Part one of an exposition of John 1:18: "No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him." No one has seen God because no one CAN see God and live. We can't see God because (1) God's ineffable essence cannot be subsumed under the finitude of human sense perception and (2) the full external display of His glory would incinerate us on account of our sin.
The first step in coming to a saving knowledge of the gospel is recognizing something of the glory of God's incomprehensible greatness—that we have no ability or right to approach Him, and that such a right of approach is opened up to us solely by the only begotten Son who is the redemptive Revelator of the Father. The beginning of the true knowledge of God is confessing we are fools in need of a sovereignly initiated, saving revelation beyond ourselves. We cannot understand the knowledge of God by the mind of the flesh. As Augustine said, we must “believe that we may understand.”
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Josef was raised in Ohio and was converted as a teenager by an unexpected intervention of sovereign grace. Immediately he took the gospel to the streets and ministered in the gang-infested neighborhoods of inner-city Detroit. Later he served as a full-time missionary to Mexico...
