If You Knew Me

John 8:13-19 – The Pharisees challenged him, “Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid.” Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going. You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one. But if I do judge, my decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me. In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true. I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.” Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

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

John 16:3 – They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.

John 1:1,18 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

John 14:11 – Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.

Application:

• ·         John often mentions that Jesus depended on the Father and did the work the Father sent Him to do.
• ·         Jesus stresses that the Father is known through the Son and that to know the one is to know the other.
• ·         Not to know Christ is to be ignorant of the Father.
• ·         Jesus was God in the fullest sense.
• ·         Since no human being can see God as He really is, those who saw God saw Him in a form He took upon Himself temporarily for the occasion.
• ·         Faith includes believing that Jesus is one with the Father.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV