Living for God's Glory (John 13:31-38) (2025/02/19)

Living for God's Glory (John 13:31-38) Living Life 2025/02/19 Daily Devotional Bible Study

 

Living for God's Glory

 

Welcome to living life 

God is good all the time 

all the time God is good 

glorifying God is the highest call 

calling of every believers 

and when most of people describe something as glorified they meant that is a being excessively praised and highly honored and elevated to all most worshipful status you know open beyond what is considered reasonable or appropriate.

However Jes definition of a glorification was vastly different from the what we usually think.

Shall we listen Today's passage together

 

Living for God's Glory

 

Living for God's Glory

 

John Chapter thirteen verses thirty one to thirty eight

31 When he was gone, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once. 33 "My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come. 34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." 36 Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later." 37 Peter asked, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." 38 Then Jesus answered, "Will you really lay down your life for me? I tell you the truth, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!

 

 

When Judas left Jesus declared now is the son of a man glorified and God is glorified in him 

Jesus knew that Judas's departure set in motion his arrest trial humiliation condemnation beatings crucifixion and even burial 

Yet he spoke of his coming death as a glorification.

The cross though a place of suffering is also the pinnacle of a crisis obedience and God to redemptive plan.

True glory is not founded in success or achievements of a human being but in complete obedience to God's will.

In verse thirty one and then 32 Jesus refers to glorified five times.

Did you notice that the words may look at the cross at the sea humiliation disgrace and condemnation 

but Jesus knowing that what would be accomplished through it could truthfully call it glorification.

 

Then Jesus said a new commandment.

I give it to you that you love one another as I have loved you that you also loved one another.

The Greek words for new implies the freshness rather than something recent or entirely different.

This commandment was not new in the sense that love had never been commanded before 

but it was now being presented in a new and deeper way through the examples of gases sacrificial love.

We might have expected the commandments to focus on the loving Jesus in an extraordinary way 

but instead Jesus directed his disciples and us to love one another.

By loving one another we bear witness to the world that really belongs to him.

Leaving for God to glory means that embodying this divine love in our daily lives 

 

Jesus said that love would be the identifying the mark of his disciples.

Loving people in the world is still important but Jesus made it clear that 

loving one another within the body of a Christ is the defining characters of his followers.

We can identify ourselves as his disciples by our love for one another.

The world will recognize us as his disciples by our love for one another.

Jesus himself mark us as his disciples by our love for one another.

Peter Full of a Jill proclaims his willingness to lay down his life for Jesus.

However Jesus reveals that Peter will deny him three times before the Rooster crowds 

and Peter had a good intentions but he did not realize that human strength alone itself is insufficient.

And the Jesus's responses teaches Peter and us that good intentions and will power are not enough when 

we're facing the suffering and the trials we cannot follow Christ so faithfully in our own strength like a Peter we open over estimate our ability to serve God without fully relying on the Holy spirit and then when we rely on our flesh we become more vulnerable to temptations and failure.

This moment serves as a caution.

Genuine faith is not proven by the words alone but by steadfast trust in God even in the faith of a triers

 

Invite the Holy Spirit to guide you in your everyday decisions

 

leaving for God's glory is not about the personal accomplishment, contribution or positions of honor instead it is about the surrender, love, complete dependent dependence on him.

JJS set the ultimate example by the glorific glorifying the father through his obedience and he called us to follow in his footsteps 

as we love one another and trust in him we reflect his glory to the world and then the world will know that we are his chosen disciples.

And then let's B down and then pray.

 

 

 

Father we are asking you 
to come you know and changing our heart you know with our own strength 
we cannot say yes to all the calls and all the duties and all the responsibilities.
But Father, only by the your strength we can remain as a faithful 
You know Father, when we think about what you call the glorified at times to be glorified it is based on the you know father, your complete obedience. Even if you say yes to the crucifixion
to be honest we don't have a strength to say that.
We don't have strength or ability to say yes to the cross.
But Father, even when we start inner today we relying on the grace of the Lord 
we're relying on your strength and that's why we have a courage to say yes to the tries and hardships.
So Father, help us 
in how we can be obedience to all your calm 
in Jesus name we prayed together 
Amen.