McGarvey says that “’Even as’ means in the same manner and in equal degree. The prerogative of judgment was committed unto Jesus that men might behold his true majesty. If this verse does not teach us to worship Jesus as God, language cannot teach it, for God gives not his glory unto another.”  #Isa 42:8, 48:11  (McGarvey TFG 202-203)

Isa 42:8  “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols.

Isa 48:11  For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.

The purpose of God in designating Jesus as the giver of life and the judge of all is that we will worship Jesus as we do the Father. To worship Jesus is to worship the Father. You cannot honor God without honoring the Son Whom He sent.

John 5:19 (again)  Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

We spoke of how completely Jesus was in union with the Father. That total, complete unity Jesus shared with God the Father is what He wants and prayed for us (#John 17:20-23). He desires for us to be in such a unity that we have the same thoughts, the same desires, and do the same things. Since this is so important to Jesus, it must be equally important to His enemy, the devil, but in the opposite direction. Satan prioritizes squashing unity and creating division. The old adage of “united we stand and divided we fall” is absolutely true and he knows it. That is why he spends so much time causing division.

Joh 17:20-23  “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one:  I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

Jesus was in such unity with His Father that He always did His will. In fact, the first recorded words of Jesus were a statement of this (#Luke 2:49) and some of His last words were, too (#Luke 22:42). Jesus even told His disciples in John that it was His “food” to do God’s will (#John 4:34). To achieve the unity He desires so much for us, we must do the same. We must cease from doing our own wills and instead, find and do the will of God (#Joh 5:30). To do anything else is to act like our enemy. Note the 5 “I will’s” in (#Isa 14:13-14).

Lu 22:42  “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”

Joh 4:34  “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

Joh 5:30  By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

Isa 14:13-14  You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.  I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”