Title: Father and Son / John 17:1-5
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father and son
Text: John 17:1-5
We sometimes say, 'The images of the father and the son are engraved on it'. As my son grew up, I often hear that his voice, atmosphere, and even the shadows resemble each other a lot. Fathers and sons are genetically similar. Even though the habits of fathers and mothers are not taught, children see the resemblance. The gifts are also similar.
▶ The child's model 'parent'
It worries me to think that my children will be just like me. Think of it as mimicking the way you do what you do wrong. Of course, good things are similar. But the truth is, we are worried because we are not exemplary fathers.
It takes four years of college to get one major. But we have never trained to become mothers and fathers. Our only textbooks were my father and my mother. So when my father was wrong, my son had no choice but to learn the wrong model.
However, there is a way to become a new person regardless of this logic. It is to remember the original God made us. Because we have lost the essence of the ideal hope that God created human beings, we live according to what we are wounded and trampled upon. The first step to restoration is to return to the human being that God created for the first time.
Genesis 1:26 and 27 explains why God created man. If men and women could return to the image God created, our families would be happy.
We are creatures made in the image of God. The one who made my eyes is the one who sees, the one who made my ears is the hearer, and the one who made my mouth is the one who speaks. God still speaks, He hears my prayers, He hears my groans, He sees my wounds.
▶ Remember the original created
Man is a divine being. Just as my genetic factors are in my son when I give birth to a son, when God created me, God's genes are in my figure and image. The image of God is love, holiness, and justice.
If man had not sinned, the eternity, immutability, and perfection of God would all be in him. We are children of God. He made us in His own image and likeness. However, we lose the shape that God originally created, become double and hypocritical humans, and live differently from the outside.
The fact that God created man and woman in Genesis means that God has masculine and feminine qualities. If we look at the life of Jesus, we see the perfection of men and the tenderness and delicacy of women. Men and women are plus and minus electricity. They bump into each other, pull and push each other. Because there is energy, there is life. This is between a man and a woman, united in God. Men and women are created to be in perfect harmony.
When God created human beings in the beginning, He gave them the blessing of “be fruitful, multiply, full, conquer and rule.” Humans should receive and enjoy this blessing as a matter of course. We must be fruitful, multiply, replete, and rule.
Conversation is about being on equal footing. At the moment of prayer, man becomes equal to God. And it changes into the image that God created.
Just as if a virus infiltrated a computer, all data would be messed up, so God created a prototype, but a bias called Satan entered and blew up all human work. The file exists, but has no content. That is the human form.
▶ In order to be conformed to the image of the Son
In Romans 8:28, 29, a miraculous and mysterious story is told. “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose. that he might be the firstborn.”
When a file is corrupted, it is recovered using the original file. The original image of God is Jesus Christ. It is the climax of the image of God that man lost.
Through the 33-year life of Jesus, his words, the cross and resurrection, he made it possible to be reborn as an original human being. Broken families, corrupt societies, and a sick world can be healed. When I put Jesus' files back in, all of my broken and crooked things are replaced with new ones like Jesus. This is fundamental healing. When this is corrected, the family will be renewed, and the relationship between me, husband and wife, and children will also be renewed.
▶ Ideal father-son relationship
Chapter 17 of the Gospel of John shows the most ideal relationship between the Father and the Son through Jesus' prayer to God the Father. This is verse 1
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When Jesus had said these words, he lifted up his eyes and looked up to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; glorify the Son, that he may glorify the Father.
The father first glorified the son. The characteristics of a father are love, forgiveness, and waiting. The father glorified the son, so the son glorified the father.
This is verse 2.
For you have given your Son authority over all peoples so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
It is said that the father gave authority to the son. It is a spiritual attitude to believe, encourage, and bless children even when they make mistakes and lack them. God completely believed in Jesus and gave him authority.
In verse 4, the father gave the son a job, a mission, and a mission.
Finally, verse 5 speaks of the oneness of the Father and the Son.
Father, glorify me now with you by the glory I had with you before the foundation of the world.
Jesus was completely one with Heavenly Father. Here lies the secret of father and son trust, heritage, mission, and unity. That is our ideal, that of the Father and of the Son.
The relationship between the Father and the Son should be the same as Jesus thought of God. We are God's children, and we are God's people. We believe that God has made us the most noble people. You have made us a blessed being. As Heavenly Father and Jesus are one, I pray for this blessing in your rich relationship.