Jesus Dependent Upon the Father

Joh 20:17  Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

This was AFTER He lay in the tomb, long after He'd breathed His last breath that He spoke these words.

Why? Why did He wait?  But it wasn't Him waiting was it?  He did NOT raise Himself from the dead, He couldn't-- He was dead and incapable of raising Himself from the grave. He had to be raised by another.

Act 13:29  And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

Act 13:30  But God raised him from the dead

God raised Him from the dead.

So the question is, why did God wait?

Gal_1:1  Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

Eph 1:17  That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

Eph 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Eph 1:19  And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

Eph 1:20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Jesus was raised from the dead.

Jesus wasn't separated from His body, the spirit form that GOD is, and Jesus WAS, He did NOT become again.  We are NOT separated from our bodies upon death.  Jesus lay in the tomb. Jesus'  spirit form didn't separate and leave His flesh there in the tomb. He didn't leave His body and just hover around in spirit waiting to be reunited with His body. Jesus was dead- His thought perished, He couldn't praise His Father, He knew NOTHING in death like ALL who die know nothing.

Ecc_9:5  For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing

Jesus remained in the grave with His thoughts gone.  He'd taken on human flesh and as a human He died and was subject to a human death.  He didn’t take Himself down from the cross, He didn't save Himself. God the Father saved Him.

If YOU believe in Jesus Christ, You must believe His FATHER raised Him from the dead.  He was dependent upon the FATHER.

HE taught us to pray to the FATHER.

We have to recognize the power of the FATHER. 

Jesus was allowed a human death. 

More on the death of Jesus tomorrow by the GRACE of God!

All in HIS love, now and forever, AMEN!