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==That Which Is Perfect, #10==
<br><em>Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. (John 14:8) </em></p>The Scriptures state that no person can see the Father and live. Yet every person born on the earth has an inborn desire to see the Father and know the Father.<br><br>We can see the Father in the Lord Jesus. The teachings of the Lord, including the Sermon on the Mount, are not the words of Jesus. They are the very words of the Father.<br><br>When the Lord returns it is not likely that the nations of mankind will be able to approach Him directly. Rather they will come to the saints so they may approach Jesus, and therefore the Father, through the saints.<br><br>When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. ( II Thessalonians 1:10)<br><br>"He shall come to be glorified in his saints." "In His saints"!<br><br>Notice in the following verse that the Glory of God will abide on the saints, and the saved of mankind will come to the saints—only indirectly to the Lord.<br><br>And the Gentiles [nations] shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising [speaking of Israel, God's elect]. (Isaiah 60:3)<br><br>Every member of God's elect has been ordained to be Emmanuel, that is, God's Presence among people. The saint has no other calling in life. He is called to become holy, to become the chariot of God, to become the holy city, to become the covenant of the ever-loving God with mankind.<br><br>Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; (Isaiah 49:8)<br><br>"I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people." Such is the calling of Christ and of every member of His Body. The saints are the royal priesthood and they shall reign with Christ over the nations of the earth.<br><br>Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? (John 14:9)<br><br>Why could the Lord claim that the person who sees Him sees the Father? It is because the Lord and the Father are One.<br><br>The saints are called to be an eternally indivisible part of that Oneness.<br><br>That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe thou hast sent me. (John 17:21)<br><br>As soon as that which is perfect has come, that is to say, when all the elect have been made one in Christ in the Father, as the Father is in Christ and Christ is in the Father, then the nations of the earth will believe and be saved.<br><br>
''To be continued.''[[The Promise of His Rest 11]]