Sunday, April 23, 2006

Jesus Is Glorified By Working Through Us

"And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them." John 17:10

Jesus glorified in you and I, think of magnificence of what this actually means, and then ask yourself how does it happen? How can the King of Kings be glorified in us, just mere human beings? Turn to John 15:8 Amplified. “When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honored and glorified, and you show and prove yourselves to be true followers of Mine.” And how do we produce much fruit so that God can be glorified? "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can you, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:4-5 Without Jesus empowering our lives God can never use us to produce His righteous fruit. But through the power of Christ, which is the Holy Spirit, we now have the strength to be used by God for all things! With Jesus there are no limits and through His power within our lives God can be glorified by our every action, thought, and deed! We now walk in the power of God’s might which is His Holy Spirit.

Jesus is glorified by us, because He is within us, He is abiding within us, and dwelling within us. We cannot bring glory to Jesus by ourselves or through mere human actions. The great Truth of salvation is that it destroys all of the abilities of our old man, we are now dead, crucified with Christ on the Cross, and yet we live, because we have been born again and raised up together and made to sit together in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior! Just as Jesus died and yet He lives! The only that way we are able to bring glory to Jesus is because it is Jesus producing much fruit through us! The fruit that Jesus produces through us, through the Holy Spirit, glorifies God. And by Jesus being able to produce much fruit through us brings glory to Him, and as He works through us, we are also glorified! The world will see and know that we are one with God through Christ. They will know that there is salvation because no man is able to produce Godly fruit on His own. The world will accept and believe on Jesus as Lord because of our unity and oneness with the Father, just as Jesus is one with the Father, and A-men the Harvest grows and multiplies! Satan loses and Jesus wins! And since we are now one with Jesus, we win too, and that brings glory to God! Jesus teaches us in Mark 16 that signs will follow us if we believe, the sick will be healed, devils will flee, we will speak in new tongues, and deadly things will not harm us, these are only possible because of God within us, He does the works! These are the works that the Vine produces through us and these are the works that bring glory to the Truth that Jesus now abides within man!

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