Good morning. Then
Jesus says, if you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now
on you know Him, and have seen Him. Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough
for us. They still didn’t get it; but neither would we have, had we been there.
Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me? He who has
seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say show us the Father? People today
want to see God. They want to see what He would do here own earth. They don’t
realize that all they need to do is look at Jesus, and what He did, and they
would see what God would do if He were here on earth. They would rather have a
set of cold, dead rules to follow than to have a flesh and blood example of
love and compassion like Jesus. After all, they might be able to slide around
the rules; but they can’t slide around what Jesus said and did. Do you not
believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say
to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does
His works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me;
otherwise believe because of the works themselves. Jesus wasn’t just words – He
was actions also. Father help the reader to have a wonderful day today. Make
Your light to shine through him/her, so that others may see and believe in You.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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