Christ Can Be Magnified in Us (2)
Here are more verses about God’s expression through the believers in Christ. These all relate to our Christian life today. This is a preview of something much greater in the coming age and in in New Jerusalem.
In Matthew 5:16 Jesus said, “Let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.” The words Your Father indicate He was speaking to those who would be regenerated
by 
believing into Him.
In John 21 the Lord spoke many things to Peter, including “another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go. Now this He said, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God.” Even in death it is possible to glorify God.
Peter instructs the believers to have “your manner of life excellent among the Gentiles, so that…they may, by your good works, as they see them with their own eyes, glorify God in the day of His visitation” (1 Peter 2:12). The day of God’s visitation could include both this age and the time of the Lord’s return. This visible display results in Gentiles, unbelievers, glorifying God!
In 1 John 3, John declares to us that all who manifest righteousness and love are children of God; we manifest these virtues by possessing and living out God’s life. This manifestation is at present and will surely increase when the Lord Jesus returns visibly and increase again in New Jerusalem.
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Posted by Don on December 17, 2021
