Reminder: Son=Flesh and Father=Spirit

“Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him. Philip said, ‘Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.’ Jesus answered: ‘Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.” (John 14:6-10 NIV)

“Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.” Why would Jesus say those words? It can only be that He was telling them that He is the Father. He is the Spirit of the Father who was at that time wearing Son flesh. Jesus is not a separate God. He is the one and only Spirit of God. We need to look beyond the flesh to see Him.

Let’s look at another Scripture passage that is often misinterpreted to suggest that Jesus is not the same God as the Father. It is intentionally worded so let’s look closely.

Red letter words: “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Matthew 24:36 NIV) (Also in Mark 13:32)

The Son (flesh) doesn’t know, but only the (Spirit) Father knows. So let me ask you a question” Does your flesh know the things that your spirit knows? Obviously NOT. Our physical being has a brain that operates our physical body. But our mind is part of our spirit that operates our spiritual body. Again, the flesh is temporary but the spirit is eternal. Our flesh gets buried in the ground and our spirit is transported to Heaven. We need to look beyond our flesh to see our spirit.

If you did not carefully read that passage, you might misinterpret it to say that the Spirit wearing flesh doesn’t know what the Spirit without flesh knows. Jesus is the Father (Spirit) who chose to wear Son flesh. Notice that it DOES NOT say that Jesus doesn’t know the day.

“The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 2:14-16 NIV)