on me, O Jehovah; see my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death, You have also given me the neck of my enemies; so that I might destroy those who hate me. Your hand shall find out all Your enemies; Your right hand shall find out those who hate You. Look on my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous shall be held guilty. Job 8:22, Psalms 5:5; 9:13; 18:40; 21:8; 25:19; 34:21. You love righteousness, and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows. Psalms 45:7

All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one fully knows the Son but the Father, neither does anyone fully know the Father but the Son and anyone to whom the Son is willing to reveal him. But looking at the windstorm, he got afraid and, after starting to sink, he cried out: "Lord, save me!" Immediately stretching out his hand Jesus caught hold of him and said to him: "You with little faith, why did you give way to doubt?" And after they got up into the boat, the windstorm abated. Then those in the boat did obeisance to him, saying: "You are really God’s Son." In answer Simon Peter said: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." In response Jesus said to him: "Happy you are, Simon son of Jo´nah, because flesh and blood did not reveal [it] to you, but my Father who is in the heavens did. Matthew 11:27; 14:30-33; 16:16,17; 28:16-18

And God went on to say: "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth." When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong, when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men. Genesis 1:26, Proverbs 8:27

Now people began bringing him young children for him to touch these; but the disciples reprimanded them. At seeing this Jesus was indignant and said to them: "Let the young children come to me; do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to suchlike ones. Truly I say to YOU, Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a young child will by no means enter into it." And he took the children into his arms and began blessing them, laying his hands upon them. But the disciples gave way to surprise at his words. In response Jesus again said to them: "Children, how difficult a thing it is to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." They became still more astounded and said to him: "Who, in fact, can be saved?" Looking straight at them Jesus said: "With men it is impossible, but not so with God, for all things are possible with God." Mark 10:13-16,10:24-27

My little children, I am writing YOU these things that YOU may not commit a sin. And yet, if anyone does commit a sin, we have a helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one. And he is a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins, yet not for ours only but also for the whole world’s. And by this we have the knowledge that we have come to know him, namely, if we continue observing his commandments. He that says: "I have come to know him," and yet is not observing his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in this [person]. But whoever does observe his word, truthfully in this [person] the love of God has been made perfect. By this we have the knowledge that we are in union with him. He that says he remains in union with him is under obligation himself also to go on walking just as that one walked. 1 John 2:1-6

For this very reason also our LORD and Father Jehovah God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other] name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:9-16

Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more. The foolish shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all doers of iniquity. Have mercy on me, O Jehovah; see my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death, You have also given me the neck of my enemies; so that I might destroy those who hate me. Your hand shall find out all Your enemies; Your right hand shall find out those who hate You. Look on my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous shall be held guilty. Job 8:22, Psalms 5:5; 9:13; 18:40; 21:8; 25:19; 34:21. You love righteousness, and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows. Psalms 45:7

God, who long ago spoke on many occasions and in many ways to our forefathers by means of the prophets, has at the end of these days spoken to us by means of a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the systems of things. He is the reflection of [his] glory and the exact representation of his very being, and he sustains all things by the word of his power; and after he had made a purification for our sins he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty in lofty places. So he has become better than the angels, to the extent that he has inherited a name more excellent than theirs. For example, to which one of the angels did he ever say: "You are my son; I, today, I have become your father"? And again: "I myself shall become his father, and he himself will become my son"? But when he again brings his Firstborn into the inhabited earth, he says: "And let all God’s angels do obeisance to him." Wherefore, seeing that we are to receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us continue to have undeserved kindness, through which we may acceptably render God sacred service with Godly fear and awe. Hebrews 1:1-6; 12:28

Matthew 4:10, Jesus said: "You must worship [from pro·sky·ne´o] Jehovah your God and him only shall you serve." At Deuteronomy 6:13, which Jesus is evidently here quoting, appears the personal name of God, the Tetragrammaton.) In harmony with that, we must understand that it is pro·sky·ne´o with a particular attitude . Many people when it comes to the word worship need to have the same mind set as the Son of God has. Let's look at what he himself said about who we should worship. the Devil took him along to an unusually high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, and he said to him: "All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me. Mt 6:8,9. So what did Satan want Jesus to do? "fall down and do an act of worship to me" Why did I use this passage? two reasons. 1. We need to understand what Jesus response was to the Devil. 2. In terms of Jehovah and Jesus we need to come to see both as different not the same person as the Churches of Christianity. Mt 4:10. Now is Jesus Jehovah? if so why would he say it is to God we must worship. Satan was trying to cause Jesus to be disloyal to God. But what test of loyalty would that be if Jesus were God? Could God rebel against himself? The temptation of Jesus would make sense only if he was, not God, but a separate individual who had his own free will, one who could have been disloyal had he chosen to be, such as an angel or a human. It is unimaginable that God could sin and be disloyal to himself. "Perfect is his activity A God of faithfulness, righteous and upright is he." said Moses. De 32:4. So if Jesus had been God, he could not have been tempted this is made clear by what James says: For with evil things God cannot be tried . James 1:13

Jehovah has not given any other name other than Jesus to his Son. The name Jesus literally means "Jehovah is salvation." So, Jesus' own name really just magnifies God's name. Jesus said that "God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son." In other words, Jehovah made the provision for salvation by sacrificing Jesus. "The Lamb of God" That is how Jehovah gave us the name of Jesus. Jesus, “the Son of man,” was thus seen by Stephen in a role supportive to God in heaven—“at God’s right hand”—even as he had been ‘alongside God’ before he came to earth. John 17:5. Later, after Stephen’s execution, Jesus made a miraculous appearance to Saul, better known by his name, Paul. In Acts 9:3-6 When Paul was in Athens, Greece, he spoke of “the God that made the world and all the things in it.” He said that this God, the “only true God,” will “judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.” Acts 17:24,31 Here the apostle Paul described Jesus as “a man”—yes, subortinate to God—whom God had restored to life in heaven.

"Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Naz·a·rene´, a man publicly shown by God to YOU through powerful works and portents and signs that God did through him in YOUR midst, just as YOU yourselves know, this [man], as one delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, YOU fastened to a tree by the hand of lawless men and did away with. But God resurrected him by loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to continue to be held fast by it. For David says respecting him, ‘I had Jehovah constantly before my eyes; because he is at my right hand that I may never be shaken. 2:22-25

They are no more than humble slaves of God. There is no room in pure worship for worship of the angels or even for relative worship, directing worship to God via some "saint" or angel. Colossians 2:18. Worship to anyone other than Jehovah was prohibited by God. Exodus 23:24; 34:14. Similarly, the worshipful bowing down to religious images or to any created thing was positively condemned. Ex 20:4,5; Le 26:1; De 4:15-19; Isa 2:8, 9, 20, 21. Jehovah's servants prostrated themselves before angels, they only did so to show they recognized that these were God's representatives, not to render obeisance to them as deities. Ge 18:1-3; Jos 5:13-15.

"Stop judging that YOU may not be judged; for with what judgment YOU are judging, YOU will be judged; and with the measure that YOU are measuring out, they will measure out to YOU. Why, then, do you look at the straw in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the rafter in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Allow me to extract the straw from your eye’; when, look! a rafter is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First extract the rafter from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to extract the straw from your brother’s eye. "Do not give what is holy to dogs, neither throw YOUR pearls before swine, that they may never trample them under their feet and turn around and rip YOU open. "Keep on asking, and it will be given YOU; keep on seeking, and YOU will find; keep on knocking, and it will be opened to YOU. For everyone asking receives, and everyone seeking finds, and to everyone knocking it will be opened. Indeed, who is the man among YOU whom his son asks for bread—he will not hand him a stone, will he? Or, perhaps, he will ask for a fish—he will not hand him a serpent, will he? Therefore, if YOU, although being wicked, know how to give good gifts to YOUR children, how much more so will YOUR Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him? "All things, therefore, that YOU want men to do to YOU, YOU also must likewise do to them; this, in fact, is what the Law and the Prophets mean. "Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it. "Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to YOU in sheep’s covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. By their fruits YOU will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they? Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit; a good tree cannot bear worthless fruit, neither can a rotten tree produce fine fruit. Every tree not producing fine fruit gets cut down and thrown into the fire. Really, then, by their fruits YOU will recognize them. Mt 7:1-20

"Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but those ones doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew YOU! Get away from me, YOU workers of lawlessness. 7:21-23

" GOD THE ONLY ONE WE HAVE TO WORSHIP ?" Hebrews 1:6, the angels are instructed to "worship" Jesus, according to the rendering of RS,TEV, KJV, JB, and NAB, NW says "do obeisance to." At Mt 14:33, Jesus' disciples are said to have "worshiped" him, according to RS, TEV, KJ; other translations say that they "showed him obeisance" (NAB), "bowed down before him" (JB), "fell at his feet" (NE), "did obeisance to him" (NW). The Greek word rendered "is pro·sky·ne'o, which A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature says was also "used to designate the custom of prostrating oneself before a person and kissing his feet, the hem of his garment, the ground."

Now the word OBEISANCE is an act of bowing, kneeling, prostrating the body, or making some other gesture to betoken submission; or simply the paying of respect. But is this worship? Colossians 2:9 is to show that Christ has in him all the fullness, not of God himself, the Deity, the Godhead, but of the divine quality dwelling bodily, and this in behalf of the spiritual body of Christ. "It is in [Christ] that all the fullness of the divine quality dwells bodily. And so you [Christians] are possessed of a fullness by means of him, who is the head of all government and authority." Col 2:9, 10. Now I want you to realize that the Messiah is the head of every man, and man is the head of the woman, and God is the Head of the Messiah. 1 Co 11:3

The Devil is the god of this age, he is called a god. among whom the god of this age of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers. 2 Co 4:4. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 1 Co 11:14

Therefore, now that we have been declared righteous as a result of faith, let us enjoy peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have gained our approach by faith into this undeserved kindness in which we now stand; and let us exult, based on hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but let us exult while in tribulations, since we know that tribulation produces endurance; endurance, in turn, an approved condition; the approved condition, in turn, hope, and the hope does not lead to disappointment; because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the holy spirit, which was given us. For, indeed, Christ, while we were yet weak, died for ungodly men at the appointed time. For hardly will anyone die for a righteous [man]; indeed, for the good [man], perhaps, someone even dares to die. But God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more, therefore, since we have been declared righteous now by his blood, shall we be saved through him from wrath. For if, when we were enemies, we became reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, now that we have become reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only that, but we are also exulting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. Romans 5:1-11

For until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not charged against anyone when there is no law. Nevertheless, death ruled as king from Adam down to Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression by Adam, who bears a resemblance to him that was to come. But it is not with the gift as it was with the trespass. For if by one man’s trespass many died, the undeserved kindness of God and his free gift with the undeserved kindness by the one man Jesus Christ abounded much more to many. Also, it is not with the free gift as it was with the way things worked through the one [man] that sinned. For the judgment resulted from one trespass in condemnation, but the gift resulted from many trespasses in a declaration of righteousness. For if by the trespass of the one [man] death ruled as king through that one, much more will those who receive the abundance of the undeserved kindness and of the free gift of righteousness rule as kings in life through the one [person], Jesus Christ. So, then, as through one trespass the result to men of all sorts was condemnation, likewise also through one act of justification the result to men of all sorts is a declaring of them righteous for life. For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were constituted sinners, likewise also through the obedience of the one [person] many will be constituted righteous. Now the Law came in beside in order that trespassing might abound. But where sin abounded, undeserved kindness abounded still more. To what end? That, just as sin ruled as king with death, likewise also undeserved kindness might rule as king through righteousness with everlasting life in view through Jesus Christ our Lord. 5:13-21

The angel told John to "worship God. At that I fell down before his feet to worship him. But he tells me: "Be careful! Do not do that! All I am is a fellow slave of you and of your brothers who have the work of witnessing to Jesus. Worship God. Revelation 19:10. This came after Jesus’ resurrection and exaltation, showing that matters had not changed in this regard. Next, the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power. For he must rule as king until [God] has put all enemies under his feet. As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing. For [God] "subjected all things under his feet." But when he says that ‘all things have been subjected,’ it is evident that it is with the exception of the One who subjected all things to him. But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone. 1 Corinthians 15:24

The apostle John too described Jesus as subordinate to God. John said that he had written his Gospel so that readers might come to believe that "Jesus is the Christ the Son of God" not that he was God. John 20:31. John also received a heavenly vision in which he saw "the Lamb," who in his Gospel is identified as Jesus. John 1:29. The Lamb is standing with 144,000 others, who John says "have been bought [or resurrected] from the earth." John explains that the 144,000 have the Lamb’s "name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads." Revelation 14:1, 3.

Could "the Lamb" be the same as "his Father"? Clearly not. In the Bible they are distinct. They even have different names. Name of the Lamb and of the Father. As we have just seen, the name given to God’s Son, the Lamb, is Jesus. Luke 1:30-32. What about his Father’s name? It appears in the Bible thousands of times. For example, Psalms 83:18 says: "You, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth." Sadly, God’s name, Jehovah, has been replaced in many Bible translations by the terms ""Lord and "god," often spelled in all lower cap letters for Lord should be LORD. The capitals are supposed to distinguish Jehovah from others called gods or lords. Also that is why there is much confusion Jesus is called Lord, but not LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, in the older texts with a lower cap lord for Jesus not in name for also David was called lord, Jesus inherited the throne of David. Nor is Jesus called a god. Yet, in many Bible translations, the Divine Name has been restored to its rightful place. The English-language American Standard Version (1901) is a notable example of a Bible translation that has restored God’s name, Jehovah, to its rightful place. Its preface observes: "The American Revisers, after a careful consideration, were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English or any other version of the Old Testament, as it fortunately does not in the numerous versions made by modern missionaries. "Micah 5:1-4 seemingly places the birth of Christ during the time of the Assyrian invasion of Judah. "At this time you make cuttings upon yourself, O daughter of an invasion; a siege he has laid against us. With the rod they will strike upon the cheek the judge of Israel. And you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, the one too little to get to be among the thousands of Judah, from you there will come out to me the one who is to become ruler in Israel, whose origin is from early times, from the days of time indefinite. Therefore He will give them up until the time that she who is giving birth actually gives birth. And the rest of his brothers will return to the sons of Israel. And he will certainly stand and do shepherding in the strength of Jehovah, in the Superiority of the name of Jehovah his God."

The Father—Superior to the Son. Jesus taught his disciples to pray: "Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name." Our heavenly Father, whose name is Jehovah, is described in the Bible as being Superior to his Son. For example, Jehovah is "from everlasting to everlasting." But the Bible says that Jesus is "the firstborn of all creation." That Jehovah is Greater than Jesus, Jesus himself taught when he said: "My Father is Greater than I." Matthew 6:9; Psalms 90:1, 2; Colossians 1:15; John 14:28.

This is what Jehovah has said: "Let not the wise man brag about himself because of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man brag about himself because of his mightiness. Let not the rich man brag about himself because of his riches." "But let the one bragging about himself brag about himself because of this very thing, the having of insight and the having of knowledge of me and boast, that I am Jehovah, the One exercising loving-kindness, justice and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I do take delight," is the utterance of Jehovah. "Look! Days are coming," is the utterance of Jehovah, "and I will hold an accounting with everyone circumcised [but still] in uncircumcision, upon Egypt and upon Judah and upon E´dom and upon the sons of Am´mon and upon Mo´ab and upon all those with hair clipped at the temples who are dwelling in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart." Jeremiah 9:23-26

In the Hebrew and Greek languages, the words usually translated "Messiah" and "Christ" mean "Anointed One." Jesus was the Anointed One, Chosen One of God—the promised Leader. Isaiah 55:4. The Scriptures contained prophecies concerning him, and the Jews at the time were in expectation of him. Luke 3:15. How do we know that Jesus really was God’s Chosen One? Well, consider what happened in the year 29 C.E. when Jesus was 30 years of age. He went to John the Baptizer to be baptized by him in the waters of the Jordan River. The Bible states: "After being baptized Jesus immediately came up from the water; and, look! the heavens were opened up, and he saw descending like a dove God’s spirit coming upon him. Look! Also, there was a voice from the heavens that said: ‘This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved.’" Matthew 3:16, 17 After hearing those words of approval, could John have had any doubt that Jesus was God’s Chosen One? By pouring out His holy spirit on Jesus, Jehovah God anointed him, or appointed him, to be the King of His coming Kingdom. Thus, Jesus became Jesus Christ, or Jesus the Anointed One.

"For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him." John 5:22,23..Have you ever wondered why Jesus put the 'hallowing,' or sanctifying, of God's name first in this prayer? Matthew 6:9 Afterward, he mentioned other things such as the coming of God's Kingdom, God's will being done on earth and our sins being forgiven. The fulfillment of these other requests will ultimately mean lasting peace on earth and everlasting life for mankind. Can you think of anything more important than that? Nevertheless, Jesus told us to pray first of all for the sanctification of God's name. It was not merely by chance that Jesus taught his followers to put God's name first in their prayers. That name was clearly of crucial importance to him, since he mentioned it repeatedly in his own prayers. On one occasion when he was praying publicly to God, he was heard to say: "Father, glorify your name!" And God himself answered: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." John 12:28.

John 3:16 "For God so loved (agape) the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." Notice the first part of this verse, "God so loved (agape)... He gave". Agape love gives, agape love is the deep and constant love of a perfect being (God) towards an unworthy object (mankind). Ephesians 2:4 - 5 "But because of his great love (agape) for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved." Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates his own love (agape) for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." We're unworthy objects, we were sinners, we die aquitted. For God to forgive us we are to forgive other's or our heavenly Father and True God doesn't forgive us.

Names in Bible Times: Jehovah God evidently put in man a desire to name things. The first human had a name, Adam. In the story of creation, one of the first things Adam is reported as doing is naming the animals. When God gave Adam a wife, immediately Adam called her "Woman" (’Ish·shah', in Hebrew). Later, he gave her the name Eve, meaning "Living One," because "she had to become the mother of everyone living." Ge 2:19, 23; 3:20. Even today we follow the custom of giving names to people. Indeed, it is hard to imagine how we could manage without names. In Israelite times, however, names were not mere labels. They meant something. For example, the name of Isaac, "Laughter," recalled the laughter of his aged parents when they first heard that they were to have a child. Ge 17:17, 19; 18:12. Esau's name meant "Hairy," describing a physical characteristic. His other name, Edom, "Red," or "Ruddy," was a reminder that he sold his birthright for a dish of red stew. Ge 25:25, 30-34; 27:11; 36:1. Jacob, although he was only slightly younger than his twin brother, Esau, bought the birthright from Esau and received the firstborn's blessing from his father. From birth, the meaning of Jacob's name was "Taking Hold of the Heel" or "Supplanter." Ge 27:36. Similarly the name of Solomon, during whose reign Israel enjoyed peace and prosperity, meant "Peaceable." 1 Ch 22:9.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for according to his great mercy he gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance. It is reserved in the heavens for YOU, who are being safeguarded by God’s power through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last period of time. 1 Peter 1:3-5

For this reason I shall be disposed always to remind YOU of these things, although YOU know [them] and are firmly set in the truth that is present [in YOU]. But I consider it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to rouse YOU up by way of reminding YOU, knowing as I do that the putting off of my tabernacle is soon to be, just as also our Lord Jesus Christ signified to me. So I will do my utmost also at every time that, after my departure, YOU may be able to make mention of these things for yourselves. No, it was not by following artfully contrived false stories that we acquainted YOU with the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but it was by having become eyewitnesses of his magnificence. For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when words such as these were borne to him by the magnificent glory: "This is my son, my beloved, whom I myself have approved." Yes, these words we heard borne from heaven while we were with him in the holy mountain. Consequently we have the prophetic word [made] more sure; and YOU are doing well in paying attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawns and a daystar rises, in YOUR hearts. 2 Peter 1:12-19

However, let this one fact not be escaping YOUR notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not hope any to be destroyed but seeks all to attain to repentance. Yet Jehovah’s day will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a hissing noise, but the elements being intensely hot will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be discovered. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of children ought YOU to be in holy acts of conduct and deeds of Godly devotion, awaiting and keeping close in mind the presence of the day of Jehovah, through which [the] heavens being on fire will be dissolved and [the] elements being intensely hot will melt! But there are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to his promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell. 2 Peter 3:8-12

That which was from [the] beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have viewed attentively and our hands felt, concerning the word of life, (yes, the life was made manifest, and we have seen and are bearing witness and reporting to YOU the everlasting life which was with the Father and was made manifest to us,) that which we have seen and heard we are reporting also to YOU, that YOU too may be having a sharing with us. Furthermore, this sharing of ours is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:1-3

The older man to the chosen lady and to her children, whom I truly love, and not I alone, but all those also who have come to know the truth, because of the truth that remains in us, and it will be with us forever. There will be with us undeserved kindness, mercy [and] peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, with truth and love. 2 John 1-3

But thanks to God that YOU were the slaves of sin but YOU became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which YOU were handed over. Yes, since YOU were set free from sin, YOU became slaves to righteousness. I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of YOUR flesh: for even as YOU presented YOUR members as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness with lawlessness in view, so now present YOUR members as slaves to righteousness with holiness in view. For when YOU were slaves of sin, YOU were free as to righteousness. What, then, was the fruit that YOU used to have at that time? Things of which YOU are now ashamed. For the end of those things is death. However, now, because YOU were set free from sin but became slaves to God, YOU are having YOUR fruit in the way of holiness, and the end everlasting life. Ro 6:17-22

Therefore those in union with Christ Jesus have no condemnation. For the law of that spirit which gives life in union with Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For, there being an incapability on the part of the Law, while it was weak through the flesh, God, by sending his own Son in the likeness of him who saved us from death and rose Jesus up, of sinful flesh and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk, not in accord with the flesh, but in accord with the spirit. For those who are in accord with the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those in accord with the spirit on the things of the spirit. For the minding of the flesh means death, but the minding of the spirit means life and peace; because the minding of the flesh means enmity with God, for it is not under subjection to the law of God, nor, in fact, can it be. So those who are in harmony with the flesh cannot please God.

However, YOU are in harmony, not with the flesh, but with the spirit, if God’s spirit truly dwells in YOU. But if anyone does not have Christ’s spirit, this one does not belong to him. But if Christ is in union with YOU, the body indeed is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness. If, now, the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in YOU, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make YOUR mortal bodies alive through his spirit that resides in YOU.

So, then, brothers, we are under obligation, not to the flesh to live in accord with the flesh; for if YOU live in accord with the flesh YOU are sure to die; but if YOU put the practices of the body to death by the spirit, YOU will live. For all who are led by God’s spirit, these are God’s sons. For YOU did not receive a spirit of slavery causing fear again, but YOU received a spirit of adoption as sons, by which spirit we cry out: "Abba, Father!" The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children. If, then, we are his children, we are also heirs: heirs indeed of God, but joint heirs with Christ, provided we suffer together that we may also be glorified together. Romans 8:1-17
Consequently I reckon that the sufferings of the present season do not amount to anything in comparison with the glory that is going to be revealed in us. For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the revealing of the children of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will but through him that subjected it, on the basis of hope that the creation itself also will be set free from enslavement to corruption and have the glorious freedom of the children of God. For we know that all creation keeps on groaning together and being in pain together until now. Not only that, but we ourselves also who have the firstfruits, namely, the spirit, yes, we ourselves groan within ourselves, while we are earnestly waiting for adoption as sons, the release from our bodies by ransom. For we were saved in [this] hope; but hope that is seen is not hope, for when a man sees a thing, does he hope for it? But if we hope for what we do not see, we keep on waiting for it with faith and endurance. In like manner the spirit also joins in with help for our weakness; for the [problem of] what we should pray for as we need to we do not know, but the spirit itself pleads for us with groanings unuttered. Romans 8:18-26
Now the worship of God — in Old Testament times — was by means of a system of symbols. It was like a shadowy silhouette of what was still in the future. That's why the worship of God had to be radically changed after the ransom of Jesus. The old symbols just wouldn't do any more when the reality (of which they were a shadow only) had come into historical existence. This is what our Lord Jesus meant when He spoke to the Samaritan woman. When He told her that salvation was 'from the Jews' he was looking back at the preparatory phase of his Father God's plan of salvation. But when He told her that now the hour had come when the old argument between Samaritan and Jew would no longer be a relevant question, He was contemplating the new temple of God with its new way of worship.
Our savior Jesus said God is Spirit, and that those who worship Him must do so in spirit and truth. Now what, exactly, did Jesus mean by that statement? Did He mean by 'spirit' the Holy Spirit, or only the human spirit? Either way it makes very good sense and is consistent with the rest of the Bible. Taking it one way it would mean that the true worship of God must 'live and move and have its being' (as it were) in the realm of the Holy Spirit. Taking it the other way it would mean that the genuine worship of God involves the inward reality of our own human spirits. I have not been able to find any conclusive argument for either of these possible meanings. But in this instance — as in so many others — it really makes little difference. You certainly can't have any true worship of God apart from his Holy Spirit as the Spirit of truth is one. And the heart of man has to be 'in it' as we say, if it is genuine worship. It may even be — as we believe it often is in the writings of John — that there's a deliberate dualism of meaning. In any event, the great contrast here is between the two historical eras — the one existing before Jesus came, the other after His coming. Before Jesus came and finished His work, John says the Holy Spirit wasn't yet given (John 7:39). This doesn't mean the Spirit was not there at all, of course, in the Old Testament worship. And it doesn't mean that there was no sincerity, then, in Old Testament worship. No, it's not an absolute contrast. Yet it is a contrast that underlines the radical difference between the two historical eras and the two kinds of worship. We can see this very clearly when we consider the other term used by our Lord Jesus. We cannot say the Old Testament worship was a system of falsehood and error. No, the contrast here was rather the difference between the 'real' and the 'synthetic.' What we now have — in the finished work of Christ — is 'the real thing' (to use a modern expression). What they had, in Old Testament times, was only a simulation. Because we now have the true, and not a mere representation, it follows that our worship has to be radically different. We must worship God in the sphere of the real — not the synthetic, we must! This, says Jesus, is the kind of worship that God seeks for His people to practice.

There were a number of times, in the Old Testament period, where there were some radical changes. (1) In the long era of history between the time of Adam and Abraham, for instance, it appears that there were some things God allowed with men which were later restricted. The first we see in Melchizedek, and in Abraham we see the second. And while Abraham acknowledged the Superiority of Melchizedek's priesthood, Melchizedek also acknowledged the special calling of the one who was to become the eternal father of the faithful. (2) Then later on, the rather simple bowing down of the Patriarchs gave way to the Mosaic. And things which had been forbidden as to worship any other gods, but only Jehovah then came those who said the Messiah is to be worshiped as a god or called a god? for its to God alone we are to Worship, Jesus' Father and God. The Patriarchs were priests, in a sense, within their own household of people. My point is that at least twice before God instituted radical changes. (3) How much more, then, when the final reality came in the redemptive sphere in the finished work of the Lord Jesus? As God is our husband, Jesus is the bridegroom. But I want YOU to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the Head of the Christ is God. 1 Corinthians 11:3. "The Head" of the Christ "is God", God is "Superior" to his Son and its God we are to worship, not Jesus. In like manner, YOU wives, be in submission to YOUR own husbands, in order that, if any are not obedient to the word, they may be won without a word through the conduct of [their] wives, because of having been eyewitnesses of YOUR chaste conduct together with deep respect. 1 Peter 3:1,2

God He showed me that I need to understand my husband's vision for our family. Even if it is very limited, I need to come in line with what God is directing my husband to do and allow my husband to begin to walk in the role of husband and father in our home. Even if that means that I don't see any fruit in him, I will trust God to be faithful in the plans and direction of our family EVEN IF MY HUSBAND DOES NOT LIVE UP TO HIS END. And, finally - I am to treat my husband in loving kindness and have mercy for him if he doubts, in deferrence to my LORD and GOD, not because I am to worship my husband, and be subject to him, but because by honoring my husband - I honor my KING. HE is the "LORD" My God and Father of our home, in the same manner that Sarah called Abraham Lord and was honored for her Submissiveness. I recently heard a precious man say, "Subjection is when you come under authority because you have to or are forced to... Submission is what you willingly give up to place yourself under the authority that has been placed over you." Because of Eve's role in the fall, women are not entrusted with the responsibility of decision making and vision casting in the family - why? We are vulnerable to deception. We should always check out visions and plans with our husband to remain in line with God's will. If the truth is told, I am grateful for that. Jesus a submissive Son of God who did his Father's will and will again. If our husbands use the wrong methods we pray for them and on many occasions if what they are saying is not wholesome speak with them in love and the understanding and knowledge of the marriage relationship God instituted.