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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Four Aspects of Our Inheritance, #2
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. (John 14:3—NIV)
When Christ says He will return to take us to be with Him where He is, He is not referring to Paradise. Christ dwells in the Father. This expression is not referring to His second coming in the clouds of glory for all the world to see. It is speaking of Christ coming to us in the Holy Spirit so we might be with Him in the Father; not just in Paradise, but in the Father.
The fourteenth chapter of John, if you will notice, is speaking of the Father dwelling in Christ, and then of Christ and the Father coming to dwell in the saint who keeps the commandments of Christ. There is no mention in the fourteenth chapter of John of Christ's return to the earth.
The Lord Jesus Christ is not the way to Heaven, He is the way to the Father. The right hand of the Father is our goal.
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6—NIV)
No one comes to the Father—not merely to Heaven, but to the Father!
Heaven is a place. The Father is a Person. There is a difference between going to Heaven and going to the Father!
In the fourteenth through the seventeenth chapters of the Gospel of John the Lord Jesus never once speaks of returning to Heaven, only to the Father.
Our preaching needs revising. We are pointing the believers to Heaven when we ought to be pointing them to Christ, and through Christ to the Father.
But what is the difference? When we speak of making Heaven our home through grace, our religion becomes one of waiting to die to go to Heaven. When we speak of the Father being our inheritance, we set out immediately to come to know Him. We come to the Father every day through Christ. Learning obedience to the Father is what the Christian salvation is all about.
All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. (Matthew 11:27—NIV)
Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" (John 20:17—NIV)
We in Pentecost know Christ to a certain extent, and also the Holy Spirit. Now we need to know more about the Father. I understand whoever has the Son has the Father also. I know this is true. Nevertheless it is as I have said. If we will seek Christ with all our might He will reveal the Father to us. Then we shall be filled with joy because we will realize more fully that the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is also our Father; the God of our Lord Jesus Christ is also our God.
To be continued.