Understanding Christ and His Relationship with His Father (DCLC – July ’87, Part 4)

“And you are doing what you have seen in the presence of your Father.” Ah, they get angry; they don’t know what that means, but they know it’s an insult. “Abraham is our father. You have a Samaritan for our father.” Now remember who’s listening, brothers; remember who’s on the other side of those eyes. And remember it’s in another realm. “If you are the children of Abraham, you will do what Abraham did.” Who said that? I have got to do it again. Who said this? This is the Father standing there in Him in the presence of light. He is standing in the presence of His Father. The Father looks through those eyes and says they’re still saying they’re the sons of Abraham. Abraham. Abraham. Son, if they were the sons of Abraham, they would do what Abraham did. Tell them, Son, that if they were the sons of Abraham, they would do what Abraham did. And the Lord leans forward and He says, “If you were the sons of Abraham, you would do what Abraham did.”

Abraham. Abraham. Abraham’s going to get in on this before it’s over with. If you were the children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham; instead, you’re seeking to kill me. Do you think Abraham would seek to kill me? A man who has told you the truth, which my Father just now told me to tell you. You are rejecting what God the Father just said to you. Why didn’t you accept that? Why didn’t you fall down and say, “Yes, I’m trying to kill you. Yes, I have not done the works of Abraham. I have not believed.” Abraham’s work was believing. Have you not done what Abraham did? I just now heard my Father tell me this. I just now told you this, and you just now didn’t believe. Which is proof you don’t do the things Abraham does. Isn’t this incredible, brothers and sisters? What an unbelievable dialogue that is going on here.

I hope your brother’s got plenty of tape back there. “You’re doing the works of your father right now. And what are the works of their father? To not believe. They said to him, “We were not born of fornication.” That must have hurt the Father. Now, the Father’s heard this. I don’t know how the Father reacts to that, but He knows who Fathered His Son. “One Father have we, even God.” So, they’re pushing this thing up. They’re feeling uncomfortable about Abraham because they know they’re not believing.

“God is our Father,” and Jesus said, “Therefore, if God were your Father, you would have loved me. “Now, why would they love Him if God was their Father? Because at that very moment, the Father was loving a Son who was just called illegitimate. Because right there in other realms inside of Him and an indwelling Father, and not only there in His Spirit, but the human spirit has a way of not only being right down there, but has a back door to it or an open door on one side of it that opens up into other realms. Right? By the way, you have a spirit that is not confined to this earth either.

Now, at that moment, the Father is pained. He gives His love to the Son. Everything is happening instantly here, and He’s saying to the Son, “Son, no one would talk about You like that who loved Me. No one would talk of Me or You like that if they loved Me.” Tell them that. And He says, “If you were of My Father, you would love Me. From out of My Father, I came. I came forth out of God, and I am here right now before you, an extension of God. And you’ve got your chance to love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart and with all thy mind and with all thy soul and with all thy strength, which is the first and greatest commandment. And here I am, and I have come out of God. Here is your chance to love Me, and instead, you’re calling me a Samaritan and illegitimate. You don’t love Him because you don’t love Me.” And this is what’s going on inside of them. I am sorry that this is the only opportunity, one of the few opportunities in the New Testament, where we have a really wonderful opportunity to see the fellowship of the Godhead. I wish it had been on some more positive ground, but I’m trying to tell you that this has been going on inside of Him for three years. Brothers, this has been going on inside of Him for 31, 32, or 33 years. This has been going on inside of Him for all eternity. You are getting a glimpse at the Godhead embodied.

“For not on my own have I come, but He sent Me.” This is about the fourth time the Father’s reminding him that he’s been sent. “Why do you not comprehend what I’m saying? Because you cannot give heed to my message.” The Father has just said to Him that they don’t seem to be understanding. My Son, tell them they’re not understanding. Now tell them who their Father is, my Son. They have just called you something, and they have just insulted Me, and I’m comforting you, but I’m now giving you permission for the first time to tell them who their Father is. They just told you who they thought Your Father was. Tell them what you know. Tell them, my Son, what You and I know. “You are of your father, the devil.”

And then He tells them all about the devil. You get some real good satanology here, folks. “You’re doing what your father desired you to do, and that is, tell a falsehood. He was a murderer, just like you’re trying to kill Me. And the truth he never understood; he never understood my Father. Reality was not one of the things that he understood. There is no truth in him. He speaks falsehood. He is speaking falsehood in you right now. And it is from his nature that he speaks falsehood; it’s natural for him to lie. For he is a liar, and he is the father of falsehood. And therefore, you are the product of falsehood. You are an extension of falsehood.”

“Yet because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. Who among you convicts Me of sin? He who is of God heeds God’s word.” And that’s why you’re sitting in this room today, saints. You were of God, and you heeded somewhere along the line, either from out spoken to you or from when within spoken to you, you opened yourself to the word of God. “It is for this reason you do not heed it. It is for this reason that you do not heed them, the words, because you are not of God.”

And now He comes to the climax of this, and brothers and sisters, hold on to your hats because this is where everything is going. I told you that it’s, I’m sorry that we don’t get other peeks of the fellowship going on inside, but at the end, there is this great climax beyond all climaxes. And let’s read it.

The Jews therefore answered and said to him, “Say we not well that you’re a Samaritan and you have a demon.” Now, are you with me? The Father heard that. “Son, these last few minutes that they have so insulted You, You have honored Me. You have glorified Me. You’ve not been offended, you’ve not been ugly, you have over and over again in the clutch, in the crisis of this conversation, over and over again. You have exalted Me. I want to say it again, that throughout this entire conversation that has been going on, Jesus Christ has done but one thing, and all that He has said, and all that He has seen, and all that He’s beheld, and all that He has heard, and all that He has responded. He has done but one thing. He has brought honor to His Father. He has been bringing honor once; He brings honor again and again. This is what He does best. He brought honor again and again to the feet of His Father. “Son, you have glorified Me in this moment with these insulting men. You didn’t do anything else. You didn’t get on that level. You exalted and glorified Me.”

This is what is going on inside of the Lord Jesus Christ. What is going on inside of the Lord Jesus Christ? The honoring of His Father. Now, the curtain is opening a little. “Son, you don’t have a demon. You’ve been honoring Me, and they have been dishonoring You. Tell them that. I don’t have a demon. I’m honoring my Father, and you have not honored my Father. Therefore, you have dishonored Me. Son, you’ve done it again. You’ve done it ever since I sent you. You have glorified Me. These last 10 minutes, you’ve glorified Me. Son, You’ve glorified Me. You’ve honored Me and You’ve glorified Me. Son, you did it one more time. You’ve never failed yet. From the first moment You began Your ministry right until this awful hour, You have glorified Me. You have exalted Me. You have honored Me. You have glorified Me.” And the Father is saying this in heavenly realms. And the Son is hearing it.

I trust He was comforted in knowing that He had done what He was sent here on this earth to do. He had managed in all this messy thing to glorify His Father. He said to Him again, “Son, you’re not seeking Your own; You’re seeking my glory once more. You have sought not to show forth Yourself, but to show forth Me.” Tell them that. Tell them that. And so, He says, “I am not seeking my own glory. I am seeking the glory of My Father. And while I’m doing it, He’s looking through my eyes and judging you.”