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2-21-2021 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalm 91:1-16

Text: John 14:1-11

Title: The Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Father for the children of God

        After the last supper with his disciples, after Judas Iscariot a devil departed, Jesus finally said that he would leave them and go to the Father to prepare a place for them, and then to come back again to take them all to the house of the heavenly Father. .

        Jesus said, they knew where he was going and  the way. as well. At this time Thomas, a disciple with doubt , asked the Lord:

”  Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?“ (John 14:5)

         Jesus must have known that all of them, like Thomas,  not knew where he was going. But when he heard their question, he said something very important not only for them, but for all who are to believe in him through them in the future:

 ” I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).

        Jesus said that there is only one way to the Father, and that is Jesus Himself. He was saying that he is The very Way. In addition, he said that he is the only truth, the very truth as well as the only very life.

          If we would say in one word of what all the philosophers or religious leaders in the world today are to pursue, they are  is struggling to find the way to the truth and the life. For example, Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, sought to find the way trying just to practice to reach so-called “Haetal” that means such as total resting in freedom. However, they should know that they can’t realize at all the way to reach such kind of  Utopia , just because all world philosophies and religions pursue to find the way forever and ever in vain. But they are not able to know where their way is going.. They haven’t been discovered the way for the last six thousand years, but they are still sharpening their own way without hope at all.

         Before Jesus declared a very important truth to the world that is sweating for the dream in vain through his final prayer  unto the Father before he left the world:

” And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” John 17:3,17)

           In other words, the knowledge of  the Father and  Jesus Christ himself  is the life eternal. What he means is that the only way to receive the life eternal through knowing the Father and himself, and  to believe in him and to receive him to enter into him, and to understand the word of the truth  is the only way to receive eternal life.

          The disciples who had heard the Lord told many times about His Father would have thought that the Father and Jesus were different each other. Philip’s question reveals this:

” Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.” (John 14:8).

        At this time Jesus said  for them hard to understand:

“Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works..'” (John 14:9-10)

          Jesus said to help them understand once again who He is:

” Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake..” (John 14:11)

           That’s right! Even today, through the Holy Spirit, those who believe in Jesus Christ who died for their sins according to the scriptures and  buried and rose again the third day according to the scriptures realize that Jesus is the Father God himself.

           But to hypocrites who reject to believe in Jesus, the Holy Spirit not allow them to know of Jesus as the Father God.  When he said to the Jews who believed in Jesus as God, saying, “I and my Father are one,” the Jews lifted the stone again to stone unto Jesus(John 10:30-31). They said that Jesus  was blaspheming God and tried to stone him. Eventually, they crucified him unto death.

          However, the prophet Zechariah prophesied that they shall finally realize and repent that they killed Heavenly Father on the day of Jesus’ Second Coming:

” And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn..” (Zech. 12:10)

           Nowadays, Jews, Gentiles, and including even so called themselves as Christians, most of them do not search the scriptures in detail, so they do not know who Jesus is, so they believe in another Jesus, believe in another gospel, and receive another spirit. The only way to know who Jesus is only through the words of God.

         Seven hundred years before Jesus appeared to the world, the prophet Isaiah clearly foretold who Jesus is:

”  Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.…. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace..” (Isaiah 7:14; 9:6)

           The prophet Isaiah prophesied that Jesus, who is to be conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mary’s womb, is with God and that this Jesus is the Eternal Father. According to this prophecy, Jesus told his disciples that He is God the Father, who is one with the Father. Of course, Isaiah, because He is God Himself, will do all wonderful things, and through the Holy Spirit, He is the counselor who guides them who believe in Him to the way to receive life.

          Then we must deeply understand why Heavenly Father was born in the world in the image of Adam.. All those born after Adam sinned and cast out of the Garden of Eden live without knowing who their Father is. Even though people have genealogy book in their family to get to know their biological fathers are  boast themselves saying, they were born in the roots of so called such as riyal family. However, all people born into the world need to know  that Heavenly Father himself  made all organs in the body for them to be born into the world in their mother’s womb. Realizing this truth, King David testified of what  he had understood:

” For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. 14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! 18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee..” (Psalm 139::13-18)

         That’s right! God, the Father who made us all in our mother’s womb, to show that He is the Father of all, For this cause, Jesus was born to let all men understand of him as the true Father  through being conceived in the womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit. To let the world know that he is the Father for all, he had done so many wondrous things that no man could do at all. He raised the dead, and healed all diseases, and walked on the surface of waters, and made turned water into wine, and fed more than five thousand men only with five loaves of bread and two fishes leaving over twelve full of baskets. Finally being transferred the sin of the world unto his flesh to die , and went down to the hell to cast all sins and curses into the fire of hell, and he rose again the third day to give salvation to the world.

            Because of this, the Father Jesus, who appeared to the world two thousand years ago has opened the way to the heavenly Father in the Lord Jesus Christ as the only way and the truth and the  life through the gospel for them that believe in him as  the Lord and Christ

           People in the world look down  other people without family genealogy book .We have heard of this happened in the times old dynasties in Korea Our Lord Jesus Christ truly wants all men enter into his genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ to live in the eternal kingdom of God in heaven through believing in him to enter the way  to heaven  receiving eternal life being sanctified by the truth.  For this cause, Jesus, the Father of us all died for all shedding his blood. And he rose again the third day to give ete for all men find out their own Father God.

           For the Jews, Jehovah God was their Father, as Jesus asked them to pray for their God the Jehovah. But unto the children of God who believe Jesus, Jesus is their Groom, and brother. Now in addition, Jesus is their Lord and God and eternal Father.

Amen! Hallelujah!