“I and My Father are one.” (John 10:30 NKJV)
“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.” (John 14:6-11 NKJV)
“For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.” (John 5:16-23 NKJV)
I want to pick up from where I left off yesterday, because for a long time when I would read the Bible I would struggle over the differences of what I would read in the Old Testament versus the New. I realized that we were dealing with an Old Covenant and a New Covenant, but what I struggled with was that it made it look like God the Father and God the Son were two distinct Gods.Two totally separate beings that were so different. And yet Jesus said that he came to reveal the Father. He said that he was the revelation of the Father. He was the mirror image of the Father. He said that when I look at him I see the Father, when I listen to him I hear the Father.
I need to interpret every aspect of scripture through Jesus. That unifying factor has revolutionized how I read scripture. So when I see things like Sodom and Gomorrah, for example, or the universal flood, I read those events through Jesus. I interpret them through Jesus. I really see the Father differently now.
If you want to know God the Father, you’ve really got to know Jesus.
Ponder that, as you ponder…
…Eric’s Life Lesson # 386: It’s All About Jesus