JESUS IS GREAT IN POWER

 

JESUS IS GREAT IN POWER

I John 3:4-18

Jesus is the human manifestation of God. He is the creative power of God of all that exists. He not only spoke all things into existence, He holds it all together simply by the power of His word. He is every watching over what He has created and keeps it going. His power is seen in our text today.

Jesus has the power to take away our sins. 4-5 In Him there is no sin, and when He died on the cross for our sins, He died so without any sin. He alone has the right, authority, and power to forgive sin and remove it from us.

ugh Jesus has the power to keep us from sinning. 6 No one living in Him keeps on sinning. He changes our very nature and desires. Our struggles with sin is not because of His lack of ability to help us, it’s because of our lack of letting Him help us.

Jesus has the power to make us righteous. 7 In I Cor. 1:30, we learn that Jesus is our wisdom, righteousness, and holiness from God. He alone can make us right with God. He alone is the door into heaven.

Jesus has the power to destroy Satan’s work. 8-10 Satan’s only passion is to destroy. He seeks to destroy every good work of God. His passion is to keep us sinning so that we remain alienated from God. His passion is to destroy relationships. He delights in disrupting our ability to love one another and treat each other with grace.

Jesus has the power to enable us to love. 11-18 What Satan tries so hard to do, Jesus enables us to do when we let Him have His way in us. Although the love of God is demanding and unlike any other form of love on earth (I Cor. 13:4-8a), we through Christ can live it. The love of Jesus is normal for the child of God. 11-15 It is a sacrificial love. 16 It is compassionate. 17 And it is an active love. 18

Living in Christ empowers us to live life on a much higher plane than that which is found in the world. We have the power within us to be better people. We have the power to tap into heaven’s resources as we deal with life. We have the power to live free from sin and its guilt and shame. It’s all about Jesus. Great is His power in us.