The Son Can Do Nothing of Himself (John 5: 19, 20)

John 5:19, 20

"Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He SEES the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, AND SHOWS HIM all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel." Jesus Himself seems to say that He, even He, in Himself was unprofitable: what He had He had been given by His Father. 

"For I consider the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. (Romans 8:18,19) 

What sufferings? "Whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea, and DOES NOT DOUBT IN HIS HEART, BUT BELIEVES' (so that the removal of this mountain will be complete)...... 'He will have whatever he says'. The action of this understanding makes room in our hearts for Him. We must decrease so that He may increase! The suffering of this process removes the carnality of man's heart, replaced by Jesus Christ (the Living Word) in His fullness by the Holy Spirit. With the impediment of the mountain being removed, we more clearly SEE what the Father, in the name of the Son, by the Holy Spirit are doing. With the impediment removed, on purpose, by our understanding of this process and willingness to persevere with Him in it, the Father SHOWS us what They are doing. With the impediment removed, we will clearly understand, and act only upon, like our Master (through, with and in Him), those things They are doing.     

The Things That Make for Our Peace. Luke 19:41-44

Luke 19:41-44  

"Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying 'If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace!  But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you, and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT KNOW THE TIME OF YOUR VISITATION.' "

"Then He looked at them (to whom He was referring with the parable of the wicked vinedressers) and said, 'What then is this that is written: "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone?" Whoever falls on that stone will be broken (as a wild horse would be), but on whomever it falls, it will ground him to powder (destroyed)." (Luke 20:17,18)

"Then the whole multitude of them (the chief priests, scribes and those willing to follow) arose and led Him to Pilate. And they began to accuse Him, saying, 'We found this fellow perverting the (our) nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King'. Then Pilate asked Him, saying, 'Are You the King of the Jews?' He answered him and said, 'It is as you say.' So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, 'I find no fault in this Man.' "  But they were the more fierce......(against Him) (Luke 23:1-5)

When Pilate heard that Jesus' ministry had been in Galilee, under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod. Herod, as Pilate ruled, found no fault in Jesus. Pilate, speaking for both, said, "indeed nothing deserving of death has been done by Him". "That very day Pilate and Herod became friends with each other, for previously they had been at enmity with each other." (Luke 23:12)

The Prince of Peace had ministered to men who ruled over the chief priests and the crowd. Even in their unrighteousness they came to reconciliation and understood the situation accurately. They received understanding in their VISITATION with Jesus and from Him THE THINGS THAT MADE FOR PEACE.

The Servants Have Bread Enough And To Spare

Luke 15:11-32

Then He said: "A certain man had two sons. "And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.' So he divided to THEM his livelihood. "And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. "But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.

"And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, AND NO ONE GAVE HIM ANYTHING."

"But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants HAVE BREAD ENOUGH AND TO SPARE, and I perish with hunger!"

"Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. "So he called one of the servants (who had Bread enough and to spare) and asked what these things meant."

"So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends."

"And he (the father) said to him, 'Son, you are always with ME, and all that I HAVE is yours."

The livelihood of the father, at that time, was divided between both sons. The younger son wasted it and the older apparently did not. When the younger son returned, repented for his covetousness and was received by his father, the older became bitterly envious. The younger son, having suffered hardship as a result of his decision to separate from the father, came back for the BREAD THE SERVANTS HAD and received much more. The older son, continuing in the vicinity of the father, was yet unaware of the BREAD sought for by the younger. He had to ask A SERVANT.
 
All the father HAD was available to both sons. It dawned upon the younger son that the LIVING BREAD was most important!