God showed me this today and He started by asking me, “was Jesus fully equipped to perform the tasks that I asked Him to?” I said sure He was. Then God asked me, “Do I love you exactly as I love Jesus?” I said sure, Jesus said You do in John 17:23. God went on to ask me, “Am I a respecter of persons?” I said no, Acts 10:34 teaches us that. God said, “now wasn’t Jesus a person?” I said yes. Then God said, “don’t I love you, just as I love Him? I said yes and He went on and asked, “if Jesus was fully equipped, who equipped Him?” I said you did God. God then said, “so don’t you think I have equipped you to fully and completely achieve all that I have set for you to do, exactly like I did for Jesus?” God just didn’t equip Jesus so that Jesus would be magnified, He fully equipped Him so that we could have life and have it abundantly as He is magnified through us! Jesus was fully equipped as God before He ever was in Mary’s womb. He was able to do everything because God had fully and completely enabled Him, with the fullness of Himself, so that Jesus could, and God has done exactly the same for us. This in no way demeans Jesus as Lord! God is only able to do these things for us because of Jesus. Jesus is our Head, our Shepherd, and our Lord. He is the firstborn among many brethren. We are nothing without Jesus, but with Him we are glorified to be called the sons of God!
Now with that in mind let’s look at the following verses. “Then answered Jesus and said unto them; Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” John 5:19 Now Who are we one with? We are now one with the One Who said this, so shouldn’t we say the same thing? We can do nothing on our own, yet we are able to do all things through Christ Who strengthens us!
Jesus saw all things from God, now how can we live the same way? “All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” John 16:15 Everything God has, He has shown to Jesus, and Jesus said, that He could do nothing that He had not first seen from the Father. We have seen that God loves us just as He loves Jesus, and that we are now one with Jesus, and here we see that Jesus shows us all things, and He does it through the Holy Ghost. “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all Truth; for He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak, and He will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me, for He shall receive of Mine, and shall shew it unto you.” John 16:13-14
Now here is a really cool part, as if this all isn’t cool? Turn to John 15:15, “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.” Jesus makes all things known to us. He doesn’t limit us with just some things, we are now His friends and He now tells us all things. Jesus gave us the Holy Ghost Who will guide us in all Truth and He will show us the things to come. Jesus gave us the Holy Spirit, so that we see and know what is to come, just as He knows and sees what is to come! The Holy Spirit will show us all of the things of Jesus.
In the Name of Jesus we will walk in the fullness of His Truth. God’s standard is His Own perfection, and He equipped Jesus fully to serve us, by making Jesus One with Him. Then Jesus came and made us one with Him as well, and He gave us the very Spirit of God, to insure we also know all things. There is only one thing the Bible teaches us that we will not know, and even Jesus does not know, the exact day of His return. Jesus doesn’t know it, because He is not a liar and Jesus said that He would show us all of things that He knows, this one thing is known by God alone. “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” Matthew 24:36
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