“i Am in the Father and the Father is in Me.”

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“i Am in the Father and the Father is in Me.”

Date: May. 17, 2024

Passage

John 14:7-14 (ESV)

7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 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 authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. 13 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

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Daily Bread

Key Verse: 14:11

Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

To see clearly that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life is to truly know Jesus. To know or see who Jesus really is to know or see the Father. But even the disciples did not fully grasp the deity of Jesus. So Philip asked him to show the Father. Jesus reiterated: to see him is to see the Father. He is in the Father and the Father in him. Jesus’ words and works are the words and works of the Father. The Father has fully revealed himself in his Son (10-11). Jesus is God who became flesh and lived among us and died for our sins so that we might be saved.

If we have true faith in Jesus, then we will do great works by the power of the Holy Spirit whom Jesus sent after his ascension. Jesus also promised, “I will do whatever you ask in my name…you may ask anything in my name, and I will do it” so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. We have a great privilege to participate in the “greater” works flowing from the finished work of Christ on the cross as well as in fruitful prayer. This is the power of living faith May we take the gospel to the ends of the earth and pass it down from generation to generation.

Prayer: Father, thank you for revealing yourself in and through Jesus the Messiah. Help me to have absolute faith in Christ and his finished work on the cross to bring the gospel to the lost in our time. Thank you for your promise to answer my prayers.

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