I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.But I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
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… Either I surrender or I fight. Now, that's the way we find Jesus in this crowd that surrounded him in John chapter 8, verses 12 to 59. He is not around a crowd that had never heard of God. I want to make that clear. He is in a context of religion. As a matter of fact, one of the three great festivals of the year is where he was at the time he spoke the words of John 8, the Feast of Tabernacles. Remember the other time that he brought a sword? He said, Are any of you thirsty? Come to me and drink. They were pouring out the water from that sacred vessel on that sacred altar, and he said, Wait a minute! Let me tell you where real water is. It's in me, and you come to me, you'll never thirst again. Oh, that was a sword. And it started an argument that still hasn't ceased. Now, he comes to this place called the treasury, according to verse 20 of chapter 8. …
… possessed. And he says, I'm not possessed by a demon, but I honor my father and you dishonor me. I'm not seeking glory for myself, but there is one who seeks it and he is the judge. Very truly, I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death. Now this is where the conversation got interesting for them. At this they exclaimed, now we know that you're demon possessed. Abraham died, our spiritual father, and so did the prophets. Yet you say that whoever obeys your word will never taste death. Are you greater than our father, Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. They were coming back to that word again. So did all the messengers, and surely that's what you are. You're a messenger, just like all the other messengers, and they all died, but you're telling us that if anyone follows you that somehow you're not going to die? Look at their question. Who do you think you are? Wow, that was a fantastic question, and now I think he's starting to think, you know what? I think I'm going to have to tell him. I think, you know, I've been trying to show him, and I've been teaching in parables, and I've been asking him to be quiet about some of the miracles that I've been doing, but now here I am on the Temple Mount. I'm in one of the most visible places that you can be in on planet earth. And they're asking me, who do you think you are? So he replied, if I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My father, …
… What we find there is that Jesus renounces the pursuit of his own glory during his earthly life and seeks instead the glory of his father. He says in John 8.50, I do not seek my own glory. And he says in John 8 54 If I glorify myself My glory is nothing It is my Father who glorifies me Now, even here we're beginning to see this turn Not only is he renouncing glory But he's acknowledging his father will glorify him John chapter 7 verse 18 Is characteristic of Jesus' human life as man He says, the one who speaks on his own authority Seeks his own glory He's not doing that But the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. So the incarnate Christ does not seek his own glory, but the glory of his Father who sent him. So to be clear here, this first point. The God-centeredness of God and that God-centered God becoming man in the person of Christ does not produce one who is in essence a self-centered human. …