The Father alone says “I am God”. He is the one true God by His very nature. Jesus is with Him, fully loved by Him, worthy in God’s eyes to be called His only-begotten Son. God makes all He has created function in the order of its ways in the power of the name of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit testifies of this. We, on the other hand, have sinned. Yet Jesus has not sinned. The gospel testimonies about Jesus tell us how a human has lived without sin. It all gives us many accounts of what Jesus did in the same weak state of human life we too have to live. We need this testimony because it lights the way for us to learn to please God as Jesus did in that weak human condition. He knew how God wanted him to live to please Him in uniquely deep knowledge of God, and we, if we believe in Jesus, should learn from him, in how to live that life, and we should learn to hold to the teachings he taught and his apostles sent into all the world taught. He died for you, a sacrifice for your sins, so you can let go of the past as you learn from all this to live this way of life. Keeping these teachings keeps each one in fellowship with those who are in fellowship with Jesus and the Father. This leads to being saved from the demise of dying in sins, and therefore leads to eternal life in Jesus Christ’s way and truth.
