Father

John 10:25-26,37-38 – Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep…Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

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.

John 17:20-21 – “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

Application:

• ·         “The works of my Father” are the kind of works of compassion that the Father Himself does.
• ·         Jesus reference to his works may have been referring to the evidence of His whole manner of life—all He had done in the Father’s name.
• ·         Miracles were only a part of Jesus’ works.
• ·         Faith includes believing that Jesus is one with the Father.
• ·         The unity of believers should have an effect on outsiders, to convince them of the mission of Christ.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV