Going to Jesus

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  03-01 “I Will Answer ALL Your Questions.” 03-02 The Will of the Flesh and the Will of Man 03-03 Self-will and Strong Will 03-04 The Danger of Liberty 03-05 A Chastened Man 03-06 Reconciled 03-07 “Reconciled” Response 03-08 “Reconciled” Response 03-09 One Way 03-10 “One Way” Response 03-11 A Checklist For Staying Free 03-12 Everything Jesus Is 03-13 Becoming An Unbeliever 03-14 We Cannot Even Love God 03-15 Seeing The Father 03-16 “You Are Still A Proud People” 03-17 'You Are Still A Proud People: Response 03-18 No More Church 03-19 “Church” 03-20 Because God Did Not Reveal The Truth 03-21 The Death Penalty 03-22 False Teachers 03-23 Leave The Saving To God 03-24 “That They Might Be Damned” 03-25 “A New And Living Way” 03-26 “Hard To Understand”? 03-27 Saving Love 03-28 With What God Is 03-29 Loving The Feelings 03-30 True Fasting 03-31 God Is Humbler Than Man

 

Thought for the Morning
3-15

Seeing The Father

Jesus told his disciples, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” Then, what are we to see about the Father when we see Jesus beaten and nailed to a tree? I asked this question to some folk, and here are a few of the replies I received:

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Responses:

Pastor John:

We are to see that the Father “so loved the world He gave his only begotten Son so that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Do you think that God would have been beaten himself and crucified if He thought it would have done mankind any good?

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If we are to go by what Jesus did, we have to answer yes. But that sounds strange, doesn’t it? Still, the love that moved Jesus came from the Father, not from Jesus.

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But maybe he thought having his only child beaten and crucified would be the best way to reach us.

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Apparently so.

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Boy this really makes me love my God more.

te

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Yes it does.

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Pastor John,

I was thinking that this also showed us the humbleness of God. The love he has for His people to give His Son to be beaten and killed and treated the way he was had to be more than any parent could stand back and watch a child endure. It would be much easier to take the place of the one on the tree than to be the parent of the tortured one. I am sitting here now trying to imagine that kind of love, and I don’t know if we as humans can. I do know that I love my family in Christ that God has given me with all my heart and soul and being, and I am thankful for them, and for you Pastor John.

Love to all,

Sis. Tina