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it’s His works.” That’s why before He multiplied the loaves He
thanked His Father. That wasn’t table grace. He was saying,
“Thank You for doing this miracle.” That’s why at the grave of
Lazarus He said, “I thank You, Father. You always do it.”
John 8:50, “But I do not seek My glory; there is One
who seeks and judges.” John 7:18, “He who speaks from
himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of
the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no
unrighteousness in Him.” Do you see His testimony? “I initiate
nothing. I have no will of My own. All My works are from My
Father. I never seek My own glory.” John 12:27&28, “Now
My soul has become troubled and what shall I say, ‘Father, save
Me from this hour?’ But for this purpose I came to this hour.”
John 14:24, one more testimony from Jesus, “He who
does not love Me does not keep My words; and the words which
you hear are not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.” He said,
“The words which I speak are not mine.” John 12:49 is the
same thing, “For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the
Father Himself who sent Me has given Me commandment, what
to say, and what to speak.”
When He spoke to Nicodemus they were the words of
the Father. When He spoke to the woman at the well, they were
the words of the Father. When He gave the Sermon on the
Mount, they were the words of the Father. When He gave the
Sermon in the Valley, they were the words of the Father. Jesus
said, “I do nothing on My own initiative. And I have no will of
My own and I do nothing but what He does. He does it in Me.
I don’t seek My own glory. I only speak what He tells Me to
speak.”

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.”