Completing God

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Completing Gods Work

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• John 17 
• 1 Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes
  to heaven, and said Father, the hour has come.
  Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify
  You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all
  flesh, that He should give eternal life to as
  many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal
  life, that they may know You, the only true God,
  and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4 I have
  glorified You on the earth. I have finished the
  work which You have given Me to do.

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Completing Gods Work

• Glorification should be by action not by words
• "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me"
  (Jn 4 34)
• I have finished the work You have given Me to
  do
• "I have finished"
• He was perfect in doing His work and in carrying
  out the fathers will.
• "It is finished" (Jn19 30)

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Completing Gods Work

• What do we do?
• Can we say, "I have finished the work which You
  have given (Me) to do"?
• Have we attained perfection in completing it?
• We may say
• You started the work, O Lord, by Your grace, and
  I finished it.
• "Without Me, you can do nothing" (Jn15 5)
• You, O Lord, have finished this work yourself,
  but due to Your humbleness, You ascribed it to
  me.
• He gave the Law and the Commandments, yet He
  always say, "the law of Moses" (Jn 7 23)
• His saints perform miracles but the power is His

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Completing Gods Work

• We may say
• The work You gave me to do, I took part with You
  in completing it.
• "We are Gods fellow workers" (1Cor.3 9)
• "I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the
  increase. So then neither he who plants is
  anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives
  the increase" (1Cor.3 6,7)
• The work You gave me to do, You finished it, and
  I was merely an instrument in Your hand.
• "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to Your
  name give glory" (Ps.115 1).
• It is God who starts, and finishes.

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• I have glorified You on the earth. I have
  finished the work which You have given Me to do.

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What is the work?

• Part of it relates to Yourself, that you may
  sanctify yourself to God.
• The other part relates to others that you may
  lead them to God
• "Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine, for
  in doing this you will save both yourself and
  those who hear you" (1Tim.4 16)

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Your Responsibilities Towards Yourself

• Joseph the Righteous
• "How then can I do this great wickedness and sin
  against God" (Gen. 399)
• With regard to the service of others, Joseph was
  perfect, because he brought life to all people in
  his days.
• His work as Minister of Supply in Egypt was
  given him by God, "to preserve life" (Gen.45
  5).
• He was also perfect in his work in Photiphars
  house, "and whatever he did, the Lord made it
  prosper" (Gen.39 23)

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Your Responsibilities Towards Others

• Your obligations towards your family
• Not only the social obligations, but the
  spiritual as well.
• "You shall teach Gods Laws diligently to your
  children, and shall talk of them when you sit in
  your house" (Deut.6 7)

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• I have glorified You on the earth. I have
  finished the work which You have given Me to do.

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Your Responsibilities Towards Others

• "I have manifested Your name to the men whom You
  have given Me out of the world. They were Yours.
  You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your
  word" (Jn.17 6)
• Have you also manifested Gods name to the
  people?
• Do you feel ashamed sometimes of mentioning His
  name!
• I will speak of Your testimonies also before
  kings, and will not be ashamed." (Ps.119 46).
• In meetings we speak of many subjects on the
  society and its problems. Do we mention God?

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David and Goliath

• All people were speaking about that valiant
  champion, describing his height, his armor and
  weapons, his threats (1Sam. 17).
• No one mentioned God's name!
• David manifested God's name
• "The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the
  lion and from the paw of the bear, He will
  deliver me from the hand of this Philistine" (1
  Sam.17 37)
• "You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and
  with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of
  the Lord of hostsThis day the Lord will deliver
  you into my hand, and I will strike youthat all
  the earth may know that there is a God in Israel"
  (1Sam.17 45,46)
• "Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord
  does not save with sword and spear for the
  battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into
  our hands" (1Sam.17 45-47)

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• I have glorified You on the earth. I have
  finished the work which You have given Me to do.

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How to Manifest Gods Name

• We should manifest God's name to people in a way
  that makes them love Him.
• "I have declared to them Your name, and will
  declare it, that the love with which You loved Me
  may be in them, and I in them" (Jn.17 26)
• I have manifested Your name to the men whom You
  have given Me and they have kept Your
  word"(Jn.17 6).

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How to Manifest Gods Name

• Who are those given by the Father?
• Everyone You put in my way.
• The twelve, My own whom I loved to the end
  (Jn.13 1)
• the multitudes on the mountain, and the crowd
• Zacchaeus the tax-collector who climbed up the
  sycamore tree (Lk.19 4),
• Nicodemus who was afraid of the Jews (Jn.3 1,2),
  
• Martha who was worried and troubled about many
  things (Lk.10 41)
• To all those I manifested Your name.
• God has given you friends, colleagues,
  acquaintances, neighbors, and many others.

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Beware of How You Manifest Gods Name

• Beware lest your works cause People to blaspheme
  the good name
• When you manifest God's name to the people but
  you are away from Him!
• "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles
  because of you"(Rom.2 24).
• God's name should be manifested by actions
• "In this the children of God and the children of
  the devil are manifest"(Jn.3 10)
• I like your Christ, I do not like your
  Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your
  Christ.(Gandhi)

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How to Manifest Gods Name

• Manifest God's name to all people everywhere
• Not only in Jerusalem and all Judea, but also in
  Samaria and to the end of the earth (Acts1 8),
  as far as the Gentiles (Acts 22 21).
• "As you have testified for Me in Jerusalem, so
  you must also bear witness at Rome" (Acts23 11).

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How to Manifest Gods Name

• How many people have known God's name through
  you?
• How many have loved God's name through you?
• What is the fruit of your ministry?
• How many people remember God's name when they
  remember their meeting with you, especially those
  who had no previous relationship with God?
• What do you know about Christ?

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• I have glorified You on the earth. I have
  finished the work which You have given Me to do.

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Keeping Them in His name

• "Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom
  You have given Me" (Jn.17 11).
• "I give them eternal life, and they shall never
  perishand no one is able to snatch them out of
  My Father's hand"(Jn.10 28,29).
• Do you do the same for those whom God gave you?
• Do Follow up God's work in their lives ?
• Do you pray for them?
• Do you offer burnt offerings as Job the Righteous
  had used to do continually for his children?
  (Job1 5)

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Completing Gods Work

• Glorification is by action not by words
• God is the one who works
• The work pertains to our ministry
• To ourselves
• To others
• We should manifest God's name to people in a way
  that makes them love Him
• We minister to all those given by the Father
• We minister to all people everywhere
• We must keep them in His Name

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• I have glorified You on the earth. I have
  finished the work which You have given Me to do.