The Love Song of Heaven

The shepherds heard the angels sing…peace on earth, good will to men.  Here is the love song of heaven.  If you want to know how much the Father loves us, listen to the song of heaven.  What do you hear?  What do you learn?  What is the message about the Father?  

I often have people say to me that they can embrace the sweet Jesus, but the Father they fear.  What does John 14:8-11 say?  “Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”  Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?  Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

This verse is a foundational truth about God.  It does not say that if we have seen Jesus we have an incomplete and inaccurate view of the Father. All that we can understand about the Father is clearly seen in Jesus.

Jesus is the Father’s revelation of himself…“if you have seen me, you have seen the Father.”

I often talk about our identity in Christ.  It has occurred to me after so many that have issues with the Father’s identity that we need to hear the truth about God.  He is not the bad guy of heaven who needs the Son to stand between us and the Father.  This is such a distortion of the image of God and the Son…for you see, they are one.

Not reading and understanding scripture is where we get these distortions.  I am amazed at how we keep passing on to generation after generation of God’s children this dreadful lie.  It speaks of our lack of personal Bible study and how willing we are to accept and pass on the lies.  Scripture is truth that sets us free.  Free from the identity crises of God, Christ, and mankind.  

For GOD so loved the world that He gave His only son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  We could and will spend an eternity basking in this love and truth.  

In this time of beholding the Christ child…the sweet, lovely Jesus…let us see that in all that He reveals, it is a revelation of the Father.  If, as scripture says, Jesus did not come to condemn us, then you can be sure the love song of heaven has no words of condemnation either.  There is only one accuser of the brethren…the devil. If the Son pleads His blood, it is to stand between God and the Devil...the accuser.  This is the Biblical law of "witnesses."  There has to be two or three witnesses for something to be so.  We have the Father, the Son, and the accuser.  

If a scripture seems to be talking about God’s condemnation, read it again.  The devil is the one who condemns us…read the story of the woman caught in adultery.  Jesus (and God) do not condemn.  The real bad guy is the devil.  He has a charge against us and against God for not immediately destroying us when we were deceived in the garden…like the woman caught in adultery which is a visual aid of what happened in the garden of Eden.

Peace on earth, good will to men.  The love song of heaven.  The greatest Christmas gift we can give God this Christmas is to understand this love song and see that if you are seeing  the Son, you have seen the Father.  The scripture says that a house divided against itself cannot stand.  What many people have received as truth about the Godhead is actually a doctrine of a false god.  Celebrate the truth of the holiday...that is the love song of heaven…peace on earth, good will to men.  Praise God.