Genuine Faith Reveals a Family Affair, John 44-50
John’s Love Letter to God
Title: Genuine Faith Reveals a Family Affair, John 44-50
(This is Jesus’ rebuttal passage to John’s comments about the “heart of matter” and the depth and truth of our belief. Are we truly followers or trying to live a two-faced life out of convenience? Who knows if we are true believers or professed believers when it suits our needs?)
?Then Jesus cried out, “The one who believes in Me believes not in Me, but in Him who sent Me. And the one who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.
“I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me would not remain in darkness. If anyone hears My words and doesn’t keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
“The one who rejects Me and doesn’t accept My sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
“For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a command as to what I should say and what I should speak. I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”
Truth: The Good News that Jesus has declared all along His journey and now again is summarized reveals that the logos message from God exposes truth that resides in the hearts of all who claim a relationship with Christ.
Application: Jesus has been sharing God’s appointed logos message or the Good News (Gospel) repeatedly over His ministry travels, and here he takes the opportunity to punctuate the truth regarding those who are now following Him. Are they following because of the message and its power in their lives, or for the healing and miracle power of Jesus?
Everything that Jesus said always originated, flowed from and pointed back to the source: God the Father. God alone is the author, creator and sustainer of all things, and Jesus while on Earth was the appointed ambassador and herald of the message God wished all mankind to hear and respond to. His message was clear: “if you believe in Him, you must therefore believe in God the Father. Jesus was merely the revelation (the LIGHT) of God’s logos message to His people. God sent His Son so that the ignorance (darkness) of the people would be revealed. Jesus merely revealed that it was mankind’s selfish nature that caused their blindness to God’s truth. Eternal life was and continues to be the gift of God’s grace for all who would respond to the truth of the message by accepting God and His Son into their hearts.
This passage reminds us that our faith will reveal the family affair of the Father and Son, but also how we can take part in that family affair, if we will only open our hearts to hear and receive in our heart His message of God’s offer for salvation – the restored relationship as one of His children.
Is there evidence in your life of being adopted back into God’s family? Do you look to the Father for direction and correction in your life, and do you call on your Big Brother Jesus to look up to and to follow? What a smile you will see from the Father when He sees His family sharing and caring together as He intended it from the beginning! Or, does your life reveal a struggle with your siblings because of fights over position, power, and possessions? In God’s family there are no favorites; He has enough love to go around.





