God the Father, though largely unknown to the world, is deeply involved in His plan to bring many sons to glory through Jesus Christ. He sent Jesus to reveal Himself to us, offering a precious gift of knowledge and hope. His personal involvement was crucial in Christ's sacrifice and resurrection, and He remains actively engaged in the lives of His children, personally regenerating His saints. He, along with Jesus Christ, promises to keep and preserve us with Their power. Despite the world's ignorance of Him, a time will come when the knowledge of the LORD God will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. The only way to truly know God the Father is through His revelation in Jesus Christ and the implantation of the Holy Spirit. Jesus came in human flesh to fully declare the Father to His called and chosen people, while God has purposely hidden His identity from the world and revealed it to His church. The tenderness of the relationship, described as Our Father in heaven and the God and Father of the Lord Jesus, embodies a wealth of love and grace, central to Christ's message. Fatherhood reflects the essence of the Godhead, with love as its main attribute, making God the Father the epitome of love. God the Father and Jesus Christ form the Godhead, two distinct Beings in total agreement and of one purpose, as revealed in scriptures like Psalm 110 and John 1:1. Before anything else existed, God and the Word coexisted, both composed of spirit, working in harmony as creators. God the Father created all things through Jesus Christ, authorizing the works of creation carried out by the Word. He is the ultimate source of biblical truth, directing Christ, who carries out His will without hesitation, united in mind and purpose. God the Father qualifies us for the Kingdom of God, working alongside Jesus Christ, as we remain obedient to Their unified voice. He is the creator and sustainer of the universe, revealing Himself through the natural world and through His Son, though this revelation is largely ignored by the world. His existence and nature are affirmed in the Bible, which declares that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Creation itself points to a universal mind with a master plan, making more sense to accept God as Creator than to assume an orderly universe arose without Him. Although the human mind cannot fully comprehend God due to its limitations, we can still know Him through a personal relationship of faith and study of the Bible's teachings about His nature. His attributes, revealed in Scripture, include being Spirit, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, immutable, and unchangeable, as well as perfect, just, true, wise, loving, merciful, graceful, holy, and righteous. As Spirit, He has no physical form yet possesses form and shape, reflected in humanity made in His image. His immutability ensures His character, will, purpose, and counsel remain unchanging, providing a foundation for our hope and confidence in Him. God the Father's laws and truth are constant, unchanging from eternity, establishing sins like adultery and murder as wrong across time. His fatherly grace does not avert judgment on the unrepentant, as He remains the moral Ruler and supreme Judge of creation. Through Jesus Christ, He offers salvation and eternal life to His potential children, embodying fatherhood as original, selfless love that anticipates, forgives, educates, and communicates sincerely. We are encouraged to pray to Him for all good things, seeking to attain His ideal of perfection.

God the Father is central to all true religion, as He is the beginning and the sum of all things. He is everything concerning who we are, what we are doing, and where we are heading. Without Him, we can do nothing and are nothing. A belief system must start with Him, or it is doomed to deceive and fail. He revealed Himself to Moses on the mount and made a covenant with Israel as YHWH, the only deity they knew, often thought of in the singular as the one true God. He is unique, with no one else like Him, and united, being of one mind and purpose with the Son, acting in perfect harmony. Both attributes describe Him perfectly, making Him alone worthy of worship. Our logical response is to love Him with all our heart, soul, and might, to obey and follow Him unwaveringly because He condescended to reveal Himself and choose us. This devotion applies equally to Him and the Son as part of Elohim, the God Family. Though Israel was largely unaware of Him, He was just as involved in significant actions as the Son, united in purpose to move His plan for humanity forward. In the Old Testament, hints of His existence appear, such as in Genesis 1 with the plural term Elohim and the phrase "Let Us make man in Our image," indicating a joint decision with the Son. Further revelations in Psalms and other passages, understood through the New Testament lens, show Him as the Father who anoints and declares the Son as King. He is often referred to as YHWH, a name meaning the Eternal, applying to both Him and the Son as divine Beings with no beginning or end. In Daniel 7, as the Ancient of Days, He is shown in a senior position, greater than the Son, receiving praise, glory, and honor upon His throne in heaven. He pours out His love, working tirelessly with the Son to bring us into His everlasting Kingdom, desiring billions of sons and daughters to be made in His image.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. God the Father works in perfect loving unison with His Son, sending the pre-existent Word, who became Jesus Christ, to earth to do His will and to save the world. The Father sent His Son, and He speaks the words of God, sustained by the will of the One who sent Him. The Father is the One to whom Christ returned, where both now sit in glory and majesty. God the Father testified in advance of His Son's awesome future role, calling Him God and affirming Him as a member of the God Family. The Father's love for Jesus reaches its achievement in the awe-inspiring act of His resurrection, commanding Him and giving Him authority to lay down His life and take it up again. Only the Father could restore Jesus' existence, acting in accordance with a divine plan motivated by love for each other and for humanity. Jesus always directed focus to the Father, teaching us to pray to Our Father in heaven, hallowing His name, and seeking His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. The Father is the preeminent term for the Supreme Being in Jesus' teaching, expressing His essential nature and relationship to human beings as a father to his children, yet in an infinitely higher and more perfect degree. The heavenly Father is perfect and good, contrasting with human imperfection, and He desires to shower blessings while exercising self-control to avoid spoiling His children. The Father has a constant flow of loving concern, actively working out His plan of salvation for each individual, with all things lying in His power as the pinnacle of self-governance. Jesus and the Father are always working together, coordinating Their efforts for the good of all, with Jesus under great duress still desiring the Father's will to reign over His own. The Father is the standard of goodness, determining it, and providing safety, peace, and sustenance to all beings who turn to Him. Jesus encourages us to ask the Father for things according to His will, assuring us of receiving what is good, as the Father is free from imperfection and ready to help for our ultimate good. His goodness shines on all, even the unjust and His enemies, revealing His perfection through Christ's teachings as the ideal to which we should seek to attain. Jesus knows the Father as no one else does, in a unique and intimate relationship central to His teachings, reflecting truth, purity, holiness, and perfection. From His first realization to His last moment, Jesus' mind is on the Father's will, power, and glory, with the Father bearing witness to His perfect sonship, declaring Him as His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. The Father loves the Son, entrusting Him with His message and power, giving all things into His hand, and ensuring no doubt of Jesus' importance in the process of redemption and salvation. Jesus is the exclusive agent of true understanding of the Father, revealing Him with authority, and reflecting the Father's glory as an exact image, so that seeing Jesus is seeing the Father. Through Christ, we may know God as our Father, developing a personal, intimate relationship with Him, who remains unseen but all-seeing and benevolent. Our conduct should be determined by awareness of the Father's presence, striving to do His will, to act, love, and forgive as He does, and to be perfect as He is perfect. The Father loves us as much as He loves Jesus, forming a Family where we are in the Father and the Son, seeking an intimate relationship like Christ's with Him. The Father's fatherhood extends to all humanity as their Creator, with everyone born as a potential heir of His kingdom, receiving His love and care even if they become His enemies, yet only true sons in a moral sense receive His fullest blessings. The Father's love flows unimpeded and unrestricted, not determined by the morality or obedience of others, as He is love itself. The Father speaks through the Son, mediating the system of grace, and is the s

God the Father stands as the ultimate model of fatherhood, providing a perfect example amidst the flawed records of human fathers. He demonstrates His care by guiding Israel back to the Promised Land during the Second Exodus, ensuring they walk by rivers of waters and in a straight path where they will not stumble. He works with them by giving His Spirit and leading them in the way they should go, showing His fatherly concern both physically and spiritually. His Fatherhood over Israel is undeniable, as He called Abraham out of idolatry, gave Isaac through a miracle, chose Jacob before birth, and redeemed the children of Israel from Egyptian slavery with mighty acts. He made them a nation under His laws at Sinai, brought them into the Promised Land, blessed them with kings, watched over them, disciplined them, scattered them, and lavished blessings upon them. He promises to bring them back to Himself in the Millennium, making Israel the nucleus of Jesus Christ's Kingdom. The Israelites understood God as their Father, not only by creation but also by covenant, recognizing Him as the One who stands in the place of a Father to them. This understanding extends to both physical and spiritual Israel, affirming His role as Father to the church of God. Despite His children often going astray, He finds ways to bring them back, desiring all to come to repentance and aiming to have billions of children in His Kingdom. His fatherly traits are encapsulated in Psalm 103, offering a checklist for godly fatherhood. He forgives and heals, showing that children need to know they can seek and receive forgiveness upon contrition, allowing them to move forward. He redeems through self-sacrifice, demonstrating the essence of godly love by giving of Himself. His loving kindness and tender mercies crown His children with nobility and beauty, infusing every act with steadfast love and compassion. He provides not just basic needs but also education, skills, and opportunities, going beyond mere sustenance to enrich lives. God is perfectly righteous and just, rendering to each according to their deeds without partiality, rewarding good and punishing bad behavior. He makes His ways known through instruction and example, teaching His children verbally and through His actions, as seen with Moses and the children of Israel. He is slow to anger, tempering justice with mercy and granting grace when appropriate, applying wisdom in dealing with His children individually for their ultimate maturity and well-being. In all these ways, God the Father provides the pattern for righteous fatherhood, guiding human fathers to emulate His example in rearing their children.

God the Father, referred to as the Absolute Deity, is the supreme Source and Head over all, including Jesus Christ. He is greater in function and responsibility, holding authority over the Son, who is subordinate and submissive to Him. The Father is the One who sent the Son, giving Him specific assignments to fulfill His will, such as preaching the gospel, being a witness of God's existence, and dying for the sins of the world. The Father's supremacy is evident as the sole Head, with Christ acknowledging Him as His God, even after His resurrection and transformation into spirit. The Father blessed humanity by sending the Son, demonstrating His role as the Source of every good thing. He prepared a body for the Son, Jesus of Nazareth, to carry out His purpose. The unity between the Father and the Son is shown not in oneness of substance but in the Son's loving obedience to the Father. The Father has determined to make Himself known through Christ, who serves as the perfect Complement, filling up and completing the revelation of the Father to mankind. The Father's will is paramount, and He expects His people to follow the example of the Son's submission to Him.

As Christians, we sometimes fail to honor our far greater Father in heaven to the degree He justly deserves. Our spiritual Father is more important by far than our physical fathers because He is the One who provides for us, gives us many blessings, has called us out of this world, and given us the opportunity to fulfill our incredible, eternal potential as His sons and daughters. Jesus instructs us to hallow the name of our Father in heaven, meaning to make holy, to sanctify, or to show a difference from the common. We have only one Father who is truly holy, comprising an entirely different category from our ordinary human fathers. Despite being made in God's image, our physical fathers are created beings full of flaws, while our heavenly Father is vastly different and uncommon, so much more and better than any man. We should not focus exclusively on God as a father but consider the wider concept that He is different from the common in our everyday relationship with Him. God is not just a wonderful Father; He is also Designer, Creator, Life-giver, Law-giver, Provider, and Supreme Judge. He is sovereign over all there is, gives, reveals, works out prophecy, answers prayers, heals sickness, and works in world events, church events, and individual lives, calling, forgiving, granting repentance, justifying, sanctifying, and ultimately glorifying. His mind is majestic, and His power is so wonderful that our little minds cannot grasp their magnitude, but we must do our best to understand as much of His greatness as we can to truly know Him, what He is, and what He does. God is not comparable to any man, and there is a great gulf between Him and us, as His thoughts and ways are higher than ours, always concentrated on spiritual things while we are earthbound. If He can create stars so far away to give us light on earth, then He must be a great God, showing how far superior He is to us, with a spiritual chasm between us that is vast and deep.

The Father holds a unique and supreme position among God beings, with no God beyond Him to whom He must answer or submit. He is the Absolute and Supreme God, the ultimate authority, as revealed through various scriptures. The relationship between the Father and the Son is one of perfect unity in mind and purpose, though They are distinct Beings. The Father is greater in authority and function, as Jesus Himself declared, placing the Father above Him in hierarchical order. Despite Their equality in nature as uncreated, eternal Spirit Beings of the God kind, the Father holds the higher rank, and the Son submits to Him in fulfilling Their shared purpose. The Father, often a shadowy figure in the Old Testament, is more fully revealed in the New Testament through Jesus, who was tasked with making Him known to those called to understand this relationship. This hierarchical structure underscores that the Father is the Head, the source from which all things flow, even as the Son carries out Their divine plan. The term Elohim, while plural and often translated as God, does not always refer to both Father and Son together; it requires careful consideration in context to determine if it indicates the Father alone, the Son alone, or both. The family aspect, though not directly defined in Elohim, is inferred from Their relationship as Father and Son, working in perfect harmony toward a common goal. Ultimately, the Father is the only wise God, the Supreme Being, distinct in His role and authority within the God kind.

Jesus' own testimony reveals that He came to declare the Father. When Philip asked to see the Father, Jesus responded, Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Through His revelation, combined with those of the prophets and apostles, a clear picture emerges of what we need to know about God concerning salvation. Jesus prays to His Father in the Garden of Gethsemane, saying, Father, if it is Your will, take this cup from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done, indicating distinct wills harmoniously coexisting within one Family. Jesus also states, My Father is greater than I, showing a difference in authority while both are God. Furthermore, Jesus affirms that no one has seen the Father's form or heard His voice at any time, and only He, who came from God, has seen the Father. Before Jesus' ministry, Israel had only hints of the Father's existence, as part of His mission was to reveal the Father to His people. Through the power of His Holy Spirit, God the Father impregnated Mary, and His Seed, Jesus, was called Immanuel, God with us, demonstrating two separate Beings. Jesus told Mary Magdalene not to cling to Him, for He had not yet ascended to His Father, and He ascended to sit at His Father's right hand in the third heaven. In His prayer before crucifixion, Jesus prays that we would all be one with the Father as He and the Father are one, showing distinct personalities yet united in nature, mind, and Family.

God the Father is consistently shown as the Source of all things and the object toward which all of creation is moving. He is the only true God, as declared by Jesus Himself, and holds supreme authority over all, including Jesus Christ, indicating a greater/lesser relationship rather than co-equality. The Father is invisible, the King of all creation, and the Absolute Deity who does not reveal Himself personally. He is the One who gave Jesus the disciples to work with and the words to share, demonstrating His role as the origin of all that Jesus accomplishes. As the Supreme God, the Father is the ultimate reality, with Jesus serving as His sole representation and image, reflecting His character, attitude, purpose, and virtues such as wisdom, mercy, and kindness. Through Jesus, the Father is revealed to humanity, guiding them toward Him in word and example.

God the Father is the Source of all things and the Object toward which all of creation is moving. He is the beginning and the end of everything, as all begins with Him and ultimately returns to Him. The Father is the Fountain of all, the One from whom everything originates, and He holds the supreme position as the invisible and eternal Being. He is the only wise God, the King with dominion over all ages and generations, surpassing all in rank and authority. Salvation depends on His mercy, and He is under no obligation to save, yet He is the very reason for which all is being done. All things were created for His pleasure, and though He remains in the background, He never deals with humanity except through the Son. The physical creation and the spiritual redemption both began with the Father, demonstrating His role as the ultimate Source. He is invisible and inaudible by choice, hiding Himself to fulfill His purpose, which includes directing focus to the Son and preventing idolatry by avoiding human visualization. Despite His invisibility, the Father has provided general insights into His nature through humanity being made in Their image and through figures of speech in Scripture that describe His human-like attributes and feelings, all under perfect control. The Father's transcendence is maintained by His hidden nature, ensuring that His children's attention is on His mind and character rather than a diminished physical representation.

God the Father is presented as the Supreme Deity, distinct from the Son, Jesus Christ, and holds ultimate authority over all. He is the Absolute Deity, the One who answers to no one and acknowledges no superior. Unlike the Son, the Father has no God above Him, and His will is invincible, never yielding to another. He is the Source, the Sender, not subject to anyone or anything, and His judgment is perfect. The Father is invisible and inaudible to mankind, dwelling in unapproachable light, as no man has seen or can see Him. He is the One to whom Jesus deferred, submitting completely to His will, and it is to Him that we are reconciled through Jesus Christ. The Father is the ultimate recipient of our prayers and the One before whom we stand, granting us access through the Son. He is the Giver, upholding all things by the word of His power, constantly monitoring and caretaking His creation. The Father's uniqueness lies in His supreme position, with Jesus acknowledging Him as greater, as seen in various instances where Jesus submitted to His will, even when it conflicted with His own desires. This hierarchy is evident in the Father's role as the One who sent Jesus, appointed Him as Head of the church, and overruled Him in revealing truth to others, demonstrating His sovereign control over all aspects of creation and purpose.

God the Father is a central figure within the concept of Elohim, which signifies a plurality of divine beings, consistently described as the Lord of hosts, meaning armies or many things. The Bible reveals Him as one among gods, yet supreme, as stated in Psalm 86:8, "Among the gods there is none like unto You, O Lord," and in Psalm 135:5, "For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods." His anger is genuine and intense, as seen in Exodus 32:7-10, where He expresses wrath against the Israelites for worshipping a molten calf, showing His deep concern for the nature of worship and its impact on His people. In the New Testament, Jesus identifies God as the Father, emphasizing a familial relationship within Elohim. In Matthew 5:45 and 5:48, Jesus speaks of "your Father" to His disciples, urging them to be perfect as their heavenly Father is perfect. This relationship is further highlighted in Matthew 6:1, 6:4, 6:6, 6:9, and 6:14-15, where the Father is portrayed as a personal, rewarding, and forgiving presence in heaven. In John 5:17-18, Jesus refers to God as "My Father," asserting equality with Him, which provokes opposition from the Jews. Jesus elaborates in John 5:19-23 that the Father loves the Son, shows Him all things, and has committed all judgment to Him, affirming that honoring the Son is equivalent to honoring the Father. Further, in John 14:6-13, Jesus declares that no one comes to the Father except through Him, and seeing Him is seeing the Father, indicating a profound unity. In John 17:5 and 17:11, Jesus establishes His pre-existence with the Father and prays for unity among His disciples, mirroring the oneness He shares with the Father. This unity extends to believers in John 17:20-23, as Jesus desires them to be one with the Father and Himself. In Ephesians 3:14-15, the Father is named as the source of the whole family in heaven and earth, underscoring His role as the head of an expanding divine family. The Father's purpose, as seen in Ephesians 3:16-19, is to strengthen believers through His Spirit, that they may comprehend the vastness of Christ's love and be filled with the fullness of God. In Colossians 1:19, it is noted that it pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell in the Son, pointing to His overarching will within Elohim. Thus, the Father is revealed as the supreme authority and source of unity within the divine family, driving the expansion of Elohim to include His children.