To see clearly that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life is to truly know Jesus. To know or see who Jesus really is to know or see the Father. But even the disciples did not fully grasp the deity of Jesus. So Philip asked him to show the Father. Jesus reiterated: to see him is to see the Father. He is in the Father and the Father in him. Jesus’ words and works are the words and works of the Father. The Father has fully revealed himself in his Son (10-11). Jesus is God who became flesh and lived among us and died for our sins so that we might be saved.

If we have true faith in Jesus, then we will do great works by the power of the Holy Spirit whom Jesus sent after his ascension. Jesus also promised, “I will do whatever you ask in my name…you may ask anything in my name, and I will do it” so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. We have a great privilege to participate in the “greater” works flowing from the finished work of Christ on the cross as well as in fruitful prayer. This is the power of living faith May we take the gospel to the ends of the earth and pass it down from generation to generation.
Application: Father, thank you for revealing yourself in and through Jesus the Messiah. Help me to have absolute faith in Christ and his finished work on the cross to bring the gospel to the lost in our time. Thank you for your promise to answer my prayers.
One Word: Jesus is God Incarnate