Jesus Christ having come to earth had a specific task to accomplish before He returned to the Father, and having completed that task He knew His departure was “At hand”.
His report to the Father? “I have glorified you on the earth, I have finished the work you have given Me to do”. And the work in question in this scripture is “I have manifest Your name to those whom you have given me OUT of the world and they have kept it. They were Yours, You gave them to Me and they have kept Your Word” And “I have given them the words which You had given Me (to give to them) and they have received them and they have known surely (truly without question, doubt or addendum) that Jesus Christ came from the Father and was to return, His mission was accomplished.
For you see Christ at the Last Supper, after the departure of Judas, no longer called them servants but friends “for a servant does not know what his Master is doing, but I tell you plainly about the father”. Then He says “I have come forth from the Father and have come into the world and again I leave the world and go to the Father”. It was as if time froze and all the energy of Jesus Christ spotlighted that phrase, for all time and eternity. For that was primary to the work the Father had gavin Him to do.
And it was so much so much so in fact that Christ made the disciples repeat what they heard, as he does also with us. They having repeated what Jesus said, He then reports back to the Father as a task well done “They have kept your word”. That Jesus had come forth from the Father and returned to the Father” And the message THEY kept? I came forth from the Father into the world. Again I leave the world and go BACK to the Father. And as He told the disciples “and you see Me again no more.” At least not in the the fashion of flesh. John 16.28+28
If then this is central to the message the Father gave to the Son to give to the disciples, for them to be repeated by the disciples to us, as proof they had received that testimony, Then shouldn’t it be central to the teachings of Christianity today? That Christ said to the disciples on John 16.10 “I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
He came to sow seed in the hearts of the disciples and He knew it took root when the words He delivered came out of their mouths. Otherwise He could NOT have said to the Father “I have given them Your word and they know truly I have come from you” who also said “You will see me no more because I go to the Father“.
This epic and paramount message that was delivered was that Christ had come forth from the Father, and that He was returning to the Father, and no where, I mean no where in all this discourse where He speaks plainly of Father, does He ever mention anything about a second coming or another work.
Yet today in Christianity for many, the focus is a second coming. But Jesus Christ told the Father “they have kept Your word” and the disciples having repeated that, Jesus said to them “Do you now believe?” As if to punctuate this for us this important truth. Then to further state to the Father “I have given them Your word and they have kept it” is a double stamp for us too. This is the testimony that He wants us to keep today as well. And if Jesus did NOT finish the work the Father gave Him, He would have to come back a second time. Then none of what He said is reliable or true, if this is not true. His work in fact would not be finished and the cross would be a hoax.
You see it was the prophets (on Old Covenant office) who spoke of a coming one of which Jesus accomplished the word saying “all the law and the prophets were until John the baptist, now being fulfilled in Christ, Him having accomplished and finished the work saying “now the Kingdom is preached and all are pressing their way in?” As if to indicate a stampede? But today, They are waiting for a kingdom and they call it a second coming. What a disgrace. No stampede into the Kingdom, the doors are closed. A sign on the door “We are closed for remodeling and will re-open at the grand second coming. Bring your lawn chairs, popcorn, and palm branches for the coronation of the king who is coming later to do the real saving. Hosanna blessed will he be on that day.
With this mindset “The Kingdom of God at hand” is NOT “at hand” and has no relevance for it in fact would be not “at hand” but some time in the future and we would all be left alone in our sins. But that is not the case. That is not the gospel! The gospel given was go to to the Gentike Nations preaching that The Kingdom of God is at hand!”
For even John the baptist specifically sent and asked Christ “Are you the coming one or do we seek another?” Jesus did not send word to John of a second coming, No problem I’ll get you on the rebound. Or, Go tell John I will come back in another couple thousand years to finish My work? This is not found once in scripture, neither is “the second coming”. But rather “go tell John what you see and hear”. Does this offend you?
Jesus could not say of these people, the second coming seekers, “Father they have kept your word” those who keep My Word the Father will love and We will come to them and make our home in them” if they do not receive Jesus Christ in His natural, preincarnate self of being “The Word of God (John 1.1). Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever”. Amen!
This can not be said to the second coming seekers because they believe the kingdom must come, and that Christ must has more work to do and their heart is covered over with a thick delusion. But Jesus Christ is seated with the Father waiting for His enemies to become His footstool (Hebrews 1.13) And waiting for His work to be played out. But the preaching of “The Kingdom of God at hand”. That “Today is the day of salvation” from the wreckage of the fall. But they do not believe the testimony God gave the Son, then the Son gave the disciples, then the disciples repeated it back to Christ and He delivered word to the Father. “It is finished” unless finished means something else.
We can understand from Moses the importance of clean feet with what sandals mean, because when Moses was on Sinai he was instructed to “take off thy sandals for where you stand is Holy ground”. This was the first place Moses came in contact with the eternal and his sandals were the insulators between the created and the eternal.
And the same for the disciples, they were coming into contact with the invisible and eternal Son of God that was washing their feet, however dressed in the flesh symbolized by the towel.
With this we can understand in parable form that it is us that are washed by the water of the word in the same way.
Christ then said “what I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.” And hopefully you are able to understand this as the “after this) as well so you can advance further into His Kingdom, and separate yourself from the deniers who do NOT believe that that the “Kingdom of God is at hand”.
So when Christ had washed their feet, He took off the towel, meaning His humanity, He then put on His original garments, meaning His Glory, then sat back down like in the beginning before creation. This was all done in picture form, for us to understand the invisible reality it portrayed. Then He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?
The answer is that, He showed them in parable form “for without a parable spake he not to the people”, His eschatology. That He took off His Heavenly attire, put on earthly flesh as referred to by the towel, washed their feet to sanctify them so that He could tell the Father “I have finished the work you have given Me to do, I have given those you have given Me your word and they have kept it. Then for Christ to return to His Eternal composition, having finished His work in the realm of temporal flesh saying “I return to the Father and you see Me again no more”.
He now instructs us to do so too by saying “follow Me so that where I am you may be also”. Meaning we to go to the Father. And you can only follow the Word of God if you become His word too. This is our transfiguration. This is us born again, born of the Spirit, and borne from above” as being the recipients of what He said. WORD! GODS WORD AND SON.
We follow Him by consuming Him, to become Him and He is Word. This is our role, duty and goal, our transformation and transfiguration.
But you must remember “In the beginning was the Word, the word became flesh. That we in the beginning were flesh and we put on word as if it is His flesh.
This is us reversing the Adamic curse by putting on Christ the Word of God, one word and one revelation at a time until we are like Him who “was and is and is to become” WORD!
He left us an example and We just showed you how to do it. You have to do it the way He did it with word, God’s word.
We believe therefore we speak. Then the thing that we said becomes the thing that is said. Like when the Father said “let there be light and it was so”. We do the works of the Father as did the Son, who showed us how to do it as we show you to say and do too.
When we hear the word of God, we receive it into our hearts, we ponder what He said until we can understand and repeat it as if to own it as “joint heirs with Christ, of the things in Christ. Then the things that we say, that we learned from the word, becomes true for us as well, the moment we accomplish this process. The Heavenly Father hears our “profession” and being pleased that what He says to us reverberates back to Him and He us satisfied. Why? Because He knows that we got it. It is real for us.
From that moment on we never need to repeat it again. We move on the the next revelation to complete the same possess, until “we are completed in Him who is head over all principalities in Heavenly places in Christ”. Amen!
In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the Word was God”. You too must become Word to follow Him back to the Father, like we just showed you. In this way we are “a chip off the old block”.
We hope you now know the mission of Christ was to retrieve His elect by washing them from the obstacles of this age for receiving His word in this way and the regeneration of the spirit. To wash each other’s walk, follow Him and take our rightful seat at His own right hand.
Can you see this? Can you receive this? Can you repeat this?
Paul finally did in Ephesians 2 saying that “He has “raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus”.
Didn’t Yeshua say “follow Me that where I am you may be also? Well this is how you do it.
So those who heard and kept the word “I have come forth from the Father and come into the world, now I leave the world and go back to the Father”? To follow Him! He is “the way, the truth and the life”? He said “no one comes to the Father except through Me”? Meaning through word in this way. His word in us, spoken as if we own it, because we do! Through the blood and His cross, our crossover.
We are joint heir’s of the things of the Father that He spoke on our behalf, for us to repeat it, for it to become our new reality as joint heirs and co-owners.
This is why Paul said “old things having past away, behold all things have become new”. Not new in the sense of having never been before, but new in the sense that you just heard it, believed and received it in your hearing and in your heart. It never gets old. It is always in it’s illustrious form of Heavenly Glory that never fades. It is Eternally new in this way.
If you truly understand this and do this, you will know Him and there is no need for another Jesus to explain or perform anything. Salvation start to finish is summed up in this way. This is the Christ, why do you seek another?