Address—C. Hendricks
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Our God and our Father, we thank Thee.
This afternoon for the Lord Jesus, thank thee for thee.
Wondrous work that He's accomplished with Thy glory and our blessing.
Thank you for the good news of the gospel going out to Lost World. There are still being open.
We ask that blessing of the Word throughout the world.
This day, as it is proclaimed here in this place.
Is best I help by classing now the precious Lady of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
I was meditating some time ago.
On the subject that I've been discussing.
Presenting.
Person of Christ.
And.
It struck me.
And I made a search.
In the New Testament.
And I wondered if the expression.
My father.
Was ever uttered by anyone.
Other than the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
And then I also.
Wondered about the expression by God.
Maybe before we take up some of those expressions of my father.
We'll look at.
Where we have my God mentioned.
I'm going to give you.
Some statistics here.
Gospel according to Matthew my God occurs once.
My father occurs 17 times.
But I'm going to look at the one occurrence of my God into Matthew 27.
I'm talking about the Lord Jesus using these expressions.
And in Matthew 27 and 46.
About the 9th hour Jesus cried with a loud voice saying that.
Saying Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani, that is to say, my God.
My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
And in Mark's Gospel.
My father doesn't occur once.
Like God occurs once and it's in Mark 15.
34 It's the same quote.
And we just saw in verse 34 at the 9th hour Jesus cried with a loud voice saying LOI LOI lamas back then I which is being interpreted by God. My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Now we come to Luke's gospel.
And my father occurs 4 times. I think I'll read those 4 instances and my God doesn't occur at all.
But my father occurs 4 times in the Gospel of Luke. The first one is in chapter 2.
And verse 49.
Let's go back a minute and read.
Verse 46 past it. After three days they found him in the temple. He remembered Mary and Joseph had gone away and the Lord wasn't with them and they discovered his absence. Now they come back.
And they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions. He was a boy of 12 at this time.
And he was in the temple hearing these doctors.
That were to know the law so well, hearing them and asking them questions he wasn't teaching would have been out of place for the boy of 12 to be teaching them. Though he knew more than all these teachers, but still he was hearing them and asking them questions and all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
The evidently made it clear that by the nature of his questions, he knew more than they did.
And they perceive this, and when they saw him, they were amazed. That is, when Mary and Joseph saw him, they were amazed. And his mother said unto him, she was a bit irritated because he had not gone with them.
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Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold, thy Father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
And he said unto them, Now he administers A mild rebuke, and he says, How is it that you sought me, wishing not that I must be about my father's business?
That's the first time it's recorded in the Scriptures where he used that precious expression, my father.
Wished ye not that I must be about my father's business. And he wasn't talking about Joseph. He was talking about God his father, of course.
That's the first instance as a boy of 12, now in Luke 10.
Verse 22. I believe it is well read. Verse 21.
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou has did these things from the wise and prudent, and has revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.
All things are delivered unto me of my Father.
And no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father.
And who the Father is, what the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. I've already commented on that verse from Matthew, and here we have it again in Luke.
But it's very precious that it's connected with this very intimate expression used only by the Lord Jesus. I've searched the entire New Testament and no apostles.
No one had ever used that expression. The Lord taught us to pray, taught the Jewish disciples to pray. Our Father, which art in heaven in the plural, but only He, only He used the expression my Father.
And notice the connection.
All things are delivered unto me of my Father. Everything of the Father was delivered to the Son.
And then he says this very profound statement that we've looked at and no man knoweth the son, who the son is, but the father.
And who the father is but the son?
And he to whom the son will reveal him. Impossible to read these expressions that we're going to be looking at this afternoon and not realize the force of.
The expression my Father and Son. It's only the eternal Son of God that could use that expression, my Father.
And here he says, my father.
All things are delivered unto me of my Father, so everything was placed in his hands.
And given to him.
Of his father.
Now Luke 22.
Luke 22 we have it again.
And he says to the disciples.
Verse 24. There was also a strife among them. Which of them should be accounted the greatest?
And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them.
And they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so. But he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger.
And he that is chief as he got, as he that got served.
For whether is greater he that sitteth at meet, or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at meet?
But I am among you as he that serveth.
Remember that passage where he says my father is greater than I and here the Lord? That's because the Lord took the place of a servant.
He speaks that as having taken that place of subjection. And so he says, Who is greater He that sitteth than me to He that serveth? I'm among you as He, that servant. He took that lowly place in grace, that He might reach us.
And then he says here they which have continued with me in my temptations, they wanted to know who would be the greatest among them. They were thinking of greatness. They were thinking of aspiring after a position and a place of recognition among the disciples. And it's been said that if we don't desire a place of preeminence in the world.
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We may desire to be assembled.
And the Lord is teaching here that.
Greatness is found in service.
And then he says, Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. Verse 29 And I appoint unto you a Kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me.
That ye may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom, and sit on Thrones, judging the 12 tribes of Israel. So here he looks forward to the time when he would establish his Kingdom on earth and they would have a place then.
Of privilege to sit at his table, but it was his Father. He says, I appoint unto you a Kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me. So he received that appointment from his father. Very intimate personal relationship that he alone had with the Father. And now he says, as he has appointed to me, so I appoint.
A Kingdom to you? Well, that's future yet for us.
We haven't entered into the Kingdom reign yet, it's still coming, but the next reference refers to what exists today, and it's in Luke 24.
Luke 24.
And he says in verse 49.
As the Risen 1 he says. And behold, I sent the promise of my Father upon you.
But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until He be endued with power from on high. What is the promise of His Father? Well, that was the coming of the Holy Spirit after He had accomplished redemption, after He had put our sins away by His death on the cross, shed His precious blood, went into death, and then rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and now He says in resurrection.
Says.
I send the promise of my father upon you.
Terry of the city of Jerusalem, until you be endued with power from on high, the promise that he had appointed to them, as the Father had appointed to him a Kingdom is still not realized. For us it will be.
But it's still future. But what he speaks of here, they were to wait for the promise of his Father whom he would send. That was the Holy Spirit that took place 50 days later and his resurrection on the day of Pentecost. And they were brought into the blessings of Christianity.
Now.
Those are the four instances in Luke's Gospel, and now we come to John's Gospel. Now you would expect that we will have many.
Many times when that expression my father occurs, and indeed there are 35 times.
35 times.
Two times, my God, and we'll come to that as we look. I'd like to look at these expressions. The gospel is is wrapped up in this precious expression, my father.
I've also checked out with a computer concordance. I just typed in the expression my father and went through the New Testament and there's only one man that ever used that expression. That was the Lord Jesus Christ yourself. No apostle, the apostle Paul included, ever used the expression my Father.
I conclude from that that it is an expression reserved only for the eternal, unique Son of God. We don't need the God and Son.
We've been looking at that subject some this afternoon, and I thought it would be well to look a little deeper into it, but the expression by God, both used by the Lord Jesus, is also used by the apostle Paul.
My God shall supply all you needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. That's a Philippians 4I thank my God upon my every remembrance of you. And that's found in several epistles. So the apostle Paul does use the expression my God, but never, never does he lose my father.
I believe that is reserved for the eternal Son of God.
And its most precious indeed.
First one is found in chapter 2.
And we'll just go through these briefly. I'll make some comments on some and pass others by.
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Chapter 2 and verse 16.
Verse, you know that that's back up.
Verse 14. He found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep, and doves, and the changes of money sitting. And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers money, and overthrew the tables, and said unto them that sold doves, Take these things. Hence make not my father's house and House of merchandise. Now he speaks of his father's house. Later in the Gospel, chapter 14, there is referring to an entirely different.
Thing and he is here. He's referring to the temple on Earth, and he calls it my Father's house.
The next one is a very, very important one is in Chapter 5. Let's look at it carefully. Deserves a little attention. This is the chapter where there was this man at the pool of Bethesda and he was healed.
And the Jews asked him, verse 12, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed and walk? And he that was healed must not who it was? For Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multiple being in that place. Afterward Jesus finded him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole sin no more or less the worst thing come unto me. The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him.
Because He had done these things on the Sabbath day. Now notice verse 17. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Remember we were mentioning that the error of the temporal sonship doctrine is it's based on the fallacy that sonship implies inferiority, and He couldn't have been inferior in the Godhead. So he couldn't have been son in the Godhead. That's the theory.
Well, sonship does not imply inferiority and implies equality, and we'll see that right here. All he had said was my father.
Worketh hitherto and I work.
He is course. They knew he was talking about God, they knew He was referring to God, and here he had the the audacity in their minds to claim him as my Father.
Therefore, notice the reaction it produced on the part of the Jews. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was His Father. Mr. Darby's translation, God was His own Father, making it very personal and intimate.
The last expression, making himself equal with God.
So claiming to be the Son and addressing God as my father was to claim equality, not inferiority.
Making himself equal with God.
They understood what he was claiming.
And so they sought to kill him.
Because to them it was blasphemy. He was claiming to be the Son, and he was in relationship to God in such an intimate way that he could speak to Him and of Him as my Father.
Again we come to the 43rd verse and he says I am come in my father's name.
And you receive me not?
If another shall come in his own name, him he will receive. We will see, as we go through these instances where this beautiful expression occurs, that.
The father and the son are bound up together. You cannot have the father if you don't believe in the son. You cannot have the son if you deny the father. The 2 are together, as he says in another place. I and my father are one. You can't have the one without the other, and if you reject the one, you reject the other.
So he says I am come in my father's name. He was the perfect representation of the Father, the Son down here in this world. He says you received me, not another. That would be the Antichrist will come in his own name. Him he will receive to reject the true Messiah. You see these Jews today that say they're still looking for their Messiah, They're going to find you, that he will be the Antichrist, the false Messiah.
And they will follow him.
Another should come in his own name. Him he will receive.
Again, in chapter 6 there's many of these references, so we'll pass through them quickly. Chapter 6 and verse 32.
Verse 31 They say to him, Our Father's did eat manna in the desert, as it is written. He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
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Jesus said unto them, Very, very. I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
And said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, Listen to this wonderful gospel verse, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me.
Shall never thirst, my Father, giveth you the true bread from heaven.
That wasn't the manner that came down from heaven in the time of Moses, but the anti type of that manner. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son, my Father, giveth you the true bread.
From heaven.
One who eats of that bread.
Leaves on him shall never die, shall never hunger, shall never thirst, shall never perish.
Look at the 65th verse.
Verse 64.
But there are some of you that believe not, for Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me.
Except if we're given unto him of my Father.
Father.
Those that are the sons to him.
And they come to him from the father. That's a wonderful.
Truth yet in the 8th chapter, Chapter 8.
And in verse 19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy father?
Jesus answered, Ye neither know me.
Nor my father.
If he had known me.
He should have known my father also.
So it's impossible to know God.
The Father if you don't know the Son.
And it's impossible to know the son if you don't know the father. The 2GO together. I'll read it again. He neither know me nor my father. They were rejecting the son down here as a man. And he says you don't know my father either.
If he had known me, he should have known my father. Also. Impossible to say that you believe in God. You believe in the Father, but don't believe in the Son. That's not a possibility.
Verse 28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am He.
And that I do nothing of myself. But as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things, and he that sent me is with me. The Father hath not left me alone, for I do always those things that please Him. As He spake these words, many believe that Him, the very words that He spoke were the words of the Father. They had been given to Him from the Father. He spoke them faithfully.
He says I do nothing of myself. He did not act independently of the father. He came to do the father's will and his bidding.
He says I do nothing of myself, but as my father had taught me, I speak these things as we hear the words of Christ. The sun on earth is a man. We're hearing the words of the Father.
He was the perfect expression of the Father again.
In verse.
In verse 36 he says, If the Son therefore shall make you free.
Ye shall be free indeed. I know that ye are Abraham's seed, but ye seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you. Notice I speak that which I have seen with my father.
And ye do that which ye have seen with your Father. They understood whom he was talking about. They understood he was referring to God.
Speaks of him as my father again, verse 47 he says, he that is of God heareth God's words. Ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. That answered the Jews and set up to him. Say me not well, that thou art a Samaritan, and has the devil.
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Jesus answered I have not a devil, He just passes over the charge of being a Samaritan. He says I have not a devil, but I honor my father and he to dishonor me.
It was a man on earth.
Blessed man, no man ever like him. He could say, I honor my father, and ye do dishonor me. And then in verse 54 we have the statement made in the reverse. It says Jesus answered, if I honor myself, my honor is nothing, but it is my Father that honored me.
Of whom you say that he is your God, and he was talking about so in verse 49 he says I honor my father, and in verse 54 my father on earth.
Need reciprocal statements.
In the 17th chapter, I'm excuse me in the 10th chapter, the 17th verse, we have a most precious statement of the Lord Jesus, he says in 10/17 he says therefore got my father loved me.
Because I lay down my life that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
This commandment have I received.
Of my father.
He did it in obedience to the Father's commandment.
Therefore doth my father love me?
The act of dying on the cross was the supreme act of obedience from the part of the Lord Jesus.
It provided a fresh motive for the father to love his son.
He was carrying out cross to himself, the will of the Father.
So he could say, therefore, that my Father loved me. It wasn't the only reason the Father loved him. He loved him from all eternity. Of course He loved him for every step of obedience that he took. But this was the the crowning act of obedience.
Is laying down his life on the cross. And so he says, Therefore does my father love me because I lay down my life, that I might take it again? No man taketh it from me. He didn't die as a martyr. He willingly laid his life down. Man could not have taken it from him.
I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down and power to take it again. And then he says, this commandment have I received of my father. That is, he did it as an act of obedience to his Father.
Verse 24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long does thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believe not.
The works that I do in my father's name, they bear witness of me.
The works that he did, he did in his Father's name. They were all to glorify the Father.
They bear witness of him.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. Hear the sheep of Christ I held in his powerful hand of security, and then he adds to that my father.
Which gave them me as greater than all the Father has given us to the Son. Is she?
My father, which gave them me, is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand.
I and my father.
What then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Jesus answered, The many good works have I showed you from my Father. For which of these works do you stone me?
Jesus answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy and because of thou being a man.
Makest thyself God.
When he claimed to know God as my Father, he was making himself God. He was making himself equal with God. They understood his words. They understood his claim. They understood Him perfectly.
And for them it was blasphemy. It would have been if it weren't true, but because it is true and was true.
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Because that which they should have submitted to.
Verse 32 Jesus answered the many good works that I showed you from my Father. For which of those works do ye stone?
But it wasn't for his good works. They were just filming. It was because they thought his claim was blasphemous. And again in verse 37 he says if I do not the works of my father.
Believe me that.
Put relationship and his only with the Father so that he could call him my Father and question his deity.
Impossible.
And yet it has been done.
Chapter 14.
And the third verse, verse 2, excuse me, let not your, I'll read from verse one, but not your heart. Be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. He was about to depart. He would then become an object of faith whom they had not seen even as the Father. And so he says, you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. You remember the first reference to the Father's house was in chapter 2. It was the temple.
And the Lord drove them out and said, make not my father's house and House of merchandise. Now he talks about his Father's house, but it's a different house. It's one in the glory, it's one in heaven. And he says in my Father's house there are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you.
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, receive you unto myself, and where I am, there you may be also.
Redone whither I go, you know on the way you know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whether thou goest. And how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth of the life.
No man cometh unto the Father, but my knee.
If he had known me, he should have known my father also. You have the expression again, and from henceforth you know him and hasten him. If he had known me, he should have known my father also.
The real question that we have in the Bible is the sun question. Do you know the sun? If you know the sun, you know the Father. If you don't know the sun, you don't know the Father. You don't know God. You are alienating from Him.
The big question we put to you this afternoon in the gospel is do you know the man? Do you know him? You know the Son?
Then you know the father.
If he had known me, he should have known my father also.
And from henceforth ye know him and have seen him. And Philip saith unto him, Lord, jealous the Father, and its advice of us Phillips, the one that we noticed earlier today, that said, we have found him of who Moses and Milan, the prophets did right, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Now he's going to learn a further truth, a much more profound truth. Philip saith unto you, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
Either have seen me.
And see, Father, the very works that he did were the works of the Father. The very words that he spoke were the Father's words. He was the perfect expression of the Father.
How say is thou? Then show us the Father?
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The works, the words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself, but the Father that followeth in me.
He doeth the verse.
And let's go on.
Verse 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do. Why? Because I go unto my Father.
He's gone on high, He's gone into the presence of the Father. Verse 20 at that day, that's the day of Christianity, that's the day we're living in. Now ye shall know that I am in my father, and he in me, and I in you.
He's in the Father's presence. We are in Christ before God. Christ is in us before God. And that's what he's saying here. And then he goes on to say in verse 21, He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me, and he that loveth me shall be loved. Of who? My Father.
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And I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Now look this passage very straight. Look at it very carefully. He says He that loveth me shall be loved of my father.
And I will love him.
And will manifest myself to him. Judah saith unto him, Not a spirit. Lord, how is it that thou would manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man loved me.
You will keep my words, and my father will love him.
And we?
Will come unto them who's the weak? The Father and the Son.
We will come unto Him and make our abode with Him.
That is one of the most precious promises in all of the Bible.
If a man loved me, he will keep my words and my father will love him.
And the certainty of the love of the Father, even as he had.
And then he says, And we, Father, and the Son will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Impossible to read statements like this, and deny the deity of Christ.
Awesome, He that loveth me not keepeth, not by sayings and the word which he hears, not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
Then in verse 28.
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away.
And come again unto you.
If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father or my Father.
Is greater than I.
Now in the 10th chapter he says I and my father are one.
Here he says, my father is greater than I.
Those two statements involve the doctrine of Christ.
Chapter 10. I and my father are one. That's his deity.
Chapter 14 My father is making an eye. That's the humanity, because he took the place of a servant.
Took the place where it was proper for him to obey and to be subject and submissive, and so he says.
Father, whose creature in God?
Chapter 15, verse one. I am the true vine, and my father is the husband man. Verse 8 Herein is my father glorified.
And she fared much fruit.
So shall you be my disciples.
Verse 10 If you keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love. His whole path down here was one of obedience to His Father, keeping His Father's commandments in His word.
And it was the delight and the joy of his heart.
Verse 15 Henceforth I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But I have called you friends for all things that I have heard of my father.
I have made known.
Unto you.
Isn't that precious? Everything that he had heard of his Father, he had made known to us. So we know the Father's mind, we know His will, we know the desire of His heart to save poor sinners and to bring them into blessing.
Again in the 23rd verse he says he that hated me hated my father also.
You cannot love the Father.
Cannot love God and hate the son of people. That's impossible.
And hate the sons to hate the father.
And then he says in verse 24, If I had not done among them the works which none other men did, they had not had sin.
But now have they both seen and heated both me and my father?
The two go together always, always, because they are one. In the 16th chapter, the 10th verse, he says of righteousness, because I go to my father.
And you see me.
Move on Some of these I won't comment on Chapter 18.
In connection with Peters seeking to defend his master. Verse 10 Simon Peter having a sword, drew it and smoked the high priest servant and cut off his right. Here the servants name was Malchus. And then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath, the cup which my father had given me. Shall I not drink it?
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You didn't receive it from Satan. It is the cup that the father of his father had given him.
And then in the 20th chapter.
We have the last reference.
And it's very precious.
Verse 15.
It's the case with Mary Magdalene.
We back up to verse 11 so we get the account. Mary stood without it, the sepulchre weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the supple curve.
And she seeth 2 angels in white, sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, with the body of Jesus at main. And they say unto her, Woman, Why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
And when she had thus said, she turned herself back and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why we fished thou Whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou had borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
Jesus saith unto her, Mary.
She turned herself, and saith unto him.
Which is to say, master.
And Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father.
But go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father.
And your father?
And to my God.
And your God.
And then she tells the disciples she came, and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
He takes her out of the Jewish sheepfold and brings her into the blessings of Christianity.
Says in John 10 it says he put forth his own sheep going before them and leads them out.
As he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out and he called Mary by name this Jewess who was a Jewish sheep because leads her off of Judaism into Christian blessing. He says touch me not you can't have me as the Messiah to Israel any longer. I've I've died and I'm risen now I'm going to bring you into the new order of blessing.
Go to my brethren, and tell them, I ascend unto my Father, and to your Father, and to my God, and to your God. So he puts us in his place. He gives us the blessing of knowing His Father is ours, and his God is ours.
And she brings that message to them. The result is that they're gathered together. He stands in the midst and proclaims peace to them and leads them into all the blessings of Christianity.
Well, there's one more verse in.
The end of the chapter. Towards the end, Thomas wasn't present.
With the rest.
And it says in verse 26 after 8 days again his disciples were within and Thomas with them.
Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
Then said he to Thomas, Reach hit her thy finger, and behold my hands, and reach hit her thy hand, and thrust it into my side, and be not faithless, but behaving.
Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
He had said in verse 17, My father and your father, my God and your God. And now Thomas says, My Lord and my God, let not say my father, but my Lord and my God.
Well, that's the position the Jews will be brought into. And they acknowledge him and see him. But ours is more blessed, ours is more intimate. And he goes out to say.
Verse 29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou has seen me, thou has to be blessed. Are they that have not seen, and yet have to be. And that's our portion. We haven't seen him.
The Jews will come to faith in Him when they see him. We haven't seen him, Peter says, Whom, having not seen the love, and whom, though not now looking, but believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable, full of glory.
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So ours is faith, ours is believing on one whom we have not seen yet.
But we have trusted in Him, and we've been brought into this place of nearness and favor never known before. Well, the Jews will be brought into blessing too. They'll own him as their Lord and God in that coming day. But we're in connection with Him, in connection with that wonderful expression.
An eternal Son of calling God and Father.
No, no apostle did that. His only kids to do, because his only the eternal Son could do that. But he calls us into that place of newness so that his his Father is our Father, his God.
Is our flying ones.
While we've gone through these verses quickly.
But I would strongly urge each one to.
Read through good John's Gospel gets thee.
Get the flavor of it, get you the general the beauty of it, the intimacy of it as the eternal sun down here as in manhood reveals to us his own Father, to us, and then brings us into relationship with him in.
As well.