Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?" John 14:9
The disciples stand in for us in various ways throughout the scriptures, and this time it is Philip. And he seems to be struggling with something that Jesus thinks he should know by that time. Jesus told them the parable of the new wine and old wineskins, and yet the disciples struggled with bursting the bonds of the old. And one old lesson they had been raised on was this:
But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” Exodus 33:20
Philip was still alive, Jesus said he had now seen the Father, and now the new wine struggled to burst through the old stiffened wineskin of what Philip knew from his early training.
Praise God for the wine of the new covenant in our Lord Jesus!
Bucky
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