What Then Has Happened? (2)

 

I've been wrestling with John 14:20 for quite a few days. Since I have two distinct lives of thought, I'm going to post the first focus now and follow up soon, the Lord willing, with the second focus. I hope you will read the Scripture passages - after all, they are what really matter.

What Day are you and I living in?

Much love,

Bob

 

“In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.” John 14:20.

 

What is “that Day”?

 

We can see the answer to that question in our context, both the immediate context and in the entire Upper Room and in the Gospel of John. It is the coming of the Holy Spirit to live within us, which is the result of the Ascension and Exaltation of Jesus Christ (John 7:37 – 39; Acts 2:33). It is Jesus going away and coming to us again. It is the “grain of wheat falling into the ground and dying” and coming forth as much fruit (John 12:23 – 24) in glorification.

 

It is Christ Jesus bringing us into this New Day, this New Creation, and making us new creations in Himself (2 Cor. 5:14 – 21), making us the “righteousness of God in Him.” When Jesus ascends He does so to, “…My Father and your Father, My God and your God” (John 20:17).

 

We might say that there are two new days, one that brings a New Creation, a new humanity, into existence in Jesus Christ; and another New Day that is individual and highly personal to each of us who are in Christ. We cannot experience the grand New Day unless we have our individual New Day, we must be made new creations in Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 5:17) if we are to enter into the New Heavens and New Earth in which righteousness lives. Dead people (Eph. 2:1 – 3) cannot live in the New Creation, dead people cannot live “in that Day.”

 

The Gospel is the proclamation of that New Day, it is the offer of the New Day to all who trust in Jesus Christ – it is the offer of eternal life (John 3:16), it is the offer of heavenly citizenship (Phil. 3:20). Jesus Christ is the New Day, and that Day is never ending (Eph. 1:9 – 12; Col. 1:13 – 20; Rev. 21:22 – 23; 22:1 – 5).

Are we living in that New Day?