In Father's Bosom EP103

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Well, I’ve been reading the Gospel of John, looking for the times that Jesus spoke to or spoke of His Father—that’s a good one. And I’ve found in John chapter 8, there’s a lot of it; He talks a lot. It seems like when He talks about the Father, He talks about judgment. I don’t know if it’s as regular as I think it is, but I know it’s there in chapter 8, and I know it’s there in chapter 12—He’s talking about the Father, He’s talking about judgment. But anyway, that’s what I’ve been doing, and I haven’t finished yet. I might be about a third of the way through, just going through and looking at that—reading the Gospel of John, and any time He comes up talking about the Father, making a note of it. I think that’s a good way to read through John, a good emphasis, because when Jesus is talking to His Father or talking about His Father, it gives us insight into the relationship He’s given to us. Because He said, “When you talk to Him, say, ‘Our Father.’” He’s brought us into His family, and as such, we’re part of that relationship—that the relationship He has is the relationship we have. The same love the Father has for Jesus, He has for us. We have been made one, and that’s what He wants us to know: “In that day you will know—I am in My Father, you are in Me, and I am in you.”

When you mentioned John chapter 8, I immediately thought about John chapter 1. I’m going to pull a James Alderman and start with one verse and then go into another—you’re going to be discipled in my ways. I just follow the Lord; the Holy Spirit brings something to mind and I go with it. In the opening chapter of John, verse 18, it says, “Nobody has ever seen God. The only begotten God, who is intimately close to the Father, has brought Him to life.” That’s the N. T. Wright translation. He’s starting the whole book off with this idea. And in the Passion Translation it says, “No one has ever before gazed upon the full splendor of God except His uniquely beloved Son, who is cherished by the Father and held close to His heart. Now that He has come to us, He has unfolded the full explanation of who God truly is.” That’s pretty good—really good. God is a Spirit, no one has seen Him, but Jesus, God the Son, has come and unfolded Him, revealed Him.