TEXT: Matthew 11:27-30 – “27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am [f]gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Continuing our study in the Book of Matthew, we have started looking at Jesus as He reassures the disciples of John the Baptist, rebukes several cities, rejoices in His Father’s wisdom, and reveals that He is the only way to the Father in Chapter 11.
Today, we will conclude this chapter by looking at Jesus’ revelation that He is the only way to the Father. Do you want to know God?
Start with the Illumination that Jesus says in verse 27.
Jesus says this: God the Father has entrusted all things to Him. Jesus is saying, “I hold the power and authority of the kingdom of God.” This verse is very much like John 14:6 where Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
He further says no one truly knows Him except the Father. You see, the Father and the Son have a unique relationship and know each other in a way that we could never know either of them. They are bound together in their deity (their Godness) and in their nature.
Jesus goes on to say, no one truly knows the Father except the Son. However, He doesn’t stop there. This is the beautiful part of the Gospel: that we might know God. Jesus says, “No one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal him.”
There it is! There is the Good News! Not merely that we could be saved from our sins, which is glorious in and of itself, but that through Jesus we might know God the Father! If Jesus reveals the Father to us, then we can truly know God!
The knowledge of the Father and the Son can both be revealed to us, through Jesus Christ. If He opens our eyes, we can respond, we have the secrets of the kingdom of God revealed to us, and we can have God Himself revealed to us so that we might know Him.
God loves us so that we might love Him. As the song says, “Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus, because He first loved me.” Do you know Jesus? Do you know God the Father, through Jesus? When Jesus reveals Himself and the Father to us, it changes our lives. We no longer have to carry the burden of sin and this world on our own.
That brings us to our final point, the Invitation verses 28-30. We will muse over this tomorrow.
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