Week 27 Day 2

The Daily Take 10

The Gospel of John

Week 27 Day 2

Introduction… If someone said to you, “I don’t know God, but I want to know Him” What would you tell them? How would you describe God? There are 5 senses…seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting. Can one experience God through the 5 senses? And then there is knowing. Can knowing be accomplished without the 5 senses? How can we know God?

Read John 14:7-11 “If you had known me, you would have known my Father too. From now on you are beginning to know him and you have seen him.’ Philip said to him: ‘Lord show us the Father and that is enough for us.’ Jesus said to him: ‘Have I been with you for so long and you did not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say: ‘Show us the Father?’ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? I am not the source of the words that I speak to you. It is the Father who dwells in me who is doing his own work. Believe me that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me. If you cannot believe it because I say it, believe it because of the very works I do.”

Bible Study

• 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 speaks of knowing and God. “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for them that love Him. But God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, yes the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of man…or of God?”
• No man had ever seen God, until in Exodus 33:12-32 it tells of the only time God revealed Himself. In this case it was to Moses. It was an awesome event, but Moses had already known God for years.
• Psalms 34:8 says for us to spiritually…“taste and see that the Lord is good.”
• Philip the disciple, asks the incredible, or the impossible…show us the Father, as if seeing Him would result in knowing Him.
• Jesus says with utter simplicity, “He who has seen me has seen the Father.” You have seen me in action, my heart intentions and purposes. You now know God.

• Jesus reflected God. To see and know Jesus, is to see and know God. See Hebrews 1:1-3 where it says, “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past by the prophets, has in these last days, spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds, who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person…”

• Because we “see Jesus”, we can say and know about God that He…

• • Knows ordinary life, as He experienced human birth, the home, family and childhood.
  • Knows the necessity and honor of work. Not ashamed to do man’s work.
  • Knows what it means and is to be tempted.
  • Knows the joy and wounds that comes from loving others.
  • Knows the sacrifice, pain and suffering of the Cross.
  • Came here out of the love He had for His creation longing to bring back the relationship He had with mankind before the fall.
• The claim and test Jesus put forth relating to God was for one to look at…
  • What Jesus said…His words. They were wonderful words of life. He spoke as one with authority, wisdom, insight and like none other.
  • What Jesus did…His deeds. They were acts no one else ever did. Supernatural and yet done from a heart of love, the very heart of God. See Matthew 11:1-6.

Application

• Would your explanation speak well for God? Would your life be able to be used as an example? Do you reflect God?
• Does your life produce the fruit of His spirit alive, active, changing you from the inside out?
• Pointing people to Jesus and saying…listen to Him, look at Him, know Him and believe in Him is to see and know God.
• From the right and from the left, may we draw them by His Spirit to the straight and narrow way of God that states, Jesus is the way, truth and life and no one comes to the Father but by Him.

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