Expounds on Jesus' declaration, "I am in the Father, and ye in me, and I in you," from John 14:20. It explains that this statement signifies the profound union believers share with Christ and the Father, positioning them as bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, and His mystical body on earth. The core lesson emphasizes that this intimate connection empowers believers to obey Christ's commands and manifest His love through their lives, guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit. The sermon concludes by urging listeners to embrace this relationship, live fruitful lives for Christ, and experience His abiding presence.
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Thank you, and greetings, friends. The Gospel by John chapter fourteen, verses twenty-one, twenty-three and twenty-four contain another great example of the Lord Jesus when he used those wonderful words, I am, showing his character, his characteristic. his position with the power, here in these three verses. In verse twenty-one we read, he that, in verse twenty rather, we read, at that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye and me, and I in you.
He has already said that he was in the Father, and the Father in him. Now he says, he's adding something now. I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. Now this is tremendous, because here the believer, the true Christian, is given a place in the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Father. And he says, Also, that if ye are in me, die in you, and so on, then you shall be loved of my Father.
That's verse twenty-one. He that has my commandments and chief of them, he that is that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him. Unto him. I am in the Father, and ye in me, and I in you. This is wonderful. The relationship of the Father and the Son is here, and the relationship of the Tristan in the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the Father in him is here made manifest.
This is marvelous. That God in heaven sees a believer. in the Lord Jesus Christ, and of course the Lord Jesus Christ and the Son, and God, Jehovah the Father, are one. One in each. He and the Savior, the Son and the Father, and the Father, and the Son. They're both one. The Holy Spirit, the Triangle, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one. one and three and three and one. But here's the position of the believer. This is marvelous to believe and to behold and to know that he says, I am in the Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
This brings out the truth that he spake elsewhere, that we are bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. We are made one in Christ Jesus. positionally we're seen in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are his body, the church is his body on earth. He the mystical head, the head in the glory in the heavens, and we the mystical body of Christ on earth. Every true believer is in the church placed there by the Lord Jesus himself, by the Holy Spirit. and we there, that mystical body of Christ on earth, he our risen head in glory now, so that we're one with him, and so he pronounces this great I am.
I am in the Father, and the Father in me, and I in you. Ye in me, and I in you. Then we can know what he expects of us if we are in him, and in the Father. He says, in verse twenty-one, he that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he that is that loveth me, and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him. You see, if we say we're in the Lord Jesus Christ, Well, then we're going to be keepers of His Word, and of what He wishes us to do, we'll try to do.
And all of this is set out in the Word of God. We're not left our own imagination. We're not left to doctrines and creeds made by man, but we do have the living Word of God that tells us that we are one in Christ, that we are... put in the Savior, in the church by the Savior, the one who said, On this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And Paul takes up the same truth in his second Corinthians chapter five and verse seven, saying, If any man be in Christ, in Christ.
Ah, yes. The moment we trust him as Savior, we're placed in Christ. who replaced in his body on earth the church, so that the whole old hymn-writer was very true when he said, "'So near, so very near to God, I cannot nearer be, for in the person of his son I am as near as he.'" doctrinally and positionally in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ we are as near as he to the Father because he sees us the believer in himself a part of him because his church is his and it says we are his body on earth bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh.
And so now that we are in Christ, then we manifest that to our fellow man by our life, our walk, our conversation. And in the verse twenty-three, the Lord Jesus says, If a man loves me, he will keep my word. and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. If we love the Lord Jesus, then we'll keep his commandment.
In other words, we'll follow his word. Hence we must read his word. Of course we must, or else we'll not know what we should do or what the Savior wants us to do. But it is the loveliness of being so near, that nearer we can obey. For in the person of his Son we are as near as he. And in the glory to come by and by, the church will occupy the nearest place to the Lord Jesus, the nearest position to him. We know that the church is known as his bride, and we will occupy.
that marvelous place of nearness to the Lord Jesus during all eternity. Oh, it's wonderful, friends, to see what God has done for those that will trust his Son, that will believe in his Son, whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. And he said, then, that his Father will come unto a... And he'll come unto us and make our abode with him. In other words, we can have the presence of the Lord with us every day of our lives. The Holy Spirit enters the moment a person trusts Christ, their sins are gone, the Holy Spirit enters them, and then dwells them.
And Paul could write and say, Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? Yes, where he dwells. And therefore the Holy Spirit is in us now to enable us to see what? The will of God is through the word of God, for he takes of the things of Christ. And he reveals them unto us. He takes the Word of God. He teaches us through the Word of God as we read the Holy Word of God and study it for ourselves. The book that's once closed, closed when we're not converted, when we're still in our sins, then the book of God, the Bible, seems to be a closed book. We can't get anything out of it.
Of course, because the Bible says it's spiritually discerned. We need the Holy Spirit of God to enable us to grasp the marvelous truths of the Scripture. And now that we trust Christ and we're saved and sanctified and justified and redeemed at all these marvelous things, then the Holy Spirit is in us to lead us and guide us so that we'll do what the Lord wants us to do on earth. We'll be in him. That close relationship will be living for him. will be serving him, will be respecting him, will have reverence for him, and we will bow to his holy word so that we can live the fruitful life unto the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Father will love him, oh yes, because we have trusted his son, then, and the Father will love him, love us. And the Lord Jesus has shown his love for us in that he died upon the cross of Calvary for us. Oh, my friend, how lovely to know that you're in Christ, in him forever, to faith in his finished work on the cross just for you. Have you ever trusted him for your own self, and to know that the Holy Spirit indwells, to know from the Word of God, that you have done what he has asked us to do, to receive him, to open our hearts to him, and accept him as our personal Savior.
Father, we thank thee for the privilege of being near to thee, through the Lord Jesus Christ. We pray that many others will hear the gospel message, and they will trust the Savior also, and be brought into that nearness and closeness of relationship. that we'll be as near as he, the Lord Jesus himself, bless our president, our country, and all who are in authority. We pray, the Lord, that our government will stand and be righteous among the nations of earth. We pray for all men everywhere. We ask thy blessing upon them. In the name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.