The Importance of Definitions

Without definitions, there would be confusion, there would be disorder.

The OT, The NT and the God’s Truth

For us, for our time, the scriptures are the objective standard for determining what is from God and what is not.

We Must Obey Christ and His Apostles

The Church of the Lord Jesus is built on the foundation of Christ Jesus and his apostles and prophets. Any doctrine that contradicts their doctrine is false and must be rejected [1Joh 4:6; Joh 17:20; 13:20; Mat 10:40; Luk 10:16].

They Teach Us to Study the Scriptures

In almost every place we read of “scripture(s)” in the NT, they are referring only to the OT because at that time most of the books (and/or letters) of the New Testament had not been written.

Now, both Christ and the apostles tells us to pay attention to what we now call the “Old Testament”.

1. Jesus said that people are in error when they do not know the scriptures [Mat 22:29-32; Mar 12:24]. *The Sadducees to whom he addressed the words followed the scriptures selectively [Mat 22:23ff cf., Act 23:8].
2. Christ taught about himself from the OT [Luk 24:27; 24:44-45; Joh 5:39]
3. Christ opened the minds of his apostles so that they may understand the scriptures [Luk 24:44-45]. Therefore, we know that their doctrines were from Christ’s words and their knowledge and understanding of the OT [cf., Rom 16:25-26].
4. Christ demands teachers in his Church be men who know the OT [cf., Mat 13:52]
5. Paul’s doctrine was based on the Scriptures. Paul tells us that his insight was from the “writings of the prophets” [Rom 16:25-26].
6. Paul tells us the scriptures were written for us to learn from [Rom 15:4]
7. Paul tells us not go beyond what is written [1Cor 4:6].
8. Peter tells us we will do well to pay attention to the scriptures until the day Jesus comes [2Pe 1:19-21ff].
9. The Bereans were praised for studying the Scriptures [Act 17:11].

The Doctrine of Christ and the Apostles

The doctrines of the NT is based on

1. The words and deeds and acts of Christ Jesus and on
2. The Scriptures.

Christ himself—his coming and deeds—is a fulfillment of the Scriptures.

There is no way to truly understand the message of the Gospel without the OT. As a matter of fact, Jesus plainly stated that those who should be teachers in the Church and who would bring out of their storehouses new and old treasures are “scribes” [Mat 13:52]. A scribe is one who knows the Scriptures.

Therefore, understanding Jesus as God is not possible without the OT. Christ did not come to start something entirely new.

A Common Mistake
A mistake many make is that they read the NT without its OT context, form an opinion or come to some understanding based on it, and then, later, when they read the OT, they try to conform it to the conclusions they have already reached from studying the NT.

They rightly regard the NT as authoritative, but they put it first, where it should be second. They are like an investigator or judge who reaches a conclusion as incontrovertible based on incomplete information and facts. And when presented with the complete information, subjects the complete information to his previous conclusion, skewing the facts to prove his already reached conclusion.

Certainly, without the NT, there are things you can never see in the OT. Nevertheless, you still need to know the OT to really understand certain things in the NT.

Ideally, what comes after is supposed to conform to what came before and not the other way round. If Christ and the apostles are true, then their words and doctrines will conform perfectly with the OT. Afterall, they said their message is based on it.

Naturally, there are many things that when understood in the context of the OT will be different from what they sounded like without the OT context.

Practical Approach

But how are we to practically apply this knowledge and avoid such mistakes?

Naturally, as a Christian, you would know the NT. Christ would be your center and naturally, you would be drawn to the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) and the Acts and the rest of the NT. But, we must realize that the NT is a continuation and a commentary, so to speak, on the OT.

We are not saying, first go and read the OT and understand it before reading the NT. It is all about our mindset towards the OT.

1. We must realize that it is not inferior to the NT.
2. We must accept the fact that we need it. We should not treat it in our minds as useful but not really needed. Christ says that we need it. Who are you to say we don’t.
3. What it clearly teaches, we should accept as doctrine and not try to align it to or modify or explain it away because it contradicts (or seems to) any of our already formed idea.
4. We should be reading it with the goal of understanding Christ and the apostles better.

Whatever we think the NT teaches, we must be able to teach from the OT without the NT.

What is God?

The matter of Jesus as God cannot be understood without defining “GOD”. As we will come to see, the definition of GOD is at the root of the confusion about this matter.

The question we are asking here is not WHO is God but WHAT is GOD?

We would not seek our answer from Greek literature or our ideas of the occult and spiritual. Rather, we will turn to the Scriptures Old and New to answer this question.

A Shocking Fact About the Existence of GODS

The first thing to point out, which may shock some people, is that the Scriptures speak of other gods apart from God Most High. It is important to note that these gods are not man-made, men appointed or self-appointed gods but are gods that God Most High Himself calls gods.

Other Gods Exist Which Are Not Man-Made Gods

Many people have the belief that, as far as the scriptures are concerned, any other god apart from God is a man made god. They often come to this conclusion based on scriptures that tell us “Yahweh our God is One Yahweh” and that there is only one true God [Deut 6:4; Mar 12:29; Isa 45:5; 45:6; 45:21; Deut 4:35; 32:39; 1Kin 8:60].

However, the scriptures also speak of other gods, not man-made gods, apart from God [Psa 82:1,6 cf., sons of God Deut 32:8-9LXX; Job 1:6; 2:1; 1Kin 22:19-23].

We would note that the “gods” in Psa 82 were made “gods” by God Most High—these are certainly, therefore, not man-made gods.

The fact that some others are rightly referred to as “gods” means that GOD is not something that can only be true of the Most High God. Therefore, we are not wrongly trying to define GOD. There must be some defining attribute that they possess that makes them “gods”.

Applying this Fact to Defining GOD

What we are trying to define is not the attributes of the Most High but the attributes of GOD.

Since there are other legitimate gods (which, again, are not man-made gods), GOD cannot be a title that can only be applied to Yahweh the Most High. Our definition of God should not only be true or applicable to the Most High God, rather, it should be true of the other legitimate GODs. Certainly, Yahweh Most High will possess attributes that the other gods do not possess. Even the other gods will have differing attributes among themselves.

We must be careful not to define GOD simply by the attributes of the Most High.

Gods and Power

According to God Himself, one of the most defining attributes of “gods” is power.

God challenges the “gods” to prove that they are really gods by exercising power. From this challenge, we can see that a defining attribute of a “god” is power [Isa 41:23; 41:21-24].

Many passages take this expectation of gods for granted.

Now, that they are all defined by power should not be misunderstood as meaning that they are all equal in power. Far from this, among them, they have varying degrees and qualities of power. And, with regard to Yahweh God, what the Scriptures teach or show is that He is not only more powerful than the other gods, but that, unlike the other gods, He is absolute and unlimited in power.

Naturally, the fact that it was He who made them gods means that He is superior to them.

The Kind of Power That Makes A God

The kind of power that is in view here is not just any power but power over the elements, power over nature, it is supernatural power [cf., Exo 8:19; (Exo 12:12); Gal 4:3].

1. Men are in bondage to the elements; the gods have power over the elements [Gal 4:3]. This power is spiritual power and not natural or physical power.
2. The magicians of Egypt demonstrated power over the elements such as changing their staffs into snakes, turning the water of the Nile into blood and reversing it, and bringing frogs upon the land of Egypt and reversing it.
3. Since these men were empowered by their gods and not Yahweh God Most High, this shows that those gods had power over the elements.
4. The magicians of Egypt said the miracles that Moses performed were acts of “God” [Exo 8:19]. This confirms that they understood GOD to have power over elements.
5. The gods of Egypt were judged when Moses went to Egypt [Exo 12:12]

Gods and Spirit Nature

According to God, a GOD is a spirit.

First, speaking of the Father, Christ plainly states that “God is a spirit” [Joh 4:24]. Now, although Christ was speaking in particular of the Father, this description is not only true of the Most High but also of the other gods.

God, Himself, states that, unlike men who are flesh, gods are spirits [Isa 31:3].

So, a god is a powerful spirit.

Some Useful Facts From Psa 82 About the Other Gods

1. They were appointed by God Most High; they were made gods by God Most High [Psa 82:6]
2. They are all subject to Him
   1. The fact that God presides over their assembly and judges them means that, though they are called gods, they are subject to Him [Psa 82:1-2].
3. They are not equal to God Most High
   1. Apparently, even though they are called “gods”, since it was God Most High who made them gods, they are not equal to him.
   2. Also, they are certainly inferior to God Most High since they are subject to Him.
4. They were appointed over the nations and are princes over the nations [Psa 82].
   1. That they are to judge the needy means that they were appointed over the nations.
   2. The charge of the Psalmist that God to should judge the nations Himself and that He is to inherit all nations tells us that these gods were rulers and judges over the nations but failed in their appointment [Psa 82:8].
   3. The above facts point to them as the princes over the nations [Psa 82:7 cf., Dan 10:13,20; Eph 3:10; 6:12; Col 2:15; Rom 8:38].
      1. The word translated “prince” in Psa 82:7 is the Hebrew word שַׂר (sar, H8269) or in Greek, ἀρχή (archḗ, G746), ἄρχων (árchōn, G758).
      2. The sons of God over the nations are referred to as princes (שַׂר, sar, H8269 || ἄρχων, árchōn, G758) [Deut 32:8-9 cf., Dan 10:13,20].
      3. The sons of God to whom the nations were divided are referred to as “princes” (שַׂר, sar, H8269 || ἄρχων, árchōn, G758) in Daniel. For example, the prince of Persia and the prince of Greece [Deut 32:8-9 cf., Dan 10:13,20].
   4. Although the above facts are sufficient to establish that they are the princes over the nations, we may add that they are shown to be princes by some translations of Psa 82:7 [NLT, CSB].
5. They do not naturally die [Psa 82:7]
   1. The fact that they are threatened with death means that they are to a great extent like God in immunity to death.
   2. This is consistent with the fact that gods are spirits and not flesh [cf., Isa 31:3; Gen 9:4; Lev 17:11; Deut 12:23].
6. They are called “gods” because the Most High God made them His sons [Psa 82:6].
   1. The implication of this statement is that if anyone is a son of God, then he is a god and for anyone to be a god, he has to be a son of God.
7. They have access to God’s presence [Psa 82:1,6]
   1. The very first verse tells us that they have access to God’s very presence [Psa 82:1 cf., Job 1:6; 2:1]
   2. The title, “sons of the Most High” also implies that they have access to God’s presence. Sons have access to their fathers house. Therefore, that God acknowledges them as as His sons means that they have access to His very presence.
   3. This is a very important attribute because their being gods is because they are sons of the Most High. Therefore, if they lost their sonship, and thus lost access to God’s presence, even if they remained spirits, they would no more be gods.
8. They represent God Most High to people.
   1. The fact that they are called “gods” tells us that they represent God [Psa 82:6].
   2. Consulting the prophet Samuel was described as consulting God [1Sam 9:9-10].
      1. This means that the prophet is some type of “God” since consulting him is consulting God.
      2. This means that these gods have power to receive direction, wisdom, etc., from God to guide and help those under them.
   3. This agrees with the issue God has with them—they are not administering justice properly [Psa 82:2-5].
9. The Most Hight is the True God, the original God—God is a personal name of the Most High [Psa 82:8]
   1. The Most High is referred to simply as God [Psa 82:8].
   2. This is very significant because it is in this very Psalm that God refers to some others as “gods”. Therefore, it means that the title or name of “GOD” belongs to the Most High as a personal name.
   3. While GOD is a generic description of certain beings, it is a personal name of the Most High.

Gods—The Most High and the Sons of the Most High

So, according to the Scriptures as we can deduce from Psa 82, the Most High God is the God that was not made God but made certain others gods. He is the greatest and highest God.

A very important fact here is that every other god derives his divinity, his godhood from his relationship to God Most High as His son. Every other god is a god based on relationship with the Most High as “son” [Psa 82:9].

As we have seen, there are other God’s apart from the Most High God. These gods are all “Sons of the Most High” [Psa 82:6]. Therefore, any where we meet a son of God, a “son of the Most High”, we have met a “god”.

It is possible to be GOD without being the Most High.

This is all similar to Adam’s relationship to all mankind as we cans see in the Scriptures.

God and His Sons, Adam and Mankind

Adam is the personal name of the first man God created and it is also the generic name, or family name, of all men descended from him [Gen 2:7; 3:8-9; 5:2; 1Chr 1:1]. Many times men are called “Adam” and sometimes, “son of Adam” [Psa 8:4; 49:2; 58:1; Isa 51:12; Jer 32:19; Eze 2:1,3,6,8;]. No one who hears men being called Adam should be confused as it is quite understandable. We are called Adam because we are his children and share in his image and likeness [Gen 5:1-3]. No one reading such passages thinks that men are Adam personally.

This apparently is how it is with God and the sons of God. They are all gods because they share important characteristics in common with God.

What is GOD?

GOD, therefore, is any being that is a spirit and is very powerful.

To be a GOD does not mean that one is,

1. Self-existent,
2. Eternal, having no beginning and having no end,
3. Knows all things,
4. All wise,
5. Supreme, that is, he has no one superior to him,
6. Creator of all thing.

While the above attributes are true of the Most High God, they are certainly not true of the other gods.

To be GOD (i.e., to be a god), a being must either be the Most High Himself or a Son of the Most High.

1. The Most High Himself or
2. A Son of the Most High.

To be “Adam”, a being is either the being originally created by God in his image and likeness or one descended from Adam sharing in His image and likeness.

Monotheism?

A problem highlighted earlier really plays out here. People too often, with regard to defining God, read the scriptures subjecting it to what they already believe it teaches. Many people believe that Christianity is a monotheistic religion. That is, the believe Christianity teaches that there is only one God and that no other god exists apart from that one God. This belief automatically categorizes every other god, even if it is mentioned in the bible as either false or just some honorary title.

They hold this belief before even properly reading and studying the Scriptures, if they ever do properly read and study it. And when they read the scriptures, they subject everything they read to this belief and try to make it conform.

If one is not blinded and hardened by this label of “monotheism” what one will see from a thorough reading of the Bible is that while it teaches that there is only one true God, it also teaches that there are other gods apart from Him. It doesn’t teach that every other god apart from the Only True God is fake or a fraud. It is the Only True God that called them “gods”, therefore, they are not fake.

Jesus as God

1. Jesus is called GOD in the NT [Joh 1:1-4ff; Php 2:5-6ff; Heb 1:8].
   1. The following do not really call Jesus God [Act 20:28; Rom 9:5; Col 2:9; Tit 2:13; 2Pe 1:1; 1Joh 5:20;]
2. And he is called “the Son of God”
   1. Jesus about Himself [Mat 11:27; 24:36; 26:63-64; Mar 13:32; 14:61-62; Luk 22:70; Joh 3:16-18; 5:25; 9:35-37; 10:36; 11:4; 17:1]
   2. God the Father / heavenly voice [Mat 3:17; 17:5; Mar 1:11; 9:7; Luk 3:22; 9:35]
   3. Angel Gabriel [Luk 1:32,35]
   4. John the Baptist [Joh 1:34]
   5. Disciples, apostles [Mat 14:33; 16:16; Joh 1:49; 11:27; 20:31; Act 8:37; 9:20; Rom 1:3-4; 2Cor 1:19; Gal 2:20; Eph 4:13; 1Joh 3:8; 4:15; 5:5,10,12,13,20]
   6. Demons [Mat 8:29; Mar 3:11; 5:7; Luk 4:41; 8:28]
   7. Centurion, Roman witness [Mat 27:54; Mar 15:39]
   8. Gospel authors [Mar 1:1; Joh 3:16-18; 20:31]
   9. Apostles [Rom 1:3-4; Heb 1; 4:14; 6:6; 7:3; 10:29; Rev 2:18].

If a god must be a spirit, how can Jesus be GOD when he was in the body of flesh? This was in fact raised as an objection by the Jews.

Based on what we have previously established, the fact that Jesus is the Son of God means that he is GOD, i.e., a god. It does not mean that he is the Most High God.

However, scriptures where Jesus is described as one with God the Father may suggest that he is the Most High God.

Jesus’ Oneness With God the Father

When Jesus says that he is one with the Father, what he means is that the Father has granted him power equal to the Father so that he is able to do what the Father is able to do. He, however, always points out that it is the Father that gave him the power and authority.

Thus, it is not that, like the Father, he possessed these attributes in himself by himself.

One of the illustration in Scriptures describing the oneness of the Father and the Son is that relationship of Pharaoh and Joseph.

1. Joseph was described as equal to Pharaoh [Gen 44:18].
2. He was described as equal to Pharoah because Pharaoh had given him power over all of Egypt and even his princes [Gen 41:40-44; Psa 105:20-22].
3. However, as great as he was, he did not own the Throne of Pharaoh [Gen 41:40].
4. Therefore, though he was practically equal to Pharaoh, this did not mean that he was equal to Pharaoh in an absolute sense.
5. Joseph practically sat in Pharaoh’s Throne, for he rode in Pharaoh’s second chariot. Nevertheless, the throne did not belong to him.
   1. This is the same situation with Jesus who is seated on God’s Throne. Nevertheless, the Throne does not belong to him.

Why Is Jesus Called God?

The following are reasons why Jesus is GOD according to the Scriptures,

1. He is the Son of God—as a son of God, he is far superior to all other sons of God such that they are not even regarded as sons when compared to him.
   1. No other son of God is granted the honor of sitting with God on His Throne [Psa 110:1; ]
   2. No matter what power they have, no other has the power of life [Joh 5:26].
   3. No matter how powerful, no other son of God has the measure of power Jesus has over the elements, existence and all creation [Joh 1:1-3].
2. He was in very nature GOD [Php 2:5-8ff]
3. He is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being [Heb 1:1-3]
4. He alone, apart from God the Father, has the power of life in himself [Joh 5:26]
5. Jesus alone has the Spirit of God without measure [Joh 3:34 compare to Moses and Elijah].
6. God had all His divine nature dwell in Jesus in bodily form [Col 1:19; 2:3,9]

While Jesus Christ derives his divinity from the God the Father and depends on him, God the Father does not depend on Jesus.

Indications That Jesus’ Equality With God is Not Absolute

1. Jesus was blessed by God the Father [Rom 9:5; Psa 21:6; 45:2; Joh 1:14; Php 2:9].
   1. Everything he has is from God and was given to Jesus by God [Joh 17:7].
   2. Since the lesser is blessed by the greater, it means that Jesus is lesser than the Father—the Father is greater than him [Heb 7:7].
2. All Jesus’ disciples were given to him by God [Joh 6:37,39,44,65; 10:27-29; 17:2,6,9,11-12,24].
3. Jesus who had said that he was one with God also stated that the Father was greater than him [Joh 14:28].
4. Jesus had to go to heaven because so he could use the power of God more because the Father was greater than him.
5. Jesus is not the owner of the Throne of God but is only to be seated there temporarily.
   1. First, God the Father had to give him the right to sit on His Throne.
   2. Second, this right to sit on God’s Throne is only to last until the end of the age.
6. Though anointed with the Spirit without measure, he is still not the owner of the Holy Spirit—the Spirit belongs to the Father [Joh 3:34ff; Joh 16:14-15].
7. Jesus will be made subject to the Father so that God the Father may be “All in all” [1Cor 15:28].
8. Jesus is dependent on the Father for his knowledge—Jesus does not know absolutely everything
   1. The Father teaches him everything [Joh 5:19-20]
   2. It is the Father in Jesus that does the works that Jesus did [Joh 10:38; 14:10]
   3. He did not know the day of return [Mar 13:32]
   4. Even after he was glorified, it was the Father that gave him the Revelation which he gave to John through an angel [Rev 1:1-2].
9. When we carefully read the passages where Jesus speaks of himself as one with God, it would be clear that they are not teaching an absolute oneness with God.
   1. The first time we read of Jesus being equal with God, it was because Jesus called God his Father and said that he could work on the Sabbath because his Father also worked on the Sabbath [Joh 5:18].
      1. First we should note that it is the Jews who interpret his words and action to be claiming equality with God. Since we know what they were interpreting, we can therefore be sure that they didn’t mean he was claiming to be absolutely equal with God. We know this because we know what they were interpreting and there is no way those things could mean absolute equality. The very fact that Jesus referred to God as his Father means that he was inferior to God.
      2. Also, all through his response, Jesus consistently referred to himself as God’s Son.
   2. The second time, it was Jesus himself who said he and the Father are one [Joh 10:30]. And even here, it is sufficiently clear that he does not mean that he is absolutely equal to God.
      1. He was referring in particular to the ability to give eternal life [Joh 10:27-30].
      2. In this very place, in answer to the Jews objection, Jesus quotes Psa 82:6. and indicates that his being the Son of God is superior to those others because the Father “sanctified” him [Joh 10:32-35].
      3. Also, Jesus rephrases his being equal with God as “I am the Son of God” [Joh 10:36 cf., Joh 10:30,33].
   3. Significantly, the objection of the Jews to Christ’s claim of equality with God was that he was a man [Joh 10:33]. They did not say or mean, no one can be equal with God. Rather, what they said was that no man can be God.
   4. Jesus addresses this very issue in his response by pointing out that the reason they saw him as a man was because the Father sent into the world [Joh 10:36].
   5. This response means that Jesus agrees with the Jews that a man cannot be God but that to be God, one must at the very least be a spirit.
   6. Furthermore, Jesus points to his evident power bestowed on him by the Father as proof that he really is the Son of God [Joh 10:37-38].
10. Jesus always clearly points out the Father as his source. Jesus is always careful to point out the source of his power as being the Father and wants us to know that all he has is from God [Joh 5:19-30; 10:29; 10:29-30; 14:24; 16:14-15; 17:7-8; others (Joh 6:38; 7:16; 8:28-29; 12:49-50; 14:10; 14:28; 17:2; 17:4; Mat 11:27; 28:18;)]

The Trinity

Having seen to some extent what the Scriptures really teach about God and His Son Jesus Christ, you should be able to judge for yourself whether or not and to what extent the trinity doctrine is true or false.

The trinity doctrine teaches that

1. There is One God and that the One God is three persons.
2. Each of the three persons is fully the One God and
3. All of them together are fully the One God.
4. As different persons, they play different roles, nevertheless,
5. Since each is fully God, they are all equal in divine attributes and abilities. In other words, none of them is superior or inferior to another—they are all equal to one another.

As you may notice, the trinity doctrine use and build on scriptural terms, statements and facts. However, it is obvious they are misunderstood and, naturally, as a result, being misapplied.

This is why it is very important to understand the NT from the OT.

The NT plainly states that Jesus is God and teaches that Jesus is “equal to God”. Nevertheless, it is evident that it is not in the way the trinitarians understand it. For example,

1. As we have seen, the deity of Jesus was conferred on him by the Father which, without question, makes the Father greater than him for “the lesser is blessed by the greater”?.
2. Jesus’ equality with God is similar to Joseph’s equality with Pharaoh. If we understand the equality, then we can very easily see that God the Father is Greater than Jesus Christ. It is God the Father who granted Jesus equality with Him just as it was Pharaoh who granted Joseph equality with him—“the lesser is blessed by the greater”.

As we have seen, Jesus does not have to be the One True God to be God and that there is Only One True God does not mean that no one can be God except for the One True God. From the very start of Scriptures, we can see that God can and does have images of Himself. And, as we have seen, Psa 82 confirms that God made other gods apart from Himself. And as we have seen, Jesus is the greatest and the most accurate image of God the Father.

But, no matter how exact an image is, it is still an image of the other. No matter how exactly like God Jesus is, Jesus is still God’s image. The very existence of the image is owed to the one whose image it is. An image would not exist without the one whose image it is. However, the one whose image it is does not need its image to exist.

Someone may worry that this means that we are worshiping two Gods. No we are not. As long as we understand Jesus as representing the Father, and are conferring honor and worship on him as that—the Father’s representative appointed by the Father, then we are not worshiping two Gods but one. Joseph was bowed to and regarded as “equal to Pharaoh”. Nevertheless, as long as Joseph knew he was Pharoah’s servant, and those who honored him were doing so as one honored by Pharoah, then they were really serving just Pharaoh.

That Jesus is God but not the One True God does not mean that we are worshiping two Gods. Because Jesus is the image of the One True God, he is God, and still there is only one God.

There is so much more to say, but I think what we have learned thus far is sufficient for the time being. So, for now, we will leave this matter here.

One last thing, it is important what we believe about Jesus and the Father for according to Jesus’ very own words, eternal life requires that we correctly distinguish between the Father as the Only True God and Jesus Christ as being sent by Him. According to Jesus, we must believe that everything that Jesus has belonged first to the Father and it was the Father that then gave it to Jesus.

And this is the eternal life, that they should know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent. [Joh 17:3ABP]

They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
^[7]Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You.
^[8]For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received [them,] and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. [Joh 17:6-8NKJV]

The Only True God bless you in the Name of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.