Enjoying God and glorifying God.

Are those different things or are they the same thing?

It's a really good question for you today, Pastor John, who joins us remotely over Skype

today.

Here's the question as it comes into us from a listener named Roland.

Hello, Pastor John.

I have a question about enjoying Jesus versus glorifying Jesus.

It seems like enjoying Jesus Christ would look like fellowship and communion with Him,

a relatively private matter between Jesus and me, but glorifying Jesus Christ sounds

more like observable works and words that show the watching world His worth.

These two things seem to feed one another rather than being the same thing, but I've listened

to APJ long enough to suspect that you'd reach a different conclusion.

But I can't seem to piece this altogether.

Can you help me understand their relationship?

Well, not an entirely different conclusion.

Let's start with a quick clarification about everything else that follows, just to preempt

a misunderstanding.

When I speak of enjoying Jesus or glorifying Jesus, I mean in both cases, enjoying Him

for who He really is and glorifying Him for who He really is.

I don't have in mind an enjoyment or a glorification of some popular notion of Jesus that is not

who He really is.

So there, that's the beginning clarification.

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