You Are Glorified: You Are Reconciled: Do You Believe?

A little while longer and the world

will see me no more, but you

will see Me. Because I live,

you will live also. At that day you

will know that I am in My Father,

and you in Me, and I in you.

He who has My commandments

and keeps them, it is he who loves Me.

And he who loves me will be loved

by My Father, and I will love him

and manifest Myself to him.

John 14:19–21

            Here is a promise that should make you fall on your knees in gratitude to God.  For it is God Who reconciled you and this by means of His Son Jesus Christ. You will live! Forever! Are you questioning now about how it is that God saved you? Are you questioning how it is that Jesus Christ is the propitiation for your sin? Questioning is not wrong. Some think differently and are in such a conflagration in their minds that this confusion has led to antipathy. It may be hard now, but in that day: what day? The LAST DAY! There is no other coming of Jesus Christ as taught in some churches.  Jesus Christ comes on the LAST DAY, and no sooner to redeem His bride and carry His bride home to the mansion He has prepared for His bride.  You are that bride.  On that day, you will not question any longer for you will know will all assurance that Jesus Christ is our Savior, He is God, and He did pay for your sins. Are you looking for the rapture? Don’t! there is no Scriptural proof that Jesus comes twice, and the word rapture is not found in the Bible and there is no other Scriptures that lead to that conclusion of a rapture as there are for the Trinity, a word not found in the Bible. Quit looking! Keep God’s commandments for by doing so you are loving your Savior Jesus Christ and by loving Jesus Christ in this way you are loving God your creator, your Savior, and the One who has reconciled you to Himself. If you keep the commandments of god Jesus Christ will manifest Himself to you and through you will manifest Himself to the world. This is sanctification, not that you earned it, not that you acquire it, for you do not, for it is imparted to you and manifested that it has been imparted to you in how you live according to the commandments of God. This Scripture, among others, is telling you something important: Jesus Christ is: ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ γνώσεσθε ὑμεῖς ὅτι ἐγὼ ἐν τῷ πατρί μου καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐν ἐμοὶ κἀγὼ ἐν ὑμῖν. Notice this Greek word, ἐν: it means “in” but has several uses according to the context; therefore we must understand this if we are to understand this Scripture and not misuse it to develop a theology that is not Scriptural. When the  ἐν is used as to that Day, then it is being used of time, during, or in the course of, (cf. Matthew 2:1). When ἐν is used that Jesus is “in” you then it is being used instrumentally: that is the efficient cause, (Accts 4:12) or being equipped with, furnished with (Luke 14:31). And when it is said that Jesus is ἐν the Father, and the Father is ἐν is in Him then it is referring to a place, being “in” as a person being in a house (Matthew 8:6; Mark 12:26; Revelation 6:6). The question then is; How is it that Jesus Christ is ἐν us and manifests Himself “in” us, and the Bible is clear on this; it is by the Holy Sprit living in you, through you, guiding you, and Jesus promised this when He said: “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you” (John 14:25–26).

            So how should we live? In fear of the world? In fear of being persecuted? In fear that we might lose our job, our reputation? Why? Will you walk away from those who are using risqué jokes, or asking you to come and be with them when you know that the place they are going is not the place you would take Jesus? Will you read the Bible so that the Holy Spirit can recall to you that which you have stored in your brain? Although if you are like me, I need help in remembering, Oh! The Holy Spirit can do that, but He will not fill up an empty cistern. Listen again to the words of Jesus: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27). Yes, Jesus was speaking to His disciples but why record this conversation if not to be applied to all who are disciples of Christ? Are you not a disciple of Jesus Christ? If so, then those words apply to you.

            Is this not GOOD NEWS? Does not this drive you to live for Him? Are you living for now, the temporary life, or for life eternal, that which Jesus Christ says He will do, on the LAST DAY. Yes we are aware of the times and seasons, but we are not to concentrate on that DAY, it is coming, we concentrate on allowing the Holy Spirit to manifest Jesus Christ in us.  LIVE LIFE! LOVE GOD!

Nevertheless I tell you the truth.

            It is to your advantage

That I go away; for if I do not go away,

The Helper will not come to you;

but if I depart, I will send Him to you.

                                    John 16:7

You are glorified by God: Hallelujah

Richard L. Crumb