CHRIST IS SUFFICIENT

Jno 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
TEXT: 8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.


Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.


Jesus begins by telling them how to have personal peace of mind by looking forward to the great things ahead. Their questions and requests show that they haven’t accepted Him yet, as who He really is. He tells them that if they have trouble believing His words, then accept His works.


Mark 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.


I. Phillip’s request is typical of the lack of understanding of many. He had been present at the mount of Transfiguration and had heard the Father’s statement
Jno 12:28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
We are not faced with getting men to ‘see’ Bible doctrines, but getting them to SEE Jesus!
A. See Him as The God. V 10

The fullness of the Godhead; Heb.1:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.the express image of God. 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
When man sees Him thus, he will no longer argue with His authority, or question Him.
B. See HIM as the redeemer. YOUR faith was not your redeemer; Christ paid the debt and God gave you faith to accept HIM.
I Cor 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;


Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.


Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:


Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

1. Seeing this, the lost will not seek other ways.
2. The saved will not rob Him, for we are not our own, we’ve been bought with a price.
I Cor 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
C. Really SEE Him as the Bridegroom, and the Church will take on a new meaning.
Jno. 3: 29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
The concept of the church as an institution to satisfy the needs of its members will fail, for we all have different needs and desires. See it as the Body of Christ with Him as its head, for the sole purpose of doing HIS good pleasure, and it takes on a whole new meaning.
D. See Him as the judge and your present life becomes a serious responsibility –
II Cor 5: 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
E. See Him as the coming King, and present problems seem small.


II For these reasons, we are admonished to keep our eyes on Him.
A. Heb. 2: 8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
As we look around us we see a chaotic world – there is no comfort there.
SEE Jesus! John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
B. As you run the race of life, you’ll get no help from the sidelines. Keep your eyes on Jesus!
Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.


III A single look upon God, will change one.
A. There is only one safe way to see God
Exo 33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
B. We beheld His glory Jno.1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Are you safe in the cleft Rock?


IV Come to God in salvation through Christ
See God in Christ; then you can bring others as did Phillip.
Jno 12:20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus


As did the woman at the well
Jno. 4:29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?