I Have Both Glorified It and Will Glorify It Again
"Father, glorify Your name " Then a voice came out of heaven: "I take both glorified information technology, and will glorify information technology again."
John 12:28(NASB)
Verse Thoughts
The final few days earlier Christ's crucifixion were packed with signs and happenings that overflow with meaning. Jesus had eaten a repast in Bethany at the domicile of Simon the Leper, where Martha was busily serving food. In an outpouring of love, her sis Mary came to Jesus and breaking her plush alabaster oil of spikenard, she anointed His feet and wiped them dry with her hair.
While Judas and the other disciples criticised this immature woman for this foolish extravagance, Jesus defended her act of beloved and explained that she had all-powerful His torso for the day of His burial. And Jesus bodacious them that wherever the gospel is preached, Mary'due south human action of consecration will be told as a memorial to her. Simply days before Mary'southward sacrificial service, her beloved brother, Lazarus, had been raised from the dead when Jesus made the astonishing proclamation, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in Me, though he were dead, withal shall he live."
The twenty-four hours subsequently this memorable repast in Bethany and Mary'southward beautiful act of induction, Jesus made His triumphal entrance into Jerusalem, riding on a donkey - in fulfilment of Scripture. Every bit the oversupply waved palm branches, they joyfully hailed Jesus every bit their Messiah-King... and quoting from Psalm 118 they shouted excitedly, "Hosannah! Blessed is He who comes in the proper name of the Lord."
This should have been the moment when Jesus was acknowledged as the Holy 1 of Israel and crowned every bit their King, only He knew what was in their hearts. He knew their ecstatic admiration would quickly mutate into energetic aggression. He knew that this same crowd would soon be screaming," Crucify Him! Crucify Him! We have no male monarch just Ceasar! We volition non have this homo to reign over us."
It was in the midst of all the hustle, hurry, to-ing and fro-ing on His final week, that some Greeks were among those who went upwardly to Jerusalem to worship at the festival, only they came... seeking JESUS. How astonishing that like the Wise Men who greeted Christ at his birth, it was to be Gentiles who recognised Him at His decease.
Jesus had come to His own people to save them from their sin. He had come to the lost sheep of the house of Israel first, in order to fulfil all Scriptures. He came to His own just His ain received Him not... merely He also came as Saviour of the whole globe. God and then loved the globe that He gave His only begotten so that as many as received Him - Jew and Gentile - were given the power to go children of God. And Gentiles came seeking Jesus when His hr was come to give His life to redeem flesh.
From His cradle in Bethlehem to the Cross at Calvary, Jesus is identified every bit Saviour of ALL - our Kinsman-Redeemer Who gave His life as the ransom for many. Before these Greeks approached Him, the Lord Jesus said, on many occasions, "M ine hour has not however come up." Simply directly they came seeking Jesus, He answered them, saying, "T he 60 minutes has come up for the Son of Human being to be glorified . Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My retainer volition be likewise; if anyone serves Me, the Father volition honour him."
Information technology seems that with the inflow of these Greeks, Jesus knew that His 60 minutes had arrived when He would be fabricated the Sacrifice for the sin of the whole earth. We cannot begin to imagine the thoughts that flooded His holy heed. Nosotros will never comprehend what it cost the God of the Son to be built-in as Son of Man and go the Sacrifice for sin.
We know that His soul had become deeply troubled as He contemplated the Cantankerous. We know He asked Himself: "What shall I say? Shall I say 'Father, salvage Me from this 60 minutes?'" Still, Jesus reasoned with Himself... knowing that it was for this purpose... the salvation of mankind, that He had come up to this hr - the hour when He would take upon Himself the sin of the world. And so He cried out, " Male parent, glorify Your name."
It was the Begetter's volition that Jesus came to earth to give His life as the ransom price for the sin of the world. Information technology was to glorify the Father's name that Jesus came to earth as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world. It was to glorify His Father in heaven that the Lord Jesus denied Himself as He set His face up equally a flint to the Cross - and and then He cried out, " Father, glorify Your name."
Jesus had glorified His Father throughout His life past the fashion that He lived and He was to glorify His Male parent past the fashion that He died. And at Christ'southward crucial hour of commitment, the Lord Jesus received the most glorious encouragement from His heavenly Begetter, for His prayer was answered by a voice from heaven, "I have both glorified it, and volition glorify information technology once more."
For the tertiary fourth dimension during His earthly ministry, God the Father witnessed audibly to the veracity of Christ'due south Person and Work. For the third time, Divine testimony was given to cosign Christ'south Messianic ministry."I have both glorified it, and volition glorify information technology once again." God was glorified through Christ'southward life and He was before long to exist further glorified by His death, resurrection, and ascension into heaven. The Father will again be glorified when Christ comes to claim the Church for His Bride and will receive glory when Jesus returns to rule and reign in righteousness.
Praise His Holy Proper name!
My Prayer
Heavenly Father, how I praise and glorify Your holy proper name for the life and witness of the lovely Lord Jesus Who came to earth to fulfil Your redemptive purpose and plan for the fallen race of mankind. Male parent, if it were non for His miraculous birth, sinless life, sacrificial decease, and glorious Resurrection, I would still be expressionless in my trespasses and sin and at enmity with You. Thank you that through Your goodness and grace, Y'all purposed and planned to redeem mankind through organized religion in His finished work. Thank Y'all for saving me. Thanks for sending Jesus to be the sacrifice for my sin. Thank You that Yous loved me before I knew Yous and accept brought me into Your heavenly family. May I live and piece of work to Your praise and glory, from this mean solar day frontward and fifty-fifty forevermore. This I ask in Jesus' proper name, AMEN.
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I Have Both Glorified It and Will Glorify It Again
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