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True Knowledge of God
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Since sin brought separation between man and his Maker, no man
has seen God at any time, except as He is manifested through Christ.
“I and My Father are one,” Christ declared. “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.”
John 10:30
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Matthew 11:27
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Christ came to teach human beings what God desires them to
know. In the heavens above, in the earth, in the broad waters of
the ocean, we see the handiwork of God. All created things testify
to His power, His wisdom, His love. Yet not from the stars or the
ocean or the cataract can we learn of the personality of God as it
was revealed in Christ.
God saw that a clearer revelation than nature was needed to
portray both His personality and His character. He sent His Son into
the world to manifest, so far as could be endured by human sight,
the nature and the attributes of the invisible God.
Revealed to the Disciples
Let us study the words that Christ spoke in the upper chamber
on the night before His crucifixion. He was nearing His hour of trial,
and He sought to comfort His disciples, who were to be so severely
tempted and tried.
“Let not your heart be troubled,” He said. “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....
“Thomas saith unto Him, Lord, we know not whither Thou goest;
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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....
“Lord, show us the Father,” said Philip, “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, Show 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.”
John 14:1-10
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