March 9, 2013

  • Ours in Christ Jesus! He Has Given Us Much!

    Because of many visitors to this lately, I am re posting my summary of Jesus' prayer in John 17 with added commentary so that my readers may better understand What is Ours in Christ Jesus:

    Jesus said to His Father in Heaven, "Just as You have granted Me power and authority over all humankind, now glorify Me even as We have planned it, so that I may give eternal life to all whom You have given Me.  And eternal life means they shall  know (perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand)You, Father, the only true and real God, and likewise know Me, Jesus the Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent."

    Now God Himself keeps and preserves us in the knowledge and worship of Himself so that we may be one with God even as Jesus is One with His Father, and that we may experience God’s delight in us.

    We who are in Christ Jesus stand in God’s protection from “the evil one,” satan, who is still trying to rule the world of men, desperately, knowing his time remaining is short. 

    We are being sanctified (purified, consecrated, set apart for God, made holy) by the Truth which is God’s Word, (Jesus Himself as the Holy Spirit guides us to understand the scriptures.)

    Jesus intended these blessings not only for His disciples alive with Him before His crucifiction but also for us today!  For He said: "…but also for all those who will ever come to believe in (trust in, cling to, rely on) Me through their word and teaching, That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world of men even over the many centuries may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me."

    Jesus Christ said He has given us the very same glory (spiritual clout) and honor which His Father gave to Him!

    God the Father loves us, His adopted children through Jesus the Christ, even as much as He loved and still loves His “only – begotten” (unique) Son, Jesus!

    Jesus told His Father He wants us to be where He is so that we may see and operate in His glory (spiritual clout)!    It is revealed in Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians.  And, if you are a believer you are seated there with Jesus in the seat of spiritual authority!

    God intends to use us according to His love within us!  He said "I have made Your Name known to my first disciples and revealed Your character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make You known to and through those latter disciples whom I am also sending into the world, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them."

    Believers, are you not astonished again and again to realize the truth of all that is ours in Christ Jesus?  Truth Seekers, can you believe it?

     

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