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“I and my Father are one.” John 10:30 A bold statement of truth which Jesus knew would bring a strong reaction from those who opposed Him. It is an expression of Divine unity. The difference between the Father and the Son is expressed in the personal pronoun “I” in contrast to the Father. Perhaps if we would remember that God is a Spirit, and not a physical, natural being such as we are, the being of God could be better understood. John 4:24 This does not place Him in a category where He is a mere spirit, and is not an entity, He is very definitely, of essential nature. The heavenly or the spiritual is that which is reality, for it is eternal, everlasting. We are temporal, transitory and all die.
The Spirit of the Father, who is the Father, was very much present and alive in the Lord Jesus. Therefore He could say, I and my Father are one. He positively emphasized both the difference and the unity or harmony. His statement was, “The Father dwells in me.” John 14:10 A perfect, unadulterated accord and binding together. Such an affinity exists between the Father and the Son that the words and the works of the Son originated with the Father. The Lord Jesus, as the Son of Man, was in absolute submission to the Father. Always doing the will of the Father.
Each entity maintaining their own identity, yet fully blending together in perfect concord. “I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” John 14:11.
It was Philip who having heard from Jesus about the Father asked for Jesus to show them the Father. Jesus responded with a question. How can it be that I have been so long a time with you and you ask to see the Father. “He that hath seen me has seen the Father.” John 14:9 He is not identifying Himself as the Father but is emphasizing the truth that He is the likeness, the image of the Father. For it is the Lord Jesus who is the precise likeness of the Father. He is the image, the likeness, the revelation of the invisible. Col. 1:15.
As the perfect, the exact image of His father it is fitting that He be filled with the glory of His Father. The brightness, the shining forth, the effulgence of the one who is light. Jesus is the vessel, the receptacle in whom all the fullness of the Godhead is pleased to reside. The presence, the assurance of the existence of the Father and the Holy Spirit is to be found in Him. He is the visibility of the glory of the Lord which was resident in the most holy place. Over the mercy seat and between the cherubim. Heb. 1:3.