God Is Like Jesus

If you want to know what the unseen Almighty God is like -- look at Jesus Christ in the pages of the New Testament.

Everything Jesus said and everything Jesus did was the exact will of God -- and perfectly revealed God to us.

JOHN 1:18 TEV
18 No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

COLOSSIANS 2:9 Phillips
9 Yet it is in him that God gives a full and complete expression of himself in bodily form.

Jesus Demonstrated God's Will

JOHN 5:18-19 NKJ
18 Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.
19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.

JOHN 5:36 NKJ
36 "But I have a greater witness than John's; for the works which the Father has given Me to finish -- the very works that I do -- bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.

JOHN 9:4 NKJ
4 "I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.

Always Pleased God

God not only approved of everything Jesus did -- He was very pleased with everything Jesus did.

JOHN 8:42,29 NKJ
42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.
29 "And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him."

Spoke God's Word

JOHN 8:38 NKJ
38 "I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father."

JOHN 8:26-28 NKJ
26 "I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him."
27 They did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father.
28 Then Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.

JOHN 12:49-50 NKJ
49 "For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.
50 "And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak."

JOHN 14:10 NKJ
10 "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.

One With The Father

JOHN 10:30 NKJ
30 "I and My Father are one."

JOHN 12:44-45 NKJ
44 . . .Jesus. . .said, "He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me.
45 "And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.

JOHN 14:7-9,11 NKJ
7 "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him."
8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us."
9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, `Show us the Father'?
11 "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

JOHN 17:21 NKJ
21 "that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

Always Did God's Will

JOHN 5:30 NKJ
30 "I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

JOHN 10:32 NKJ
32 Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"

JOHN 10:37-38 NKJ
37 "If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
38 "but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him."

JOHN 14:31 NKJ
31 "But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. . . .

JOHN 17:4 NKJ
4 "I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.

The Exact Image

2 CORINTHIANS 4:4 NKJ
4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

COLOSSIANS 1:15 NKJ
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

HEBREWS 1:3 NKJ
3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,


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