John 3:35 - The Father's Love for His Son

John 3:35
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.

Message: The Father's Love for His Son

Time: John most likely wrote between A.D. 85 and 90. John's purpose in writing was, "that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name (John 20:31)."

What the Lord is Saying: Verse 35 seems like a culminating verse in what has been voiced thus far. Yet, this is the first time the Father is mentioned in chapter 3. In Chapter 1:14, We saw the Word (Jesus) "glory as of the only begotten from the Father." Jesus in 2:16 asks those in the sanctuary to "stop making My Father’s house a place of business." As such there is clearly a distinction between the Father and the Son. The Father loves the Son. And yet though there is a distinction it also reads here that the Father "has given all things into His hand." As such there is nothing that the Father has that the Son lacks. And yet the Father sends the Son. They share the same divine essence. 

Matthew 11:27 says, "All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him."

John 6:46, "Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father."

Summary: Jesus has it all. He is loved by the Father and the Father has given him all things. 

Promise: God has revealed Himself fully and finally in His Son, Jesus Christ.

Prayer. O God, thank you for sending your Son and giving Him all things. He is all that you are God. 

 

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