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That’s why we read John 14:9, “Have I been so long with you,
and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has
seen Me has seen the Father; how do you say, ‘Show us the
Father?’” He lived as God intended man to live; to put His
Father on display. He said, “If you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen
the Father.” John 12:45, “And he who beholds Me beholds the
One who sent Me.”

I want to make one clarification. Our Lord Jesus as the last
Adam lived as God intended man to live. He then described
that life in His own words. God made a provision that He would
set aside Who He was by nature and as a man He would depend
on the Father Who is living in His heart. So, He said, “I don’t
initiate anything. I don’t have My will; I choose His will.”
That’s the part I want to clarify because, as God, they never had
two wills. Jesus always agreed with the Father but He wants to
illustrate humanity and as a man He said, “I determine to
depend on the indwelling Father.” So, we, as men and women,
depend on the indwelling Christ. We are not robots. “He lives
in me, nevertheless I live.” And Jesus said, “I will lay down
My will as a man to demonstrate that I only want God’s will.”

God the Father sent God the Son into the world. That was quite
a journey and I want you to follow that journey with me. When
you take a journey there has to be a destination or a goal, an
end. My Lillian doesn’t just say, “Go to the store.” She gives
me a list. She tells me what isle to go down and what brand to
buy and which coupons to use to get it cheaper and she even
tells me what roads to take to save gas. When Jesus left heaven,
I want to show you the difference between His journey and His
goal.

I think it’s easy to identify His goal. John 3:17, “For God did
not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the
world should be saved through Him.” He was sent so that the
world might be saved. John 6:39, “And this is the will of Him
who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me, I lose nothing,
but raise it up on the last day.” Luke 19:10, “For the Son of