We've Got Connections!

This conversation Jesus is having with His Friends is most important. He said the wine He shared with them earlier was the last they’d enjoy together ‘til they reached the “Kingdom.” Quite likely they’ll not be talking this way until then either.

Crucial Matters

These matters He’s bringing up are crucial. These men simply must grasp them. They’ll not understand why He’s called them and lead them here if they don’t. They’ll be inept in the use of what He’s taught them. His ways of doing things have to be learned. Tonight is the final chance He’ll have to once more review and “drive Home” who He is and how what they’ve watched Him do is actually done.

Supreme Unity

He’s already been as clear as ever about His relationship with His Father. “To see me is to see the Father.” Now, He presses the point. “The words that I speak to you aren’t mere words. I

don’t make them up on my own. The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a Divine act.”

Not only is this about a Father/Son resemblance. To see one is to see the other. Jesus’ words are the Father’s words. He “crafts” them. He “crafts” each of them into action. Christ’s “walk” is the “talk” of the Father; ongoing, unmistakably Divine actions. They, Father and Son, are “One,” their “words” are shared; their “works” are mutually devised and performed.

Mission Supernatural

With that emphatically restated Jesus abruptly turns to His Friends and brings them into this amazing relationship. “The person who trusts me will not only do what I’m doing but even

greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I’ve been doing. You can count on it.”

Anyone who trusts Christ will do the Father’s work just as Jesus has. They’ll even do the “will” of the Father to greater extents than He has. This will be their Mission. These are their orders. It’s what their lives will be about forever. “You can count on it,” He insisted.

Supplies on Request

To assure them that they’d be able to accomplish this “Divine” Mission, He promised, “From

now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I'll do it. That's how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I'll do.”

The trusting Christ-follower will be living proof of the Father/Son Unity. “The Son of Man seen for who He is … God seen in Him.” It is a “DIVINE” Mission. “God crafted” words, and “whatever” else is needed, will be available. The Master repeated His promise. “Whatever your request in this way, I’ll do.”

Re-united

Father, Son, Disciple in partnership. Jesus of Nazareth – the Son of Man – is “on (the) way to the Father.” They’ll soon be united forever. The “Son of God,” the Second Person of the Trinity, will be re-united with the Father and the Spirit as He resumes His place on the Eternal Throne. But now, as “Son of God/Son of Man.” God and humanity re-united as “in the beginning.” Partners in Supremacy over all Creation. From the Heavenly Kingdom Father, Son, and Spirit will watch and dispatch “whatever (we) request along the lines of who (they) are and what (they’re) doing;” whatever our Mission requires.

Mission Accomplished

Jesus knew there was a cross yet to be carried … a crucifixion accomplished. But He couldn’t leave these protégés without making it perfectly clear that the highest purposes of God and a ransomed race were about to be raised to a whole new level!