The document discusses how Jesus reveals the Father to his disciples. It explains that anyone who has seen Jesus has seen the Father, as Jesus and the Father are one. Thomas asks how they can know the way if they do not know where Jesus is going, and Jesus responds that he is the way and the truth and the life. The document also explores the concept of the three fathers that people have - Father Adam, our natural father, and God the Father.

1. JESUS
‘REVEALING THE FATHER’

2. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
John 14:1-10
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You
believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My
Father’s house has many rooms; if that
were not so, would I have told you that I am
going there to prepare a place for you? …

3. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
John 14:1-10
… 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I
will come back and take you to be with me
that you also may be where I am. 4 You
know the way to the place where I am
going.” …

4. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
John 14:1-10
… 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t
know where you are going, so how can we
know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the
way and the truth and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me….

5. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
John 14:1-10
…7 If you really know me, you will know my
Father as well. From now on, you do know
him and have seen him.” 8 Philip said, “Lord,
show us the Father and that will be enough
for us.” …

6. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
John 14:1-10
…9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me,
Philip, even after I have been among you
such a long time? Anyone who has seen me
has seen the Father. How can you say,
‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe
that I am in the Father, and that the Father
is in me? …

7. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
John 14:1-10
… The words I say to you I do not speak on
my own authority. Rather, it is the Father,
living in me, who is doing his work.

8. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
2 Peter 3:18
‘But grow in the grace and knowledge of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.’

9. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
John 10:10 (MSG)
‘I came so they can have real and eternal
life, more and better life than they ever
dreamed of.’

10. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
John 14:9-10
Anyone who has seen me has seen the
Father. Don't you believe that I am in the
Father, and that the Father is in me? The
words I say to you are not just my own.
Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is
doing his work.

11. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
‘If we were to take the Gospels and cross
out the words ‘Jesus’ and ‘Lord’ and
substitute ‘the Father’ in every case then
we would see who the Father really is.’
(Geoff Bingham)

12. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
The Three Fathers each one of us has:
1. Father Adam
Romans 5:12, 19
‘Therefore, just as sin entered the world through
one man, and death through sin, and in this way
death came to all men, because all sinned…

13. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
The Three Fathers each one of us has:
1. Father Adam
Romans 5:12, 19
… For just as through the disobedience of the one
man the many were made sinners…

14. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
Romans 7:15-18
‘I do not understand what I do. For what I
want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree
that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I
myself who do it, but it is sin living in me…

15. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
Romans 7:15-18
‘… I know that nothing good lives in me,
that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the
desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry
it out.’

16. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
Galatians 5:19-21
‘The acts of the sinful nature are obvious:
sexual immorality, impurity and
debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred,
discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish
ambition, dissensions, factions and envy;
drunkenness, orgies, and the like…

17. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
Galatians 5:19-21
… I warn you, as I did before, that those
who live like this will not inherit the
kingdom of God.’

18. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
The Three Fathers each one of us has:
1. Father Adam
Psalm 51:5
‘Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time
my mother conceived me.’

19. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
The Three Fathers each one of us has:
1. Father Adam
Romans 5:19
‘For just as through the disobedience of the one
man the many were made sinners, so also
through the obedience of the one man the many
will be made righteous.’

20. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
The Three Fathers each one of us has:
1. Father Adam
2. Our Natural Father
John 3:6
‘Flesh gives birth to flesh…’

21. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
All blame does
is reinforce the problems
it doesn’t fix them!

22. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
The Three Fathers each one of us has:
1. Father Adam
2. Our Natural Father
Proverbs 2:3
‘… call out for insight and cry aloud for
understanding.’

23. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
Judges 6:25-26
‘Tear down your father's altar to Baal and
cut down the Asherah pole beside it. Then
build a proper kind of altar to the LORD your
God on the top of this height.’

24. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
2 Chronicles 29:1-2
‘Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when
he became king, and he reigned in
Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's
name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. He
did what was right in the eyes of the LORD,
just as his father David had done.’

25. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
The Three Fathers each one of us has:
1. Father Adam
2. Our Natural Father
3. God the Father

26. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
3. God the Father
2 Corinthians 6:18
‘I will be a Father to you, and you will be my
sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.’

27. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
‘No matter
what kind of father you have had
I want to introduce you
to God the Father!’

28. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
3. God the Father
1 John 3:1
‘How great is the love the Father has lavished
on us, that we should be called children of
God! And that is what we are!’

29. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
What is Heavenly Father Like?
a) He is a loving father
Psalm 103:8
‘The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow
to anger, abounding in love.’

30. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
What is Heavenly Father Like?
a) He is a loving father
b) He is a caring father
Luke 15:5-6
‘And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders
and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbours
together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my
lost sheep.'

31. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
What is Heavenly Father Like?
a) He is a loving father
b) He is a caring father
c) He is a forgiving father
d) He is a compassionate Father

32. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
John 11:33
‘When Jesus saw (Mary) weeping, and the
Jews who had come along with her also
weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and
troubled. Jesus wept.’

33. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
What is Heavenly Father Like?
a) He is a loving father
b) He is a caring father
c) He is a forgiving father
d) He is a compassionate Father
e) He is a wise father
f) He is a generous father

34. JESUS, ‘REVEALING THE FATHER’
What is Heavenly Father Like?
g) He is the Almighty father
h) He is an approachable Father
Ephesians 3:12
‘In him (Christ Jesus) and through faith in him
(Christ Jesus) we may approach God (The Father)
with freedom and confidence.’