Jesus made it clear that He came to reveal the Father. He said, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father” (John 14: 8-10). Even “I am the way” is in this context of the way to know what the Father is like (John 14:6-7 ff). Jesus said that He only did what He saw His Father doing (John 5:19). Consider: Jesus saw a Father who laid His life down in self-sacrificial love, so Jesus demonstrated His Father’s actions on the cross. He saw His Father sit down with sinners, so He sat down with sinners (Luke 15:2). He saw His Father react with love in the place of wrath toward His enemies so Jesus taught it as the Christian way to live (Matthew 5:43-48). His actions were one with the nature of the Father. Jesus visibly reveals the invisible God (Colossians 1:15). Jesus is the inerrant Word to the world revealing the Father in His own flesh (John 1:1-18). “No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known”. (John 1:18 NIV). Our statements about God, when not informed by Jesus revelation of Him, are stumbling blocks as the least and dangerous at the worst. We are to make Jesus known to the world, in the same way Jesus made the Father known. We are to hear what Jesus is saying and say it. We are to see what Jesus is doing and do it.
“I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” (John 5:19 NIV)
