Show us the Father

John 14:9 Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?
John 1:11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right (freedom) to become children of God, to those who believe in His name. (the freedom of becoming truly formed into who you are meant to be –(we also have the freedom to formed by whatever we might imagine)
John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son (the only One of his kind), who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him (made him known).

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON – LIKE FATHER LIKE US?
We are made alive to God by the Spirit, made one with God by Jesus, and formed in God by the Father.
Jesus had the freedom to be formed perfectly into who he was in harmony with his Father. He had to take all of humanity upon himself, from Adam, with the sum total of all of our human imperfection, so he could give us that same freedom.
Luke 2:52 And Jesus grew (prokopto) in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men…
He did all of this so that when he sent his Spirit to be received by us we could also have that freedom to walk with Jesus, and live in accord and agreement with our Father, and become our true selves.
Holy Spirit will always be making us aware of our need for Jesus to be our prayer intercessor and saviour, but Jesus will always be making us aware of our need to be formed as mature sons and daughters by the Father. This becomes more meaningful to us than having our needs met.
Jesus (the complete Son) is and always was The Son and says to us hey get on board with me in this.

How accurate is our idea of what a father is like? What is our idea of our Father God? What is Jesus idea of our Father?
Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who trained us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days trained us as seemed best to them, but He does it for our advantage…

What does our training involve? – The reordering of our lives – a higher goal than just our needs.
Why is there disorder? - Our world is invaded by fearful greedy envious violent careless people and the temptation is to become harmful like that instead of loving, like Him.
What are the consequence of that harmfulness? - harmfulness causes suffering.
Why can’t Father do something about stopping those harmful people from causing suffering?
He says I am doing something by forming you into the real you. He says you become part of the answer to this world’s suffering, even in your suffering.
What does Father feel about our suffering? - Father is saddened by his child suffering but he can comfort us in it. So He is more saddened by his child separating from him than by the suffering, because we cannot be comforted when we are separated, but we can be when we are close.

 

John 16:28
"I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father." 
Luke 12:30
So do not be anxious… your Father knows that you need these things. But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you. “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
John 14:23…
My father and I will come and make our home with you.
John 6:38
"For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 
John 14:31
but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me Get up, let us go from here. 
John 5:19
Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. 
John 10:30
"I and the Father are one." 
Even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 
John 15:10
"If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. 
1 John 4:14
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 
John 6:57
"As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who partakes of Me, he also will live because of Me. 
John 10:36
Do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? 
John 8:18
"I am He who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me." 
John 12:49
"For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. 
John 6:32
Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven. 
John 8:54
Jesus answered, "If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, 'He is our God'; 
John 17:1
Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, 
John 10:18
"No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again This commandment I received from My Father." 
John 3:35
"The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. 
Matthew 11:27
"All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.