Friday, June 14 (1), 2024
Acts 19:1-8; Jn. 14:1-11
“If ye had known Me, ye should have known My Father also” [Jn. 14:7]. It means that modern-day Deists do not know God, despite bearing His name (Deus means God in Latin) and saying a lot of fancy words about Him.
There is no true God without the Son and without the Holy Spirit. If you say that you believe in God, without confessing Him the Father of the Son, it means that you believe not in the True God, but in some other god of your own making. The True God has given us His Son, He has given us “power to become the sons of God” [Jn. 1:12], He loves us and heeds to our prayers for the sake of the Son. Therefore, if you have the Son, you have also the Father, and if you don’t have the Son, you don’t have the Father either.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by the Son [Jn. 14:6], and no one receives anything from the Father, but through the Son. There is no way to the True God apart from the Son, and if anyone dreams of finding such a way, he is sure to get lost.