The name of the message is the agency of divine revelation.  That can sound like a technical term, but it’s just talking about a kind of show and tell, except the show and tell is God revealing Himself.  The show and tell is Gods self revelation.  It’s a divine show and tell.  God reveals Himself and tells us how we can know Him.  Thats the point of our existence, to know God.  The point of our humanity is to know the Father, through His Son Jesus Christ. 

As we said last week, Jesus, the eternal Son, is the primary agent of divine revelation.  The Father is the object of divine revelation.  Jesus says in John 17 this is eternal life that you know the Father, and His Son Jesus Christ.  Now the way Jesus operates as the primary agent of revelation is in the Spirit.  Thats why Jesus says the Father will send another like unto me, and he will teach you the things I have said to you.  We can also say the Son is the primary agent of creation, and the Father is the object for which creation has been made.  That’s why the apostle Paul says in 1st Cor 15:24 Jesus, the eternal Son will turn over the kingdom to the Father after he has put down all rule and authority and power.  The Holy Spirit is the way the Son operates as the primary agent of Creation.  

The purpose of divine revelation is for the Father to be known.  The Father is the initiator of divine revelation.  The Father desires to be known.  Not just in the sense of wanting people to know of Him.  He wants to be known in the sense of people having communion with His divinity.  Not that we become God but we partake with Him in His divine nature.  When the Father wants to be known.  When He wants to fill all things; to be all in all, He sends His Son; the eternal Word.  He initiates the divine revelation so people can experience Him; so they can partake with him in His divine nature, through His Son and His Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is also the same nature as the Father and the Son, thats how the scripture can call the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Son.  The Holy Spirit also comes to make the Father known, because the Spirit is also the same divine essence as the Son.   

If the Father is the object of divine revelation; if His divine nature is the object, then the only one who can reveal the Fathers divine nature, is someone who consists of the same nature.  If it’s a divine show and tell, then the only one who can show us the divine nature and tell us about it, is someone who is themselves by nature divine … The reason the Father sends the Son when He wants to be known is because the Son is the same divine essence as the Father.  You can’t actually know the Father through the Son if the Son is not light from light true God from true God.  That’s why Jesus says if you’ve seen me you’ve seen the Father.  The only person the scripture ever records as saying if you’ve seen me you’ve seen the Father is Jesus.  You can’t see the Father through anyone except the Son.  The only way you can commune with the Father is through the Son, because the Son is the Fathers express image, and the brightness of the Fathers person.  Jesus consists of the same divine essence as the Father. 

On the mount of transfiguration, Moses and Elijah are standing there next to Jesus, and Peter and John wanted to build tabernacles for Moses and Elijah, to esteem them along with Jesus, and the voice of the Father says this is my beloved Son, in whom I’m well pleased.  We could never know the Father through just the law and the prophets.  We could see a shadow of the good things to come.  We could see Him afar off.  We could know of the Father, but we could never partake in the Fathers divine nature through the patriarchs because they were not by nature divine.  Thats why Johns gospel says no one has known the Father but the Son, he has come to declare him.  

As much as we esteem the fathers and the patriarchs none of them can cause us to know the Father, because none of them are divine like the Son.  They are mere men.  They are not light from light, true God from true God.  
Thats why Jesus says in John 14:6 no man comes unto the Father, but by me.  No one can partake of the Fathers divinity except through the Son.  No one can have communion with the Father, except through the Son, because the Son is the same divine essence as the Father.  You cannot partake of the nature of someone through another being that does not consist of their same substance.  You cannot have fellowship with humanity through canine.  You cannot be intimate with the nature of human through a flower.  In the same way you cannot be intimate with the divine nature, except through someone who is by nature divine.  There can be no degrees of separation.  If you want people to be intimate with your nature.  If you want to be known by people, you can’t send someone who isn’t the same nature as you. You can’t send someone that does not consist of the same substance as you do.  If I want you to know me I can’t send my dog.  You can’t know me through my dog.  The dog may be fashioned according to my personality because it’s been in my house but you can never have communion with me through my dog.  In the same way you can’t have communion with the Fathers nature through a mere man.  It has to be the Godman Christ Jesus. 

John 4:23-24  But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.  

This verse is talking about how we can know the Father.  The Father seeks those who will worship him in Spirit and in Truth.  How will we know what it is to worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth?  How is it that we who partook in flesh and blood will know what it is to worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth?  Again this is where the agency of divine revelation comes into play.  What happens is the Father sends the Son as the divine revelation of what it means to worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.  

Gal 4:4  says But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 

The law is part of the divine revelation.  Its called the oracles of God in Roman’s 3 and Hebrews 5.  David speaking to God in psalm 119 says open my eyes that I might see wondrous things out of your law.  David wasnt talking about works which we must perform.  The Father erupted a good word out of His heart.  The Son is the pen by which the Father penned the law.  The Son wrote the law with his finger, which finger is the Holy Spirit.  Paul says the law is spiritual but we were carnal sold under sin.  Hebrews says the law was a shadow of good things to come.  Moses face shined with the glory that was prophesied of through the law.  The law revealed what sin was, and that sin was causing death to reign over us, but the law was also an introduction to the doctrine of God, that would later be revealed in Christ.  Thats why Moses faced shined with glory when he came down the mount the 2nd time.  

In Matthew 5:17 Jesus responding to the Pharisees accusation that he was tearing down the doctrine contained in the law says “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil”.  To fulfill means to bring to realization the good things that were hidden in the law and the prophets.  Jesus was born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem us from the curse the law revealed we were under, but he was also born of a woman, born under the law, to bring the law out of the shadow of the carnal mind.  Remember Paul says the law was spiritual but we were carnal, sold under sin.  

Now the Spirit contained in the law is the Fathers testimony of His Son.  Thats why Jesus says you search the scriptures for in them you think you have life but I am the one the scriptures speak of, and you want come to me that you might have life.  The Spirit of what was written in the law is the Fathers will to perfect you from sin and death, by ministering his divinity to your humanity, through Jesus.  Thats what we see through the Passover lamb and the ministry of the highpriest.  Only the son can reveal the Fathers will because only the Son can make manifest the Fathers nature.  Since Jesus is the primary agent of revelation it’s incumbent upon him to reveal the Fathers will to the children.  So Jesus comes in the likeness of sinful flesh.  Hebrews says since the children partook of flesh and blood it was fitting for him, if he was going to bring many children to glory, that he also partake of flesh and blood; so he demonstrate to all those in flesh and blood, the Spirit of what was written in the law.  

We see the testimony Jesus penned with the finger of the Spirit, in him looking to the Father on the cross.  He shows us the Fathers will to minister His divinity to us, by looking to the Father while on the cross, and then raising his flesh from the dead on the third day.  He looks to the Fathers love, not because he didnt have life, he is the resurrection and the life.  Jesus says in Johns gospel that as the Father has life in himself and raises whom he wills so to does the Son.  Jesus looks to the Fathers love on the cross so that when we see him in his resurrection, where he raises his flesh from the grave, by the Father, in the Spirit, we can see the Fathers will to give us His life, and we can see the Fathers testimony that His life is in His Son Jesus.  Thats why Jesus says in Johns gospel, the Father has life in himself and has granted that I would have this same life in myself.  Meaning the Father has life in Himself.  The Fathers raises whom he wills, and the Father has committed all judgment into my hand, to raise whom I will, knowing I have the same life in myself thats in him, that all who honor the Father, give the same honor to the Son. 

This is the law the Father engraves on our hearts.  The apostle Paul says in 2nd Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. The Father engraves on our hearts, the Word of His will, to minister His divinity to our humanity, through His Son, by His Spirit. The Son engraves on our hearts, the goodness of the Father to minister His divinity to us, through his finger, that is the Holy Spirit.  And through that we are able to know God, and live as a people born of Him. 

Prayer