John 4:24
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 14:8-14
Jesus is in His Father and His Father is in Him
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
John 14:6
I AM Truth
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 3:31-36
John the Baptist's Testimony About Jesus
31 The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32 He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. 33 Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. 34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. 35 The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands.36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
I love this statement that Philip asks Jesus...Philip wants Jesus to show him something...Philip says, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”...People since the ancient days want to know what God is like, what His Presence feels like, and Philip wants Jesus to just show God to Him and the other disciples...Philip wants to see God with his own eyes...But evidently it is not that simple of a thing to see God, or His Presence through the eyes of man...Would man understand what he was seeing?...Do all men think of God and see Him in the same way?...Does He look different to each of us?...What is man's vision of God and since God is Spirit what is and does Spirit look like?...Can One just show us God and that will be enough (a fair question from Philip, it seems to me)?...Or is God so Almighty, so complex, and so Provident that could we see Him, and if we did -would we understand what we are seeing?...
Jesus answers Philip this way...First Jesus tells him, since he has seen Him, he really has seen God...What kind of man would say, if you have seen Me, you have seen God?...Jesus is actually comparing Himself to God...Jesus actually somehow dwells in His Father, and the Father dwells in Him...He is more than one of the Prophets, who would have said, God has sent me, or God inspired me to say this, and write this...Jesus is special, and somehow is in His Father literally, and more than a thought and memory...He also maybe telling Philip, God incarnate, or God in the flesh has been with you for a long time (the last three years) -and yet, you still haven't seen Him...So, I must tell you more about this and then maybe you will understand this better...
Then He explains to Philip (more about) His unique closeness to His Father...And it is very much about this relationship -His relationship with His Father...The relationship that He has with His Father in Heaven, and His Father lives in Him...Jesus tells Philip that if we know Jesus, we also know His Father...They share many of the same characteristics...Jesus does not say He is the Father, but He says I AM in the Father...He has this unique and special relationship with God, His Father...His Father actually lives in Him, and helps Him with His ministry work, and in all that He does...Even the words He speaks come from God...All His authority has came from His Father...The miracles He has done have came from His Father...He tells Philip we must believe that He is in His Father and His Father is in Him...We can look at all His miracles and what He has done to believe this...And whatever we ask in Jesus' name and if He does what we ask, it will be glorified by His Father into His Son...All that Jesus has done, He gives credit to His Father for having come to earth and done those things He did while He was on earth...He gives all His glory to His Father...Jesus could not have done the things He did without God and God existing...So when one believes in Jesus, one believes in God...The proof of all the outstanding things He said, and the miracles He has done -all say I came from God...
One can tell by Jesus' words this is the most unique of all relationships one has ever heard or read about...Also, one can tell it is complicated and not an easy thing to understand...Seeing God literally with our eyes may not be possible...But we can see His Son, and Philip has seen and known Him for three years...We get to know Jesus through the four gospels and the New Testament...The relationship among divine Spirits is different than our personal relationships...Nonetheless, relationships are very important...Jesus is teaching Philip and us that we are to have a relationship with God and Him, a special one...
For this author, this is hard to understand...But we learn that we are to have a special relationship with God...A relationship with God and His Son are very important...This relationship is personal, very personal that we should have with Them, as Jesus explains His relationship to us about His Father...We also clearly learn that Jesus is our Mediator between us and God...He is the exclusive Mediator between us and God...We can pray in Jesus' name and take comfort in knowing that our prayers to His Son, get heard by His Father...Somehow Jesus and His Father are One in nature, and Jesus is allowed to be divine, have God's authority, and do miracles...And this is only because of God, who sent Him...Jesus speaks the very words of God...
John the Baptist is a great witness for Jesus...He explains to us that Jesus is from above...He is from heaven and is above us...Jesus is literally above nature and can do the miracles, because He is divine and above these things of nature...We who are from earth only know and can see earthly things -and we have a hard time comprehending miracles and these things from above, outside of nature and science...Our wisdom is of the earth and about the earth...The true believer certifies that Jesus is Truth, and all the He said and did is Truth...God has given Jesus this power of Spirit without any measure, without any limit...And because of this He will utter the greatest of all words ever spoken and do the greatest of all miracles (more than any other man has ever done)...And because God sent Him, we must believe that Jesus would be able to do these mighty and great things...