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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 word which you hear is 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.”

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