My Father Is Always At His Work

John 5:15-19 – The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well. So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

Mark 2:25 – He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

John 10:30 – I and the Father are one.”

John 4:34 – “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

Application:

• ·         God does not stop His deeds of compassion on the Sabbath day, and neither did Jesus.
• ·         The Jews did not object to the idea that God is the Father of all, but they strongly objected to Jesus’ claim that He stood in a special relationship to the Father—a relationship so close as to make Himself equal with God.
• ·         Because of who and what He was, it was not possible for Jesus to act except in dependence on the Father.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV