I am a Jesus Pusher! Jesus consistently expressed the positive relationship He had with His Father throughout His ministry. He said, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working” (John 5:17). He proclaimed a partnership between the Father and Son, and it was so intimate that it consisted of sourcing! He said, “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” (John 5:19). In the unity between the Father and the Son, what the Son does is what the Father is doing; the Father is the source of the Son. Jesus came demonstrating the positive heart of the Father. To overstate the loving heart of the Father as revealed in Jesus is impossible. He has come to do this. God swallows the anger and judgment toward us in the vast depth of the loving, positive force of His passionate love. Let this truth smother you in its warmth!
If the coming of Jesus is positive, then Jesus’ fulfillment of the Scriptures is positive. In other words, the Scriptures’ Old Testament has not been a misrepresentation of God, the Father. Therefore, Jesus will not destroy the Law or the Prophets. They are true; thus, Jesus comes to fulfill them! He gives us a clear and concise picture of what the Father’s heart has been throughout the Old Testament Scriptures. We are now seeing the positive, real heart of the Father. Perhaps our impressions of the Old Testament are wrong, and Jesus is correcting them. No wonder I am a Jesus pusher!