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“He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.” (John 16:14 NKJV)
One of the primary missions of the Holy Spirit on earth is to honor, magnify, or glorify Jesus Christ. But how does the Holy Spirit honor, magnify, or glorify Jesus Christ?
The Holy Spirit magnifies and glorifies Jesus Christ primarily in and through the Church (the believers). The Lord Jesus Christ clearly explains to His disciples how the Holy Spirit will glorify Him.
John 16:13-15 – NKJV
13 “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
14 “He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.
15 “All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.
From Christ’s explanation, it is clear that the Holy Spirit glorifies Christ by taking what belongs to Christ and revealing or declaring it to the believers in Christ.
The Greek word translated as “glorify” in John 16:14 is “doxazo.”
It implies “to cause the dignity and worth of some person or thing to become manifest and acknowledged” (BLB Lexicon).
In other words, the Holy Spirit glorifying or magnifying Christ is simply causing the divine life, nature, glory, wisdom, power, and gifts of Christ in the believers to become manifest, acknowledged, or recognized by all the people.
When you receive, believe, internalize, and walk in the revelation knowledge of your spiritual oneness or identity with Christ as a new creation, you cooperate with the Holy Spirit to glorify Christ in and through your life.
You allow the Holy Spirit to glorify and magnify Christ in and through your life when you shine as light amid a crooked and perverse generation, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles (Matt. 5:13-16).
Christ is glorified and magnified in your life by the Holy Spirit when you heed these exhortations by Paul and Peter.
Philippians 2:14-16 – NKJV
14 Do all things without complaining and disputing,
15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
16 holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.
1 Peter 2:11-12 – NKJV
11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
12 having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Similarly, Christ is honored, glorified, and magnified by the Holy Spirit when you patiently bear or endure reproach, suffering, or persecution for Christ’s sake.
1 Peter 4:14-16 – NKJV
14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters.
16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.
Likewise, when you yield to the Holy Spirit for His power, gifts, or supernatural abilities to flow and manifest through you to edify the Church, Christ is magnified and glorified in and through your life by the Holy Spirit.
In his epistle to the Corinthians, Paul cites an example of how operating in the gift of the Holy Spirit (prophecy) can magnify and glorify Christ.
1 Corinthians 14:24-25 – NKJV
24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all.
25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.
Similarly, Christ is extolled, worshipped, and glorified when you flow and operate in other gifts of the Holy Spirit in the spirit of love (Acts 3:1-16, 5:12-16, 19:11-12).
Beloved, Christ is magnified and glorified in and through your life when you let the Holy Spirit work in and through you, thereby bearing the fruit of the Spirit, manifesting the gifts of the Spirit, and enduring suffering and persecution for Christ’s sake patiently.
Besides revealing Christ and glorifying Christ in and through the believers, it is also the mission of the Holy Spirit to transform the believers’ character progressively into Christlikeness.
At the New Birth, the Holy Spirit instantly transformed the believer’s heart or spirit, making it conform entirely to the image of Christ.
Paul amply states this truth.
Romans 8:28-29 – YLT
28 And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;
29 because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren.
Similarly, at Christ’s physical revelation or return to the earth, the Holy Spirit will instantly transform the believer’s vile and mortal body, fully conforming it to Christ’s glorious body.
Paul clearly states this truth in his epistles.
Philippians 3:20-21 – NKJV
20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
However, the Holy Spirit works in the believers, progressively transforming their will, desires, thoughts, speech, emotions, actions, conduct, or character to conform to Christ’s. This will continue till Christ returns!
1 John 3:1-3 – NKJV
1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
Beloved, though the Holy Spirit is on a mission to transform you increasingly, from glory to glory, into the likeness of Christ in your will, desires, mind, thought, perception, speech, conduct, or character, yet you will hinder and frustrate the mission of the Holy Spirit in your life if you are not constantly beholding the glory of the Lord Jesus in the Scripture (2 Cor. 3:18).
The Holy Spirit can only transform you increasingly into the image of Christ if your mind is fixated on Christ alone. As you diligently imbibe and meditate in the words and works of Christ, your mind will be renewed, thereby resulting in the progressive transformation of your character into Christlikeness.
Prayer:
My Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for sending Your Holy Spirit to glorify Christ in and through my life and progressively transform my character into Christ’s likeness. My Dear Holy Spirit, teach and help me daily to cooperate with You to accomplish Your mission in my life, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
OUR Mandates is to preserve the faith of the Apostolic Generation.
Eniyekpemi Fidelis Oyinpreyebi.
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