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In the Bible, God is often represented by the messengers he sends. Even beyond just representing God, God’s very
presence was in and with the messenger.
When God gave words to his messengers to speak, it was God speaking.
When God gave authority and power to his
messengers to perform miraculous deeds, it was God performing those miraculous deeds.
When the messenger was at the scene, it was to be understood that God was
at the scene.
In authorized functional status, the messenger was equal to his sender.
These realities are known as the principle of agency. In certain ways the messenger “is” the sender since the person’s agent is to be regarded as the sender himself.
The Word (the human person Christ Jesus) was God (the Father, who sent Jesus).
The Gospel of John declares that Jesus was sent (by God) over 40 times. The statements below made by Jesus in the Gospel of John show how the sent one (Jesus) is to be regarded as the One
who sent him (God, the Father).
· The Father who sent me has himself testified about me.
· This is the deed Godrequires– to believe in the one whom He sent.
· He whom God has sent speaks the words of God
· He who receives me receives the one who sent me…
· He who sees me sees the Father…
· I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken.
· I do nothing by my own authority…
· I can do nothing by my own power…
· For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son also to have life in himself and He
has given him authority to execute judgment…
· I seek to do not my own will but the will of Him who sent me…
· The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me…
· The words you hear are not mine, but the Father's who sent me…
· I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does His works.
