Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 11.06.2011
Do work in Jesus
Jesus Christ did the great work for us on the cross. Do work caused by His work.
Working on the ground of the work of Adam
Our need of work is caused by the Fall. Adam and Eve did the considerable work when they ate the forbidden fruit. Our working is caused by their work because we have not the paradise on the earth for the sake of their work. If we lived in the paradise, we would be happily unemployed. We would only do something nice and have not the need to labour for our food.
Because God cursed the creation due to sin, the mankind must do a lot of work to support itself. When food, cloth and house are earned the basic needs are filled. However it has never been enough for man but he has started to seek easy life, riches and glory.
The mankind tries to remove the curse that sin caused by using machines and technology. Nowadays more and more often many also have the possibility to receive their basic needs without sweating. Even so the curse is not removed, but it appears in bad side effects of the technology.
Although the mankind very much tries to produce the paradise it will not succeed. Not until the return of Jesus will bring the paradise on the earth. All our works in Adam will pass away. However God has given us the possibility to do work that's results will remain forever.
Our need of work is caused by the Fall. Adam and Eve did the considerable work when they ate the forbidden fruit. Our working is caused by their work because we have not the paradise on the earth for the sake of their work. If we lived in the paradise, we would be happily unemployed. We would only do something nice and have not the need to labour for our food.
Because God cursed the creation due to sin, the mankind must do a lot of work to support itself. When food, cloth and house are earned the basic needs are filled. However it has never been enough for man but he has started to seek easy life, riches and glory.
The mankind tries to remove the curse that sin caused by using machines and technology. Nowadays more and more often many also have the possibility to receive their basic needs without sweating. Even so the curse is not removed, but it appears in bad side effects of the technology.
Although the mankind very much tries to produce the paradise it will not succeed. Not until the return of Jesus will bring the paradise on the earth. All our works in Adam will pass away. However God has given us the possibility to do work that's results will remain forever.
Working on the ground of the work of Christ
God gave His only Son to be the sacrifice for our sins. Jesus Christ did the great work on the cross for our good. He suffered on the cross the punishment of our sins. He destroyed the work of Adam and Eve. If we receive the work of Jesus, we are allowed to start doing work in Him. We can rejoice at its results forever.
If we receive God's love in the cross work of Jesus, He will make His home with us in the Holy Spirit. Then He will appear in us and cause deeds of God. "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." Eph.2:10
If we take pains in Adam, it is in vain, because its result will pass away. Instead our troubles in Jesus are not in vain, because its result is deposited in a heavenly account. "Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord." 1Co.15:58 Jesus encourages those who are His: "Provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys." Lu.12:33
Maybe you say that you don't reach for any heavenly property but it is enough for you that you will be saved. That's right. It is enough for you but you should also think about God and not only about yourself. He gave the great sacrifice for you. He deserves to reap the great crop from you. God becomes glad of your works in Jesus. You want to make Him glad, don't you?
God gave His only Son to be the sacrifice for our sins. Jesus Christ did the great work on the cross for our good. He suffered on the cross the punishment of our sins. He destroyed the work of Adam and Eve. If we receive the work of Jesus, we are allowed to start doing work in Him. We can rejoice at its results forever.
If we receive God's love in the cross work of Jesus, He will make His home with us in the Holy Spirit. Then He will appear in us and cause deeds of God. "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." Eph.2:10
If we take pains in Adam, it is in vain, because its result will pass away. Instead our troubles in Jesus are not in vain, because its result is deposited in a heavenly account. "Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord." 1Co.15:58 Jesus encourages those who are His: "Provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys." Lu.12:33
Maybe you say that you don't reach for any heavenly property but it is enough for you that you will be saved. That's right. It is enough for you but you should also think about God and not only about yourself. He gave the great sacrifice for you. He deserves to reap the great crop from you. God becomes glad of your works in Jesus. You want to make Him glad, don't you?
Works of the world
Those who belong to Jesus do the same earthly jobs as others, but they don't any more reach for perishable treasures with their working. Jesus defined the relation between the earthly and eternal works as follows: "Do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." Mt.6:31.33
A believer seeks works in Jesus and trusts that God provides his basic needs together with His work. This means that a believer does his earthly work for Jesus and not for money. The kingdom of God is present in believers and God's righteousness appears in daily actions of believers.
We cannot be worried and be grateful at the same time. If we are worried about our earthly needs, we are prevented from being grateful to God for His sacrifice. If the works of this world are too important to us, we easily become partakers of its sorrows. The anxieties of life can put to death our faith in Jesus and produce the everlasting destruction for us. The spirit of the world is not satisfied with the basic livelihood, but it is reaching for high things. The targets of the world are based on pride, greed and selfishness.
If all the nations were satisfied with the basic livelihood, the independence of the nations could be possible. However now the nations have become dependent on things that can be produced only by the international cooperation. The development of technology forces all the nations to cooperate in the way they lose a part of their independence to international bodies. The nations are so dependent on each other that the need of the world government is obvious for everyone.
The international division of labour has caused unemployment and economic crisis in many countries. The contradiction between the independence of nations and the supranational aspirations is becoming worse and worse until the economy of the world will collapse. Then will be sought a power that could unite all the nations into the united states of the world. Globalization can overcome patriotism only by a religion.
The nations of the world will be united with a religion. In the Bible the world ruled with the religion is called the kingdom of the beast. Antichrist and the Beast will govern on the earth. The Beast play god and Antichrist is his prophet. It will be cruel dictatorship where everyone is demanded to bow to the Beast. Because people rejected Jesus they will receive the Beast instead.
When Jesus will come from heaven on earth He will destroy the kingdom of the Beast and establish here the Kingdom of God.
Those who belong to Jesus do the same earthly jobs as others, but they don't any more reach for perishable treasures with their working. Jesus defined the relation between the earthly and eternal works as follows: "Do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." Mt.6:31.33
A believer seeks works in Jesus and trusts that God provides his basic needs together with His work. This means that a believer does his earthly work for Jesus and not for money. The kingdom of God is present in believers and God's righteousness appears in daily actions of believers.
We cannot be worried and be grateful at the same time. If we are worried about our earthly needs, we are prevented from being grateful to God for His sacrifice. If the works of this world are too important to us, we easily become partakers of its sorrows. The anxieties of life can put to death our faith in Jesus and produce the everlasting destruction for us. The spirit of the world is not satisfied with the basic livelihood, but it is reaching for high things. The targets of the world are based on pride, greed and selfishness.
If all the nations were satisfied with the basic livelihood, the independence of the nations could be possible. However now the nations have become dependent on things that can be produced only by the international cooperation. The development of technology forces all the nations to cooperate in the way they lose a part of their independence to international bodies. The nations are so dependent on each other that the need of the world government is obvious for everyone.
The international division of labour has caused unemployment and economic crisis in many countries. The contradiction between the independence of nations and the supranational aspirations is becoming worse and worse until the economy of the world will collapse. Then will be sought a power that could unite all the nations into the united states of the world. Globalization can overcome patriotism only by a religion.
The nations of the world will be united with a religion. In the Bible the world ruled with the religion is called the kingdom of the beast. Antichrist and the Beast will govern on the earth. The Beast play god and Antichrist is his prophet. It will be cruel dictatorship where everyone is demanded to bow to the Beast. Because people rejected Jesus they will receive the Beast instead.
When Jesus will come from heaven on earth He will destroy the kingdom of the Beast and establish here the Kingdom of God.
Works of Jesus
Nobody can do work in Jesus, if he is not first a partaker of the cross work of Jesus. The experience of the salvation is the foundation on which we can build; that is to do work in Him. Some believers are "unemployed" in Jesus. Sure they do something to serve God but their deeds are not done in Lord Jesus Christ but in Adam. The holy fire of God will burn such deeds in His coming.
What have you done therefore and only because Jesus died for you? Think about God's love towards yourself in His sacrifice.
Works of Jesus grow in us in the power of the Holy Spirit, when we are thinking of His work in Golgotha. Your work comes from His work. It is grace for grace. He, who received the saving grace, is allowed to receive the grace to do works of Jesus. If His grace doesn't cause His works in us, there is something wrong how we have experienced His grace. Faith without works is dead.
When Jesus is speaking to believers in Sardis He reveals us that He expects perfect deeds from those who are His. "I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God." Re.3:1-2
Jesus examines our works. Therefore Paul urges also us ourselves to examine our works: "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work." Ga.6:2-4 He doesn't urge us only to examine our deeds but also our thoughts that led to them. He is speaking about our works as reaping what we have sown by our thoughts.
"Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." Ga.6:7-9 Sowing to our flesh means that we agree with the thoughts of our sinful nature. Sowing to the Spirit means that we agree with the thoughts of Jesus. Reaping means that we act according to our thoughts.
Easily we can give up rejecting the fleshly thoughts arising in our mind and become weary of replacing them with the thoughts according to the mind of Jesus. If we love Jesus, we diligently sow His thoughts to ourselves. We can notice new willing and doing in us, which is good and pleases God.
They are many who warn believers about the works of the law and going under the law but they don't warn about lawlessness and lovelessness towards Jesus. Really, you need to do nothing to earn the salvation. Jesus earned it for you by His work He did on the cross. You cannot be saved by your good works, but you can do good works because you already are saved.
If you don't examine the motives of your works, you mix the deeds by which you try to be saved with the deeds you do because you are saved. "Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness." Ro.4:4-5 If you are righteous by faith in Jesus, don't try anymore to earn the salvation by doing the works of the law, because they are works in Adam. Instead do works in Christ Jesus.
Jesus lived as the example for us. When He did works of God He said: "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work." Joh.4:34 Correspondingly Jesus has sent us to the world so that we would do His will. Working in Jesus is meaningful. It gives a better satisfaction than the work in Adam. It is great mercy from God to be able to do right and not only believe in truth. The works of faith are grace from God.
"Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ." 2Th.1:11-12
The rest of the weekend is coming for all the workers. In the same way the Sabbath-rest will come to those who are working in Jesus. "There remains therefore a rest for the people of God, for he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His." Heb.4:9-10
This is a nice vision, isn't it? God and His people are resting after the week they worked together. I wonder what kinds of feelings will we have when spending the rest day in the town of God together with Him. Those who will experience the resurrection of the righteous will know it.
Nobody can do work in Jesus, if he is not first a partaker of the cross work of Jesus. The experience of the salvation is the foundation on which we can build; that is to do work in Him. Some believers are "unemployed" in Jesus. Sure they do something to serve God but their deeds are not done in Lord Jesus Christ but in Adam. The holy fire of God will burn such deeds in His coming.
What have you done therefore and only because Jesus died for you? Think about God's love towards yourself in His sacrifice.
Works of Jesus grow in us in the power of the Holy Spirit, when we are thinking of His work in Golgotha. Your work comes from His work. It is grace for grace. He, who received the saving grace, is allowed to receive the grace to do works of Jesus. If His grace doesn't cause His works in us, there is something wrong how we have experienced His grace. Faith without works is dead.
When Jesus is speaking to believers in Sardis He reveals us that He expects perfect deeds from those who are His. "I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God." Re.3:1-2
Jesus examines our works. Therefore Paul urges also us ourselves to examine our works: "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work." Ga.6:2-4 He doesn't urge us only to examine our deeds but also our thoughts that led to them. He is speaking about our works as reaping what we have sown by our thoughts.
"Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." Ga.6:7-9 Sowing to our flesh means that we agree with the thoughts of our sinful nature. Sowing to the Spirit means that we agree with the thoughts of Jesus. Reaping means that we act according to our thoughts.
Easily we can give up rejecting the fleshly thoughts arising in our mind and become weary of replacing them with the thoughts according to the mind of Jesus. If we love Jesus, we diligently sow His thoughts to ourselves. We can notice new willing and doing in us, which is good and pleases God.
They are many who warn believers about the works of the law and going under the law but they don't warn about lawlessness and lovelessness towards Jesus. Really, you need to do nothing to earn the salvation. Jesus earned it for you by His work He did on the cross. You cannot be saved by your good works, but you can do good works because you already are saved.
If you don't examine the motives of your works, you mix the deeds by which you try to be saved with the deeds you do because you are saved. "Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness." Ro.4:4-5 If you are righteous by faith in Jesus, don't try anymore to earn the salvation by doing the works of the law, because they are works in Adam. Instead do works in Christ Jesus.
Jesus lived as the example for us. When He did works of God He said: "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work." Joh.4:34 Correspondingly Jesus has sent us to the world so that we would do His will. Working in Jesus is meaningful. It gives a better satisfaction than the work in Adam. It is great mercy from God to be able to do right and not only believe in truth. The works of faith are grace from God.
"Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ." 2Th.1:11-12
The rest of the weekend is coming for all the workers. In the same way the Sabbath-rest will come to those who are working in Jesus. "There remains therefore a rest for the people of God, for he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His." Heb.4:9-10
This is a nice vision, isn't it? God and His people are resting after the week they worked together. I wonder what kinds of feelings will we have when spending the rest day in the town of God together with Him. Those who will experience the resurrection of the righteous will know it.
The Bible version used in references is NKJV