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PGA Chaplain Bible Studies

Study 3 –January 28th to February 3rd 2008
Reading –John Chapter Ch12: verses 44 to 50

Like Father like Son?

“Jesus said in a loud voice, “Whoever believes in me believes not only in me but also in him who sent me. Whoever sees me sees also him who sent me.” John Chapter 12: verses 44 to 45. (Good News Bible)

In sport there are many Fathers and Sons who have excelled in the same sport.  In golf there are not too many, but Jack Nicholas has a son Gary, who turned Pro and played the Tour for a few years. Bernhard Langer has a son who won the Father and Son challenge on the US Tour last year. While not a Pro he has followed in his fathers love of golf.

In Rugby League Reg Gasnier is one of the greats of Rugby League and he has a son Mark who has played for the same club as his dad at St George and represented Australia. Both are regarded as one of the best in their respective generations.

It is not unusual for Sons to follow in their Fathers footsteps. Unfortunately it happens with bad habits as well. I have been helping a golfer who has followed his Father’s bad social skills into the golf professional ranks and is finding himself in a lot of trouble.
I lost my Father at sea (he was a fisherman, but also a very good sportsman) when I was 15 years of age. He passed on to me a natural ability to play sport and I also learnt the irresponsible attitude I still have at times.

If you watched the Movie or read the book “The Di Vinci Code” there was an effort in the movie to make Jesus appear only as a man and not God. Or later towards the end, to give the idea that human and divine in life are one and the same thing. Dan Brown is an example of an author who has tried to separate the Father and the Son.
Both views of Jesus are distortions of the evidence both within the bible and outside of it. If alternative Christianities say anything about Jesus, it was more like making Jesus less human and only divine.

Our reading for this week is a typical passage in John where the essential unity between God as Father and Jesus is made. Like father, like Son. While we can and must distinguish between the Father and Jesus we also affirm their essential oneness or unity.  Jesus has come to show us what God is like, God in all of the fullness we will ever know. It may appear offensive today to refer to Jesus as one with the Father or God, but his testimony is clear that he bears the authority and likeness of his Father. There is no closer unity or truth to “Like the Father, like the Son” than with Jesus and the Father who we know as God. To reject Jesus is to reject God. There is no alternative. Jesus makes it clear that those who reject Jesus will experience the judgment of God. To embrace Jesus is to embrace God. Jesus waits for us to come to him for life.

Our goal in life is to be like Jesus, to reflect his life through ours, to show what God is like in our words and actions. As Jesus was like his father, so we who believe in Jesus are called to be Christ like.

Prayer. 
Lord God, thank you that Jesus shows us what God is truly like. Since we know God through Jesus, help our world to take Jesus seriously as the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Amen.

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