Monday 11 February 2013

Grace Notes - John 8:19


John 8:19
"Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also."

Father, Son and Holy Spirit together in perfect, loving, glorious harmony, this is the Trinity. The father loves the son, in fact he is absolutely delighted with Him, exuberant with him, overjoyed with Him.

The Son adores the father, loves the father with everything in Him in the strength and fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

The Fullness of Christ is now dwelling in every believer. Every believer is united in Christ in their Spirit. Every believer is righteous, holy, sanctified and a child of God, simply by being united by grace into Christ.

As the father adores the son, the father adores you, Jesus and the believer as so interwoven and entwined that all God sees is the righteousness of his son when he looks at us. Every moment, every second God through his grace is exuberant with us.

This to our normal minds is madness and a mystery, that Christ lives and dwells in the very fabric of our frail bodies.

Andrew Wommack talks about the mystery of the Trinity, a wonderful truth that is revealed in scripture:-

The scriptures teach Jesus' oneness with the Father. This oneness is more than singleness of purpose and actually denotes "a single one to the exclusion of others" as in the statement, "There is one God" (1 Tim. 2:5).

This truth is so well established in scripture that some people make no distinction between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit but believe they are simply one God expressing Himself in three different ways. However, Jesus makes a distinction between Himself and His Father here and uses Himself and His Father as two different witnesses to fulfill the requirement of Deuteronomy 17:6. Jesus would have been deceiving these Jews if there was no distinction between His Father and Himself; and yet, they are one. This is a great mystery and yet a very well established fact in scripture.

One of the great statements of the Old Testament from Deuteronomy 6:4 says, "The Lord our God is one Lord." We do not have three Gods, but one God, clearly identifiable as three persons. This is a great mystery, which has not been adequately explained. Scriptures reveal the truth of the Trinity, but make no attempt to explain it. We simply accept this revelation as it is, until we know all things, even as we are known (1 Cor. 13:12).

Jesus said that the witness of His Father was the greatest testimony of who He was. Everyone can hear His testimony of Jesus through the scriptures.

Moses and all the Old Testament prophets spoke of the coming of Jesus, and Peter said the written word of God was a more sure word of prophecy than the audible voice of God.

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