Joh 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Before the world existed our Creator was glorified WITH His Father.
Our Creator existed along with His Father when nothing of this world existed. The One we know as God's Son before He became God's Son in the flesh existed. Before our Creator took on flesh He existed in spirit form, an entity along with another entity. God the Father continued on in spirit form while God the Son took on flesh becoming the Son of God.
Luk 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy one which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Shall be called. Not… that holy one which shall be born of thee IS the Son of God, but SHALL be called.
Having chosen to give up His power the Spirit of the Son had to rely on the Spirit of the Father for power.
They did not exist as ONE that was broken up into three.
They existed separate one from the other from eternity.
Joh 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Joh 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself
Joh 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Choosing to give up His power, His God power, a power He had with the Father God before the world was even made is something I don't think we fathom fully.
Joh 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
He that CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN.
Joh 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN.
The God Son gave up His divinity to become human and rely completely on the Father God's divinity and not at all on Himself. He gave up His own WILL. He gave up His glory. He gave up EVERYTHING and took on the form of a helpless human child totally reliant upon others to do for Him to live. On His own, like any human child, Christ would not have lived. As He grew and became self-dependant physically He still could NOT have lived on His own. He was as dependant upon God the Father for life as we are. He could not have lived on His own. He could not have caused His own heart to beat any more than we can.
The Spirit God Son became Human God's Son in human flesh all to save us who have NO power whatsoever to save ourselves- having given up the right to eternal life given to us through the power of the Spirit Son Creator God when we separated ourselves from Him believing we could have power to sustain ourselves and become gods.
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Eve was tempted with this… thinking she LACKED sight, LACKED power to see all there was to see. Tempted to be AS GODs rather than relying upon God. The temptation came to be a creator- no longer a creature. We can NEVER be creators. Our Creator gave up His power to show us that we need to rely upon God the Father, the source too of our Creator's power. We receive POWER to once more become the creatures we were designed to be. We do NOT receive power to be God the Father and we will NEVER receive that power. The power we receive through God the Son's sacrifice was to become a son of God- relying upon God the Father, understanding He is our source of life as HE is the SON's source of life.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Joh 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
The Word was MADE flesh.
We beheld his GLORY.
The GLORY as of the ONLY begotten of the FATHER.
The miracle of incarnation- the spirit entity shed his spirit form to take on flesh. Unlike the angel spirits who could appear as flesh whose appearance was an illusion, not REAL flesh subject to death, this Spirit entity took on real flesh, human flesh merging His spirit with the flesh just as we are flesh and spirit beings. An angel spirit has no breath of life to lose, no real flesh to decay- to turn to dust. The Son of God had glory with God the Father before the world began and it was this glory the Son in the flesh wanted to be glorified with again.
Joh 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
God reliant. We can only become God reliant because the Son was reliant and we through the Son, rely upon the Son's righteousness. We cannot rely upon ourselves for anything, we have to learn this message, we have to be willing to be sustained by the Creator who Himself is sustained by God the Father. We cannot count on ourselves for our own lives not ever! Satan wants us to forever rely upon ourselves, he wants us to believe we our gods of our own and you know what, he has most people believing this. The power to become a son of God. This power most believe they have automatically upon birth but it's not true. The power to become a son of God only comes through the Son of God, we are not born with it. So many believe they inherently have eternal life, that they'll live now and when they die they automatically keep living in another spirit form. We don't have that and never did have it.
I listened to a study and in that study they talked about Adam and Eve needing to eat from the tree of life to have eternal life, the reason they were barred from eating of the tree after they sinned was so they wouldn't have eternal life. We DO NOT have eternal life in any form without our Creator. We didn't have eternal life when we were created outside of our Creator's gift of the tree of life, and we will NEVER have eternal life outside the gifts of our Creator. There will be a tree of life in the new earth.
Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God
Rev 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Rev 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
We will forever need to rely up on our Savior, our Creator, our King, our God, God the Father…forever!
We have NO life without our Creator.
Those who do not have the Creator in their lives right now, those who do not have the Savior sustaining their lives are truly the living dead.
May God bless us and guide us to live in Him and only in Him now and forever, never relying upon ourselves for our life but know the life we possess now and continue to possess is through HIS power. By His will!
Amen.
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