Genesis 39; Psalm 17; Matthew 22:15-46
You must be be born again…even so must the Son of Man be lifted up…He must increase. John 3:7, 14, 30 NKJV
With John 3:16 on the horizon, the Son of Man establishes the sinner’s great necessity—you must be born again. This human impossibility can only be made possible through the Saviour’s great work—the Son of Man must be lifted up. John, having witnessed to the Saviour and having experienced that indwelling life through Him (1 John 1:2-3),
draws our thoughts to the saint’s great necessity—He must increase, I must decrease. A Christ pre-eminent will is the key to this challenge and will lead us to worship (John 4:24), work (John 9:4), and walk (John 12:26). —David J. Reed
Must I go, and empty-handed, and thus my dear Redeemer meet?
Not one day of service give Him, lay no trophy at His feet? —Charles Luther