June 28, 1987
Can God really be known? In John 14:9, Jesus said, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” This was as startling to His listeners then as it may be to us today. Alistair Begg teaches us how we can know God through Jesus, why this statement was countercultural to both the Greeks and the Jews, and why it is still the pivotal point of Christian faith.
7oIf you had known me, you would have pknown my Father also.4 From now on you do know him and qhave seen him.”
8rPhilip said to him, “Lord, sshow us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? tWhoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Do you not believe that uI am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you vI do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11Believe me that uI am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else wbelieve on account of the works themselves.
12“Truly, truly, I say to you, xwhoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I yam going to the Father. 13zWhatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that athe Father may be glorified in the Son. 14zIf you ask me5 anything in my name, I will do it.
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