John 6: 38-40
Excerpt: …Am I not right!: Does it not exemplify that both Father and Christ extol yet another son? This query in mind, let’s swallow our carefully masticated theme by rereading it:38 “ For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” —John 6: 38-40. Christ here claims to have not finished His mission; so, by Father’s behest of Him, all can celebrate that His glory has not expired. He descended from heaven and clandestinely rested on Jesus to perform many miracles. Those miracles must not be diminished; yet, there is more glory for us to anticipate the Christian hope is vested in the gift of everlasting life.This hope then goes beyond the Apostles —beyond Catholicism and Protestantism— to the end of the rainbow … the last day. Even though ignored until this mustard seed outcry, the crescendo of Christian faith comes by that promised upswell: The very glory intended for our eyes. In fact, such is called by God, the second rendition or second coming of Christ! It is the time when Christ, by ventri-lo´quism, will, by prescript of Law, speak through another vessel called the son, for “… every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” The pronoun “I” is an irrefutable reference to Christ, He whom Father sent from heaven. Accordingly, this is the highest of all human ambitions, bar none…