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True Knowledge of God
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the Father; so how can you say, “Show us the Father”? Do you not
believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that
I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father
who dwells in Me does the works.’”
John 14:1-10
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The disciples did not yet understand Christ’s words concerning
His relation to God. Much of His teaching was still obscure to them.
Christ desired them to have a clearer, more distinct knowledge of
God.
“‘These things I have spoken to you in figurative language,’” He
said, “‘but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you
in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.’”
John 16:25
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On the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out on
the disciples, they understood more fully the truths that Christ had
spoken in figurative language. Much of the teaching that had been a
mystery to them was made clear. But not even then did the disciples
receive the complete fulfillment of Christ’s promise. They received
all the knowledge of God that they could bear, but the complete
fulfillment of the promise that Christ would tell them plainly of the
Father was yet to come.
Thus it is today. Our knowledge of God is partial and imperfect.
When the conflict is ended, and the Man Christ Jesus acknowledges
before the Father His faithful workers who in a world of sin have
borne true witness for Him, they will understand clearly what now
are mysteries to them.
Christ took with Him to the heavenly courts His glorified hu-
manity. To those who receive Him He gives power to become sons
and daughters of God, that at last God may receive them as His, to
be with Him throughout eternity. If during this life they are loyal to
God, they will at last “see His face, and His name shall be on their
foreheads.”
Revelation 22:4
. And what is the happiness of heaven
but to see God? What greater joy could come to the sinner saved by
the grace of Christ than to look upon the face of God and know Him
as Father?
The Scriptures clearly indicate the relation between God and
Christ, and they bring to view as clearly the personality and individ-
uality of each.