John 1: 18

"No one has ever seen God..."

This takes me back to Moses who asked of God, "Please, show me Your glory." Yet Moses only got to see the backside as God passed by him in the cleft of the rock. God showed Moses His goodness and equaled it with His glory as seen in Ex. 33: 12- 23. We are shown God's goodness and in it we see His glory.

"...the only God who is at the Father's side..." This is Jesus our Lord.

"...He has made Him known." Jesus has made the Father known to us.

This is sometimes a difficult concept to grasp. God sent Jesus to be the Savior of the world. But man cannot save himself, it is impossible for anyone to be saved apart from the Lord Jesus Christ who must make the Father known to the one being saved. If Jesus does not make it known it cannot happen. Matthew 11: 27, says, "All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him."

The Father and the Son are in perfect unity in man's salvation. Throughout the gospel of John it says that the Son can do nothing of His own accord but only what He sees the Father doing. John 5: 19. The Father has given all authority and all judgment to the Son (also in John 5). The Father granted the Son to give life to whom He will..v: 21. Jesus made the Father known by being obedient to the Father in everything. Jesus came to do the work of Him who sent Him and that work was to actually save those the Father had given Him before the world began. John 6:  29, 37-40.
 All the goodness of God is seen in Jesus Christ as He reveals to men and women the salvation from God, the full atonement paid on our behalf, the love of the Father, the kindness of God.....and on and on.....!

Jesus has made the Father known to us and I praise the glory of His grace to me and to you.