© 2018 EAGLE’S SOAR CONFERENCE /THEME: YOUNG AND RELEVANT/
A Principle is a fundamental truth that
serves as the foundation for an occurrence.
It is the ultimate source, origin or cause of something
(Collins Dictionary).
When you throw a ball against a wall what happens? It
comes right back at you
When you give, you? Get
God wanted to get the world, He gave his? Son
When we want a tree, we give the earth a? Seed
The word vertical means to be in a direction, or having an alignment, such that the top is directly
above the bottom (Oxford).
Vertical suggests
a line or direction rising straight upward toward a zenith. (Merriam Webster)
The vertical principle states that we rise only
as high as we invest beneath.
Let’s take a quick flight through John 12:20-35 (NLT)
Before we proceed, I will like you to
write down these questions and answer them.
1.
What does Impart
mean to you?
2.
What would you need to do before you can
admit that you are making impart?
3.
At what scale (Local,
National, International) would you need to operate (the answer in number 2) before
you can admit that you are making impart?
4.
What does
relevance mean to you?
5.
What would you
need to do or become, before you can admit that you are relevant?
6.
At what scale (Local,
National, International) would you need to operate (the answer in number 4) before
you can admit that you are relevant.
Here are a few things I will like you to bear in mind as
seen in John 12.
1. It doesn’t matter what Men do or what they have,
deep down in their hearts, Men want to meet/see JESUS.
20.Some Greeks who had come to
Jerusalem for the Passover celebration 21paid a visit to
Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee. They said, “Sir, we want to meet Jesus.”
The word meet in the greek is translated1492 /eídō pronounced I-do .It refers to a "seeing that
becomes knowing. Seeing as
a gateway to grasp spiritual truth (reality) from a physical
plane.
It is the physical seeing
(sight) which should be the constant bridge to mental and spiritual seeing (comprehension).
Based on that word, we can say that men want to know (in
a way that grasps) JESUS.
So what’s special about this Jesus that Greeks would come
all the way during the Passover feast (that doesn’t “concern” them) to call for
Him?
In the preceding verses, we see that the news of Lazarus’
resurrection had spreadt. People were beginning to follow Jesus and the thing
annoyed the Pharisees.
The Greeks apparently had heard about the wonders and
they came to know JESUS for themselves. They were done with hearsays.
They realized if this man could raise someone who was
4-days dead, He then must be a solution.
Even today, when men are looking for
solution, they are actually looking for JESUS.
These Greeks couldn’t walk up to Jesus themselves. How
would you identify someone you don’t know? They had to meet his disciples, who
went to Jesus to say, “the Greeks (knowledge seekers) want to know/see you”.
2. It doesn’t matter what Industry or platform you find yourself; you must
point men to the real solution (JESUS)
22Philip told Andrew
about it, and they went together to ask Jesus.
Jesus’ response didn’t seem to rhyme
with the notification that He had people who wanted to see him. When told
someone one’s to see you, wouldn’t you simply say, “yes bring them in or no, I
don’t want them to meet me”?
Jesus in his usual manner seizes the opportunity to introduce His disciples to the vertical principle. He began by saying “Now the time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory.
Although Jesus was referring to the
transition from earth to heaven, He was actually saying to his disciples. These
are the least of people who will look for me. It isn’t just the Greek that will
come seek me. The whole world will.
At this point, He tells them how to
enter into glory.
24I tell you the
truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains
alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new
lives.
A statement that
was both a tale of what he would go
through and a revelation of how we can
access glory.
What is glory?
Cognate: 1392 doksázō (from 1391 /dóksa,
"glory") – glorify; properly, it means to ascribe weight by
recognizing real substance (value). See 1391(doksa).
Jesus was saying now
the time has come for men to ascribe
weight/ honour to me because they recognize my real substance/ value.
Then, he tells us
how recognition of our value/worth glory comes. Jesus is response right here,
is
24Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will[my] Father honour. John 12 (NLT)
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