GOD KNOWLEDGE

GOD KNOWLEDGE

"No man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, except the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him" Matt. 11:27

Here He was accounting for the fact that men had not understood Him. He thus declared the mystery of His own personality; no one perfectly understands Him, except the Father. This is a perpetual truth, and it may be said to this hour that no one knows the Son except the Father.

Let us carefully observe what now immediately follows. "Neither doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son wills to reveal Him.”

Consider, then, this twofold fact. Jesus declared that no one can know the Son perfectly, except the Father; but He affirmed that the Father can be known through the Son. We have a far more correct knowledge of God the Father at this hour than we have of Jesus. The great mysteries and the great problems, and the great perplexities, are still con­cerning the Person of Jesus. Grace operates by revealing the things that never were known through the instru­ment of a Person; but the things revealed are so mighty that the instru­ment of their revelation must remain a mystery. "No one knows the Son, except the Father, neither doth any know the Father except the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son wills to reveal Him."

For the purpose of making known the incomprehensible God, God was manifest in flesh (Jesus), thus bringing the image of the invisible God (Father & Holy Spirit) within the grasp of men (Col. 1:15). As the Word, Christ became the communication of God to men (John 1:14), ever unfolding the truth of God to men (John 14:6-9; 1:13). "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true; and we are in Him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. Little children, keep yourselves from idols" (1 John 5:20-21).