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Jesus- All We Need.
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The Printing Press (1440)
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The Light bulb (1800)
8. Penicillin (1928)
7. Camera (1840)
6. Automobile Airplane (1901)
5. Calculator, Telephone, Smartphone (1977)
4. Radio, Television, and Internet.
3. Robots, Artificial Intelligence
2. Banking, Credit Cards.
Electricity.
While all these invention make life so much easier, if you look at these things, they may seem like needs to us today, but they are actually wants.
The fact is we need very few things.
But these things are marketed as essential.
In fact, the market knows that if we make it to where people perceive it as a need, they will buy it.
One example i can think of is essential oils.
Again, there are only a few things we actually need.
Food Water Shelter Clothing Medicine.
But what about Spiritually, What is our greatest need in this life spiritually?
and what happens when that need is met?
This morning we are going to try and answer that question.
look with me in verse 7
First part of this verse is a rebuke.
The second part is a promise.
It follows the previous statement of Jesus being the only way to the Father and Thomas’s lack of understanding of “the way.”
Thomas claims to have no clue as to where Jesus is going and how even to know the way to which he is referring.
He rebukes them because they already know the way.
If they know Jesus, they know the Father, but they fail to see and appropriate all they have in Jesus Christ.
But it is clear that they do indeed possess Christ and all that comes with Christ.
And there is a promise that flows out of that.
“From now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
Jesus has and will open the door for a relationship with the father for these disciples.
This is a promise based upon what Jesus has done in His perfect life and what He will do in His sacrificial death on the cross.
They know the Father and they have seen the Father, because they have known and seen the Son.
Jesus reveals the Father to the disciples perfectly.
But do they get it?
Do they realize what they have in Jesus?
Do you realize what we have in Jesus?
Do I realize what I have in Jesus?
We have a relationship with God.
We have friendship with His son.
We have forgiveness for our immorality, rest from our trials, hope for the future, and strength for today.
We are guaranteed the indwelling and comforting power of God’s Spirit and we are comforted that no sickness or death will have the last laugh, because Jesus is coming back to make all this right.
These are just some of the spiritual blessing we have in Christ.
He tells us that he has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Jesus.
So what do they have in Christ?
Most of all, they get God Himself.
Jesus is the Word made flesh, and He has PERFECTLY revealed God the Father.
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This is why, it doesn’t make any sense for Philip to ask for what he asks for in verse 8.
First, I love how Philip is trying to play judge and jury with the Lord of all the Earth, as if He deserves Jesus to be with him at all, and now he is making demands.
And he isn’t just making any type of demands.
He wants to see the Father.
He wants to see the glory of God.
This statement and request is disrespectful at best and at worst, it is a denial of what Jesus had showed them already.
Never since Eden, has the presence of God been unveiled and enjoyed by those created in HIs image.
Jesus had made the Father known to them.
The problem here is that Jesus has shown him the Father.
The disciples have made it a habit of ignoring the words of Jesus.
Jesus has just told them, if you had know me, you would have known the Father also.
But Philip doesn’t get it.
They do not recognize it yet.
They do not recognize that in Jesus, our God is made known.
This is why Philip ignorantly and almost disrespectfully asks Jesus for this.
Jesus has shown them the Father.
Hebrews tells us this.
Look in verse 9
These questions here have to break the heart of Jesus and Philip.
I would argue that this speaks less about Jesus ability to properly display who the Father was and to show Him to the disciples and more to the effect of sin upon even Jesus’s closest disciples.
Sin and our pride and our blindness, keeps us from properly understanding who Jesus is.
We genuinely fail like Philip to understand and appreciate all that we have in Christ.
Have I been so long with you Philip, and yet , you have not come to know me?
I wonder at times, if Jesus is asking this question of me.
He has known me from my mother’s womb.
He graciously saved me at age 18, and he has been faithful to me time and time again, and it seems at times, I forget who he is and all that he provides.
He has shown Philip the Father.
He has shown me the Father.
if you are saved today, he has shown you the Father.
As Paul says so clearly:
Knowledge of the glory of God is found in the face of Jesus Christ.
how can Philip ask this?
He is standing face to face with him.
Christ asked this very thing.
How could you say, “Show me the Father.”
hear me out: We have all we need in Christ.
Philip has all he needs in Christ.
In fact, I know for a fact that if Philip were here today, he would tell us that.
People look for signs and wonders, when all they need is Christ.
People look to medicine, money, wealth, fame, pleasure, but all they need is Christ.
People look to Pastors for hope, when all they need is Christ.
In fact, one day whether you know him now or not, one day, you will find out that all you needed was Christ.
in fact, if Christ was all you had, you would have all you need.
He gives to us everything.
Jesus’s question here to Philip is heart wrenching:
Jesus’s question here to Philip is heart wrenching:
But it shows us what Jesus is after here:
He is after belief.
Listen to what Jesus identifies as the problem here with Philip.
The problem is rooted in a lack of belief.
It isn’t lack of evidence.
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