Scripture
“When I am lifted up from the earth I will draw everyone to myself.”
Observation
Some Greeks want to see Jesus so Philip and Andrew take their request to him.
Jesus speaks of his coming death or coming into glory. He talks about a seed of wheat needing to be buried in order to produce a harvest of life.
Just as Jesus is about to give up his life so his followers must also give up their lives. In contemplating what must come , Jesus reveals the turmoil in his heart and he calls out, “Father glorify your name.”
A voice comes from heaven- some hear it but misunderstand it, thinking it is an angel, but other just think it is thunder.
Application
The cross is the purpose of Jesus' mission, not an accidental by-product that could be avoided. He came in order to die.
His followers must also go to the cross- unpleasant as that sounds.
We must die to our own desires.
We must die to our own plans and ambitions.
The cross is everything our natural self hates. It is the place of suffering, humiliation, abandonment and death.
Yet it is also the place of glory.
When we die to ourselves, God raises us up to glory in Him.
Prayer
Lord Jesus, let me embrace my cross as you embraced yours. Take me down the road of death to self so that I can be raised to life in you. Amen.
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Amen, Brother Bates.
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Amen, if you put that one little seed into the ground, it dies. But the potential of one seed is tremendous. because out of the death comes a new form, a new creation that produces many more seeds. I read somewhere(again)that if you would take a kernel of corn and plant it, and then take from that one kernel of corn all the kernels that grew from it and plant them, and so on – I think it is in ten years that you would have enough corn seed to plant every acre of ground on the face of the earth. may we be the first seed sowed in order to produce fruit that sows seed to others.
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