Jesus - Our Hope of Glory

Our glorious hope is Jesus! He Indwells us with His Spirit, Energizes Us for His Will, and Enriches Us by His Grace and Glory!

Indwelt by Christ

The Mystery of Christ’s Indwelling Flesh.

Immanuel - God with US! 1 Timothy 3:16 “Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.”

The Gospel is Jesus Christ! God made flesh, dying in our place and rising again to share his glory with us!

The Miracle of Christ Indwelling the Believer.

He is welcomed into our heart by faith!

Ephesians 3:16–19 ESV

that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

We are made partakers of the divine nature!

2 Peter 1:3–4 ESV

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

Energized by Christ

He is our strength. He works in us and gives us the spiritual power to serve Him!

1 Corinthians 15:10 ESV

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

Enriched by Christ

He has shared His glory with us!

In the High Priestly prayer he prayed that we may be with him and behold his glory. Then he said that he has given his glory to us! John 17:22 “The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,”

He is everything we need

Trying to add to Christ is like trying to make the sun brighter by lighting a candle.

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, Vol. XXIX Christ in You (No. 1,720)

Jesus gives us himself. He does not merely give us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption; but he himself is made of God all these things to us. Hence we can never do without him

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, Vol. XXIX Christ in You (No. 1,720)

We never outgrow Christ; but we grow to need him more and more. If you eat a meal you lose your appetite, but if you feed upon Christ you hunger and thirst still more after him. This insatiable desire after him is not a painful hunger, but a heavenly, pleasant hunger which grows upon you the more its cravings are gratified. The man who has little of Christ can do with little of Christ; but he that gets more of Christ pines for a yet fuller supply.

When you have Jesus, you have it all!!!