The Word Is The Father's

"The word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me." (1)

Jesus was continually receiving from the Father that He might communicate to us. Not for Himself, but for others, He lived and thought and prayed. From hours spent with God He came morning by morning to bring the light of heaven to men. "The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned." (2) "The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me." (3)

Jesus continually referred to His relationship with the Father. "I and My Father are one." (4) "If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him." (5)

Jesus on a number of occasions stated, "He who receives Me receives Him who sent Me." (6). In addition Jesus stated, "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me." (7) What a privilege it is to be a child of God and to be one of His messengers. We can have the same relationship with God that Jesus has, because of what Jesus has done for us. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation." (8)

God the Father desires the relationship with us that He has with Jesus. It is God's purpose to bring us into that relationship, if we will allow it. "He has made known to us his hidden purpose - such was his will and pleasure determined beforehand in Christ - to be put into effect when the time was ripe: namely, that the universe, all in heaven and on earth, might be brought into a unity in Christ." (9) God's purpose is that we all come into unity with Christ and with God, the Father. As They are One, we are to be One with Them, in Spirit, in unity and in truth.

1. John 14:24.
2. Isaiah 50:4.
3. John 14:11.
4. John 10:30.
5. John 10:37, 38.
6. Matthew 10:40; Mark 9:37; Luke 9:48.
7. John 13:20
8. 2 Corinthians 5:19.
9. Ephesians 1:9, 10.