“Subjected the Flesh to the Will of the Father”
Christ: Father by divine investiture of authority. Jesus explained in the meridian of time: “I am come in my Father’s name” (John 5:43). Christ acted and spoke on behalf of his Father, such that he could proclaim: “My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me” (John 7:16). Christ is therefore known as Father “by divine investiture of authority,” meaning that “the Father, Elohim, has placed his name upon the Son, has given him his own power and authority, and has authorized him to speak in the first person as though he were the original or primal Father” (Promised Messiah, p. 63).