And our journey through it.
QUESTIONS FOR JESUS II
Church, I’m continuing on in John 14 with this writing because there is so much more that Jesus said to His disciples/us here in John.
In my last writing I told about Thomas’ question to Jesus and His answer. Let’s reread the last verse in John 14: 7 to refresh our memories and bring us into the next question from Philip.
Verse 7: (Jesus said)
“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
Now Philip comes with another question for Jesus, almost as if he didn’t hear Jesus’ answer to Thomas. You know Church, sometimes we don’t listen very closely ourselves when God speaks to us. Our minds are elsewhere when we should be listening more closely to God’s Voice; His Word; His Spirit “in” us. Relying on our spirit-man more than the “old man” (which we have become so used to) and making decisions on emotions and physical sight and hearing; when God is Spirit and we have to SEEK Him in Spirit.
John 14: 8
“Philip said to Him (Jesus), “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
Church, are we asking that same question ourselves? When we want to see, hear or feel God’s presence in the natural it puts our faith, God’s Spirit “in” us and our spirit-man on the back burner, so to speak. We are allowing our Old Man (natural man) to creep back in where it doesn’t belong. We are allowing our physical senses to over-rule our wills. Remember our “Yes” and “No” responses to our faith in God? It seems as if we are relying on the Old-Man more and more these days, when we NEED to be doing it less and less and relying on our Faith in God’s Plan for our walk and work here on earth just as Jesus did. In fact let’s listen to Jesus’ answer to Philips question.
John 14: 9-14 (paraphrased)
“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. (Remember Church, if we are born again, God’s Spirit is “in” us also and we have that same power and authority through Jesus Christ our intercessor.) Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works that I do he will do because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My Name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
Now Church, when we do that asking, it has to be done in TRUTH, that means it has to be done in our spirit with our hearts, wills and minds in agreement with God’s Word. That can’t be done unless we are in God’s Word and listening to Him. THAT IS BEING IN ONE ACCORD WITH GOD, our “ultimate goal” for our lives.
The last two statements that Jesus made to Philip leads us into the question from Judas (not Iscariot), and will give us how these events are happening for us, which will be in the third part of this series. First, let me finish Jesus’ answer to Philip:
John 14: 20-21
“At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me, and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
Saints, things are happening so fast in these last days we NEED the intimate relationship with God to make it through God’s Plan for the world. We can do this by:
TRUSTING AND BELIEVING IN GOD
All scriptures are from: New King James Version of Prophecy Study Bible,
General Editor-John C. Hagee unless otherwise stated.