IF A MAN SERVE ME LET HIM FOLLOW ME WHERE I AM THERE SHALL ALSO MY SERVANT BE
(JOHN 12:26)
BY
LUCKY EYIS AMIWERO
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JOHN 12:23-26
RELATED CHAPTERS
v MATTHEW 10:39
v MATTHEW 25:31-34
v MATTHEW 16:21
v MARK 8:35
v LUKE 9: 23-24
v LUKE 14:26
v LUKE 17:33
v JOHN 14:1-3
v JOHN 17:24
v JOHN 17:1
v JOHN 17:9-10
v JOHN 13:31-32
v 2 CORINTHIANS 5:8
v 2 CORINTHIANS 4:5
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20)And there were certain
Greeks among them that
came up to worship at the
feast
21)The same came
therefore to Philip, which
was of Bethsaida of Galilee,
and desired him saying, Sir,
we would see JESUS
22)Philp cometh and telleth
Andrew; and again, Andrew
and Philip tell JESUS
23)And JESUS answered
them, saying, the hour is
come, that the SON of MAN
should be glorified
24)Verily, verily, I say unto
you, except a corn of wheat
fall into the ground and die
it abideth alone; but if it die
it bringeth forth much fruit
25)He that loveth his life
shall lose it; and he that
hateth his life in this world
shall keep it unto life eternal
26)If any man serve me, let
him follow me; where I am
there shall also my servant
be, if any man serve me,
him will my FATHER honor
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JESUS SOUGHT BY
GENTILES
Among the people drawn
to JESUS CHRIST were some
Greeks, GOD fearing
Gentiles, who had come to
worship at the Passover and
went forth to meet JESUS
CHRIST, they came to Philip
, which expressed previous
relation with reference to
Philip Greek name desire to
see JESUS ; that is they
entreated him, that he
would, introduce them into
the company of JESUS; they
wanted to be admitted into
his presence, to have some
discourse and conversation
with him; and what might
make them the more
desirous of it, was the
miracles he had lately
performed in raising
Lazarus from the dead and
just be hailed as the coming
king and Messiah by
crowding thousands of
people, and the whole word
has gone after him, Some
Greek pilgrims, who had
come to attend the
Passover feast, which
represents all the GOD
fearing people ,the Gentile
world ,seek to see JESUS3
JESUS THE HOUR COME
THAT HE SON OF MAN BE
GLORIFIED
Meaning, the mysterious
hour, a brief period, and a
fixed definite determined
time, the hour is come for
my sufferings and glory for
the middle wall of partition
to be broken down between
the Jews and Gentiles so
that they can be united in
one body, on which his glory
would depend, and the
destiny of the world turn,
that he should soon be
honored that is about to
ascend into eternal throne ,
to clothe himself with all
authority of judgment and
mercy in heaven and earth,
By rising from dead,
ascending to heaven, sitting
at the right hand of GOD,
and from onward pouring
forth the Spirit upon the
disciple s and believers, who
should go and preach the
Gospel to the Gentiles, as
well as Jews; on the basis of
that many will be converted
by the time conversion of
many of the gentiles
,through his death ,
resurrection and ascension
as part of the eternal plan.
, burial, and resurrection
and ascension of JESUS
CHRIST
The hour of JESUS was
inevitable: a definite period
of time, a set of events,
number of experiences that
he had to face and go
through, a set time for him
to begin suffering , pain and 4
anguish for the sin of the
world.
The Messiah
misunderstanding is
reflected on the world
understanding that the way
of glory is through
dominion, triumph and
subjection, while JESUS
showed the way to glory as
it is through his death to self
and service to GOD and
Man
VERILY, VERILY SAY EXCEPT
A CORN OF WHEAT FALL
INTO THE GROUND AND
DIE
JESUS compares himself to
a grain of wheat: his death
to a grain sown and
decomposed in the ground;
his resurrection to the blade
that spring up out of the
dead grain; and his
manifestation and
glorification to the
abundant fruit of the many
grains produce to sustain
life, he had said, the only
way to make grain produce
fruit is to bury it in the
ground; so the most proper
way method of bringing
about the conversion and
salvation of the world is,
that I die and be buried,
The death of JESUS CHRIST
is signified by the falling of
the corn of wheat into the
ground, and dying, and
shows that CHRIST’S death
was not accidental, but
designed; it was determined
in the counsels and purpose
of GOD, and intended for
his glory and redemption of
men
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The Mystery, many
elements of mystery
surround the death and
resurrection of seed, we
believe a dead grain
multiplies itself and we are
nourished by its
multiplication, but we
cannot tell how one grain
becomes multiplied in to
many, how air, water and
sunshine co-operates
together to create a new
life, if we cannot explain
and fully understand these
earthly things of seed why
do we have to understand
the infinite purposes and
works of GOD in redeeming
men through the death
HE THAT LOVETH HIS LIFE
SHALL LOSE IT
Whosoever is so much with
this present temporal life,
as to be anxiously careful of
it, and takes all defenses to
secure it, and choose to
deny the faith of JESUS
CHRIST, and desert his
cause and interest ,If a man
loves his life more than the
will of GOD: we shall lose it
eternally,
JESUS also said that man’s
hour had now come, Man
must do same as he did:
Man must lose his life,(self)
in this world and don’t
compromised CHRIST,
hating one’s life points to
the attitude that values
heavenly interest far above
those of this earth, those
who follow CHRIST places
little importance in the
pleasure, success, value,
goals or way of the world, if6
he does, he will gain eternal
life as they count nothing in
this world so dear that will
not give it up for the sake of
the LORD
what JESUS said is that a
person who abandons this
life and the world, who
sacrifices and gives all that
he is and has for CHRIST,
will save his life.
But the person who keeps
his life and what he has and
seeks more and more of this
present life and the world
will lose his life, will lose his
life completely and
eternally:
If he ignores CHRIST The
person who “saves his life
in this present world and
loves the things of the world
that is:
v The Person who seeks
to avoid aging and death
and denies CHRIST will
lose his life eternally
v
The person who seeks
to make his life more
and more comfortable
and easy and secure
beyond the necessary
and neglects CHRIST,
will lose his life eternally
v
The person who seeks
to gain wealth , fame,
power by compromising
CHRIST will lose his life
eternally
v
The person who seek
the excitement and
craving of this world,
will lose his life eternally
JESUS said any person who
looses his life for CHRIST
and sacrifices all he is and
has for CHRIST saves his life 7
and save it eternally, the
call of CHRIST is a life of
denial that takes up the
cross and follows JESUS
IF ANY MAN SERVE ME, LET
HIM FOLLOW ME:
If a man must serve and
follow JESUS it involves
personal commitment to
him, keep his teaching and
be where he is, following
JESUS CHRIST includes self
denial,
JESUS calls for Personal
service:
v willingness to die for
him
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Willingness to follow
him
v
Willingness to serve
him
It is used as evidence by the
use of personalized word
follow me, serve me:
Let him imitate me: do what
I do, bear what I bear, and
love what I love, as in the
exercise of the grace of
love, humility, patience,
self-denial, and submission
to the will of GOD, and in
discharge of every duty,
walking as he walked, so in
a way of suffering as servant
leadership, as the head
AND WHERE I AM ALSO MY
SERVANT:
The believer is promised
to be where JESUS is, that is
in the kingdom of heaven,
as he now was, as the son of
GOD, when the believer has
done his work and the
place is prepared for him,
where I shall be,
IF A MAN SERVE ME, HIM
WILL MY FATHER HONOR;8
JESUS CHRIST life of self
sacrifice ,HE set example of
hating one’s life in the world
by bringing out in the
fulness of the meaning the
law of life through sacrifice:
v If any man serve me, let
him follow me
v He that hated his life in
this world him will my
FATHER honor and shall
keep it unto life eternal
by accepting his service,
affording him his gracious
presence here, and giving
him eternal glory
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JOHN 6:39
RELATED CHAPTERS
v JOHN 5:28-29
v JOHN 6:40
v JOHN 6:44-45
v JOHN 10:27-30
v JOHN 11:24-26
v JOHN 12:48
v JOHN 18:9
v JOHN 17:12
v LUKE 12:13
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39)And this is the FATHER’S
will which hath sent me,
that of all which he hath
given me I should lose
nothing, but should raise it
up again in the last day
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AND THIS IS THE FATHER’S
WILL THAT ALL HE HAD
GIVEN ME I LOOSE
NOTHING
It is the FATHER’s will HIS
purpose: desire and
intention, as this is the
FATHER”S will, and JESUS
came to execute his will,,
we have the highest security
that it will be done, that
those whom he gives to
CHRIST, that CHRIST should
lose nothing, he will keep
them to life eternal; that
though the believer will die,
and his body return to
corruption, yet he will not
destroyed ,not any part of
what GOD has given to him,
no single believer will be
lost, the redeemer will
watch over such believer
and keep him to the
resurrection, GOD’S will is
that JESUS shall save every
true believer through all,
even up till final hour the
last day, the day of
resurrection, CHRIST will 9
save his dear follower, that
each will be saved through
all circumstances, saved
right up to the point of
being raised up at the last
day for the continuity and
perpetuity of the eternal life
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LUKE 23:41-43
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41)And we indeed justify;
for receive the due reward
of our deeds; but this man
hath done nothing amiss
42)And he said unto JESUS,
LORD, remember me when
thou comest into thy
kingdom
43)And JESUS said unto
him, verily I say unto thee,
today shalt thou be with me
in paradise
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AND WE INDEED JUSTIFY
FOR RECEIVE THE DUE
REWARD OF OUR DEED
For the sin committed
against the law; our
sentence is just, we are
righteously punished; which
shows that he had a true
sense of sin, for we receive
due reward of our deeds
according to the law of
Moses, it may be these men
had committed murder
along with robbery, because
thief is punishable with
restoration, either double,
or fourfold
EXODUS 22:1
But this man hath done
nothing amiss:
unreasonable, wicked or
detestable: he did no injury
to GOD or man; wronged on
mans property; he did all
things well; obeyed the law
of GOD perfectly; and
always did the things which
are pleasant to GOD from
the month of the criminals
CHRIST was declared
innocent, the thief must
have become conversant
with the prediction of JESUS
concerning his coming
AND HE SAID UNTO JESUS
LORD REMEMBER ME
WHEN THOU COMEST TO
THY KINGDOM
Such was the prayer of a
dying sinner to a dying 10
savior, and as in his
confession he discovered
deep repentance towards
GOD , so in this prayer he
discovered strong faith in
our LORD JESUS CHRIST, the
criminal was perhaps
thinking of the resurrection
at the end of time, when
JESUS would be raised up
and vindicated by GOD, but
JESUS corrected the man by
assuring him that today he
would be vindicated and be
in GOD’S presence, Paradise
the place of eternal rest for
GOD’S people, JESUS words
clearly teaches that after
death the saved go’s
immediately into JESUS
presence in Heaven
LUKE 16:22-23
REVELATION 2:7
2 CORINTHIANS 12:4
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JOHN 14:1-3
RELATED CHAPTERS
v MATTHEW 25:32-34
v JOHN 14:18-23
v JOHN 12:26
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1)Let not your heart be
troubled; ye believe in GOD,
believe also in me
2)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
3)And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come
again, and receive you unto
myself; that where I am,
there ye may be also
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LET NOT YOUR HEART BE
TROUBLED
The disciples had been
greatly distressed , as they
were many things which lies
heavy upon and distress the
mind of the disciples ; most
ahead sat what about
leaving them perhaps they
had indicated their distress
to him in some manner by
their expression or
countenances, there had
been much to cause anxiety
and alarm,
Most of all , CHRIST’S bodily
presence and his given
them notice of his speedily
departure from them and
the manner he is to the
remove from them and the
circumstances , without any 11
sight of the temporal
kingdom being erected,
which they are being
expecting :
v The desertion and
betrayal by Judas
Iscariot was now known,
v
The declaration of
CHRIST’S approaching
departure and his
approaching death
v
The prediction of the
denial of Peter
Now in the multitude of
these thought within the
disciples, CHRIST comforts
them and bids them to be of
good heart, and encourages
them to all exercise of faith
on GOD, and on himself, as
the best way to rid away
heart troubles and have
peace
JESUS said let your hearts
not be troubled, at the
thought of my departure
from you, and leaving you in
a world where you are likely
to meet with many
temptations, trails, and
troubles, and to become a
helpless prey to the rage
and power of the enemies:
BELIEVE IN GOD BELIEVE
ALSO IN ME
Have the same trust in
GOD and trust in me, that is
believe on GOD believe also
in me, express GOD and
JESUS CHRIST to be equal of
the object of their faith and
since therefore they have a
good foundation for their
faith and confidence, put
your trust in GOD and in
me, they had no reason to
be uneasy you have believe 12
in GOD and me as faith full
and true in all his promises.
The disciples were greatly
troubled, disturbed ,
agitated, perplexed,
worried, confused, to
receive some
encouragement and new
hope JESUS said that
deliverance from troubled
hearts come though trust,
through believe in JESUS as
well as GOD, You trust in
GOD, trust also in me, I am
the revelation of GOD, the
SON of GOD himself,
trusting in me, that I am the
Son of GOD will deliver you
from trouble
Deliverance from troubled
hearts comes through JESUS
work.
IN MY FATHER HOUSE ARE
MANY MANSIONS
JESUS in my fathers house
are many mansions, from
where I came are many
mansions , heaven as a
special dwelling-place or
place of GOD, , this he says
to draw off their heart from
an earthly kingdom to and
heavenly kingdom, to point
the place to them where he
was going, which is heaven,
FATHER’S house is meant
heaven.
JESUS said this partly to
reconcile the minds of his
disciples to his departure
from them, and partly to
strengthen their hope of
following him : since it was
his FATHER’S house he was
going and in which are
many mansions abiding or
dwelling place: mansion of
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love, peace, joy and rest, for
the believers, brought with
the same price, justified
with the same
righteousness, and are
equally SON of GOD, with
fulness and sufficiency of
rooms for all his people
destined for eternal life, for
whom JESUS gave his life as
ransom, and whose blood is
shed for the remission of
sins.
JESUS knew his FATHER
house, which is GOD’S
house in heaven, it is real
and it does exist it is the
real world that exist that
exists in another dimension
of being, the spiritual,
dimension it is named
heaven, for it is JESUS
FATHER’S house, this world,
the physical and material
world is the property of
GOD but not his house, the
earth is not the eternal and
permanent dwelling place
of GOD, heaven is the
spiritual world, the home of
GOD, where the room or
mansions for believers
exists
PSALMS 24:1
The word rooms or
mansion means abiding
place, residences, dwellings,
rears, spaces for living, a
place for every believer to
dwell and live, just as we
are dwelling in homes in
heaven and there are many
mansions,
IF IT WERE NOT SO, I
WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU
JESUS stressed the truth
and reality of GOD’S house 14
,he came from GOD, and
knows these many
mansions well, and did not
lie, HE told only the truth, it
is very clear that any person
who wans to inherit the
mansion must believe in
JESUS CHRIST, there are
many mansions, many
rooms enough for all
believers, I would not have
deceived you or concealed
It from you, if there had
been no place in heaven but
for me, I would have told
you of it, but there are
many mansions there that
will accommodate all
believers, JESUS CHRIST
went to ascend into heaven
and be exalted: to prepare
an access into the presence
of GOD and an eternal
house for believers
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JOHN 14:3
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3)And if I go and prepared a
place for you, I will come
again and receive you unto
myself; that where I am,
there ye may be also
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AND I WILL GO AND
PREPARE A PLACE
It meant his death and
ascent to heaven, JESUS
promised that the way to
eternal life, though unseen,
is secured and secured
when you believe and trust
in GOD and HIS SON JESUS,
he has already prepared the
way to eternal life, ours is to
believe , JESUS has
promised to all who believe
in him to spend eternity
with him.
Indeed I am about to leave
you, but I am going only to
another part of dwelling
place of GOD, I shall still be
the same universal
habitation with you,
through the Holy Spirit
whom I will send to you I 15
will not leave you
comfortless; I will come to
you, and am going for
important purpose, to fit up
another abode for your
eternal dwelling.
The believer passes from
this world in to the next
world, into heaven itself:
and he passes quickly ,,
never tasting the pain of
death
JOHN 8:51:
Verily, verily, I say unto
you, if a man keeps my
saying he shall never taste
of death:
The highest thought of
peace and love was to be in
union forever with
CHRIST:
v Stephen, while being
stoned to death,
anticipated going
immediately to be with
the LORD, expect the
LORD to receive his
Spirit ACTS 7:59
v
Stephen saw the glory
of GOD, and JESUS
standing at the right
hand of GOD
ACTS 7:55
v
Paul actually said; to be
away from the body is to
be at home with the
LORD 2 CORINTHIANS
5:8
v
Paul said I have a desire
to depart, and be with
CHRIST, which is far
better
PHILIPPIANS 1:23
v
JESUS promised the
thief: today you will be
with me in Paradise
LUKE 23:43
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JESUS is coming again to
give both Himself and his
people a glorious reunion
and march of triumph over
sin, death and hell, a
reunion and march of
perfect joy, when all
believers shall be gathered
together before him for the
very time, each shall
experience the presence
and joy, he said I am coming
to you, in my glory and
power, and my victory in
you as well as for you over
death and Hell, to receive
you unto myself: that where
I am, there ye may be also.
The very reason JESUS will
return to earth, that you
also may be where I am,
wherever JESUS is, the very
place he is, is exactly where
we shall be, we shall be with
him , with our precious
LORD forever with him who
has saved us, with him who
has forgiven our sins and
relief us from the bondage
of sin death and Hell, we
will stand for the first time,
every believer who ever
lived before the LORD JESUS
CHRIST
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JOHN 5:24
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24)Verily, verily, I say unto
you, he that heareth my
word and believeth on him
that sent me, hath
everlasting life, and shall
not come into
condemnation; but is
passed from death unto life
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VERILY, VERILY HE THAT
HEAR MY WORD AND
BELIEVE
Verily, verily he that hear
my word and believe on him
that sent me, JESUS was
equal to GOD and have
power to save man, men
are saved by:
By hearing the word of
JESUS word by committing
and obedience , whosoever 17
allows the word to
penetrate his nature, hears
and understands and acts
accordingly and continue to
bear true witness to
concerning JESUS, it, in
order to be saved, man
must hear and follow JESUS
word and do exactly as HE
says, they are saved by
believing GOD, that is by
believing that GOD has sent
his son JESUS CHRIST to
save them.
A man passes from the
state of death , who before
was dead in trespasses and
sins; and from a sentence of
condemnation, and eternal
death, into the state of life,
from the state of
condemnation into the state
of justification, when a man
is truly saved he is never
condemned to die; he is
declared righteous and
given eternal life
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JOHN 8:51
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51)Verily, verily, i say unto
you, if a man keep my
saying he shall never see
death
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VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO
YOU IF A MAN KEEP MY
SAYING
JESUS said I tell you the
truth, which is a great
promise by him, if anyone
keeps my saying or doctrine
and receives the Gospel in
the love of it, obeys it from
his heart, and cordially
embraces and firmly believe
it, and retains and holds it
fast, having a Spiritual and
comfortable experience of
the doctrine of JESUS
CHRIST, and yielding a
cheerful and ready
obedience to the command
in faith and love he will
never see death. 18
Which is everlasting
separation of a man’s ,
body and soul from GOD,
the followers of JESUS
CHRIST passed from this
world into the next, he neve
ceased to experience life
and never loses
consciousness, the
condition for escaping
death; is that the person
must keep the word of
GOD, believer must keep
the word of GOD to escape
death, the word keep
means, to watch, to obey
and be diligent with the
word of GOD.
It means to fix and set
one’s heart upon the word
of CHRIST and keep it with
all diligence to escape death
and pass to life everlasting
and inherit the kingdom of
heaven
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JOHN 11:25-26
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25)JESUS said unto her, i
am the resurrection and the
life; he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet
shall he live
26)And whosoever liveth
and believeth in me shall
never die, believest thou
this
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JESUS SAID UNTO HER I AM
THE RESURRECTION AND
LIFE:
No other than I, am the
resurrection and the life,
that is the personal power
of both, the one who raises
again, and makes life, JESUS
great claim is that he is the
resurrection and life, he
gives and sustains life as he
wills, resurrect and restores
life as HE wills, which means
that HE is the energy and
power of life, there is
nothing existing apart from
his will: therefore is a dead
person who wishes to live,
only JESUS can give him life,
and if a living person does 19
not wish to die, only JESUS
can help him from dying.
HE THAT BELIEVES IN ME
THOUGH HE WERE DEAD
YET HE SHALL LIVE
JESUS is the life, he that
believeth in me, even if he
shall have died(physically),
shall live(eternally), and
every one that liveth
(Physically) and believeth in
me, shall never
die(eternally)
JESUS great promise: he
who believer in me will
live,s even though he dies,
he lives in the otherworld:
in heaven, in a spiritual
dimension of being, in the
very presence of GOD, the
believer who has passed
from this world, he is alive,
he lives in heaven in the
other world in the very
presence of GOD, any
believer who believe sin
JESUS CHRIST dies, he goes
to live in heaven in the
Spiritual world where GOD,
CHRIST lives.
Receiving eternal life is
conditional; a person must
believe, it is who believe,
and who lives and believes,
that believers never dies,
the believers will never
taste death, he passes from
this world in to the next
world, from death to life ,
he is transported and
transferred to heaven the
believer never loose a
moment of consciousness ,
he is immediately made
perfect and transformed .
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JOHN 16:16
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16)A little while, and ye
shall not see me; and again,
a little while, and ye shall
see me, because I go to the
FATHER
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A Little while and you shall
not see me, which means,
that he should be quickly
taken from them by death,
and in a very little time after
and ye shall see me:
referring to his rising again
the third day from his
death, as was prophesied of
Hosea 6:2; and was
demonstrated by Jonah’s
lying three days and three
night in the whale’s belly,
when he appeared to, and
was seen by his disciples, to
their great joy namely forty
days between his
resurrection and ascension
BECAUSE I GO TO THE
FATHER;
To appear in the presence
of GOD for them: to be their
advocate, plead their cause,
and make intercession for
them, to take a place at the
right hand of GOD in
Heaven
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JOHN 17:24
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24)Father I will that they
also, whom hast given me,
be with me where I am; that
they may behold my glory,
which thou hast given me;
for thou lovedst me before
the foundation of the world
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FATHER I WILL THAT THEY
ALSO WHOM HAST GIVEN
ME BE WITH ME
PRAYER FOR THE
GLORIFICATION OF BELIEVERS
JESUS asks as one having a
right to be heard and prays,
not as a servant, but as a
SON,, which GOD who
speaks and had given him
not all the world but a
selected number, not the
Disciples only but of all
flesh, that he should give
eternal life, and that those
who you gave me, which
includes the disciples, and
all believers, loving and
obedient people ,may be
with me where I am,
namely, in Heaven21
THAT THEY BEHOLD MY
GLORY WHICH YOU HAVE
GIVEN ME
He was by reason of his
intended passion crowned
with glory and honor, in
order that he might taste
death for every man, so that
the glory which he had with
the FATHER before the
world was, and therefore
before his incarnation, that
they may be made
partakers of my glory;
CHRIST regards it as glory
enough for us to be
admitted to see and gaze
forever upon his glory, as to
die and see life, is to live, so,
to behold the assured that
CHRIST is glorified in
heaven.
Not the glory of the world,
the Eternal SON, which was
his in equality with the
FATHER and the believers
shall appear in glory with
CHRIST, which results to the
eternal love of the FATHER
is not only shared in by the
disciples but all believer
,that is the glory which he
had with the FATHER before
the world was, therefore it
is that human nature is
made through CHRIST of us
to receiving it, we shall be
like him, because we shall
see him 1 JOHN 3:2
FOR YOU LOVE ME BEFORE
THE FOUNDATION OF THE
WORLD
This is another of numerous
verses, which proves that
the LORD JESUS existed
before the creation of the
world, both as thy begotten
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SON and whom thou hast
set apart as a Mediator
between GOD and Man: and
therefore I know that thou
will glorify me, and that
thou, will hear my prayers,
and glorify them also, whom
thou hast given to me to be
redeemed by my blood
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2 CORINTHIANS 5:1-2
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1)For we know that if our
earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved,
we have a building of GOD,
a house not made with
hands, eternal in the
heavens
2)For in this we groan,
earnestly desiring to be
clothed upon with our
house which is from heaven
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FOR WE KNOW THAT IF
OUR EARTHLY HOUSE
The believer not only is well
assured by faith that there
is another and a happy life
after this is ended, but he
has good hope, through
grace of heaven as a
dwelling place, a resting
place, in our FATHER’S there
are many mansions, whose
Builder and maker is GOD,
the happiness of the state
is what GOD has prepared
for those that love him,
everlasting habitations, not
like the earthly tabernacles
the house made by hands in
which our soul dwell, that is
decaying, whose
foundations are dust.
The reason was , that the
believer should not weary
and faint in their work even
if their body should die,
they have an inheritance
reserved for them in
heaven, they are assured of
a final admission into
heaven.
The earthly body is pictured
as a tent that house’s man’s
Spirit, his real self, during
his earthly pilgrimage, but
the tent body is ever so frail
and temporally ; it goes 23
through the wear and tears,
of this life, it deteriorates
and eventually dissolved it
dies, how ever the believer
should not fear, for he will
receive a building from
GOD, a spiritual, the
heavenly house last forever,
it does not suffer wear or
tear it is incorruptible; it
does not age, fade,
deteriorate or waste away,
the believers, glorious hope
and focus when he is in this
world is to desired and long
for his heavenly home
WE GROAN EARNESTLY
DESIRING TO BE CLOTHED
While we are in a state of
suffering, or while our soul
sojourns in this mortal
body; we groan earnestly
eagerly long for the future
state of heaven.
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2 CORINTHIANS 5:8
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8) We are confident, I say,
and willing rather to be
absent from the body, and
to be present with the LORD
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WE ARE CONFIDENT, I SAY
AND WILLING RATHER TO
BE ABSENT FROM THE
BODY
We have confident,
cheerful, and courageous,
and bear our trail, we are of
good comfort, I say, and
willing rather to be absent
from the body,, we would
prefer to die, having a
desire to depart and to be
with CHRIST, which is far
better, prefer to die and go
to heaven, rather than to
remain in a world of sin and
trails.
To be present with the
LORD,, would constitute the
main glory of heaven, and ,
our confidence is not
disturbed by death, though 24
removed our earthly
dwelling we have a house in
heaven which is our final
place.
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PHILIPPIANS 1:23
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23)For I am in a strait
betwixt two, having a desire
to depart, and to be with
CHRIST; which is far better
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FOR I AM IN A STRAIT
BETWIXT TWO HAVING A
DESIRE TO DEPART
Two things, life and death
pressing on me
constraining me ,each of
which I desire, I earnestly
long to be with CHRIST; than
to live in the flesh in this
sinful world, in the midst of
a variety of sorrows and
troubles , having desire to
depart, to die, to leave this
world and be with CHRIST;
upon being absent from the
body to be present with
CHRIST, so to leave the body
as to live with and in
heaven, is by far much
better.
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PHILIPPIANS 3:20
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20)For our conversation is
in heaven; from whence
also we look for the savior,
the LORD JESUS CHRIST
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FOR OUR CONVERSATION
The true believer is to be
heaven-centered, for his
citizenship , out thoughts,
our affections, are already
in heaven; we think, speak,
and act, converse and
conduct is that of heaven ,
that there are two great
communities in the
universe, that of the world,
and that of heaven: that
governed by worldly laws
and institutions, and that by
the law of him that
associates with worldly
purpose and the heaven
and from whence also we
look for the savior the LORD
JESUS CHRIST that he is the
LORD now exalted sitting in
the right hand of GOD in 25
heaven, the believers life is
to be focused upon the
return of CHRIST, he is to be
waiting and looking,
expecting every day of his
life, eagerly looking and
waiting for the coming of
the LORD JESUS CHRIST to
take his people to heaven.
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