1 Corinthians 15:26-28 makes Jesus’ subordinate relationship to God very clear:

John 10:29 Says that God is greater than all — including Jesus.

My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

Matthew 12:50 makes Jesus’ relationship with humans and God very clear: Humans are his brothers, sisters and mother. Jesus many times call God his father which makes him subordinate to God just like his brothers, sister and mother

“For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

Jesus always deferred to Father God and put God ahead/above himself. If he thought of himself as being equal to God, he would not have put God above himself. Consider these scriptures that show that Jesus always put God ahead of himself:

Matthew 22:35-40 35 One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him,36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”37 And He said to him, ” ‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’38 “This is the great and foremost commandment.39 “The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’40 “On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

COMMENTARY: Here Jesus is quoting Old Testament scripture. Reference here to “Lord,” therefore, are to Father God — not to Jesus himself. If Jesus thought a command to love him was appropriate, this is where he would have said that. He did not think it appropriate, however, because he did not set himself above God or even equal to God.

Jesus’ attitudes about himself and God are very different from those of Christians who believe in the doctrine of the trinity. They say they follow Jesus, but never really grasp the truth that Jesus only spoke for God and that he was only a true prophet of God — not God.

Matthew 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

COMMENTARY: This scripture is directed specifically to Christians who like to call him lord because the doctrine of the trinity equates him with God.

The KJV translates this verse like this:

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord ,Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

When we look at only the original Greek words, and remove the filler words added by Christian scholars who wrote the Bible we are left with this:

Not one saith me Lord Lord enter into kingdom heaven but doeth will my Father in heaven.

Allowing for the many different ways that these Greek words could be translated into English, this scripture could be translated this way:

None who say I am Lord will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but those who obey my Fathers spiritual laws in their hearts will enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus is cautioning Christians against making him equal to God by saying that such beliefs will not get them into the kingdom of heaven. When he says “doeth the will of his Father” he is pointing to the New Covenant where God’s spiritual laws are written on the heart. See Kingdom of God/Heaven and The Heart is the Place for understanding.

Matthew 7:22-23: “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’

COMMENTARY: Jesus is still talking to Christians who equate him with God and preach and practice their religion, including doing miracles and casting out demons, “in Jesus’ name.” Essentially he is saying that this kind of religion is sin because  Christians obey religious laws created by man — not God’s spiritual laws written on the heart.

Jesus dismisses religion (i.e. preaching, books, music, doing miracles, etc.) that focuses on him because he knows that, because he is not God, he cannot accept credit or praise that should go to his heavenly father. Knowing the truth about demons and miracles, he finds their claims to be religious showmanship without true spiritual value.

See Serpent, Devil, Satan, Adversary, Demons, Evil Spirits and Anti-Christs and Signs, Wonders and Miracles.

Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

COMMENTARY: The ability to do God’s exists only in New Covenant disciples who have God’s spiritual laws written on their hearts. See Friends, Brothers and Sisters.

Mark 3:35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

COMMENTARY: The ability to do God’s will exists only in New Covenant disciples who have God’s spiritual laws written on their hearts. Saying that people who do God’s will are his siblings is Jesus’ way of acknowledging that they and he are born again into the image of God.

STUDY TIP: See Friends, Brothers and Sisters.

This is one more way in which Jesus refutes the Christian doctrine that he is equal to God. If he was God, there would be no need for him to be born again. He and his New Covenant siblings are sons of God and  they speak for God, but they are not Gods. Being sons of God they are equipped to speak for God because they are anointed by God, but the fact that they speak for God does not make them God.

Matthew 10:32-33 “Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. 33“But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.

COMMENTARY: This is a good example of a scripture that has been wrongly translated by Bible scribes/editors in a way that grossly distorts its real meaning. When we remove the words that editors/scribes have inserted, we see the original Greek text:

Therefore everyone who confesses before men also confess before Father heaven whoever denies before men also deny before Father heaven

By inserting the words (i.e. Me, I, My, Me, I My) which were not in the original Greek text, Bible editors changed the meaning to in a way that puts the emphasis on Jesus instead of on Father God. Because of this change, Christians have created the doctrine of “confessing” Jesus’ name. That is why Christians believe that somehow confessing (i.e. saying Jesus’ name with their mouths) earns favor with God in heaven. God is not impressed with what people say. He looks at the heart.

Religious Christians, however, are impressed when they hear someone use the name of Jesus reverentially. That is why it is common in Christian circles to hear people mentioning Jesus’ name often. They do this to earn favor with other Christians who consider others who quote Jesus’ name liberally to be spiritual. It must be said, therefore, that mentioning (i.e. confessing) Jesus’ name is a good way for Christians to make good names for themselves with other Christians.

Christians make this mistake because they do not understand the meaning of the Greek word  Homologeo which is commonly translated as “confess.” Homologeo means to profess and declare the same words as another person professes and declares. With respect to Jesus, professing and declaring applies to God’s spoken words because the words Jesus spoke were God’s words — not his own words. To confess/declare/profess like Jesus, therefore, means to speak God’s words. The only people who can do that are true prophets who, like Jesus, are anointed with power and authority to speak for God.

Matthew 18:10: Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven…

COMMENTARY: If Jesus thought of himself as being equal to God, he would not speak of God as his father. If he thought of himself as being equal to God, he would not have said elsewhere that the words he speaks not his own.

Matthew 18:19 “Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.

COMMENTARY: Christians often bring their prayer requests to Jesus with the belief that he himself has power and authority to answer prayers. This is wrong thinking. The only power and authority messiahs have is to speak for God. Because Jesus understood his personal limitations, he did not say that he would answer prayers. As always, he deferred to his Father.

Christians also believe that this verse gives them license to pray for any and all kinds of needs they may have. This also is wrong thinking that ignores Jesus’ teaching about prayer. Prayer requests that are not consistent with this teaching are examples of praying with wrong motives. Since the only kind of miracle God does is change hearts, the only prayers he will acknowledge and answer are prayers that God will change hearts from evil and impure to good and pure.

Matthew 18:21-35 ‘Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, in the same way that I had mercy on you?’ 34 “And his lord , moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed him.35 “My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”

COMMENTARY: Christians sometimes pray to Jesus for forgiveness. If Jesus had authority to forgive, he would have said here that he — not his heavenly father — would forgive people if they did not forgive their brother. He did not say that he would forgive because he knew that only God can forgive and he did not equate himself with God.

STUDY TIPS: See this link for understanding of mercy. Also see this link for understanding of slavery. With this understanding of slavery, we see that a fellow slave is someone who is enslaved to the same religion.

Matthew 6:3-4 “But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

COMMENTARY: If Jesus had the ability to see what is in the hearts of man, he would have said here that he — not father God — would reward them for giving in secret. He did not say that he would reward people for giving in secret because he knew that only God can give rewards and he did not equate himself with God.

STUDY TIPS: See this link for understanding of the secret place. Also see this link for understanding of the kinds of rewards God gives.

Matthew 6:6 “But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

COMMENTARY: The inner room is another term that symbolically represents a clean, pure heart. Jesus did not say to go to church or a prayer meeting somewhere to pray. He makes it very clear that prayer happens in the heart. The command to pray in secret is confirmed in Jesus’ habit of going to the mountain or a quiet place to pray alone. 

STUDY TIP: See this link for understanding of the mountain of God.

The statement “your father who is in secret” is a poetic way of saying that God is in the heart of New Covenant disciples. Contrary to what Christians believe, Jesus did not say that he was in the heart or that that he could see what happens in the heart. If he was indeed in the heart, this would have been the time to say that he was. If he could see what happens in the heart or give a reward for what happens in the heart, this would have been the time to state those facts. That Jesus did not make these claims about himself is evidence that the Christian notion about inviting Jesus into your heart and having Jesus in your heart is not supported by scripture.

As always, Jesus assigns all power and authority regarding the heart to God — not to  himself. The only power and authority Jesus has is to report the truth.

Matthew 6:9-11 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.

COMMENTARY: Jesus clearly commands his followers to pray to his father God. If it was appropriate to pray to him, he would have said so here. It is perfectly clear, therefore, that the practice of praying to Jesus is not supported by scripture.

STUDY TIP: See Lord’s Prayer for in depth study of Jesus’ instructions on prayer.

 Matthew 6:14-15 “For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.15 “But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.

COMMENTARY: Jesus makes it very clear that father God has the power and authority to forgive sins. If Jesus thought he had the power and authority to forgive sins, he would have said here that he would use that authority to forgive.

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