OUR FATHER WHO IS IN CHRIST AND IN WHOM CHRIST IS WITHIN

The book of John chapter 14 verses 7 - 11 continues with the intimate conversation the Lord Jesus was having with His disciples. The Lord was explaining to them that He and the Father were one and that to know Jesus was to know the Father.

Unable to comprehend what Jesus was was explaining to them,  Phillip asked Jesus to show them the Father and that they would then have what the needed to truly believe in Jesus.

Jesus was concerned because Philip, along with all the rest of them, had been with Jesus for along time  and still they did not grasp that Jesus, as He stood there with them, was the exact representation of the Father.

The passage reads this way:

7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

9 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’? 10 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. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

The Lord ended this section of the passage by saying t by ere are two avenues of belief that they had access to. On one hand, they could see Jesus modeling the Father's voice and authority and believe in Jesus based on that. On the other, they could look at the miracles He was performing and understand that such astonishing works that they could derive their belief in  Jesus based on the miraculous signs He was demonstrating.

Amen.

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