Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 14:10

"Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works." — John 14:10 (ASV)

The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Notice, dear friends, that even the Lord Jesus Christ did not profess to teach doctrines out of his own mind. He says, The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself.

Now, if it is so with the Master, how much more should it be so with the servants! But have you not noticed how it is with the great men of the pulpit in these days? It is, "What I have thought out, I make known to you." It is, "What has come to me by the spirit of the age, the culture of the period, I tell you." God save us from this kind of talk!

It is no business of mine, I know, ever to come to you merely with a message of my own; for if the Lord Jesus Christ did not do so, what a fool his servant must be if he pretends to do it! No; if it is not revealed in this Book, neither shall it be taught by us, nor should it be received by you.

So Jesus says to his disciples, The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself. He glories in his union with the Father, and in the fact that he does not come as an independent teacher of thoughts of his own inventing, but he tells us what is in his Father's heart.

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?

Yes, Lord, we do believe that; your eternal and inseparable union with the Father is a doctrine about which we have no question whatsoever.