ONE TEACHER JESUS CHRIST

 

 

ONE TEACHER JESUS CHRIST

 

These words were delivered at three meetings on:

10.02.2018 (morning and evening) and 11.02.2018

Part 1

 

When we meet God our Father, as it is written: "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."

(Mat 5:8), and we will look into His holy face, then we will experience the greatest pleasure that can ever be. But before this meeting will take place, many things had already happened and will happen on earth. A liar came and began to lie first to the angels in heaven and then to the people on earth. In heaven as well as on earth, there was truth first; angels and people lived in truth, they lived with God, but one of the angels started to lie and he came to earth as a liar to lie to people and now we have two voices; we have to choose whom we will listen to. God's Voice - many people say it's a scary voice. When they read the Old Testament, they are terrified and often run away from reading the Old Testament because it contains records of a great deal of blood being shed and frequent killing. Many like the God of the New Testament, a God who is so kind and kind, one to whom you can sin yourself and say, "God loves me and it will certainly be fine." Not! The God of the Old Testament is the same God as in the New Testament. In the Old Testament, God showed how holy he is. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ has not yet occurred. God showed how angry He is in His wrath. We see how mighty His wrath was when He brought down enemies upon Israel and allowed them to tear down the fortified city wall and then His Temple as a place polluted by the idolatrous life of God's people. In his wrath, He distracted them, showing them how He hated the evil that was done among His people. But in His holy desire, He showed them mercy and brought them back from places where they were scattered, telling them to listen carefully to Him now, not to play with Him, but to be earnest and thankful in obeying Him. Firstly, it seems that they started to think and choose good and reject evil, but how quickly they got into something bad again. And then, godly people amidst them, God's people were warning them: "Why are you doing this? That's why God had scattered us from this place earlier! Why are you doing it again?!"

 

We live in the times when knowing God should be the greatest in the history of mankind, because no generation before us had such an access to materials and various translations of the Bible. But it seems that in this crowd the devil is mocking people, giving them permission to have even more Bibles to mock them even more. While people have even more ways to find out what the truth is, the devil knows they won't care, because they've become lazy. He laughs at the lazy people who can only do wrong and watch over the wrong, and cannot take it and start examining how things are. This is how he scoffs at people: “You can have even more Bibles at your home, more of that what someday will judge you. You will not pick it up anyway to be interested in it and to want to find out what the truth is. And even if you take it, your aversion to the truth will stop you from getting to know it, because you cannot live without lying to one another in your daily life. You will read the Bible and you will miss its truth anyway, because it will not agree with your nice lie. "

The Lord Jesus Christ, being in the flesh on earth, told the scribes that they had removed God's truth and that they had put their lying teachings in that place, and therefore those people who heard them were limited just to that lie in their understanding of God. As scribes, they had the key of knowledge, but they themselves did not enter, and did not let others enter. Unfortunately, today it is so that not only scribes, but also those who begin to read anything from the Bible, become biblical teachers, confusing those who listen to them. Although they do not yet know God personally, they believe that with their revelations and dreams they have already known Him more and better than others. How often a person does not read the Word of God and does not accept the Word of God as it is, but accepts it through some teachings that are unbiblical because in point of fact, they are not in the Bible. They are not! No teachings that are being put so much ahead today, are in the Bible, because God has never brought them into His Bible. God is not ashamed of who He is. He doesn't need to hide in shame, hiding who He is through the Old and New Testaments, so that people can get to know Him by guessing. He opened Himself to us, and in his Son He revealed Himself to us. God is not ashamed and has said everywhere who He is, what His Name is and whom we should stick to. He did not make people read between the lines and guess what God He is. He told us to read God's simple Word and accept it. When he said to the Israelites: "Be ye holy; for I am holy." (1 Peter 1:16), it meant for them - be set apart for God, otherwise you risk your life on earth and your eternity. Be set apart to learn and know God. God called out of the burning bush to Moses: “(…) Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." (Exodus 3,4-5). "And the LORD said unto him (to Moses), Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them." (Exodus 19:24). For the people it meant that they should not approach this mountain, for whoever approached would perish because they were not ready for it. Only Moses and Aaron could climb it. And so later we see Moses himself on the mountain and what happens to Aaron and the rest of the people below. To know the truth that gives freedom; you have to be free from lying, you have to want to read God's Word as it is written, without your own psychological or philosophical interpretations.

 

We would like to read from the Word of God largely about our God, the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, and also about the Holy Spirit who came in Christ's place to lead the Church. While listening, be attentive, because the Word of God, as it was mentioned, will either save us or it will judge us. Therefore, you need to be sober and you need to judge whether you want to know the truth or just to have a meeting that will not benefit you much. We love Psalm 119, in which David writes how much he appreciates God's Word: "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." (Psalm 119:11). It was the lamp to his feet, it told him the truth about who God was and what he would do with  him.

 

Matthew 23:8-10:

 

“But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ."

 

We know that it is God's people who have one Teacher and one Father. So we will listen to the Teacher, what He tells us, because He said there is no Teacher other than He who can teach us the truth. His words are salutary for us because they free us from Pharisaism, they brighten up all darkness and show us the way of salvation, pointing that, what God wants to do now and in eternity.

 

Ephesians 2:20-22:

 

"And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."

 

The foundation, of which the chief cornerstone is Christ. He also speaks to us through the apostles and     prophets so that we may know what the truth is.

 

1 Cor. 8:5-6:

 

"For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him."

 

John 14:6:

 

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

 

There is no other way to the Father. Jesus Christ is the way to the Father, He came to us to reveal the Father and became the way of return for all God's children, so that through His body we would return to our Father's house in heaven, to our homeland.

 

John 14:16-18:

 

"And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."

 

I will pray the Father and He will give you another Comforter, the Spirit of truth. In this Spirit of truth, Jesus Christ came to us so that we might live and grow in truth and move towards eternity. "I will pray the  Father and He shall give you (...)". How precious it is that Jesus was on this earth, he bore our sins on the cross, on which He then died because of our sins, then He rose again for our justification and went to the Father to pray the Father, the Holy Father, that the Spirit will lead us now, that we would not be alone here with biblical teaching, but that the Spirit of God would lead every child of God to eternity with God.

 

John 16:13-15:

 

"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." 16.13

 

What does it mean that he shall not speak of himself? If anyone comes and says, "I am speaking not on

my own, but the one who sent me, he will speak to you through me." Jesus says that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, will not speak on his own, but there is someone who will speak to you through Him.

 

“He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you." 16.14.15.

 

All that the Father has, is mine, says the Lord. Therefore, He will take from what is already in Me, what the Father has given Me, and taking from Me, says Jesus, He will tell you from God's truth.

 

Luke 9:26:

 

"For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels."

 

For whoever shall be ashamed of the words of the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, of him shall also the Son of man be ashamed. We think, "How it is, after all these are so important and precious Words." But try to put these Words unto the Pharisees and scribes, religious people who have established dogmas and their opinions about God, what He is, who He is, etc. Try to put the words of Jesus unto these people. You will see if it will not be the same with them as when Jesus, walked on the earth, spoke these words to them. Will it not be the same effect? When Jesus spoke the truth, how did they react? Since the scholars of the Scriptures had already established their truth, hence the truth with which Christ came and spoke of it was an abomination to them. Therefore, they rejected what He said to them and did not accept it. Just as they did not accept the words of John the Baptist, the same way they did not accepted the words of Jesus Christ. They rejected them because their religious dogmas did not agree with what Jesus said. They were closed to the truth preached because God did it in them. “Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." (Matthew 13: 13-15). Such is God's anger against people who ignore God and think they can play with God by setting their own time and their ways for God to work in them. God can close the possibility of salvation completely; God's wrath is shown here. By sending His Son, for certain people, He closed the possibility of being saved. And exactly they were reacting in such a way for Jesus Christ activity and teaching.

 

Luke 10:16:

 

“He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me."

 

Jesus points out to us as Teacher that it is the Father who sent Him. We will read about this further as He had argued His statement. But now when He sends us, He wants us to preach what He says to us. Let's go and say what Jesus Christ told us. Why is it so important? Because that's the truth. Truth is the sword that cuts off hypocrisy, makes people experience the truth that sets them free from lie, it also causes suffering, because most people on earth who have a Bible do not want the truth because they are reluctant to God's truth. They already have their truth and do not want anyone to interfere with their beliefs based on that truth. They no longer listen to the Words of Jesus Christ, and are passing by that what He says, because He is saying something completely different than they.

 

 

Luke 24:25-27:

 

“Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself."

 

Only Jesus introduces us to the precious knowledge of what was written in the Old Testament regarding Him. Then He appears among the apostles, who, after all, walked with Him for three and a half   years, they listened to Him, and things happened through them, and they couldn't believe that it was Him.

 

Luke 24:41-45:

 

“And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them. And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. "

 

You can read the Bible and you may not understand at all what is written there unless the Lord opens your mind. That is why so many people err today, because they are not humble to spend time on their knees in front of God and ask the Lord, but they want to take something on their own way, having already the mass of universal religious teachings in their heads, in the context of the understood truth.

 

Acts 1:1-7:

 

“The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power."

 

Who Established? What does the teacher say? "Which the Father hath put in his own power." As we will go through the other Words of Jesus, we will be able to see it when He talks a lot about it. Unfortunately, how often people read and do not think at all about what they are reading, because they already have well-worn stereotypes, and they approach the simple Word of God, without realizing that these are the words of Jesus, who through them pay attention to the One who decides everything, that is, to His Father.

 

 

 

 

Acts 1:8:

 

"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."

 

We will be and we are witnesses of Jesus Christ. But if we leave all the teachings of Jesus Christ aside, it can lead us to building some own private teaching. Only when the words of Jesus are collected then we begin to understand each one utterance; what is he talking about. We read earlier: “Because all these are mine, because the Father has given it to me. So what I have, I have at my disposal, because the Father made such a decision. Everything that the Father has is mine." When we worship the Son, we worship the Father.

 

We will now look at the Bible for a moment to see the scribes' reaction to what Jesus Christ said to them.

 

John 8:47-55:

 

"He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me. And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying."

 

Whoever keeps the Word of Jesus Christ, in fact, keeps the Word of the Father, because Jesus Christ always keeps the Word of His Father.

 

John 8:56-59:

 

“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by."

 

This is how the scribes react, who are living without the power of the Holy Spirit. In their bodily wisdom, by listening to the truths of God's Word, they become aggressive towards the Teacher, the Lord Jesus Christ who proclaims them.

 

John 10:31-39:

 

“Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand."

 

What a God's exaltation will be part of everyone who has come to God's Word? How does God call them in this exaltation when He Himself speaks through them to others? When the Word of God has come to you, then you tell the true Word of God to others, because God speaks the Word through you. You have become pure in what God says through you, so others can hear the Word of God out of your mouth, spoken according to the truth with which this Word has come to you.

 

Acts 7:54-57:

 

“When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord."

 

That's how people react. It does not agree with what they made up. They decided that Jesus was not the Son of God, that He was false, untrue, because He did not agree with what they invented and introduced in their teachings.

 

Mark 7:6-8:

 

“He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do."

 

You see how people can fight someone because they think they know something, while it is not given to them from God, but it is a carnal knowledge, because often people make up and agree on something, and then others keep to it by following these people, although the Lord Jesus says something completely different. They read the gospel, but they don't see it. They have established patterns of thinking. No matter with what capital letters this Bible would be written, people will still miss those capital letters and follow their twisted teachings because that suits them better. In the spirit of rebellion, human science fits better, because God makes man humble and submissive.

 

A little bit too long introduction, which should let us see the truth and, rejoicing in it, move on in it.

 

Luke 4:23-30:

 

“And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. And he said, Verily I say unto you,

 

 No prophet is accepted in his own country. But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them went his way."

 

We know their methods of intimidating: when someone acknowledged Jesus as Christ, he was expelled from the synagogue. Later, people were even afraid that there would be no suspicion that they might accept it. We remember the parents of the blind one who was born blind and saw through. They may have had a son who can already see, and yet they were afraid. So much pressure was there. The devil is exactly  about it, that we would be afraid to think. Because if we start to think, the aggressors immediately start to act so that we don't think. The mindless are the best, they believe thoughtlessly without even wondering what the truth is. But you study the Scriptures. Search the Scriptures, not some dogmas.

 

So we see that this was not just one incident; that they so accidentally stumbled while listening to Christ Jesus, accusing Him of blasphemy when He told them the truth, this has happened many times.

 

Luke 11:52-54:

 

“Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him."

 

This is not how those who want to know the truth are acting. The Truth, the Son of God, speaks to religious people and see what they do unto Him. Jesus told His disciples, "As I have suffered, you will also suffer." And every generation has the same thing. Those who seek the truth begin to tell the truth, and they start to have experiences and troubles right away. All this machine, made by the devil - the adversary of truth, starts to move immediately. Today they cannot burn the stakes, but they would burn them as they did then and cut off their heads just as they did before.

 

Acts 4:18-22:

 

"And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus."

 

That is the system: "do not tell, we already have our truth, therefore do not pass on to others what your Teacher Jesus Christ says." They even bribed the soldiers to lie that it was the disciples who stole the body of Christ Jesus from the tomb. They were determined not to accept what He said to them and His resurrection, no matter what the evidence of the truth was, and that's it.

 

Acts 4:19-22:

 

“But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done. For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed."

 

 

And now let's see what the Church does.

 

 Acts 4:23-27:

 

“And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together. "

 

To whom does the Church of Jesus Christ pray? Who and what are they talking about in this prayer? They speak of God who sent Christ and how religious Israel and the world authorities opposed God and His Christ by not accepting Him.

 

Acts 4: 28-31:

 

“For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. "

 

The Holy Spirit with which they were filled gave them the courage to preach the truth, even at the risk of their lives. I thought to myself that as the eagle rises higher and higher, higher and higher, so the Church rises higher and higher, filled with the truth of the Word of God, higher into heaven, so that more and more heaven will be visible in you and in me on earth. This gives us the true Word of God. A fake one causes something else entirely, it does not release, but arouses pride, hauter and arrogance. The true Word makes us wholesome servants, who are the first who live according to this and spread the Word.

 

As I thought about it, I was reminded of a passage from John 3: 31-36:

“He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony. He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."

The teacher tells how it really is.

 

Jeremiah 15:16:

 

“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts."

 

How good it is when you can read the Bible normally and understand what it says to you; hear these beautiful words in spirit. Be able to see by faith what the Teacher says without veils. These Words lift you up to your heavenly Father, on the wings of Christ's faith, Who was on this earth. You want to praise the Father as His Son praised Him during His earthly experience.

 

I will not speak of bad teachings unless it will be necessary, because I am not interested in what people

bring between God's wonderful truth, but the truth itself, in which God's order reigns, giving freedom to everyone who accepts it.

 

Hebrews 11: 13-16:

 

“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath prepared for them a city.”

 

Raised by the truth, they saw their country, not here on earth, but where their Father is, in heaven. They also headed there through their earthly pilgrimage, keeping an eye on this direction. God was not ashamed to be called their God.

 

Proverbs 15, 24:

 

"The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath."

 

A rational man, having an understanding from God, knows how to go in order to attain eternity; So he goes up, he doesn't go back down, he goes up, and it was only possible for him because of the truth. Only because of the truth can he go in the right direction. Trying to go against the truth, he will stop and back up.

 

Now we will move on to these Words of the Lord Jesus about the good seed. Luke 8:15:

"But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience."

 

They keep the Word as it is recorded in the Bible. With a sincere heart, it is beautiful and comes at a price, which is suffering. But it is better to suffer for the truth than to avoid suffering by being deceived. Because Jesus suffered, and before he went to the Father, he said, "You too will suffer because of the truth. They will reproach you for my sake, speak badly about you, and exclude you." As they were against Jesus Christ, they will be against His disciples. And if they will be able to, they will kill you because they hate the truth.

 

Luke 11:27-28:

 

“And it came to pass, as He spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto Him, Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which Thou hast sucked. But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."

 

Rather, happy are those who listen to God's Word and keep it, lest the devil steal it from them through some false doctrine which would hide the truth from them that they would leave it behind.

 

We will now read the statements of the Lord Jesus that everything in Him comes from the Father, that who He is and what He has. We do not find in any of Jesus' statements that He has anything without the Father. Well, the words of Jesus, the Teacher, show us very clearly that everything He is and what He has comes from the Father.

 

Matthew 11:27:

 

"All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him."

 

The words of Jesus, introduce the believer in Him, into the revelation of the Father: what is the Father, what are His decisions, what is His plan and what is the Father for us.

 

John 3:35:

"The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand."

John 6:46:

“Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. "

 John 1:18:

“No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.”

 

The only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father has revealed Him. No one has ever seen the Father, but there is the One who has seen Him. Therefore, what He says is the most important to me and to you. Even if a thousands of Bible teachers would step forward and say, "No, it can't be like that"; however, the words of Jesus are more significant than the words of all these teachers. If the Lord Jesus says that He alone knows the Father, then only His Words tell the truth about the Father and about the relationship between Him and the Father.

 

John 7:28-29:

 

“Then cried Jesus in the temple as He taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me. "

 

So the Father sent the Son. No one knows the Father except the Son, and no one knows the Son but

the Father. They saw the Son, and what were their intentions? They wanted to kill Him. They did not honor Him, they did not respect Him, they did not obey Him, they just did not know Him, they thought: this is the carpenter's son.

 

John 8:19:

 

“Then said they unto Him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father; if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. "

 

John 8:54-55:

 

“Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that He is your God: Yet ye have not known Him; but I know Him: and if I should say, I know Him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know Him, and keep His saying. "

 

Praise God that there is someone who knows the Father and who knows about the Father what we need: to honor the Father, honor His Son, glorify God throughout a sincere heart, free from hypocrisy, and with freed and purified mind.

 

John 10:14-18:

 

"I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”

 

This decision was made by the Father and it must be fulfilled. The Father's decisions are irrefutable and unchanged. Once again, Jesus says: "I know the Father and the Father knows me."

 

I think that we will read these wonderful Words of the Teacher with even greater attention so that they would connect each other with the statements of Him and the apostles and prophets, and we will appreciate them because they give us freedom.

 

John 13: 3

 

"Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He was come from God, and went to God."

 

Jesus knew that the Father gave Him everything and that He came from God and to God He would return, and having fulfilled all the task that the Father had given Him, He returned back to the Father. A very important task. Very important, otherwise the wrath of God would have to fall on each of us.

 

John 14:1-11:

 

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it."

 

If Jesus is only doing what the Father showed Him, if He is only saying what the Father told Him, if He is only passing on what the Father wants to pass on to us, then by looking at the life of the Son, we see what the Father is like. The perfect image and reflection of the Father's glory is His Son walking on earth and speaking and doing only what the Father wants. That is why He says, "The Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works." Wonderful! This is God's order. The great, powerful, holy Father, who wants to, one day, embrace all His children. Before the foundation of the world He decided that His Son would be the only sacrifice through which we would be cleansed and freed from the slavery of sin and death. We would be able to know the Father, as God's children, right now, and in eternity to look at Him as Jesus now looks at Him.

 

John 15:20-21:

 

“Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me."

 

Jesus says it very clearly: "I did not come here on my own, the Father sent me to you. The Father has made a complete decision about everything." The words of our Lord, the Teacher are so beautiful, so clear. There is no pride in them, there is purity, there is no attempt to make someone of yourself to amaze us, but they are pure so that the Father may be fully visible. This is such a great love to the Father. If we will love Jesus so much, we will also want Him to be so visible in us, how He always liked that the Father would be visible in Him. Then the Father will be glorified as the Son desires.

 

 

 

John 16: 23-28:

 

“And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."

 

To be in this wonderful place! When in the name of Jesus Christ, belonging to Him, you ask the Father, He rejoices and gives it to you. Because when we ask the Father in the name of Jesus Christ, it is as if the Son himself would ask the Father. The Father never refused His Son, He always listened and is listening  to Him.

 

John 17 chapter. In all the prayer of the Lord Jesus, in which He asks, He shows what the Father did, how He acted and how He gave us to Him. He says: "I do not pray for the whole world, I pray for those you have given me, Father. They were yours, and you gave them to me." Jesus tells us in a simple way what it looked like and how it is today. We all belonged to the Father, and He gave us to His Son to save us and, by leading us through each day, prepare us to meet the Father. The Son is perfectly zealous in this task. There will never be a game of the Church here, here God's work is done on earth. Only those who respect and fear God's Word will be fitted in this work of God. They do not argue with God, as those who have done this  before us, but they submit to Him, and seek in Him everything that is necessary for life and godliness. They know what God's salvation is and from whom, by whom it came, who still sustains it, and how it will be accomplished, so that we can be where our heavenly Father wants us to be. See what's happening today? How is the Father's glory completely overshadowed? Do you see how the Father id disappearing into somewhere? How few people today love the Father? The Lord Jesus did not do this and He said that we should follow Him. In this prayer, Jesus says not only that we have been handed over, but also:

 

John 17:22:

 

"And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one."

 

The Father glorified His Son, and the Son now says: "And I give to those who belong to me, because you gave them to me, the same glory that You gave me, Father, that they may walk here on earth in this glory of unity in love, holiness, victory, obedience, faithfulness and honesty.” May we walk in the glory of the victors who will defeat the enemy with a pure heart, a pure mind. We are saved, set free from seeking our own glory, experiencing a glory that surpasses all glory. A wonderful bestowal in him. Paul rejoiced when it came to him through revelation what glory is upon him, thanks to the Son of God who lived here on earth in obedience to the Father till the end. We know this prayer. Let us pay attention to every Word of Jesus Christ, because each of them gives life and these are the Words of the Father who filled His Son with it. May He also fill us, through His Spirit, with glorification of the Son, and through the Son and the  Father.

 

 

 

1 Timothy 6:13-16:

 

" I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen."

 

Later we will delve into the titles by which the Father has defined the Son. We are going to read about the Son who inherits all that the Father has. These are not just empty words: "You know, Son, I give it to you, but you cannot be a king." Not! Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords. May God help us, as much as possible, as much as it will be given to us, so that when we search the Scriptures, we can see it. Truth gives freedom. The truth gives liberty. We often do not have freedom because we are limited by old sciences that close us within certain frames. But when you experience the power of these simple words, you will fly up to heaven like an eagle, trusting in God.

 

Matthew 16:15-17:

 

“He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven."

 

No one knows the Son but the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son. The Lord Jesus says to Simon: "Simon, it was my Father who revealed this to you that I am His Son, Christ, Messiah, Anointed One."

 

Matthew 17.5:

 

"While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him!"

 

This is what the Father says, the One who decides about everything. Only the Father is not told what to do, because His decisions are perfect. The father does not make a decision in which something needs to be corrected, and there must be someone who will understand it better than Him and will make the necessary correction. The father is perfect and so are His decisions. There is nothing to improve there, so Jesus didn't have to do it either. Jesus' life is perfect, and His sayings are perfect. The same perfection of Christ should be in us, and His utterances, uttered by us, should be perfect, unadulterated. The Father told us, "This is my beloved Son, listen to him." So we listen to what Jesus says in everything, because this is what the Father  wants.

 

Matthew 22: 29-33:

 

“Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God,

saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine."

 

Matthew 26:29:

 

"But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom."

 

Jesus is our King reigning over us, and this is the Kingdom of the Son, completely surrendered to the Father. Someday the time will come when the Son will give everything back to the Father: "Then when he returns it all to the Father, when I bring it all to the Father, then I will drink with you, rejoicing in the sight of our Father in heaven."

 

We read about this in 1 Corinthians 15: 22-28:

 

“For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all."

 

Easy? Paul could write that God was the Head of Christ (1 Corinthians 11: 3). The Son will do exactly what the Father will do and everything will return to where it started. Praise God! Praise God that the Father's plan is still being carried out. Before the foundation of the world, the Father made a decision to select children in Christ Jesus who would belong to Him for eternity and that His Beloved Son would bear the consequences of our transgressions, to bring us back to the Father. It is the will of the Father and all the time the will of the Father is being done. No one has imposed his will on the Father because there is no one greater than the Father. The Son will be in submission to the Father. Surrender does not mean a wasted life, that is, glory, the glory of the Father's victory in the whole matter. We will all together for all eternity praise our Heavenly Wonderful Father, about whom it was read that when we were in trouble, in sins, God sent His Son to get us out of our problems and give us a new mind, a new heart, new desires and a new actions.

 

Luke 10:21-22:

 

“In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him."

 

"I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth." Everything at this moment is surrendered to the Son. Christ is Lord of heaven and earth. He is making the whole governance, deciding everything,

 

because it seems good in the sight of the Father.

 

Luke 22:28-29:

 

"Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me."

 

Do you understand what Jesus says? Do you see the responsibility which Jesus had when he came here? Do you experience what this means to you?

 

Luke 22:30:

 

"That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

 

Today, we are this royal house, holy priesthood, a peculiar people. In the name of Jesus Christ, we ought to be holy, separated to reign in the kingdom of the Son and also of the Father. Praise God for the seriousness, seriousness of the Father and His Son in such important matters. There is no mess, no one does what he wants. The Father's will is in everything. Either you will be exalted in Christ or cast out. As it is said, "Whoever does not abide in Christ will be cut off and thrown out." Very great seriousness! The kingdom of Jesus Christ is attacked on all sides with lies, slanders, insults, because this kingdom is not of this world. The people who think differently today are those who do not want to accept the thoughts and words of Jesus, who want to live arbitrarily because they hate the Church. The Church is clean, orderly, loving brothers and sisters who submit to one another, who pay attention to the Father and the Son to do the Father's will, thanking that it was possible thanks to the Son who suffered the consequences of our rebellions and disobedience, and to the Holy Spirit who came to lead us further in the Spirit of Christ. Think about it! Glory - "I, Father, have given them the glory that You have given me." Think about it! Glory - accept it, live it, be abundant, be grateful, do not sell this splendor for earthly privileges. Then you will understand what Jesus says. How is it to take us out of this world and transfer us to the Kingdom of His beloved Son? Tearing us out completely and not leaving any sinful ties. I am torn apart, my bonds are in Christ. I have died for the world and the world has died for me. I do not live in the evil in which the world lives, but thanks to Jesus I live in the good of Christ, because only this makes sense. May God support us in this. It is so powerful, so great, so glorious!

 

Acts 2^nd chapter.

 

This is the first sermon, given as the disciples were filled and immersed in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit freely filled their mouths with the gospel of Jesus Christ and spoke through them to the people who came to Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost. What a powerful sermon, what truth to be revealed to mankind! There are none of these theological fakes of today. At the time of its proclamation, the Lord Jesus Christ is in heaven, at the right hand of the Father.

 

"Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

 

Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.  Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Until I make thy foes thy footstool. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." Acts 2:22-36

 

The Father's power at work in the Son all the time. Even as the Son works, it is still the Father's power. Words, glory - the Father is in everything.

 

"Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." Acts 2:36.

 

Lord of all, Savior of all God's children. Through Him we go to the Father, through that who the Son was, here on earth we go to the Father, through His body, through His obedience, through His faithfulness, love, perseverance, through all that He was and is now.

 

You know, there is a great need for holy Christians on this earth, separated, filled with God's Spirit, filled with truth, whose lives are valuable, and who will also be exposed to all insults and slanders.

 

Acts 3:12-26:

 

"And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the

 

people. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities."

 

Everything has been handed over to Me by My Father, says Jesus Christ, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son. When we read the Bible on that basis, we understand what Jesus is talking about. When he says: "I am sending you", we realize that it is all the time the Father working in the Son, and through the Son working in us. We can constantly experience the truth that sets us free from carnal confusion in our prayers, in our meditations, in our speaking, or in our lives, and in bringing Jesus Christ into our spiritual life. Then the Holy Spirit fills us with the victory of life over death, light over darkness, love over hate, sanctification over sin, and truth over lies. The lives of people who are in the truth are pure. Paul could say of himself: "You have seen my life, it is holy, clean and spotless. You have watched me and you have seen that I no longer live, but Christ lives in me." It is not a delusion that is where there is no truth and living godly according to it, where there is consent to sin and saying, "We have all sinned and we will sin because there is no other way." The truth does not tell us this, but on the contrary, it triumphantly proclaims: "I have come to save you from your sins, to set you free from your old nature, and to give you My life, so that you may live and abound because of Me." Thanks to You, Father, and your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

 

Part 2

 

I would like us to be aware that people who are convinced that they are completely right, not always are right. The Pharisees and scribes were sure in one hundred percent about they equity, and they attacked Jesus everywhere, tried to approach Him and catch Him on anything. Just because they were so sure doesn't mean they were right. Sometimes it seems as if people are so confident then the right must be on their side. We see how Jesus answered them, how calmly. He knew they were wrong, but the other people around didn't know that. They judged that if the attackers were so determined, they had to be right, and that the man who defends rather than attacks is probably the culprit. This is also how they judged Jesus, who did not respond with the attack to those who attacked Him. For the sober participant of the event, the truth is sufficient in itself, because it does not have to fight for itself, but for the reckless, more important is the go-aheadness. On the cross, Jesus did not look like a winner. Those who stood at the foot of the cross were assured of victory, believing that now they had unquestionable proof that He was not Christ Jesus. To put a winning ending dot, they arranged it to break the legs of the crucified because they knew the Messiah's bone would not be broken. So, to be the ones who would mock this crucified one, they made it to break their legs so that the matter would be sure and settled. And what? Failed, Jesus died earlier, but what was written in the Bible was done: they pierced his side. People who know the truth have the fruit of the truth: patience and gentleness, they can wait a long time for understanding. Just like Jesus was waiting for us, for me, for you, to help us, so that we could understand it.

 

Now let us consider the words, "What the Father told me, I tell you". Jesus, while preaching on the

earth, spoke on this subject many times so that no one would have any doubts from who is coming that,  what He was saying.

 

John 12:48-50:

 

"He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak."

 

The Father - says Jesus - speaks to you in Me, and I do not want and do not even think about changing anything in it, even if millions of advisers advise it, because I love my Father and I always do what pleases Him. Thank God! And by loving the Father, Jesus was ready to resist all combinations of the enemy, leaving Himself to the Father at his complete disposal. This is obedience. Do you know the better one? There is no better one. You will not add anything to it, and you will not take anything away from it, that the Father may be perfectly heard.

 

Deuteronomy 18:15-18:

 

“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”

 

God had said before that the one who would come will say exactly what the Father wants. He will open His mouth so that the Father can speak through Him, and whoever despises this prophet will despise the Father. Whoever does not listen to Him, will perish, because he has stopped obeying the Father, and the rebellious children were to be stoned to death by their parents, who were to throw the stones first. Rebellious children who refuse to listen to the voice of the Father speaking through His beloved Son will perish. For it is said whoever will not obey this prophet will be destroyed from among the people. Woe if a man calls himself a Christian and does not listen to Jesus. Yes or no? Yes. This is what the Father is like, He has not changed. The Father is not able to be changed for us because He is perfect. Whether you agree with Jesus or not, you can disagree, after all, you have free will. But true freedom is one that breaks free from slavery of lawlessness. I am set free when I can live thanks to Jesus for His glory, and therefore live for the glory of the Father. This is the freedom that Jesus Christ spoke about.

 

John 8:26-29:

 

“I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. They understood not that he spake to them of the Father. Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.” Beautiful dealing!

 

“And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him."

 

 

Beautiful dealing! Let us apply this: deny yourself, accept your cross, accept your death and follow Me and come after Me, says Jesus. Beautiful imitation, glory, obedience and faithfulness to the Father. Then God fills you with His Spirit and gives you victory over sin and you can walk in this world and be pure, have a pure mind and a pure heart. This is how God is like, there is no purity without God. Without the presence of Jesus Christ, there is no purity in us. When the Son is in you, you have life. Without the Son, there is no life and there must be sin.

 

John 8:38:

 

"I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father."

 

Those who argued with Jesus heard many words from the devil. Unfortunately, there is also a faith in what the devil says. Many people believe the devil and say that God said so. But this is the devil because it is not according to the truth that Jesus said. Many people believe the devil. The scribes also believed the devil, and Jesus showed it to them.

 

John 8:40:

 

"But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham."

 

John 8:51:

 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death."

 

When Jesus says, "My Saying", we understand that now Jesus does not change His earlier statements

and does not speak from Himself, but still speaks from the Father who sent Him to us. It is not like that with the Bible, that we take something out of context and build the teaching on what we like. Whole doctrine must create one image that God speaks of. All these verses have to connect, you can't take one out and forget about another because it's as if you tear different places off a map and then go to a place that is no longer on your map. The Father always says in the Son, even when the Son says: "I told you this," this is still the Father's saying, because the Son accepted everything from the Father who put everything on His Son.

 

John 7:16:

 

"Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me."

 

What Jesus tells us is not directly His, but the Father Who has arranged perfectly all that is to be said. It is the Father who speaks through Jesus, it is He who told Him what to say. That is why He is our Teacher, because He always says what the Father said to Him. If He would not say what the Father said, He could not be our Teacher, because then He would have added or taken something of what the Father says.

This is the perfect ministry of Jesus Christ, that there will be no error in all of God's children, that we may know what our heavenly Father is saying to us and obey Him. When the Father says: Listen to my Son, we are to listen to Jesus Christ, because He says exactly everything the Father told Him.

 

Do you believe Jesus Christ?

 

"If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him."

 

No unrighteousness. It is unrighteousness when we add or remove anything from what God has said. Do you understand that? It is disrespecting God, if I change what He said. Jesus respects His Father perfectly and only what the Father said to Him, He tells each of us. Salvation is given to us in the words of Jesus Christ, because the Father made it to be heard by us through a perfectly obedient Son, for our salvation.

 

John 12:50:

 

“And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. "

 

The Father's commandment is everlasting life, so Jesus says exactly what the Father said to Him. John 14:23-24:

“Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 24He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me."

 

Is it not clear? Is Jesus vaguely talking about this? Jesus told us that He never spoke to us alone. He repeatedly and emphatically emphasized that the Father always speaks through Him, so that no one would have any doubts that the Father had sent Him to us. Because of you and me, Jesus said this, lest the devil deceive us and build not a false teaching on these words.

 

John 15:15:

 

“Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."

 

Someday we will stand alone before our Father in heaven. What an honor it will be to thank Him for Jesus, for such a Son who is always faithful, obedient and loving the Father. He does not fight for His own glory, but gives glory to the Father for all that He does, showing that the Father is the decision-maker in every matter.

 

John 18:37:

 

"Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.”

 

 

This is why Jesus Christ came, to bear witness to the truth. He also mentioned, that we will know the truth and the truth will set us free.

 

Hebrews 1:1-2:

 

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds."

 

The Father spoke through the prophets, and now He has spoken through the Son. The Father's voice

has been heard all the time on this earth. Those who were listening to Him laughed, mocked, scoffed, and He spoke to them through the prophet Jeremiah for twenty-three years, and finally He said: Now you will speak, but now I will not listen to you. The apostles believed what Jesus taught them that it was God Who spoke to them through Him.

 

Mathew 10:40:

 

"He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me."

 

Can you see this order? Jesus always says: If you accept Me, you do not accept Me alone, but accept the Father who sent Me. You cannot separate Me from the Father, because I will not allow myself to be separated from the Father, because I honor the Father and you want to do something for Me that I will never want. That is why He said: I and the Father will come and live in a mansion prepared for this.

 

Matthew 11:25-26:

 

“At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight."

 

He says: Father, You decided, and I obey you. You made that decision and I will follow that, Father. For the Father said: amen! May we also follow this, so that the Lord Jesus would tell us: Amen! Thank God! Let us be obedient to the Son of God, because by that we are obedient to the Father, and this is what it is all about.

 

Mathew 19:23-29:

 

“Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. When his disciples heard it, they were

 

exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life."

 

These are the words of Jesus. The disciples actually did that- they followed Him. That is why Jesus tells them what they will gain from it. No one can help another if he does not follow Jesus personally.

 

Matthew 24:35:

 

"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."

 

Jesus Christ's words are eternal. Heaven and earth will pass away, but these words will not pass away. This is certain, God's reliance.

 

Mark 1:14-15:

 

"Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel."

 

Believe to that what Jesus says, and the apostles and prophets also say this after him, because the Father speaks through them all. Through them who are careful to keep their mouths and hearts open to God's Word. Who do not trade in God's Word, but did what Jesus said because He commanded it, entrusting Him with the solution of every matter of my or your life. Let Jesus solve it, not me, not you. The one who trusts himself resolves his own affairs, but we see what comes of it.

 

Mark 11:25-26:

 

“And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.”

 

Amen, it is true! If you have done to anyone what is wrong in God's eyes and you want to continue to bear a grudge, walk with a bad attitude, then remember God's instruction on this matter. If your brother really has something against you, because you did wrong to him, and at that moment you want to pray, God tells you that He will not listen to you until you remove the evil, and then come back and He will receive you. This is how our Father is, and none of the child will change, convince or deceive Him. Our Father is perfect. Look in the Old Testament how the Father was determined. See what punishment fell on the two sons of Aaron, they brought a strange fire, and in a moment they were no longer alive. Others also rebelled, and in a moment they were not alive either. Unfortunately, too late a man realizes that instead of saving himself, he perishes with God because He is holy. Was that not the case with Ananias and Sapphira? This is the New Testament. Many today would say: Ananias and Sapphira are much better than many people because they brought a huge share of what they had. But if a man says he gives something to God and then takes it away from it, he will get exactly the same things as Ananias and Sapphira. God is the same, He has not changed, then He showed at once that it will also be so in the New Testament. That is why it is said: do not tell God what you will do, and if you have already said, do it!

 

Revelation 1:1

 

Our Lord Jesus Christ is already at the right hand of the Father, He rules over everything, and everything is subjected to Him. While walking on the earth in flesh, He said: The Father will tell me more. And a Book of Revelation begins with the words:

 

"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him."

 

The Son, being perfectly obedient to the Father, was ready to take the Book from the Father's hands and break its seals. Why? Because He redeemed for the Father His children with His own blood, so that they could be with the Father as He is with the Father. The Bible always tells the truth that we should not to fear, but accept it and start to think so. It's not written to make light of it, but that's the truth. We read here that God gave Jesus Christ a revelation, not that He had that revelation all the time. That's the truth. Jesus Christ sends John this revelation through an angel so that we can read and keep it.

 

Now we will discuss the next element that our Lord the Teacher spoke about.

 

"I have come to do not My will, but the will of the Father who sent Me."

 

So we can be sure that the Father's will should be done in His every, as it was done in the Firstborn.

 

John 6:38-39:

 

“For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day."

 

What a powerful revelation. If you believe in Jesus, this obedient to Father Jesus Christ, you have a certain, unchanging hope in Him, because the Father is behind it. The one Who if He punishes He punishes, and if He saves  He saves. We do not see Him stroking those who are wilful among His people, but we observe how He punished them, how He scattered them, how He chased them with the sword and with diseases, until they understood at least a little so that He could show them His grace as a consequence.

 

John 4:34:

 

"Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work."

 

After all, these are such powerful and pure words. None of us could utter such words perfectly, not even as Christians, because so often we want to give glory to ourselves. Who among you has never wanted to claim glory? There is no such a man between us. I know this because many of us have fallen into some kind of trap to play the part of smarter than they are. And then we were ashamed of it and we needed an Advocate who interceded for us, that we would be forgiven and that we would be cleansed of this vanity, so as not to try to create some kind of image around us, of being too big for our boots. Like Jesus, to be exactly who we are today, thanks to Jesus. Because whoever runs too fast, then runs alone and will surely fall over. Run as the Lord gives you to run, and then you will surely be the one who will reach the destination.

 

John 3:17:

 

"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."

 

John 3:31-36:

 

“He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony. He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.  For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."

 

You understand, fear is an awareness that what Jesus said is yes and amen. And even if a thousands of Hebrew and Greek experts say otherwise, it does not matter, because the Teacher is one. His teaching is unchanging, it is eternal. You add nothing and take nothing away, everything has been said.

 

John 5:43:

 

"I am come in my Father's name...”

 

The Lord Jesus Christ, after completing His earthly task, and before departing to heaven, sent us in His name. However, nothing changed from the Father's will when the Son sent us in His name because it is the same will all the time.

 

“… and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive."

John 6:28-29:

“Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”

 

John 7:28-29:

 

“Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me."

 

John 7:33:

 

"Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent Me."

 

John 8:16:

"And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me."

 

John 8:42:

“Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me."

 

We will read many times: "I came to do His will, and not alone, but the Father sent me on this matter, He gave me everything." We meet these words of Jesus all the time. See how many of these places are in the Bible.

 

John 12:26-28:

 

“If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

 

This is what the Father is like. The Son is in full submission to the Father. A great Father and a great Son, a wonderful family of God. Belonging to this family, of a saved people, rescued from darkness, with a lightened heart, with the ability to read the Bible freely and think biblically. Only biblical thinking gives you the freedom to live in a liberty on this earth as God pleases. I emphasize once again: All human teachings, however wonderful they are presented, do not give freedom because God is not in them, because they are against the truth.

 

John 12:44:

 

"Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me."

 

After all, He says: Believe in me. This is true, but it shows that by believing in Him, we also believe in the Father who sent Him.

 

John 14:31:

 

"But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence."

 

 

The world must know that "I love the Father and I do as the Father commanded me." I do His will constantly, every moment. Now Jesus is also doing the Father's will perfectly. A wonderful Son, just one a such Son who wants to teach us who He is before the Father. Jesus Christ wants to sing praise with us in the church, praising the Father in our pure hearts.

 

 

John 16:5-10:

 

“But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more."

 

It is finished! The wonderful work of the Son who glorifies the Father in so many adversities, in so many temptations, in so many outrages. And finally - in the crucifixion.

 

 John 20:21-23:

 

“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.  And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.”

 

We know that the Son of God and man, Jesus Christ, had the right to say, "Your sins are forgiven."

 

But people didn’t knowing Him, were thinking how He could do this? He could! God has the power to forgive sins, and Jesus Christ, the Son of God, took everything from the Father. Now Jesus Christ also says this to the Church: I give it to you, kings and priests. Your decision - either the sin will be stopped, if the man refuses to repent, or the man will repent, and then you will forgive the sins. This is a law from Jesus Christ who took it from the Father and handed it over to us.

 

 Matthew 18:10-14:

 

“Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.”

 

If this is not the will of the Father, why does the Father care that His child, despite a stumble in a godly life  (better that he should not stumble, as Peter writes: that if a child of God strengthens His calling and election, he will never stumble – 2 Peter 1:10), was brought back into balance so that there was not even a trace of the stench left after the evil in which the child had stumbled. That this contamination would be cleansed completely in the blood of Jesus Christ, and not just by making a veil of words. Full cleansing from all evil is in the blood of Christ Jesus.

 

Matthew 18:21-35:

 

“Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.”

 

How important is a true cleansing for you and for me. God's people always have an open hearts, because that is what Christ has for us.

 

Matthew 23:37-39:

 

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."

 

Jesus says how much He would like that to happen. Remember how the priest who served that year prophesied: wouldn't it be better that one should perish than all should perish, not knowing that he was prophesying, because Jesus came to gather together all the scattered children of God. You understand what this means for us, let us not prevent Jesus from bringing us closer to Himself in His purity, love, holiness, joy and peace, because it is all from the Father. We should always confidently give ourselves to Jesus Christ so that He may do in us what is pleasing the Father and Him, so that we may be ever closer to each other in Christ, in Christ's purity.

 

Matthew 26:36-:

 

“Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed,

 

saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if

 

this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words."

 

"Father, not as I will, but as thou wilt!" We know that for Jesus, separation from the Father was the most terrifying experience in the plan of salvation, for you and me. Jesus was not afraid of the suffering of the crucifixion. For Him, the most difficult was temporal separation with the Father for the sake of us sinners, because this is what the Father decided. Do you remember, what He said from the cross: " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Because your sins and mine have separated Jesus from the Father. This is the consequence of our life without God's will. Let us worship the Father in spirit and in truth, let us submit ourselves to the Father, let us listen to what the Teacher says and let us live and say it according to this teaching.

 

Mark 3:35:

 

"For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."

 

This is a real family that goes to eternity. Whoever does the Father's will is Jesus' brother, sister and mother. Only those who do the Father's will are the real family. And these are the ones who listen to the Son and accept every Word that the Son has spoken to them, because it is the Father's will. The Father speaks through His Son, because the Son does the Father's will.

 

Luke 2:48:

 

Mary says to Jesus:

 

"…behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing."

 

Mary does not think about her Father in heaven, but about Joseph. Behold, Joseph your father, and I, Mary your mother, have been looking for you. This is how Jesus replied:

 

Luke 2:49

 

"And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business."

 

Jesus is talking about the Father in heaven. Do you not know that I must be in what is My Father? Luke 4:42-43:

“And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them. And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent."

 

Jesus says to them: You will not keep me! When He fed them, they wanted to make Him a king, but they didn't keep Him. If they would like to place you on some high level, in some religious arrangement, you will reply: “You will not keep me, I am not interested in your seats, positions or places. I am seated in Christ, up to the right hand of the Father in heaven. "

 

Luke 23:46:

 

“And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. "

 

Soon after, we see Stephen who also says this to the Lord Jesus, because everything was given to Jesus. Such is the order and praise God, that you can see this order in our beloved brothers or sisters whom we read about in the Bible, they loved the Lord so much that they were ready to be killed, as long as do not change what He said to them.

 

Let us also go through the teaching of our Teacher on this:

 

What the Father does, the Son does.

 

We have pondered the spoken Word, the will being done, and now let us turn to deeds. John 5:17:

“But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God."

 

They thought they would do well. But let's see what Jesus answered them:

 

John 5:19-26:

“Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself."

 

The Father gave the Son that the Son would "have life in himself." The Father made such a decision and He did it, He glorified His Son, giving Him authority over all but one.

 

In verse 36 we read:

 

“But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me."

 

What the Father does, the Son does. These works show that the Father sent Him.

 

“And the very Father who sent me testified of me. You have never heard his voice, you have never seen his form, and you have not kept his word in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent. "

 

John 6:57:

 

"As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so that eateth me, even he shall live by me."  

 

Are these not the words that destroy many dogmatic teachings?

"Yes, also whoever eats me will live because of me."

 

Jesus said, "I have everything from the Father," who takes nothing from anyone because everything belongs to Him and He manages it. The Father gave it to the Son, that He would "have life in himself."

 

When we read John chapter 6 and verse 6, Jesus' words:

 

“And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do."

 

When I read the words of Jesus - because He alone knew what He had to do - I know that everything He knew was from His Father, and therefore He was aware of what He was to do, because the Father had given him what He was supposed to do. When you know what God's will is, you can say: I know what I must do because it is God's will, according to God's desire, and it is true.

 

John 8:29:

 

"And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him."

 

John 9:4:

“I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. "

 

Night is coming. Some of that darkness came when the Lord Jesus was arrested and crucified. We remember that before the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, a further part of this darkness will come.

 

John 10:25-30:

 

“Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.”

 

Perfect unity. When in prayer Jesus says: That they may be one, Father, as we are one, He is saying that the teaching of the Father should be in us and in Him in the same way. The works of the Father as they were in the Son, they should be also in us. The Father's will, as was in the Son, also should be in you and in me, that we might be one.

 

John 12:35-36:

 

"Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them."

 

Let us walk in the light of the Son, that we may be sons of the light, which is the Father. We remember these words: “You are children of the light, so live this way - as the light. You are on earth today to shine to the unholy so that they may recognize that the Lord has been here." Without the Church, this earth is dark. Now the Church, full of the Holy Spirit, illuminates the darkness in place of Jesus Christ. The sons and daughters of light, living today thanks to Jesus in the will of the Father, shine on earth with light from heaven, purity from heaven. Everything else is a fake, it is a counterfeit.

 

John 15:9-10:

 

“As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."

 

Jesus says: As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you. So the same love is poured out from the Father through the Son to all sons and daughters. Not different, but perfectly the same love.

 

John 17:26:

"And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

 

I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it. The Lord Jesus is still working on it, in us. These are jewels, the greatest treasures from heaven, which we want to dress ourselves in, as the bride of the Lord Jesus, and so be it. May God make us understand what the Scriptures say, what the Teacher tells us. No teacher can come to earth to say anything other than Jesus and say that he is a teacher from God. If he showed up, he would be a liar. What the Father said through the Son at the end is still valid, and until the Son returns, nothing will change. Jesus says: Even if some other "Christ" would

 

come and tell you something else, don't believe it. The wonderful words of Christ, they lighten the darkness and allow man to rest, they put man on the rock of certainty. I know who I have trusted and whose plan it is. I know the direction in which it is leading and how God wants to carry it out perfectly. Remember, today there is a war for our minds and hearts, for what is in them. Books, various deceptive films, more and more often make people accept a lie and more and more easily see deviation from the truth as a minor change. The devil tells you to be tolerant and that is good. You take one little lie, another little lie, a couple of little poison pills, and you don't even realize you already have a poisoned mind. It is getting easier and easier for you to accept more and more open lies. Don't do it, because Jesus would never, as the Truth, do it. Jesus is pure and in Him, as in His Church, the will of the Father is to be perfectly fulfilled. Let us be sober and vigilant, as the general tendency today is to create an artificial unity and destroy those who will not want to join it because they believe in Christ who will not agree to it because we have already been united into One Body in Christ Jesus, into the pure, glorious Body of Christ. May God help that these words stay in our hearts. Whoever listens, understands and keeps these words in his heart, bears fruit with perseverance and is happy. Amen.

 

 

Part 3

 

 

Keeping in mind God's teaching heard and read, let us keep the Word of the Teacher in our hearts as the greatest treasure, the purest gem of heaven. We will go further because the Lord's riches are beyond everything. Someday we will know this fullness of splendor, these jewels that we are experiencing now, and they are so pure. There is no water as pure as this, because through it you can see even more God as He is. When God pours out the Holy Spirit on us, like water, it is perfectly clean and clear, but when the devil pours out his poisoned teachings, he covers it all, man loses his true vision of everything that is in accordance with God's will, then a jerking begins, a struggle begins, there is no peace and no calm.

 

I would like us to go through the Gospels now, watching the Lord Jesus say that He has His glory from the Father.

 

In John 1:14:

 

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

 

Jesus Christ, when he came in the name of the Father, also came in His glory.

 

John 5:21:

 

"For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him."

 

The Father has given His glory to the Son, and now when you worship the Son, you are worshiping the Father.  Beautiful solution of our Father in heaven.

 

John 5:26-27:

 

"For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man."

 

This glory is from the Father.

 

John 4:23-24:

 

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

 

By honoring the Son, we honor the Father. The Father wants us to worship the Son. To worship is to be faithful to what we have already learned. The King has made known His will, and His subjects know that not doing His will is threaten with death, and doing it makes the King happy. Subjects who wish to rejoice their King are faithful to what they heard from His mouth. Our King announces the words, and we want Him to rejoice there on the throne of glory, that there are people on earth who want to live by these words, draw from them and be content. Today we generally observe people who have no fear of God, who have come down from the glory of Christ, who have gone astray of their own ideas, and their hearts are closed and it is not a pleasant sight. It is as if you are talking to some student who is already standing outside the house with the window closed and you cannot hear anything one way or the other. You can see - a man is standing, but there is no presence. The Word of God no longer reaches the heart, someone listens but does not hear, you can talk about wonderful treasures, but the heart is closed and unfeeling, completely separate from these wonderful things. This is what the devil does and this is what happens with the heart of a person who follows it, because when the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit are working, the heart is open, willing and aware of what is heard. He looks at it and enjoys what the Lord tells him. Knowing the truth rejoices.

 

John 14:28:

 

“Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I."

 

Only the greater can give the lesser the glory, transmit everything, make him what he is meant to be for us. Jesus Christ is the one whom we honor and honor the Father who gave everything to his Son. Who is Jesus for us? By listening to Jesus, by submitting to the influence of Jesus, the Spirit of Christ, we can ideally glorify the Father. That is why the words of Jesus are so important. "In the end, God spoke through His beloved Son." Father gave Him all these.

 

John 15:1-2:

 

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit."

 

John 15:8:

 

"Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples."

 

Jesus shows Himself as a vine and the Father as a gardener who cares for everything, who cares for each of us whom the Father has planted in His Son. The Father cares for everything, for the whole vine. The son is perfectly clean. Experience is only with us, grafted offspring, and the Father examines us, checks whether we draw from this Son the juices that came to us from heaven. Do we see this news, this spiritual value and truth? Or do we just think, "I'm grafted on, it's okay" and live without drawing from the Son? Then the Father cuts the branch off, because it is not fit for God. Either you are delighted with the Son and you want to draw from Him who the Son is towards the Father, or you are not interested in the Son's attitude towards the Father and you think that your Christianity is enough for you to enter eternity. The Father, who is firm and no respecter of persons, says: If you do not want to remain in My Son as He is and in what He says to you, I will cut you off from Him. God will not regret it at all. But for those who endure, He will take care that they bear an even more abundant fruit, thirty, sixty or a hundred times. Our Father in heaven is honest and holy. His thoughts and actions are holy. He is love, a holy love. Do not underestimate holy love or you will die. The demonstration of lack of disregard, is an obedience to the Word of Christ Jesus, which the Father has announced to us through Him.

 

John 17:22:

 

"And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:"

 

We ought to be one as the Father is with the Son. The Father glorified the Son, and the Son gave this glory to us. Praise God, God's family! I see no other option than the spiritual Church, the holy Church, acquired with the blood of God, with His own blood, because the blood of His Son is also the blood of God, who sent Him.

 

This is what is said in the book of Acts: the church of God, which He acquired through His blood.

 

Acts 20:28

 

"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood."

 

We have a wonderful experience, I will repeat what I said at the beginning: These words have to  lift us up to glory, as eagles, to heaven, so that everyone would be spiritually nourished, strengthened, to live on earth, so that it won’t be a wasted life, although we are surrounded by disorder, falsehood and sin. The Father has left us here and we will go through the test, and we will either win it and be clean for God, His Son, and for the Church, or we give it up and then He will give us up too. There is no guarantee without Christ. Man cannot have a guarantee because he has been a Christian for many years. If someone leaves, there is no guarantee that he will come back. If God would not give a repentance, a person could go back a hundred thousand times. Repentance is a gift from God. For this we need the blood of Jesus, without repentance, without purification, there is no coming to God, because God is holy. There must be cleansing, there must be abandonment. Truth or not? Whoever recognize himself to be a sinner and forsakes it, will be forgiven.

 

John 17:24:

 

"Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world."

 

And that is even higher glory from now on. The Lord Jesus wants us to see the glory for which He previously prayed, saying:

 

"And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." John 17:5

 

Today we live on earth and we don't fully see it all yet, but we will see it someday if we endure to the end, in Christ. Whoever perseveres to the end will be saved. Be a determined Christian. Don't be lukewarm, don't be a Christian cry-baby. Don't be a man who allows himself to be crumminess. Your Father in heaven is holy. What He does is perfect. Be glad that someone like this took care of us, because He wants to take us for eternity, not only to play Christianity with us a bit, like some drunkard father who will play a little with a child and thinks that the child can already be satisfied, because daddy had a little fun and then he goes on drinking. Our Father is holy, He wants to be with us in a holy way, and His holy arms want to wrap us in love. He wants to lead us to His glorious eternity on the way, that is, His crucified and risen Son. The father knows why He is doing it, only His children still need to know it. God doesn't want to have stupid kids who don't know what to do. The devil wants to confuse our minds with various things, so that we become lukewarm and careless in God's work. Yet we read in the Bible that those who carelessly do God's work are accursed. Just like the tree that Jesus cursed and no more fruit was left of it. Paul says that if anyone does not love Jesus, he is cursed and there will be no more fruit from him. So it's not some fun, it's a war for everything. Therefore, do not be careless, because it causes your conscience will freeze, become closed, petrified, unmoved by the fact that it is not as it should be. Your mind starts to build on its strength: "I sanctify myself" because you have told someone something about Jesus and you feel better. Even the devil talks about Jesus. Yes or no? After all, the demons said: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus rebuked them and told them to be silent. This is an important and beautiful matter, but also a very serious one. That is why we are to grow up to male perfection, we are not to be children who just play.

 

Matthew 14:33:

 

"Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God."

 

They bow to Jesus Christ. Only God will you bow down. The Father is in the Son, worship is due to the Son and to the Father. Not to people! However, those who were against us will also bow down to us, thus says the Word of God, and it is written in the Book of Revelation: "that they will have to acknowledge us and bow down before us", because Jesus is in us, and through Jesus the Father, so they will bow to the Father as a result.

 

Matthew 15:29:

 

“And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.”

 

They praised God, for in Jesus Christ was being given healing to them.