Father we are here today to be known by you.  Our hearts are fully open to you.  Let the words spoken today be spirit and life to all our flesh.  Let them bring to remembrance the communion we share with you through Jesus.

Today’s the day we remember that our Great God and savior Jesus Christ rose from the dead, appearing to Peter and the apostles and James the Lords brother, and upwards of 500, and last of all the apostle Paul on the road to Damascus.  Jesus appeared having abolished the power death had over our humanity, delivering us from corruption, bringing life and immortality to light.  

The resurrection isnt just about God giving us life.  Yes, God gives us everlasting life.  Yes, the resurrection brings life and immortality to light.  It’s just that life and immortality are the fruit of something much more intimate and relational than someone merely giving you something, and sending you on your way.  God didnt give us life and then send us on our way.  He gave us His Son, who’s dwelling in His bosom from everlasting, always in communion with Him, knowing and being fully known by Him.  The resurrection is about communion between God and man.  It’s the mutual indwelling of God and man.  God in us and us in God.  Our humanity knowing and being fully known by the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit.  Not an intellectual knowing, but in the sense of our humanity being handled by the fullness of deity, where we experience God through Him pouring His divinity into the deep places of our nature.  Jesus says in John 17 this is life eternal, that you know the Father, and the Son whom He has sent.  Eternal life is the fruit of knowing and being known by the Father, through communion with the Son, in the Spirit.  The resurrection is the revelation of our humanity being fully known by the Trinity.  

Psa 2:7  I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 

This is using something seen in the life of David to prophesy of the Christ and his resurrection.  The heathen raged against the Son of God.  The Pharisees surrounded Jesus at the cross as ravenous and roaring lions, gaping upon him with their mouths.  Denying His Sonship; Denying that He is the Son of the Living God; Denying that He is God manifest in the flesh.  Pointing to the death that was manifesting in his flesh on the cross.  

The Father says why do the heathen rage against my Son.  I will put them in strong derision.  I will declare His generation.  I will reveal that His generation is from everlasting; that He’s been mutually indwelling the Light with me from all eternity.  The apostle Paul says in Romans 1:4 that Jesus was proven to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.  The resurrection reveals that Jesus possesses the fulness of deity in his person.  It shows that Jesus is the eternal Son of the Father.  That he’s light from light, true God from true God, come forth from the bosom of the Father.  Begotten not made.  Born as a man in time so our humanity can be fully known by the Father. 

1Jn 3:1  says Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

John sees the resurrection of Jesus and he’s awestruck.  All he can say is what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us.  John sees the Word thats always been with the Father, in an active relation of communion with the Father, fully knowing the Father, while being fully known by Him; mutually indwelling one another in the Light.  John sees that Word; the Word that is the brightness of the Father’s glory and the express image of the Father’s person is become flesh.  And that tells John we have communion with the Father through the humanity of the Son.  John sees that the Father opened Himself up to us; to fully know us in our humanity so we can know Him in His divinity.  

Heb 2:10  For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 

Jhn 17:5  And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.  The glory is something deeply intimate with the Fathers person.  It comes forth from the very essence of His being.  It’s the substance of the Fathers being.  It’s a defining characteristic of His person.  It’s the most intimate part of the Father that He can share with someone.  Its the divinity; the divine nature shared from everlasting between the Father and the Son.  

Bringing many sons to glory is talking about Jesus bringing our humanity to the Father, so our humanity can be fully known by the Father.  Bringing us to glory is about us knowing and being known by the Father.  It’s for the Son to make us partakers with him in his communion with the Father; that we can know the Father and His divinity in the depth of our humanity.  

If the Father wants to know us and be known by us; if the Father wants to partake with us in the depth of our humanity, and he wants us to partake with Him in His divinity, its fitting that the Son partake with us in flesh and blood.  The Father opens Himself up to us, to be fully known by us, through the Son partaking with us in flesh and blood.  And simultaneously our humanity is opened up, to be fully known by the Father, through the Son partaking with us in flesh and blood.  

The Father wants the same communion with you that He’s always shared with the Son.  So the Son who’s fully known and fully knowing the Father erupts from the Fathers bosom.  The Father prepares a body for the Son, in the Spirit.  The Son partakes of our humanity; he partakes with us in flesh and blood. He embraces our humanity. He partakes of the depth of our humanity and all its brokenness at the cross; opening himself up to us; pouring himself out for us at the cross, so we can partake of him; that’s communion; Jesus knew us in every sense of what it means to experience someone in the depth of their being.  He shared with us in the deepest places of our humanity.  Theres no part of our humanity that isn’t touched by Jesus.  Thats why we’re never alone … he shares with us in our humanity, so no matter where we are or what is going on we are sharing with him in his divinity.  Jesus was intimate with us.  He shared with us in the essence of our being so we can be intimate with Him, and through Him the Father. 

The son comes into the earth; taking the nature of human into himself, that through his flesh; and him giving himself to the Father at the cross; the same way he’s always given himself to the Father; he can give our humanity to the Father, so we can know and be fully known by the Father through His body.  Jesus offered His flesh to the Father to be fully known by the Father, and through that our humanity was immersed in the communion that’s always existed between the Father and the Son.  Where the Father is eternally pouring the substance of His Divinity into our humanity through the body of Christ.  It’s a river of living water that flows to to our humanity from the Father, through the body of the Son, in the Spirit.  

The cross is the Father knowing our humanity through the Son.  It’s the Father sharing with us in the substance of our being.  The cross isnt a picture of the Father pouring out His Wrath on the Son.  The cross is the Father wanting to know us; it’s the Father opening Himself up to us through the humanity of the Son.  The cross is the Father wanting to experience us in the depth of our being, even while we’re at our worst.  It’s about intimacy … it’s about communion because God is love.  

Jhn 14:2  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Jhn 14:3  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Jhn 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

This isnt talking about something in the future, it’s talking about the Father and the Son coming to make a home in us through the Holy Spirit.  Jesus is talking intimacy.  He’s talking about us dwelling in the most intimate part of the Father.  Jesus came from the bosom of the Father; he’s always in the bosom of the Father.  He was made flesh, so we can be with him, where he always is, in the bosom of the Father.

Intimacy; communion occurs in the bosom of the Father.  Its the place where the Fathers shares the substance of his being with the Son, and the Son shares himself with the Father.  The Son is eternally in the bosom of the Father; he is in the Father and the Father is in him; mutually indwelling one another in the light; knowing and being fully known by each other.  They communicate themselves to one another in the Spirit.  

Jesus says I go to prepare a place for you, that where i am in the bosom of the Father, in a state of everlasting communion with the Father.  I in the Father and the Father in me; mutually indwelling one another in the light.  Partaking of one another; sharing all that we are with one another.  I’m bringing your humanity to the Father that where I am fully knowing the Father, and being fully known by the Father, you can be with me, sharing in the everlasting intimacy I have with the Father in the Spirit.  

Jhn 17:22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
Jhn 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.