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Commentary on John 14 (4)
Next, let’s look at Philip’s question. Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us.” (John 14:8)
Jesus talked about his Father.
He said, “If you know me, you know the Father, and whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” Philip immediately said, “Lord, show me the Father.”
In other words, he wants to be able to see straight with both eyes.
Philip's question now tells us that there must be a change in concept in the process of our spiritualization.
If we do not know that the Spirit of truth in us is present, when we first began our faith, we were caught up in various signs and omens or a primitive sense of awe, and although we did not deny God, we will gradually fall into agnosticism, similar to the path taken by Charles Darwin who was a member of the Anglican Church and wanted to become a pastor, Charles Darwin who wrote a book called The Origin of Species (Evolution), which is the greatest enemy of creationism and other intellectuals.
Darwin ended up denying both God and Christ, the Son.
They say they go to church, but their disbelief is so scary.
So, a survey is being posted on the media that shows that even though they go to church, there are 40% nominal believers who do not know God and have no assurance of salvation.
Now, the disciples ask Jesus to show them the place and the way to the body, and also ask him to show them so they can see the Father with their own eyes.
But Jesus answered, He who has seen me has seen the Father; how say you then, Shew us the Father?(John 14:9)
Jesus is not talking about the physical eyes, but the spiritual eyes that become reality through faith in the invisible Spirit God.
In John 1:18, who does the only-begotten God in the Father's bosom declare?
He reveals the Father.
It means that the Lord Jesus Christ describes the Father.
So, 2,000 years ago, Jesus was the one who described God the Father.
However, Paul confesses in 2 Corinthians 5:16, Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more after the flesh.
This means that Jesus revealed God the Father in the flesh, but now he can reveal the Father in our hearts through his spirit, the Holy Spirit.
Do you understand what I mean?
A mother draws the image of the father into the children's minds.
If mothers don't reveal their fathers well to their children's hearts, the children's personalities will become crooked, right?
Children become angry and hostile towards their parents.
But the Holy Spirit never fails.
The Holy Spirit, like our mother, teaches and reveals Jesus Christ and God the Father to our hearts.
It makes the father completely asshole.
If mothers do that, they will later be ostracized by their children.
Because it's true that my father was like that, but why did she mess with my father and make me angry?
So, when the children grow up and gain the strength to become independent, they leave their mothers.
Many mothers always try to build their own side when their children are young.
That's stupid.
What good is it if you make that little kid your own side?
However, unlike mothers in the world, the Holy Spirit is absolutely not like that.
God does not make us believe only by holding on to the Holy Spirit.
God the Father is perfect.
The Holy Spirit continues to teach us the perfect attributes of God.
A junior pastor came to me and said, “Pastor, I don’t know what my father’s love is.”
“So what kind of person is your father?” I asked.
“All my father did was drink, gamble, and beat up people all the time. I don’t know what God’s love is because I only have those memories,” he said.
It was really embarrassing.
So I said, “Whatever you do, pastor, seek the Holy Spirit. If you seek the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will teach you about the living God the Father, even if you do not know that your earthly father loved you. He will teach you about His deep, high, wide and long love.”
If it were now, I would have properly told him by what process and method one can receive the Holy Spirit as a gift...
God portrays the Father in us through the Holy Spirit.
When the Spirit of truth comes into us, he teaches us and reminds us of the word of the Lord. In these last days, the Lord gives us life, saves us, lets us see his glory, and allows us to overcome the world with the same triumph that he overcame the world.
Therefore, if the Lord says the end, we must distinguish between Escatos, the these last days, and the end (Theros), when He will come on a cloud and judge the living and the dead.
The problem is that although they know Jesus, they do not receive Christ, who came as a the spirit into all people, as the Lord, so they do not know this Kairos time, which is called the these last days, today, and they only follow the chronos time, which is the time of the flesh, so they are not sure if the church is the world or the church.
Believers who, like Philip, want to see God through their flesh because they cannot tell the difference, gradually fall into a gray area, and although they have a primitive religious view, they end up struggling in agnosticism.
This day is definitely the day of hearing the voice of the Son of God and coming back to life, the day of new life, the day of the new covenant where we eat and drink the Lord as our daily bread and are transformed into his image and see the glory of God. This day overlaps with the Chronos time of 2024.
Because of this, it is the day of salvation where we can obtain the peace that the world cannot obtain in Christ and enjoy eternal life in the knowledge of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of truth.
On the day when the Lord comes like a thief unknown to the world, grace will be gracious and salvation will be complete.
Then, the day when the Lord comes in the clouds with the last trumpet is the end.
Therefore, if the Lord says it is the end, we must be able to distinguish between the these last days and the day of judgment.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is both the beginning (Arche) and the end (Omega).
Now is the time of the Holy Spirit, when the Holy Spirit makes us one bread, one body, and one spirit with the Lord Jesus Christ, so we become one with the Lord Jesus Christ and form the image of God.
On this day called today, Jesus Christ permeates into us through the Holy Spirit through his word (spirit and life), including God's image, attributes, divinity, glory, and behavioral pattern, so that he can finally reveal the glory of God through us.
Hallelujah!
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
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