John 6: 46
” No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.”
There He goes again! Talking about heaven like he has been there!! Who does this Jesus guy think he is??
Time and time again Jesus speaks as if he is from a different planet, but in fact, he is from a different reality altogether. A spiritual reality. A reality invisible to our eyes of flesh but something we can glimpse with our heart if we try.
Imagine being a Pharisee who is vested in maintaining the status quo. Imagine that this Jesus guy comes along and turns your world upside down by apparently breaking religious laws about the Sabbath (supposedly from God, but in fact from men) and doing things like touching the unclean. (Of course, an unclean person would be “clean” after Jesus touched them!) As a Pharisee, you are looking at a nobody, an itinerant Rabbi from the backwoods of Nazareth. An un-pedigreed bumpkin followed around by a bunch of hayseed backwoods sheepherders.
Imagine standing there in your religious righteousness staring at this upstart and then feeling your ears burn as you hear the words, “No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.” Everyone knows that nobody can look upon God and live. Suddenly it feels like your head is going to explode!
Who is this Jesus guy, anyway?
Q: What does it mean to you that Jesus has “seen the Father?”
He didn’t see Him while hiding in a cleft of a rock…
He didn’t see Him in a pillar of a cloud…
He was there with Him.
He is from heaven and his mission is from God. He has a level of intimacy, experience, and knowledge with the Father that no other man has.