In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and I in you and you in Me
Johns Account 14: 20, Concordant New Testament
The Jewish authorities questioning Jesus were in a frenzy. They had long sought to find a way to discredit Him, and now they finally believed that they could use His own words against Him. 'I and the Father, We are one {Johns Account 10:30}? Jesus on the same plain as God? What blasphemy was this? These Jews immediately picked up stones to throw at Jesus for His obvious blasphemy. What man could compare himself to God? Surely this man was of the accuser, right? Wrong! For to know Jesus at all is to know that His words are true, He and the Father are indeed one. Not only that, Jesus has also proclaimed that we also live in union with He and the Father {Johns Account 14:20}. This is not, nor has it ever been, blasphemy. The apostle Paul has spoken to the truth of Christ Jesus in us {Paul to the Galatians 2:20}. The scriptures have spoken to the fact that we indeed share a intimate connection with Jesus and the Father. Of course, this is not something which I learned through the traditional mainstream church. For the institutional church theology has always been that mankind has somehow been separated from He who created them. We do not dispute the fact that it is God who created us in His very likeness {Genesis 1:27}. We also more or less agree that it is God who has breathed into us the breath of life, thereby creating man as a "living soul" {Genesis 2:7}. The mainstream church will embrace these truths as the creation story, yet they scoff at the idea of a life in union with the Father. For many in the church, including myself at one time, it was taught that man ran afoul of God in the garden. Because of his sin against God, man seemed destined to be separated from his creator. But this was simply the lie spoken by Satan the accuser. Like the Jews of Jesus' day waiting for the opportunity to trip up Jesus in His own words, the accuser also waited for his own opportunity to drive a wedge between the Father and His creation. What followed was Satan convincing Adam and Eve that were they to eat of the fruit which God had commanded them not to, that they themselves would become "Like God" and know good from evil {Genesis 3: 1-6}. This is the lie of the accuser, and the moment which the church hangs its hat on pointing to our own separation from God.
"I and the Father, we are one"
Johns Account 10: 30, Concordant New Testament
I have a friend who has somehow began to think of himself as "Disowned" from his family due to his lack of communication from them. This, of course, has left him with many hurt feelings over the years. As I've gotten into deeper conversations with him, I have started to introduce him to the truth of our union life in the Father. This truth of our union in God also translates into our own earthly families as well. Our own heritage and DNA testify to the fact of where we come from. To say that someone is disowned from their family is to ignore basic science. Genealogy testifies to the truth of who we are. Neither human pride nor angry words can take away from the fact that each of us is identified from birth with certain markers which trace us back to our roots. This is indisputable. In this same way, we are linked through our creation to the Father. There is NO possible way, despite the teachings of the mainstream church, that man will ever be separated from our creator. God is in our DNA. He is intertwined in who we are not only as a physical being, but in our spirit identity as well. When Paul spoke to Christ in him, he was speaking to his one true identity in Jesus. For it is not flesh and blood that defines who we are, but the spirit of He in Whom we live {First Epistle of John 4:13}. Our one true identity is not our link to the genealogy of our family tree, but to the Father in Whom we live. The Jewish authorities demanded that Jesus provide them with proof of who He was, and He did.
~Scott~
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