Show me the Father
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Introduction:
I have a lot of admiration for my parents. I love them. I love many individual things about them. I love it when people say that I have this like my mom and that like my dad. I love being told I have their attributes.
It is nice to be able brag about our parents. It is nice to be able to say I am like my mom beacause of this or dad because of that.
We have a desire to know God is a universal yearning weather we really recognize it or not. There is a deep desire in our body to want to know God. We try to fill that void with other things.
Tonight I am here to tell you that Jesus came to show us the Father!
I am so thankful for that. I am so thankful that Philip asked for that!
Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.”
Jesus replied, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you still don’t know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking me to show him to you? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me. Just believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the work you have seen me do.
“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.
Prayer: Show us a clear picture of the Father, Lord!
The desire to know God seems to be Universal. We all cry with Philip: “Show us the Father and we will be satisfied”.
As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
This is a earnest cry of the Psalmist that was made centuries ago that echos in the heart of a a 6 year old who earnestly cries “Daddy, I want you to show me God”.
The desire to know God has been implanted in our hearts as a part of creation. If God has given us the desire to search for Him it is possible that He would provide some appropriate revelation of Himself.
He shows us who he is in Nature:
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
The inner voice of the Creator affirms that God exists and that He is righteous.
Hear Paul again:
Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right. And this is the message I proclaim—that the day is coming when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge everyone’s secret life.
These partial revelations are fulfilled in Jesus who is the final revelation of God. In Him God took the witness stand and testified about Himself.
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Jesus is the Good news about God
Jesus is the Good news about God
Jesus did not sit on the side lines and speculate about God. He was no seeker of God.
He was God incarnate.
He came from glory with the Father whom He would return.
He had and held communion with the Father. Remember His prayers in Matt. 11:25-27; Luke 22:31-32; John 11:41-42; 12:27-28)
His words and deeds were more Godlike than you could possibly imagine.
For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.
Jesus was absolutely sure about God. That is surely significant fact! He did not speculate about God. He affirmed what He knew!
Jesus was sure as to the character of God
Jesus was sure as to the character of God
According to Jesus, God is the Heavenly Father.
He is Love
In every prayer Jesus addresses God as “Father”.
The Old Testament has indicated as God as the Father to the nation.
Jesus also personalized God’s fatherly attitude fo each individual as practically as He could to make it a new concept.
The Father loves his Son and has put everything into his hands.
for the Father himself loves you dearly because you love me and believe that I came from God.
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.
Jesus reveals God as righteous. He addressed Him as “Holy Father”.
He is a God so even handed and just that He will not coerce obedience or faith.
He loves you but He still gives you the choice to choose Him. That is the deepest kind of love!
His Holy Spirit will come to convict “the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement” (John 16:8)
The way of the Father may lead through pain, but if it is the will of the Father, it must be just and right.
Did any of us suffer as Jesus did?
Yet he did not doubt God.
So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which My Father has given Me?”
His prayer in Gethsemane was not “Why me God?”
Jesus proved by experience that God’s will is always best even when it leads to the cross. he fulfilled the word spoken by the Lord through Isaiah about the Messiah:
He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
Jesus brings good news that God has provided from sin
Jesus brings good news that God has provided from sin
God’s holiness demanded that the sinner perish.
God’s love yearned for His salvation.
Wisdom and love provided the atonement that holiness demanded:
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Conclusion:
There are many practical applications.
God knows and loves each individual soul
You can come directly to God in prayer, in repentence, in faith! There is no special form or ceremony. There is no need for a human mediator.
When you become a child of God through a spiritual birth.
Ask God to come into your heart.
Ask Him to forgive you and cleanse you of your sin.
Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior. In Your Name. Amen.
— Billy Graham
If you prayed that prayer celebrate this decision and tell someone what you did! We want to rejoice with you and welcome you into our church family and the family of God!!!!
Forgivenss is logical. God has provided the way “that he might be just, and the justifier of him which beleved in Jesus”.
The only barrier would be unwillingness to repent.
God administers chastisement in love. His concern is for His child.
A child is secure. The Father will not send away a son whom He loves. He is not interesed in punishment, but in His son.
I pray that you too see the Father through His son!