The Teaching of Jesus concerning God the Father
Overview
In this volume, Archibald Thomas Robertson examines how Jesus Christ, the Son of God, characterizes God the Father in the Gospels. Robertson offers “direct exegesis of the words of Jesus,” writing “after much study of what men have written concerning God and … the truth that modern scholarship has to offer.” In this volume, written for general audiences, he leaves “no references to the literature of the subject to cumber the pages.”
Top Highlights
“The sense of fear is necessary to the high and holy love which should burn in our hearts towards the Lord of All. Such fear will not prevent the blessed peace and fellowship which constitute the kingdom of heaven as an inner state of the heart. This fellowship rests on trust, and trust is just the essential bond between us and God. He demands our confidence. He has done enough for us to deserve our unhesitating trust for present and future. He has a full hand of spiritual mercies for the child who exercises unreserved trust. This is the privilege of a child of God, to trust him. ‘Be not anxious’ is the message that Jesus brings as the secret of a happy life. Put your treasure in heaven, ‘for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also’ (Luke 12:34).” (Page 131)
“To love God, to trust God, to walk with God, to find God here, to go to God at last through the portal of death—this is eternal life, this is the true destiny of man.” (Page 42)
“The word Father is on the lips of Jesus at every turn and he uses it far more frequently than do the authors of the Acts and Epistles.” (Page 151)
“The rebellious child, poisoned by sin, has been justly disinherited by the Father. He can no longer call God his Father.” (Page 119)
“We know both to be facts, but we are unable to offer any solution of the relation between them” (Page 122)
- Title: The Teaching of Jesus concerning God the Father
- Author: Archibald Thomas Robertson
- Series: The Teachings of Jesus
- Publisher: American Tract Society
- Print Publication Date: 1904
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jesus Christ › Teachings; God (Christianity) › Fatherhood
- Resource ID: LLS:CHRSTROBERTSON
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:33:32Z
A. T. Robertson (1863–1934) was a renowned scholar and a terrific preacher. He was educated at Wake Forest University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In 1892, Robertson was appointed professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary where he taught until 1934.
Robertson was a founding member of the Baptist World Congress, now known as the Baptist World Alliance. Throughout his incredible life, Archibald Thomas Robertson wrote 41 books ranging from grammars to simple character studies.
His books are still used today and his publications available in Logos include Practical and Social Aspects of Christianity: The Wisdom of James, Studies in Mark's Gospel, The Divinity of Christ in the Gospel of John, and A Harmony of the Gospels. Also available from Logos is the A. T. Robertson Collection (15 vols.), which includes a number of Robertson’s grammars, commentaries, lectures, and sermons.