Butternut squash soup 😋 I in them

John 17 :26

“I made known to them Your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

There are riches in the Word of God that we cannot appreciate until we stop and ask ourselves if this passage really means what it seems to mean.

If we back up to verse 20, we’ll see that Jesus is praying for us – for everyone who will one day believe in Him.

He is telling His Father that He will continue to reveal His Name… the KJV uses the phrase: “I will continue to declare it to them.” 

That He will make known the character and nature of the Father, to as many people as will listen.

Then Jesus says something truly astonishing: the purpose of revealing the Father is so that those who embrace this revelation may actually have the Father's love for Jesus in them!

Now there is two ways to look at what this verse is telling us (and both are correct)…

1^st that the Father actually put His love for Jesus in our hearts so that we can love Jesus with the depth and quality that He does, empowering us to love Christ with a supernatural love.

And 2^nd that the Father loves us with the same passion that He loves Jesus, and He places a revelation of that love in our hearts.

Stop and consider that for a moment… that we are loved by God our Father like He loves Jesus!

How differently would we live our lives if we truly believed that we are loved by God our Father like He loves Jesus? How would this change our understanding?

For, God does not love the Son the way He loves sinners. He loves the Son because the Son is infinitely worthy of love.

[That is] He loves the Son because the Son is infinitely lovely. Which means that this love is total pleasure.

And Jesus prays that this pleasure that God has in His Son will be the same pleasure we have in the Son.

So, if God’s pleasure in the Son becomes our pleasure, then the object of our pleasure, then Jesus will never become boring or disappointing. For there is no greater treasure than the Son of God.

Jesus prays that our ability, our energy, our passion, will not be limited by human weaknesses. But that we will enjoy the Son of God with the very enjoyment of His Almighty Father.

Spurgeon ended a sermon to his congregation on today’s scripture by telling them:

Go home, and live in the power of this blessed text.

Go home, and be as happy as you can be to live, and if you get a little happier that will not hurt you, for then you will be in heaven.

Keep up unbroken joy in the Lord. It is not "I in them" for Sundays, and away on Mondays; "I in them" when they sit in the Tabernacle, and out of them when they reach home.

No; "I in them," and that forever and forever… Go and rejoice. Show this blind world that you have a happiness which as much outshines theirs as the sun outshines the sparks which fly from the chimney and expire.

Go forth with joy and be led forth with peace; let the mountains and the hills break forth before you into singing.

And Spurgeon ended his message by saying:

When I feel my love to Christ, which is but God's love to Christ, burning within my soul, then I glory in tribulation, for the power of God shall be through these afflictions made manifest in me. "I in them." God bless you with the knowledge of this mystery, for Jesus' sake. Amen.

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