"Then Jesus answered and said to them, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.'" (John 5:19)
This is the unity of the Godhead.
More songs need to be written, more sermons preached with this theme. They don't have to just repeat our text over and over, but the underlying theology of today's text needs to permeate Church life, inside and outside of the gatherings.
I assert again and again that if the Church does not live its life in our text, the world will not be able to accurately discern of which "god" we speak. I come back to Paul's statement in 1 Corinthians 8:5, 6, "For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and through Whom we live."
The world is asking the same thing of the Church which First Century "seekers" asked Philip, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I pray what our Lord Jesus prayed, "Father, glorified Thy Name," and You said, "I have both glorified it and will glorify it again." Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
