JESUS GLORIFIED-I—John 12:20-36
Attention:
I regularly use a weedeater when I cut the grass. We have to trim a good deal—around buildings, & trees, & trimming the ditch out front. We have a gasoline powered Stihl FS 56 RC-E. It’s a great German product! I’m on my second one! I used the first one when we lived in Florida, in sand near the beach, every week for most weeks, because the growing season is at least 11 months there. I completely wore out that weedeater. I had it serviced only once. And I generally neglected it —‘rode it hard & put it up wet.’ Most every time it cranked on the third pull of the string! I’ve often said that it’s the one product that I would be pleased to do a commercial for. In an age when built in obsolescence is king, A Stihl weedeater is a breath of fresh air.
•I am ‘glorifying’—pointing to, proclaiming the worth, the beauty, the value of Stihl weedeaters!
Likewise I am very pleased with our Fiskars products. They are a Scandanavian company that makes yard tools. We bought a pair of Fiskars shears from Lowes. Heavy into their use one of the handles broke—the handle grip separated from the metal tong. They were guaranteed for ‘life’, so I took a picture of the shears & sent it to Fiskars. They sent me a new pair of shears & I returned the broken one’s in the box! No questions asked! Virtually no company provides service like that anymore!
•I am ‘glorifying’—pointing to, proclaiming the worth, the beauty, the value of Fiskars’ mainly because of their Return Policy!
You will find that at Salem Baptist Church, as every church should, we ‘glorify’—point to, proclaim the worth, the beauty, the value of, & call attention to Jesus above all else! We Glorify Him above everything! He will never forsake His people!(Gen. 12:15; Deut. 4:31) Because if it weren’t for Him we would be like the majority of people who have no hope in this world!(Eph. 2:12) We owe our very lives & eternal lives to Him!
Need:
All people are in dire need of knowing the fact, that Jesus life death, resurrection, & ascension are of eternal consequence to them.
The apostle John recorded some of the events surrounding the imminence of Jesus’ glorification.
There are aspects of Jesus’ being glorified that are of great consequence/significance.
How &/or Why is Jesus glorified?
6 significant/consequential aspects of Jesus’ glorification.
Excerpted from The New Oxford American English Dictionary:
•GLORY(Noun) = ‘High renown or honor won by notable achievements’ OR: ‘Magnificence or great beauty.’
•To GLORIFY(Verb) = ‘To cause the dignity & worth of some person or thing to become manifest & acknowledged.’ OR: ‘To render/esteem/consider as glorious.’
•GLORIOUS(Adjective) = ‘Having a striking beauty or splendor that evokes feelings of delighted admiration.’
1—Jesus’ glorification necessitates a submission to...
GOD’s PRIORITY(:20-23)
Explanation:(:20-23)Precedence
:20—“Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.”
:21—“Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, & asked him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.””
:22—“Philip came & told Andrew, & in turn Andrew & Philip told Jesus.”
:23—“But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.”
:20—“Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.”
“The Feast”—the context(12:12ff--‘Triumphal Entry’ -&- 18:1ff--‘Jesus’ Arrest’)—comprises the Passover(1 day-Nisan 14) coupled with the Feast of Unleavened Bread(7 days-Nisan 15-21). The day following the first day of Unleavened Bread was the Feast of Firstfruits(1 day-Nisan 16)—(Kevin Howard & Marvin Rosenthal in ‘The Feasts Of The Lord’).
We are not told ‘who’ these “certain Greeks” were, or ‘where’ they were from. They were evidently pilgrims &/or travelers from the “Greek”(Hellenistic) empire. They would be representatives of Gentiles. And their presence obviously speaks to the boundless outreach of the Good News of Jesus which began in Israel’s history with YHWH!
These “Greeks” were “among those who came up to worship at the feast.” So they definitely had a ‘religious attachment’ to Judaism.
They had a ‘fear of God’ to some degree, & were possibly converts to Judaism.
:21—“Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, & asked him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.””
We are not told ‘why’ these “certain Greeks” came to Philip in particular.
•Philip, being from Bethsaida of Galilee(bordering Gentile territory), ‘probably’ spoke Greek fluently(MNTC)...So maybe they approached him for that reason.
Mat. 10:5-7—“These twelve Jesus sent out & commanded them, saying: “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, & do not enter a city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”
Mat. 15:24—Jesus said,—“...“I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.””
•YET, Jesus intentionally entered the region of Tyre & Sidon(Mat. 15:21) where He met a Samaritan woman at the well, just outside of the Gentile city of Sychar. As a result of that encounter, many of the Samaritans believed in Him(Jn. 4).
“& asked him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.””
We are also never told ‘why’ these “certain Greeks” wanted to “see Jesus.” We are not told if they had a pressing spiritual matter. These particular “Greeks” probably were at least curious about Jesus, due to the ‘stir’ He caused, & the ‘attentions’(both approving & disapproving) He had garnered by means of His public ministry.
:22—“Philip came & told Andrew, & in turn Andrew & Philip told Jesus.”
“Philip” & “Andrew”, as well as Peter, were from “Bethsaida”(Jn. 1:44), so it would not be unusual for Philip to approach someone else from his hometown.
Evidently Philip was hesitant about approaching Jesus on his own, with the Greeks request....
So both he & “Andrew” approached & “told Jesus” about the Greek’s request to see Him.
:23—“But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.”
Jesus prioritized God’s timeframe. Rather than commit Himself to personal ‘small talk’ with the Greeks, Jesus reveals that “the hour has come” for Him to be “glorified.”
We do not know... 1)whether the “Greeks” heard Jesus’ answer to their request, 2)or if the audience was to His disciples Philip & Andrew only; 3)or if the audience included the 12 disciples & other followers. There were probably many who heard!...
•Jn. 12:17-18 tell us that the witnesses to Lazarus’ being raised from the dead, had openly borne testimony of it, so that many had come to see Jesus.
No doubt, Jesus’ reply here in verse :23, answers the Greeks concern(s), as well as that of others, but in a far greater way than they could have envisioned.
Here, Jesus regards His being “glorified” is an impending & very near event(in actuality a series of occurrences—cf.-Jn. 13:1), whereas the four times recorded before in this Gospel previously, there had been no specific time involved—“My hour has not yet come”(Jn. 2:4 & Jn. 7:6) & “His hour had not yet come”(Jn. 7:30 & 8:20).....
•Jn. 13:1—“Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.”
The particular “hour” has now arrived, about which He had previously cautioned them...this ‘Holy Week’/‘Passion Week’/‘Passover Week’ would secure His death at the hands of sinners.
•Matthew’s Gospel tells us that on no less than three occasions, prior to the Triumphal Entry, that the disciples had been forewarned of Jesus’ demise at the hands of the Jews, & that He would also rise from the dead.
Though He readily accepted that the “hour” for His “glorification” had arrived, Jesus would still find the need to pray, in the Garden of Gethsemane, for strength to give Himself to the fulfillment of His “glorification.”
Argumentation:
1Cor. 15:3-4—“For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, & that He was buried, & that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,”
Acts 16:6-15—“Now when they had gone through Phrygia & the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood & pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia & help us.” Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them. Therefore, sailing from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, & the next day came to Neapolis, & from there to Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city for some days. And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; & we sat down & spoke to the women who met there. Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. And when she & her household were baptized,...”....
Mat. 6:33—““But seek first the kingdom of God & His righteousness, & all these things shall be added to you.”
Mat. 23:23-24—““Woe to you, scribes & Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint & anise & cummin, & have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice & mercy & faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat & swallow a camel!”
Acts 20:17-24—“From Miletus he sent to Ephesus & called for the elders of the church. And when they had come to him, he said to them: “You know, from the first day that I came to Asia, in what manner I always lived among you, serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears & trials which happened to me by the plotting of the Jews; “how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, & taught you publicly & from house to house, testifying to Jews, & also to Greeks, repentance toward God & faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains & tribulations await me. But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, & the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.”
•God’s Priority outweighed everything else in the apostle Paul’s life!
1Cor. 9:24-25—“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.”
Illustration:
Priorities/Take Precedence/Important/‘Cart before the horse’
Last week we realized that the yard at the pastor’s residence needed mowing. And ‘Resurrection Sunday’ was the next Sunday. So particularly since Easter is a special day among God’s people, we wanted to present a nice-looking yard. According to the weather forecast, Wednesday seemed the best day to mow. But Wednesday was incredibly busy for me. We ‘prioritized’ working in the yard over other things, & God really blessed! GOD’s PRIORITY
Application:
?Do YOU trust Jesus’ submission to GOD’s PRIORITY?
?Are YOU submitted/committed to GOD’s PRIORITY/Precedence in your life?
?Do YOU trust that Jesus’ glorification necessitates His submission to God?
2—Jesus’ glorification necessitates a submission to...
GOD’s FRUITFULNESS(:24-26)
Explanation:(:24-26)Productivity
:24—“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground & dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.”
:25—“He who loves his life will lose it, & he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.”
:26—“If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; & where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.”
*Here, Jesus gives us a picture that is applicable to every person. In order for a person to reach the fullest extent of their capacity & become what they are intended by God to be, they must be fruitful or productive in the things of God, by means of Christ Jesus!
:24—“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground & dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.”
Absolutely & without question(“Most assuredly”(amhn amhn)—Jesus states a commonly-known fact that a single wheat “grain” has the capability to “produce” “much fruit.”
The potential of a single “grain” is hidden in it’s nature to produce a vast number of other “grains” just like itself, from that singular “grain.”
However, in order for it to reproduce itself & multiply itself producing what the ‘Farmer’(God) seeks, each ‘parental’ single “grain” must minimally do two things...
It must,
1)“fall into the ground”
•The seed must submit itself to the environment that is intended for it, that is best for it, & that completely nourishes it!
•The “ground” into which the “wheat” “grain” “falls” must be fertile “ground” for the “wheat.”
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2) The seed must also “die” while in that “ground.”
•That is, the “grain” must cease being a “grain” altogether, & must instead allow itself to be transformed!
However, even though ‘all the nurturing potential in the world’ may be made available to the “grain” that is has fallen “into” the right place, the “grain” itself still has to ‘give up’ it’s being a single grain.
Each “grain” has to give itself over to it’s fertile surroundings(Jn. 15:1-8).
•It can NEVER reach it’s God-ordained potential “unless” it also “dies” in that nourishing soil!
•That is, It must be content to NOT REMAIN a “grain of wheat”!
The “grain of wheat” must give itself over to becoming that which it has never been or experienced before! It must ‘surrender’ itself to the surroundings & surrender itself to it’s present & future INTENTION!
1Jn. 3:2—“Beloved, now we are children of God; & it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”
:25—“He who loves his life will lose it, & he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.”
Jesus now explains for His audience, the intended application of the picture of the “grain of wheat” that must “die” “in the ground.”(:24)
If you are a person who chooses, prefers, & advances the interests of this secular world(“loves his life”), over & above the known perfections of God & His Kingdom, then you have relinquished, surrendered, given up(“will lose it”) any hold on “eternal life”! You cannot cling to Jesus, if you cling to the world!
•To choose the fleshly course OF this secular world(“loves his life”), as opposed to loving God & His Kingdom IN the world, is to choose ‘death’ instead of “life”!....
•To choose the fleshly course OF this secular world is to go way beyond the choice of mere physical ‘death’ & “life.” It is to choose “eternal” death’ instead of “eternal life”!
Every generation globally...experiences the horrific FEARS that are present in this world. Those fears remain upon them ONLY because they reject Christ Jesus!
Heb. 2:14-15—“Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh & blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, & release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.”
:25b—“...& he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.”
*Don’t get me wrong...I am in absolute awe of the intricacies that God has built into nature—that’s why I got a Bachelor’s degree in Biology. I am in awe of the beauty, the ways, the functionings of nature. And I am thankful to God that I can experience it’s workings....
•HOWEVER, I am ‘entirely’ & consistently disappointed with the wretched choices of men & women, who think they can operate ‘wisely’ to the exclusion of YHWH, the ‘I Am’, the eternal God! To live in this world without God, is insanity! Because to disregard the God of the Bible—the God who has openly, freely, & lovingly revealed Himself, is to accept & proffer the general course of “the prince of the power of the air”(AKA--Satan)(Eph. 2:2)!
*SO, I personally am one who “hates” my “life in this world.”....
•And THAT does NOT mean that I’m a generally ‘miserable person’, or that I’m a ‘gloomy’ person, or that “life” ‘confounds’ me so that I stay ‘depressed’ & or ‘blue’ all the time....
*INSTEAD, that I “hate” my “life in this world”, means that I love my Jesus above all else, because He first loved me!
1Jn. 4:10, 19—“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us & sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”.....“We love Him because He first loved us.”
•I have made a conscious, reasonable choice of head, heart, & spirit, to place Jesus first & foremost in my life, over every other person & over every other thing!
•I love Jesus MORE than my wife of 40+ years! And she loves Jesus MORE than me, her husband of 40+ years!
Mat. 10:37-39—Jesus said,—““He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross & follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life[‘in this world’] will lose it, & he who loses his life for My sake will find it.”
Lk. 14:26-33—Jesus said,—““If anyone comes to Me & does not hate his father & mother, wife & children, brothers & sisters, yes, & his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross & come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first & count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it-- lest, after he has laid the foundation, & is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build & was not able to finish.’ “Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first & consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation & asks conditions of peace. So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.”
Gal. 2:20—the apostle Paul said,—“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; & the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me & gave Himself for me.”
Gal. 5:24—“And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions & desires.”
Titus 2:14—the apostle Paul of Jesus,—“who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed & purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.”
Rev. 1:5, 6—“...Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, & the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us & washed us from our sins in His own blood, & has made us kings & priests to His God & Father, to Him be glory & dominion forever & ever. Amen.”
:26—“If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; & where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.”
If you are an actual “servant” of Jesus, then you will “serve” HIS purposes, HIS agenda, HIS delight, HIS interests.... AND THEREFORE you will NOT “serve” your own interests!
•The true “servant” of Jesus “follows” Him explicitly.
•And “Where” Jesus is, so will every “servant” of His be. Christ Jesus’ “servant” is always prepared & always at-the-ready, to perform any & every “service” for their King!
Jn. 14:1-4—“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go & prepare a place for you, I will come again & receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, & the way you know.”
*This is NOT ONLY a statement of servitude, but ALSO a statement of the certainty of “eternal life”(:25) that Jesus provides for those who commit to being His “servants.”
And God the “Father” of our Lord Jesus Christ, will “honor” such a “servant”, who remains “where” his Master, Jesus is!
2Tim. 1:3—“I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night & day,”
Rom. 7:5-6—“For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit & not in the oldness of the letter.”
Rom. 7:25—“I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.”
Rom. 12:1-2—“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good & acceptable & perfect will of God.”
•So any time you give precedence to your flesh, you are “serving” sin, rather than “serving” God thru Christ!
•On the other hand, When you sacrifice your fleshly desires, to the desires of God in Christ, then your “service” is an expression of your “following” Jesus!
“Serves”2X—diakonew—Present Active Subjunctive 3rd Sing.—1) To be a servant, attendant, domestic, to serve, wait upon—1a) To minister to one, render ministering offices to—1a1) To be served, ministered unto, 1b) To wait at a table & offer food & drink to the guests,—1b1) Of women preparing food, 1c) To minister i.e. Supply food & necessities of life—1c1) To relieve one's necessities(e.g. by collecting alms), to provide take care of, distribute, the things necessary to sustain life, 1c2) To take care of the poor & the sick, who administer the office of a deacon, 1c3) in Christian churches--To serve as deacons, 1d) To minister—1d1) To attend to anything, that may serve another's interests, 1d2) To minister a thing to one, to serve one or by supplying any thing. Strong—To be an attendant, i.e. Wait upon(menially or as a host, friend, or [figuratively]teacher); technically--To act as a Christian deacon.
“Servant”—diakonov—Noun Masc.—1) One who executes the commands of another, especially of a master, a servant, attendant, minister—1a) The servant of a king, 1b) A deacon, one who, by virtue of the office assigned to him by the church, cares for the poor & has charge of & distributes the money collected for their use, 1c) A waiter, one who serves food & drink. Diakonov represents the servant in his activity for the work; not in his relation, either servile, as that of that doulow, or more voluntary, as in the case of yerapwn, to a person. Doulow opposed to diakonov denotes a bondman, one who sustains a permanent servile relation to another. Yerapwn is the voluntary performer of services, whether as a freeman or a slave; it is a nobler tenderer word than doulow. Uperethv suggests subordination. Diakonov also may designate either a slave or a freeman, it denotes a servant viewed in relation to his work. Strong—probably from an obsolete diakw(to run on errands; compare diwkw[To pursue or persecute]); An attendant, i.e. (genitive case)--A waiter(at table or in other menial duties); specially--A Christian teacher & pastor(technically--A deacon or deaconess).
Argumentation:
Mat. 3:7-12—John the Baptist of those not accepting of Jesus as Messiah,—“But when he saw many of the Pharisees & Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? “Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, “& do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down & thrown into the fire. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit & fire. His winnowing fan is in His hand, & He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, & gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Jn. 15:1-8—Jesus said,—“I am the true vine, & My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; & every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean[pruned] because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, & I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, & I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch & is withered; & they gather them & throw them into the fire, & they are burned. If you abide in Me, & My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, & it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.”
Isa. 53:10-11—“Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, & be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.”
Mat. 13:3-9, 19-23—“Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; & the birds came & devoured them. Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; & they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up they were scorched, & because they had no root they withered away. And some fell among thorns, & the thorns sprang up & choked them. But others fell on good ground & yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”.....“When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, & does not understand it, then the wicked one comes & snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside. But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word & immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, & the cares of this world & the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, & he becomes unfruitful. But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word & understands it, who indeed bears fruit & produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.””
Illustration:
Picture the seed in the good soil. Giving itself to it’s full potential!
*God’s Fruitfulness is what the world attempts to stop & contain. People, generally speaking, don’t like to be told that they are sinners in God’s eyes. If they are accepting of the concept of God at all, they like to speak of Him in generalities & without the required personal commitment to a resurrected Jesus. But, God’s truth prevails anyway. You may stamp out ‘patches’ of it, but it thrives in very many more places so that the world cannot control it! GOD’s FRUITFULNESS
Application:
?Do YOU trust Jesus’ submission to GOD’s FRUITFULNESS?
?Are YOU committed to GOD’s FRUITFULNESS?
?Do YOU trust that Jesus’ glorification necessitates His submission to God?
CONCLUSION:
Visualization:
‘Glorifying’ Stihl for it’s toughness, & Fiskars because of honoring their return policy.
Action:
Jesus’ glorification necessitates a submission to GOD’s...
1. PRIORITY / Precedence /(:20-23)
2. FRUITFULNESS / Productivity(:24-26)
Pt#s 1-2 presented 04/09/2023am to:
Salem Baptist Church
1618 Salem Rd.
Bennettsville, SC 29512
