Mar Mari Emmanuel – Why Did Jesus Say, “My Father Is Greater Than I”?

0:00 On fourteen twenty eight. Now I'll read John fourteen twenty eight, where the Lord Jesus says, you have heard me say to you, I am going away and coming back to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because I said I am going to the Father, for my father is.

0:18 Greater than I.

0:20 So this woman is taking John fourteen eight and saying, you see, Jesus, Christ is not God because he's saying, my Father is greater than I. So if we are going to believe in the Holy Trinity, Father, Sun, Holy Spirit all equal, well there is no equality he because Jesus is saying my Father is greater than I. Looks like this woman has no idea what the Holy Bible is all about. She needs to learn a lot about theology.

0:55 She needs to learn a lot. My goodness, it's very dangerous nowadays. Everybody is a teacher. It's always good to be a student a disciple.

1:06 Don't be a teacher. Let Christ teach you. Humble yourself.

1:11 And she says that if all three are equal, one cannot be greater than the other one.

1:19 My father is greater than I.

1:22 Well, if the Lord Jesus here says my father is greater than I.

1:27 We need to understand who is talking here.

1:31 See what this woman is missing totally is that when you talk about Christ, you are saying Christ is perfect God and perfect Man at the same time. Looks like she has forgotten the humanity of Christ. She has forgotten the humanity of Christ. So Christ is perfect God and perfect man at the same time. There are certain things Christ shows that he is doing him as the man, and there are certain things he is doing him as God himself. Example example, example, the Lord Jesus saw Jerusalem and cried for Jerusalem. Who cries the son of man?

2:14 God does not cry?

2:16 Might beloved. The Lord Jesus got hungry.

2:19 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and then he was hungry. Who was hungry? The human side? Divinity never eats, Divinity never hungers. The Lord Jesus was thirsty. That's the human side. The Lord Jesus slept, That's the human side. But then the divine side of Christ. He raised the dead, he healed the sick, he opened the eyes of the blind, he cast out.

2:49 Demons of people.

2:51 Here is showing Christ is perfect God and perfect Man. Now, when the Lord is saying, my father is greater than It is the human side of Christ talking, not the divine, because humanity is lesser than the divine. The divine created the human side, you see. And this is where Christianity is so perfectly put together. We never say this man became God, as some claim and attack the Christian faith.

3:28 They say, how can you say this man became God?

3:32 That's a blasphemy.

3:33 Exactly. Christianity never claims this man became God. Christianity claims God became man. And if you are going to say that God cannot be a human, then you have limited God. Don't ever call him almighty. You have stripped him of his rank. He is no longer God. If God cannot do anything and everything, then he is not God. Can God be a human yes?

4:04 Can a human be God? No?

4:07 So that's why the human side of Christ says, my Father is greater than I, not the son of God.

4:16 The son of man is talking here. So we need to understand how the Holy Bible operates.