The Glory of God in Man
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 9 December 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
As we begin to wrap up our week on Jesus’s High Priestly prayer, today we look at what it means to reflect God’s glory. How could man ever look like God? In our broken, fallen state, can we ever reflect his glory? Let’s find out as we explore God’s heart and intention behind filling us with his Holy Spirit and giving us his new nature. May your heart and mind be open to God’s truth and will for your life today as we seek him together.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 17:22-24, and today's worship is You Came (Lazarus) by Bethel Music, Jonathan David Helser, Melissa Helser.
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| 0:00.0 | As we begin to wrap up our week on Jesus' high priestly prayer, today we'll look at what |
| 0:10.3 | it means to reflect God's glory. |
| 0:13.2 | How could man ever look like God, in our broken, fallen state? |
| 0:17.3 | Can we ever reflect His glory? |
| 0:19.6 | Let's find out as we explore God's heart and intention behind filling us with His Holy Spirit |
| 0:24.2 | and giving us His new nature. |
| 0:26.9 | May your heart and mind be open to God's truth and will for your life today as we seek Him together. |
| 0:32.8 | Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | As disciples of Jesus, we are being fashioned into his likeness that we might be reflections |
| 0:42.1 | of his glory. Jesus prays in John 1722 through 24, the glory that you have given me, I have |
| 0:49.4 | given them, that they may be one even as we are one. I in them and you and me, that they may become perfectly |
| 0:57.7 | one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. |
| 1:04.0 | Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because |
| 1:12.6 | you loved me before the foundation of the world. Through the power of Christ's death, we are |
| 1:18.5 | now filled with His very spirit who is working consistently to fashion us and to Christians |
| 1:23.7 | in the truest sense of the word. To be a Christian is literally to be a little Christ. |
| 1:29.8 | We are meant to be marked by similarity to the ones whom we serve and love. Our lives are to be |
| 1:35.9 | filled with his love. Our minds are to be transformed by his words. And our heart is to be devoted |
| 1:41.8 | to serving him alone. 2 Corinthians 318 says, |
| 1:46.0 | And we all with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed |
| 1:51.0 | into the same image from one degree of glory to another. |
| 1:55.0 | For this comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. |
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