Amen, and he also said that the Word of the Father is the Truth:
John 17:11-17
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
And we know by the testimony of Stephen, being filled with the Holy Spirit, that this Word and Name of which the Master speaks in the above passage concerns the holy and
living oracles, sayings, and words of the Torah; for the Torah is the Name and Living Word of the Father YHWH:
Acts 7:37-38
37 This is that Moses, who said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall Elohim raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me.
38 This is he that was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles [λογια ζωντα - living logia] to give unto us:
The Living Word of the whole Torah may therefore be accounted as the Name of the Father YHWH; for a name is much more than just a spelling and displays character, authority, attributes, testimony, doctrine, power, and so much more: and the Master says in John 17:17 that the Logos-Word of the Father, which is the Torah, is the Truth.
Those who claim that "Jesus is YHWH" are fallen under the spirit of the word sorcerer Elymus Bar-Jesus son of Jesus, according to the scripture, for that is the very meaning of his name: "Bar-Jesus" literally means, "Son of Jesus", and thus that same false prophet sorcerer spirit speaks by way of those who claim that "Jesus is YHWH" because his very name, "Bar-Jesus", means, "Son of Jesus". The teaching that his particular form of sorcery is in fact
word sorcery is expounded right in the context of the passage by the author of Acts through what he records Paul as saying to Elymus Bar-Jesus son of Jesus:
Acts 13:6-10
6 And when they had gone through the whole island unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus:
7 Who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding: the same called unto him Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the Word of Elohim.
8 But Elymas the sorcerer, (for so is his name by interpretation), withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith.
9 But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him:
10 And said, O son of the devil, full of all guile and all villany, you enemy of all righteousness; will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
The word rendered "perverting" in the final line of the above also can be understood as "to misinterpret", (
G1294 διαστρεφω), and the name "Bar-Jesus" clearly means "Son of Jesus", ("bar" is Aramaic, meaning "son").
"Bar-Jesus" = "Son of Jesus" = "Jesus is my Father" = "Jesus is YHWH"
The scripture is clear in this and in the fact that we are warned "to test the spirits", (1John 4:1), and by the passage above one may plainly know that those who claim "Jesus is YHWH" are speaking the false prophet spirit of Elymas Bar-Jesus son of Jesus, a word sorcerer, for anyone with common sense may plainly see that according to the Torah, Prophets, and Writings, (all of Tanakh), YHWH is our heavenly Father. And if the Master prays to the heavenly Father throughout the Gospel accounts, such as the whole chapter of John 17, then we know that the Master is praying to YHWH who is his Father and our Father. The Master was sent to teach us the upright Way to be pleasing unto the Father, that we might be delivered through the Testimony of the Master, (by believing and doing what he says), and therefore when he prays to the Father YHWH he clearly teaches us that he himself is not the Father YHWH.