Jesus’ Words in Red For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does.

Jesus’ Words in Red

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does.

Don’t be so quick to read over these words

“For the Father loves the Son”

Think about the security that comes from love

Think about the motivation love produces

The Father can’t help Himself but to provide everything His Son needs

And to prove His love for you, He gave His Son for you

So you could also see all the Father is doing

So go ahead fall to your knees and weep in humility and joy

But then open your eyes to see the Father is always at work

That means at work in your life and through your life

For the Father loves the Son

Don’t be so quick to read over these words…

“For the Father loves the Son”

Think about the security that comes from love.

Jesus’ confidence is solid in the Father

because of the love He sees in His Father.

Think about the motivation love produces.

The Father can’t help Himself but

to provide everything His Son needs.

The Father’s love motivates Him

to make available everything He has.

It is a love that wants to give

everything as an inheritance…

Totally entrusting everything to the Son.

We know God is Love.

  1 John 4:8

God is agape (ag-ah'-pay)

He is this love that loves without reason;

 it is just what He is.

But the love in John 5:20…

 “The Father loves the Son”

Is “the Father phileo (fil-eh'-o) the Son”

The love more associated with a reason.

A love that grows in appreciation.

When Peter denied Jesus three times, Peter

felt all the weight and emotion of shame.

Jesus brought his guilt out into the open.

When Jesus asked him, Do you love me…

He asked it twice, “Do you agape me?”

The third time when Jesus asked…

 He said, “Do you phileo me?”

All three times Peter responded…

 “Yes, I phileo you.”

“Love” is a choice.

It is a love that is given

without reason such as agape.

God demonstrated His love (agape)

for us while we were still sinners.

It is important that phileo is given

in appreciation for acts of kindness.

Jesus wanted the fullness of love,

agape and phileo, from Peter.

The same fullness He enjoyed

from His Father in heaven.

When Jesus says…

“For the Father loves the Son”

He is not just saying I have the love

of the Father because I am His Son…

But I have the Father’s appreciation of what I do.

Jesus lived knowing the Father appreciated

the work He accomplished.

Jesus felt the affection of the Father.

Jesus was driven by the

Father’s love, phileo, affection.

Jesus got up early to pray.

Jesus was looking every moment

to see what the Father was doing.

Jesus kept Himself in a place where He

could see the Father and enjoy His love.

We love God because He first loved us.

This love we have for God the Father

 should be the same as it is in Jesus.

The Father’s love is to draw us into

His presence and out of hiding in shame.

It should give us total confidence that the Father

would give us all things because He loves us.

Romans 8 tells us all creation is waiting for

the manifestation of the sons of God (that is us).

Now listen to this in Romans 8:31-33…

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? NIV

Jesus, who was so confident in His Father’s

love, was offered up for you and I that we too

might have the confidence of the Father’s love.

This same love the Father has for His Son

is the same love the Father has for you.

So go ahead fall to your knees and weep

in humility and joy, but then open your eyes

to see the Father is always at work…

 That means at work in your life and through your life.

His love for you is to empower

you to do like Jesus said…

 Even greater things.

If God is for you what can be against you?

Scripture Reading

John 5:16-6:1 NIV

16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him. 17 Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working."  18 For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

19 Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.

24 "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. 25 I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

28 "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out — those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned. 30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

31 "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid. 32 There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is valid.

33 "You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. 34 Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. 35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.

36 "I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39 You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

41 "I do not accept praise from men, 42 but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. 43 I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?

45 "But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. 47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"