Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe,
Arizona with another Trinity moment proving that the Trinity is biblical and that oneness
or modalism is a lie. John 14 28 the Bible reads, You have heard how I said unto you,
I go away and come again unto you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because I said,
I go unto the Father, for my Father is greater than I. Now this verse just absolutely destroys
this oneness doctrine because he flat out says, My Father is greater than I. According to oneness
Pentecostals, Jesus and God the Father are the same person. So how could the Father be
greater than Jesus if they're both the same person? That's what they're claiming. They reject
three persons, one God, which is what the Trinity teaches. But they just claim, Oh, well, no,
Jesus is God the Father. God the Father is Jesus. They think it's just one person. Well,
it doesn't make any sense if it says, I go unto the Father, for my Father is greater than I.
You know, he didn't say I'm going to myself, and I'm greater than myself. It doesn't make any sense.
Okay. What does make sense, though, is that God the Father is in heaven. Jesus Christ is on earth
saying, My Father is greater than I, because they're two different persons. Now, what does
that mean to be greater? Now, there are other scriptures that talk about the fact that Jesus
is equal with God or equal with God the Father. Scriptures like Philippians chapter two, John
chapter 10, etc. Well, the co-equality of the persons of the Trinity is the fact that they
are all equally God. Jesus is every bit as much God as God the Father is God, and the Holy Spirit
is every bit as much God. They are co-equal in their power, in their majesty, in their Godhead,
in their Godness, right? They are all equally divine. But the difference between God the Father
and Jesus is that there is a chain of command. So in that sense, the Father is higher in the chain
of command. Jesus obeyed the Father. Jesus submitted himself to the Father. And not just
while he's on this earth, but even after the millennium, the Bible says that the Son himself
will be subject unto the Father. Even going into eternity after the millennial reign of Christ,
according to 1 Corinthians 15, the Son will still be subject to the Father. So, for example,
you know, when Joseph said, no one is greater in this house than I, you know, that that's referring
to authority, okay? So in a sense, of course, they are equal, because they are equally God. And in
another sense, the Father is greater than Jesus, as we saw clearly spelled out in John 14-28, when
he said, my Father is greater than I. And by the way, if two things are equal, or if two persons
are equal, they can't be the same person. They can't be the same thing. That's not what equality
means. If we said A equals B, that doesn't mean A is B. It means that A and B have the same value.
They are equal, okay? If I said my wife and I are equal, it doesn't mean that we are the same
person, okay? It just means that we have the same value. We both matter the same amount. And in some
ways, my wife and I are equal, because we're both human. We both have the same value. We're both
just as important. We both play just as important of a role in the lives of our children. There are
many ways in which my wife and I are equal. We are equally God's children. We're equally loved
by God. But in some ways, my wife and I are not equal, because I am greater than her in authority.
She has to submit to me and be subject unto me. And so we see the same thing in the Bible,
where Jesus said, my Father is greater than I.