The will of the one who sent me

At 8,1b-8; Ps 65; Jn 6,35-40
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Jesus lives of eternal relationship of obedience with the Father. He is from the Father, but also of the Father. Creation is from the Father, through the Word, but remains of the Father. The flock is also of the Father. The Father gives it to Christ to nourish it with eternal life and lead it to eternal bliss. Everything belongs to the Father, but the Father has placed everything in the hands of the Son. The Father does nothing except through the Son. It is an eternal truth. Without this truth there is no evangelical faith. It must be affirmed with all strength.

The feast of the Dedication was then taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter. And Jesus walked about in the temple area on the Portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered them, “I told you and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify to me. But you do not believe, because you are not among my sheep. My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one” (Jn 10,22-30).

“I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you gave me is from you, because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours, and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them. And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are. When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely. I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world (Jn 17,6-14).

At that time Jesus said in reply, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him. “Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light” (Mt 11,25-30).

What is the condition so that the Son can nourish those whom the Father gives him of eternal life? Faith in the Person, the Word and works of the Son. They must believe that Jesus is from the Father, that the works belong to the Father and that the Word belongs to the Father. They must believe that if they want eternal life, if they want to be resurrected on the last day, they must dwell in this faith and never leave it. It is an eternal essential condition.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. But I told you that although you have seen (me), you do not believe. Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me, because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it (on) the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him (on) the last day.”

It is against the Gospel to make a separation between the Father and Christ Jesus. It is against the Father’s will to declare Jesus useless to the gift of eternal life and resurrection. It is against the revealed truth to want to go to God by excluding Christ from his universal mediation. It is a sin against the Holy Spirit if the will to remove Jesus Christ from the process of eternal salvation and resurrection is added to the non-faith.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints help Christians to believe with true faith in Christ Jesus.