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Jesus re-emphasises the point He has been making. If they have seen Him then they have seen the Father. If we know what Jesus is like then we know what the Father is like. So again we see the unity of the Father and the Son.
Jesus had spent almost three years with them, yet they still failed to realise fully who He was and what He was about. Why is this? It is because they have not yet received the Holy Spirit, and we will shortly hear much more about Him. Without the Spirit we cannot see who Jesus really is.
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Jesus now elaborates on why if they have seen and know Him then they know everything they need to know. Note that belief comes first. We need to believe that the Jesus is “in the Father” and that the Father “is in Him”. The Father and the Son are distinct but completely united. Jesus did not come with His own ideas or His own agenda. Rather He came to do His Father’s will. It was the Father living in Him that caused Him to do the things He did. He acted on His Father’s authority not His own authority.
Now see how different this is from the world’s approach, and indeed of man’s rebellion. The root of our rebellion is a desire to act on our own authority. We see this very much today in an increasing rejection of anything to do with God. We will decide what is right and wrong.
If we want to have true authority in our lives and true freedom, then we need to submit to the Father, to God. We are loathe to do this because we fear losing our life, losing authority. But Jesus said if we lose our life for His sake then we will truly find it. Just think about it for a moment. Without God we have nothing, we owe our very existence to Him, so it actually makes perfect sense that if we are to be truly fulfilled, truly what we are meant to be, then we need to submit to Him.
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