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John 14:8-17 (The Message)

⁸Philip said, "Master, show us the Father; then we'll be content."

^9-10"You've been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don't understand?

To see me is to see the Father.

So how can you ask, 'Where is the Father?' Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?

The words that I speak to you aren't mere words. I don't just make them up on my own. The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act.

^11-14"Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me.

If you can't believe that, believe what you see—these works.

The person who trusts me will not only do what I'm doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I've been doing.

You can count on it.

From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I'll do it. That's how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son.

I mean it.

Whatever you request in this way, I'll do.

^15-17"If you love me, show it by doing what I've told you.

I will talk to the Father, and he'll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth.

The godless world can't take him in because it doesn't have eyes to see him, doesn't know what to look for.

But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!

I love passages like these from the Gospels so much.

Jesus just makes it simple:

1. See me...you see the Father

2. Believe in me

3. Ask me for what you need

4. Obey me

Simple, right?

So simple...but such a challenge for us because following this teaching will force us to get ourselves out of our own way.

See

Believe

Ask

Obey

Let's give it a shot today. Stop yourself from time to time throughout this day and check in with these four steps.

It's a lesson from the Master worth learning.

Grace & Peace,

Adam

Worship this Sunday, 9:30 and 11 AM. We'll be honoring 7 graduates, and concluding our "To Save a Family" series with, "Strong Families Leave a Legacy."