Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Supremacy of Jesus Christ



"He will glorify Me..." (John 16:14)

The New Testament example of the Christian experience is that of a personal, passionate devotion to the Person of Jesus Christ. Every other kind of so-called Christian experience is detached from the Person of Jesus. There is no regeneration--no being born again into the kingdom in which Christ lives and reigns supreme. There is only the idea that He is our pattern.

In the New Testament Jesus Christ is the Savior long before He is the pattern. Today He is being portrayed as the figurehead of a religion--a mere example. He is that, but He is infititely more. He is salvation itself; He is the gospel of God!

Jesus said, "...when He, the Spirit of truth, has come,... He will glorify Me..." (John 16:13-14)

When I commit myself to the revealed truth of the New Testament, I receive from God the gift of the Holy Spirit, who then begins interpreting to me what Jesus did. The Spirit of God does in me internally all that Jesus Christ did for me externally.

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