In Knowing Jesus, We Know the Father
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Jesus Reveals the Father
Jesus Reveals the Father
When we get together with family we often hear these word, “You look like your mom, you look like your dad.”
Maybe even taking it as far back as looking like one of your grandparents. I’ve gotten that I remind people of my dad’s dad cause of how i am with people, and the strong mustache of course.
Other than physical traits we have the ability to be reminded by certain character traits, our demeanor. Whether that’s a good thing or bad thing, not for me to judge.
When we observe Jesus’ life, we can see and say the same things. We can say that We know the Father because we know Christ. That’s the assurance I want us to walk away with today.
John 1:18
No one has ever seen God. The one and only Son, who is himself God and is at the Father’s side—he has revealed him.
He is the Creator and provider
He is the Creator and provider
I. No one has ever seen God
who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.
The first question I asked of this text was, “has there really been no one that has ever seen God?”
What about Isaiah? surely he’s seen God.
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.
But
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.
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When we look at this text we see that this is actually a vision that God gives to Isaiah.
He shows love and compassion
He shows love and compassion
And as a vision, God makes himself understandable to Isaiah. What do I mean by that? God uses scenes that Isaiah can actually perceive. Because God is spirit and we can’t possibly comprehend an infinite God, He shows Isaiah things that he can understand Him by. Like a throne, a robe, a temple.
When Israel was a youth I loved him,
And out of Egypt I called My son.
John Calvin says this:
How could Isaiah see God who is a Spirit, (John 4:24,) and, therefore, cannot be seen with bodily eyes? Nay, more, since the understandings of men cannot rise to his boundless height, how can he be seen in a visible shape? But we ought to be aware that, when God exhibited himself to the view of the Fathers, he never appeared such as he actually is, but such as the capacity of men could receive.
So, even in revealing Himself, God is gracious to us.
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What about Moses? Did he see God?
He exercises his providence and care
He exercises his providence and care
Nope.
The Lord answered Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor with me, and I know you by name.”
Then Moses said, “Please, let me see your glory.”
He said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name ‘the Lord’ before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” But he added, “You cannot see my face, for humans cannot see me and live.” The Lord said, “Here is a place near me. You are to stand on the rock, and when my glory passes by, I will put you in the crevice of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will take my hand away, and you will see my back, but my face will not be seen.”
Exodus 33:17-
18 Then Moses said, “Please, let me see your glory.”
God in the Garden, Christophany:
They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
19 He said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name ‘the Lord’ before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” 20 But he added, “You cannot see my face, for humans cannot see me and live.” 21 The Lord said, “Here is a place near me. You are to stand on the rock, 22 and when my glory passes by, I will put you in
The first Christophany recognized as such by scholars is the appearance of God walking in the garden with Adam and Eve. This is seen as a Christophany because of Christ's role in creation (; ) as the Word. -John Simpson
The first Christophany recognized as such by scholars is the appearance of God walking in the garden with Adam and Eve. This is seen as a Christophany because of Christ's role in creation (; ) as the Word. I
may also be a christophany.
These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.
John 13:-
The one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side:
who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.
The one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side:
Pre-existance with the father.
Jesus shows us His Pre-existance:
For a child will be born for us,
a son will be given to us,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
He will be named
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
“If I glorify myself,” Jesus answered, “my glory is nothing. My Father—about whom you say, ‘He is our God’—he is the one who glorifies me. You do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I don’t know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I keep his word. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad.”
The Jews replied, “You aren’t fifty years old yet, and you’ve seen Abraham?”
Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”
John
In the KJV translation of the text of , they use the old word bossom, “the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father”
“When he says that the Son was in the bosom of the Father, the metaphor is borrowed from men, who are said to receive into their bosom those to whom they communicate all their secrets. The breast is the seat of counsel. He therefore shows that the Son was acquainted with the most hidden secrets of his Father, in order to inform us that we have the breast of God, as it were, laid open to us in the Gospel.”
So being that Christ knows the Father intimately, He is the only one capable of truly making The Father comprehensible to us.
Exegeomai- relate, expound, explain, ake declaration.
so seeing Jesus’ life we see that it clearly expresses the Father’s heart.
“All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.
Matthew
Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.
Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.
“Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.
“that as the naked majesty of God is concealed within himself, he never could be comprehended, except so far as he revealed himself in Christ;”
John Calvin and William Pringle, Commentary on the Gospel according to John, vol. 1 (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2010), 54.
John Calvin and William Pringle, Commentary on the Gospel according to John, vol. 1 (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2010), 54.
For he maintains that there is now no longer any vail, such as existed under the Law, but that God is openly beheld in the face of Christ.
how much better our condition is than that of the fathers, because God, who was formerly concealed in his secret glory, may now be said to have rendered himself visible
why is this important.
Confidence in the Gospel
deeper worship
A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
Exodus 34:
The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord.
Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;
who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
Exodus 34:5
The Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord.
Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;
who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.
He said, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though the people are so obstinate, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your own possession.”
Then God said, “Behold, I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform miracles which have not been produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people among whom you live will see the working of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.
“Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.
“Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.
“But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim
—for you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—
otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice,
and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.
“You shall make for yourself no molten gods.
“You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
“The first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the first offspring from cattle and sheep.
“You shall redeem with a lamb the first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. None shall appear before Me empty-handed.
“You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.
“You shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
“Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
“For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.
“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to be left over until morning.
“You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
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He disciplines and corrects
He disciplines and corrects
“Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
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God as the Father of Jesus Christ
God as the Father of Jesus Christ
and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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God is the father of Israel
God is the father of Israel
He cares for his covenant people
He cares for his covenant people
“With weeping they will come,
And by supplication I will lead them;
I will make them walk by streams of waters,
On a straight path in which they will not stumble;
For I am a father to Israel,
And Ephraim is My firstborn.”
He is the father of the kings of Israel
He is the father of the kings of Israel
This description of God’s fatherhood involves the maintenance of a special relationship between God and David’s descendants, which ultimately includes Jesus Christ.
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God is the father of Christian believers
God is the father of Christian believers
He has an intimate relationship with believers
He has an intimate relationship with believers
“Pray, then, in this way:
‘Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
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He adopts believers into his family
He adopts believers into his family
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
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The fatherhood of God has implications for the church
The fatherhood of God has implications for the church
Character: children are to reproduce the Father’s likeness
Character: children are to reproduce the Father’s likeness
“Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Unity: one Father means one family
Unity: one Father means one family
being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.
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Status: believers are related to Jesus Christ
Status: believers are related to Jesus Christ
“For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.”
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Inheritance: believers are heirs of the Father’s kingdom
Inheritance: believers are heirs of the Father’s kingdom
and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.
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Submission: believers are to revere the Father
Submission: believers are to revere the Father
If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;
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