Daily Bread - 06/04/07
John 5:19 - Jesus therefore replied and said to them, With absolute certainty I tell you the Son does not have ability to do anything of Himself; for whatever He sees the Father doing, all these things the Son may also do likewise.
Jesus was totally dependent on the Father and the Holy Spirit for everything that He did (John 5:30; 8:28; 12:49; 14:10). One of the outstanding features of the relationship between the Father and Jesus was announced in the opening statement of the Gospels "This is my beloved Son" (Matthew 3:17; Mark 1:11; Luke 3:22). Jesus said that because of His love relationship with the Father he would be shown greater miracles (John 5:20; 10:17). Jesus helps us to further understand the operation of the Father in His life when He revealed to us that the Father dwelled in Him (John 14:10).
The Holy Spirit is teaching us total dependency on Him so that we may fulfill Father's will for our lives (John 14:12; Mark 3:35; Ephesians 6:6; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; 5:18; Hebrews 10:36; 1 John 2:17). This is not a forced dependency but a relationship that is born out of love and honor for the Father. We know that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are at work preparing us unto every good work (2 Timothy 2:21; Philippians 2:12). We have received His divine ability that springs up out of a son-ship relationship because we have been born of God (John 1:12; Romans 8:14; Galatians 4:6; Philippians 2:15; 1 John 3:1-2). Having been made sons and heirs the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit dwell in us (John 14:23; 17:22; Colossians 1:27; 1 John 3:24; Romans 8:17; Titus 3:7).
Jesus said to all who will hear, "as my Father has sent me even so I send you." Paul's cry to us is to "Let this same mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 2:5). We must learn to speak only God's word by living what we read from the Bible. We must be willing to lay aside our own will and delight to do the will of the Father (John 4:34; Hebrews 10:9; Matthew 7:21). This of course is not some legal formula for success in God but a truth that becomes real to us through the relationship that we have been granted in Christ Jesus.
Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org
About Me
- Carol L
- San Diego area, California, United States
- I started this blog back in 2005, but in 2006 began dedicating it solely for the purpose of posting email messages called, Daily Bread, sent out Monday through Saturday by my pastor, Mark Spitsbergen. These daily emails contain fresh revelation that Mark gets from the Word of God by the Holy Spirit for that day for the church that God has called him to pastor, Abiding Place. 1 Peter 4:11 says, "If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God gives that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen." Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (John 14:6), and He says, "The words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life." (John 6:63). For the Word of God is quick (alive), and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12).
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