John 20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto MY FATHER, and YOUR FATHER,
and to MY GOD, and YOUR GOD.
John 5:19 Then Jesus answered 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 the Son doeth likewise.
John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgement is just; because I seek not MINE OWN WILL, but the WILL OF THE FATHER which HATH SENT ME.
John 17:7 Now they have known that ALL THINGS whatsoever THOU HAST GIVEN ME are of thee.
John 17:9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast GIVEN ME; for they are thine.
John 17:11 ..................Holy Father keep through THINE OWN NAME those whom though hast GIVEN ME, that they MAY BE ONE, AS WE ARE.
1 Co 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one Spirit with Him.
I would think that these verses, MOSTLY RED LETTER VERSES, should suffice to say that everything is of GOD and IS GODS until He gave it to Jesus.
There is no way I know of to empty oneself and become a servant without laying down your OWN WILL and doing the WILL of THE FATHER, which He did and commends us to
do the same. If He has a will and it is not the same as the Fathers then He cannot be the Father as there are 2 separate wills.
He asks of the Father and receives from the Father, He goes to the Father whom He calls HIS GOD. Don't see how it could be more plain that He Himself is not the ONLY TRUE GOD.
John 17:3 "And this is life eternal, THAT THEY MAY KNOW YOU, THE ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus Christ whom YOU have sent."
In Jesus' own words YOU, THE ONLY TRUE GOD!!!!!!! What does that mean as we know that the Father called the Son God when He said "Thy throne O God is forever........"
The Father GAVE Life to the Son to have within Himself thus making Him the spitting Image in all likeness of His Father thus He became "a God" according to what His Father has said
of Him. John 5:26
Hebrews 1:5 For unto which of the angels said He (God) at any time, Thou art MY Son, THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE? And again, I will be to Him a Father, and He shall
be to me a Son? THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE! What day was that? The day Jesus was baptized with the Holy Ghost at Jordan becoming the very first MAN to ever be
spiritually born of the Spirit of God. The second birth, "What is born of the flesh is flesh, what is born of the spirit is spirit."
Most do not realize the OT was a marriage contract in that if anyone could keep the law then God would have children, SPIRITUALLY of them.
The only one who ever did, or was able, was Jesus, and thus He was the first ever spiritually begotten Son of God.
When sacrificed for the sin of the world, God His Father, sacrificed not just a Human but the only Spiritually born Son of God thus the sacrifice was much greater than a mere
sacrifice of a human man.
I believe we miss the fact that when Jesus was raised from the dead, by the Father, and glorified, Jesus became a life giving spirit, this is something He was not before that time.
At His glorification He became the first ever Spiritually matured Son of the ONLY TRUE GOD who pronounced Him to be the same as Himself, kind after kind, with one exception,
that being that when all things are put under Jesus' feet God Himself is not, as Jesus' God and Father is Higher than He.
1 Co 15:45 1Co 15:27